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Movie about tad lincoln6/30/2023 However…there is a gentleman who had redone the Lincoln Bedroom working with Laura Bush during the Bush administration. “One door lead to another…starting in Richmond…I was looking for vintage wallpaper, and knew that going to the major wallpaper companies to design and print historic wallpapers would be prohibitively expensive, especially in the amount we would need. And some really interesting doors opened…” The East Room was shot in the Virginia Governor’s mansion, but Set Decorator Jim Erickson SDSA shares, “We built the second floor of the White House… Mary Todd Lincoln’s 1865 White House. Let’s do a service to the actors first and foremost, and for the storytellers, but also craft imagery that will live on when people want to know what it was like to be in Lincoln’s White House.’” “That level of detail, whether it be a battle map or a little note, or pictures that are on the walls, or the wallpaper…it wasn’t that it was painstaking, it was more, ‘Let’s get that part of it exactly right. Jim and his set decorating team and I went to extraordinary lengths to help make every single moment as real as possible…and at the same time, a bit expressionistic.” The richness of that world had to be finely detailed. It’s very much here’s his world…here’s the White House, there’s the entrance parlor, there’s his office, there’s his living quarters, here’s the Congress…the streets he walked through….a lot of parlors…the War office…many places he would be. Production Designer Rick Carter points out, “While it is a big story, it’s being told intimately…we’re not standing back and showing you big vistas of things that Lincoln might not have seen. He was a statesman, a military leader, but also a father, a husband and a man who was always, continuously looking deep inside himself.” “And we also wanted to be able to include Lincoln’s family dynamic, but only at the moment when they actually collided with the public events that this whole story is about. “We hoped to locate an event that hadn’t previously been dramatized which had very significant, legitimately very, very high stakes,” he continues. We thought that our best hope of understanding and bringing justice to this immensely complicated person, was to depict him beginning, then conducting, then concluding a very, very complex action, which was the fight to pass the 13 th Amendment on the floor of the House of Representatives.” However, we also wanted to show that he was a man, not a monument. “We focused only on the last four months of Lincoln’s life,” says Director Steven Spielberg, “because we wanted to show Lincoln accomplishing something great, something monumental…and that was abolishing slavery and ending the Civil War. He once again collaborated with Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski and Production Designer Rick Carter, who brought in Set Decorator Jim Erickson SDSA and his team for an intimate, realistic and in-depth representation…a leap back in time, to 1865. Bearing that in mind, the choices Director Steven Spielberg made to bring about his depiction of the man and his times in the film LINCOLN were critical to an accurate and soulful re-creation. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, Lincoln’s choices during this critical moment changed the fate of generations to come.
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