Naomi Creason, The Sentinel
After watching the trailer for Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” I have to wonder if being too historically accurate is a bad thing.
It’s hard to question any decision Daniel Day-Lewis makes when putting together a role, but there’s a lot of talk surrounding his decision to be very accurate when it comes to Abraham Lincoln’s voice.
Since we don’t have recordings of Lincoln’s voice, many of us have based what the president sounds like from movies or TV. When many of us hear the name Lincoln, it’s usually associated with a baritone voice, like Gregory Peck in “The Blue and the Gray.”
According to historians, however, that isn’t the case. Lincoln’s voice is usually described as “shrill” and “higher pitched.”
And that’s exactly what you get from Day-Lewis in the trailer for the movie.
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