his conception of equality, i mean, genuine equality between the races is ahead of even where we are today, i would say. it is. and what happens in the film is that we have this kind of these sort of two elements of progress. we have the kind of purity as channeled by thaddeus stevens and his pristine, uncompromising attitude toward his foes and then the imminently practical lincoln. what do you want viewers to take away from that, the kind of dance between those two? i mean, probably just to show thaddeus stevens to the country because he s he appears in two films that i know of, tennessee johnson and birth of a nation in both cases as kind of a devil. and even among liveng con linco
i mean genuine equality between the races is ahead of even where we are today, i would even say. and what happens in the film is that we have this kind of these sort of two elements of progress. we have the kind of purity as channeled by thaddeus stevens and his sort of pristine moral vision and uncompromising attitude toward his foes as we see there. and then we have the practical lincoln. what do you want viewers to take away from that? the kind of dance between the two? well, partly just to show thaddeus stevens to the country because he s he appears in two films i know of. tennessee johnson and birth of a nation, in both cases as a kind of devil. and even among lincoln historians, i think, he s not really not given his due because the radicals made life so difficult for lincoln for the entirety of his four years. february right after the