O.K., it’s Daniel Day-Lewis as Abe Lincoln in jeans and a turtleneck. But if the 16th President of the United States wore a turtleneck then this is what he might look like . Lincoln, which is being directed by Steven Spielberg, is expected to be released in December 2012.
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Abe Lincoln in a Turtleneck
Words of Washington & Lincoln ring true: “Public Thanksgiving and prayer”
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Words of Washington & Lincoln ring true: “Public Thanksgiving and prayer”
Can you imagine Obama in a Lincoln/Douglas style debate? Me neither. But Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich engaged in one last night, and spoke extemporaneously…and at length…on a variety of topics. I cannot think of ONE topic that Obama could speak on “extemporaneously and at length” except, perhaps, how really really sorry Obama is for
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[Guest post by Aaron Worthing; if you have tips, please send them here . Or by Twitter @AaronWorthing.] Since I seemed to spark a real discussion about the National Martin Luther King memorial yesterday , I figured maybe it would inform that debate to look at other depictions of Dr. King. For starters, UC Davis has named its law school for Dr. King so it shouldn’t surprise you to see that they have a statue of the man. This is the best photo I could find of it: This is from the University of Texas : Actually I like that one best of all of these (and better than the one we are getting in D.C.), because it captures his spiritual nature well. If you forget that Dr. King was a man of the cloth you ignore half of what he was. (And that positively harms our discourse when the left pretends it is something new, unique and scary to base our laws on religiously-inspired morality.) Not such a big fan of this one, though, in Portland . And while I think this face looks less like him… …I like the pose and the symbolic inclusion of a book. But I am not sure where it is (this is all from a google image search). Also I am not sure where this is from, either: And am I the only one who hears Seal’s cover of “Fly Like an Eagle” in my head when I see this one? I mean, let’s compare. This Seal (via this site ) in the video for that song: And this is Dr. King: “I want to shoe the children…” That’s in Omaha, Nebraska . And this one in Roanoke just leaves me cold. [pic removed] So you can see a number of different depictions. Or perhaps the simplest approach would be something like this: That is a scene from his “I have a dream speech.” So take that moment and as best as humanly possible, capture it in stone, and put it right on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Make the photo come to life. Meanwhile, I heard someone is coming to rescue him from the carbonite but she has been waylaid and this has happened: So it’s all good. [Posted and authored by Aaron Worthing.]
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Some Other Depictions of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., In Statue Form
[Guest post by Aaron Worthing; if you have tips, please send them here . Or by Twitter @AaronWorthing.] As usual, you are positively encouraged to engage in sock puppetry in this thread. The usual rules apply. Please, be sure to switch back to your regular handle when commenting on other threads. I have made that mistake myself, a lot. And remember: the worst sin you can commit on this thread is not being funny. ———————– And for Friday frivolity, via Hot Air , we have the trailer to the new Planet of the Apes prequel, Rise of the Planet of the Apes : Of course it is really hard to understand how this is reconciled with the timeline of any of the movies (let alone any TV shows or cartoons). After all, there have sort of been two prequels to The Planet of the Apes already. First there was Escape From the Planet of the Apes : And then there was after that, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes : Now these are only “sort of” prequels because technically this is what happened. In Beneath the Planet of the Apes , it ends with the Earth being destroyed. So then Escape featured three apes going back in time to 1972. For the most part the subject is treated lightly, and funny, except in the end where all but one of the apes are killed by fearful and intolerant humans. That is why I label it the “Star Trek IV” of the series—the one that is mostly funny. And then Conquest occurs after Escape depicting the ape rebellion. I call it the Empire Strike Back of the series, because it was the dark, cool one. Indeed, its original ending was much darker, captured (poorly) in this video: That was considered too controversial so instead at the last moment Caesar convinces the apes to spare the remaining humans. Personally I like the darker ending because it’s more in character. So those two movies are not literally prequels, because 1) they only occur prior in time relative to us, but not to the characters in the movie, and 2) because it is clear by the end of the fifth movie, Battle for the Planet of the Apes , that by that time travel they had changed the timeline entirely, resulting in one where the humans end up living in peace with the apes, instead of blowing up the whole planet. But still its prequel-like. Indeed, if you really want to get obsessive about the timeline issues, this guy goes very deep into the subject: And then there is the “reimagining” of the Planet of the Apes directed by Tim Burton which just pretty much stank up the theaters it showed in. But if memory serves (and really I have tried not to even think about it since I saw it), the story was that in the future, in space, they were enhancing chimp intelligence. So that seems to contradict the earth-based setting in Rise . Oh, but there is another way out of the problem, because in the horrifyingly bad twist ending they end up at a parallel Earth where the apes took over ages ago, and replaced Lincoln’s statue at the Lincoln memorial with an ape. So I suppose it could occur earlier in that timeline. But that means they would be treating the Burton film as canon, which seems unlikely because it was so awful. On the other hand, this trailer for Rise also contradicts significantly the canon in Conquest. In Conquest , it was an ape from the future leading the rebellion. The other apes were more evolved than our present apes, but not because of some science experiment. If memory serves, there was a plague that wiped out dogs and cats, leading humans to adopt more apes as pets and that somehow led to greater intelligence, leading them in turn to be used essentially as slaves. So yeah, its bunk as science and I guess I can’t completely fault them for messing with that if that is their plan with Rise. Or maybe it is supposed to be a prequel to the original Planet . Thus since Escape and Conquest were technically a different timeline it all still sort of fits. Or finally, maybe they are just trying to do what they did with Batman Begins : start a whole new series. Heck, maybe they would even make it into a musical (go here for video–it will start automatically). Okay, that’s enough nerding out for one day. But I will leave you with a classic moment in the original, from which we get the title of this post: [Posted and authored by Aaron Worthing.]
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Sockpuppet Friday—The “Get Your Stinking Paws Off Me You Damn Dirty Ape!” Edition
