Daniel Day-Lewis faces criticism for his squeaky-voiced Lincoln

If Stephen and Daniel say he spoke like that, who are we to argue! There is no reason why Abe should have not sounded unlike most Americanians do today. ~~~ Can't wait to see (and hear) it.

it was a dirty dusty time - some men of power rode on horseback, military men, while the very powerful rode in buggies, and most people walked. no electricity, nor sanitation to speak of. big wild country. the slaves were just leaving the stone age, and the euro-types were not all that far ahead of them intellectually or spiritually, they had ballistic technology and that was their edge, their justification for conquest. lincoln was under great pressure by world financial powers to get back on track, to get all the dux in a row as it were, to become CIVILIZED for Gods sake, because among other things, andrew jackson had severely upset world bankings progress. the new world order has been a long time in the making, afterall. it was during the civil war that the federal government consolidated power in a big way, creating the greenback, among many other things. the treadmill to oblivion, the debt making currency, where it allllll gets stolen at the end, all the money made by and for, finds its way to israel, or some other god forsaken place. well, as all this seems periodic, so are the andrew jacksons, no?

Bravo, "Rtuk"! The historical sources are overwhelming that Lincoln did, in fact< have a thin, rather higher than expected for a man of his craggy eminence voice - but his effect on an audience was mesmerizing. It was a combination of the visuals and the content. When you listened to the accessible ("modern" in an age of rhetorical declamation) stories and analogies, you were swept up by them. I'm not sure Daniel Day Lewis perfectly captures the Lincoln documented in Doris Kearns Goodwin's superb "Team Of Rivals," the final chapters of which Lewis' LINCOLN film is based on, but if there is a HISTORICAL problem, it is not with the voice recreated.

I love the description of Lincoln in the Daily Standard (Bridgeport, CT) newspaper of 12 Mar 1860 (Monday Evening). Lincoln had spoken in Washington Hall in Bridgeport, CT on 10 March 1860 (Saturday): "Mr. Lincoln was introduced and received with great demonstrations of applause. He spoke for about two hours to the most attentive audience that we ever saw at any political meeting. There was little or nothing of the usual hubbub on such occasions-the conversations moving, &. The speaker, and his theme, seemed to absorb the entire attention. And yet very few people could call Mr. L. an eloquent speaker. His personal appearance is not very prepossessing and he does not appear to have 'sacrificed to the graces'. A Kentuckian by birth, he is of tall, bony, angular, big jointed figure with a great, towering head and a very expressive countenance. His eyes satisfies you at once that there is a brain-intellectual POWER in the man and this is the secret of his success."

Sorry, complainers of Daniel Day- Lewis' higher pitched Lincoln voice. His version is historically accurate. Newspapers of the time described Lincoln's voice during his speeches as "high and sometimes squeaky." I'm a Civil War era buff. I'll take historic accuracy over Hollywood makeovers. Can't wait to see this movie. I hope Obama sees it, then maybe he'll learn how to bring Congress and the Presidency together, just like Lincoln does in this film