The Centre of The Earth

Little Big Man :

I don't understand it, Grandfather :

Why would They Kill 

Women and Children?

Chief Dan George :

Because They are Strange.

They Do Not seem 

to Know where 

The Centre of The Earth is.

We must have A War 

on These Cowards and 

Teach Them a Lesson.

This will be The First Time, 

My Son, I face The Whites 

as An Enemy.

I Don't Know whether You Remember 

before You Became 

a Human Being, 

and as Dear a Son 

to Me as those 

I made with Buffalo 

Wallow Woman 

and the others...

But I won't Speak of that 

unfortunate time.

I just Want to Say, 

if You Believe, Riding against 

These White Creatures is Bad, 

You can stay Out of The Fight.

No one will Think the worse.

Little Big Man :

Grandfather, I Think 

It's a Good Day to Die.

Chief Dan George :

My Heart soars Like a Hawk.

Lincoln reviewed by Mark Kermode

No -- What I Said Was, 

for Me, with My Baggage,

that's what I found a way into.

Lincoln reviewed by Mark Kermode

"There is something Monumental about it, but 'monumental' in the sense of a statue, or in the sense of The Lincoln Memorial."

For Me, the key to what makes the film accessible is Tommy Lee Jones, the Thaddeus [Stevens] character, because  --

-- and I think it is important to understand this, people always talk about the biographical stuff that anyone brings to a film, and, in order for a film to work, you do have to find something with which you personally engage --

-- and of course, for Me, the thing with which I personally engage is The Story about the guy who's a hardline, belligerent radical, who discovers during the course of the drama, during the course of the historical story, that in order to get something done, he has to compromise in a way that will cause the people with whom he is surrounded to tell him that he is selling-out.

I think Tommy Lee Jones' performance is the centre of the film -- for Me, that's the character that you are interested in.

Now, clearly, I understand, as someone who has an interest in -- as you know, I have a ludicrous, student politic background, you know.... like everybody else....

No -- that's NOT like everybody else.

No, what I mean, is -- like any 50-Year Old old-leftie, I went through a period where it was like "No!, THESE are The Ideals, and This is...."-- so obviously, as you grow up, you realise that there is such as thing as Compromise --