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"Publisher Quirk Books and author Seth Grahame-Smith have come up with the best way to make a literary work more accessible since the creation of Classics Illustrated comic books: they’ve added “all-new scenes of bone crunching zombie action” to Jane Austen’s 19th century novel Pride and Prejudice. This new version, out in stores this May, is titled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now With Ultraviolent Mayhem! And if you didn’t think it was a masterpiece before, chances are you will now. Could we do the same thing to classic films? Well, the technology to add extraneous enhancements to movies exists. Just check out The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for proof. But like Pride and Prejudice, we’d need to “enhance” films in the public domain if we wanted to get away with it. Fortunately, there are hundreds of such titles (
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"At various turns, Abraham Lincoln (1930), D.W. Griffith’s first and most notorious sound film, comes off as the legendary director’s W.– the story of a simple, silly good ole boy’s rise to the U.S. Presidency. Walter Huston portrays young Abe as a tough but bumbling doof, romantic daydreamer and idle underachiever. Even his bride-to-be, Mary Todd, curses him as a “country baboon” at one point. But the rest of the film illustrates every last Honest Abe tall tale. Well, in that sense, it’s a lot like W., too: When in presidential mode, Huston’s Lincoln is as uncanny a reproduction of a national myth as Josh Brolin’s George W. Bush is of a national disgrace.
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"Okay, let's get one thing out of the way at the beginning- this not one of the fifty worst films ever made. The two guys who said that were total losers. Another thing the movie definitely is not is anything approaching historically accurate. D.W. Griffith was known for his, uh, biased interpretation of history before in such films as The Birth of a Nation. That film would lead to believe that this would be a film about the 16th President from a Southern perspective, but you'd be wrong. This is a saintly biopic in the tradition of Ghandi, but a lot shorter and less boring. Luckily, we also never get to see Lincoln in a loincloth. I don't know that much about the Antibellum and Civil War eras of American history, but what I do know is enough to tell me that this film was written t "
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