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Write a 4 pages essay (double space) Use the film(Young Mr.Lincoln) I linked below to exemplify the ideas of Bordwell (attached) and analyze it to represent those ideas.

NO REFERENCE!!!!! NO OUTSIDE SOURCE!!!!!

I will give the basic idea: just use the first part of the movie(From 18:00~35:00) It’s a town celebration then turns to the murder. Think why we need to use the celebration and and how does this part talk about Lincoln. (a small town to a big town). Usually the celebration is at the end of the movie? Why this film put at the first part? What did the murder give us? A new Lincoln?? How Lincoln developed through these sequences??? Then you need to relate to Bordwell’s idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9oxjPPEscU

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The film Young Lincoln was a 1938 film that talked about the life of Abraham Lincoln as a young person. The role Lincoln was played by Henry Fonda who was the main character in the film. The plot of the film involves a young Lincoln who was a lawyer situated in New Salem. On the 4th of July, the townsmen and women gather for a celebration which turned tragic as on the…
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