Selma And Lincoln: Movie Analysis

Selma and Lincoln are two historical movies about important events that happened in history. Did the directors include all the important details in their movie? Selma is about the Selma marches, lead by Martin Luther King. Throughout the movie, there is a debate between Martin Luther King and President Lyndon B. Johnson. Specifically, King tries countless times to try to persuade Johnson to help King achieve voting rights for black people, but every time Johnson refuses he becomes more annoyed by Kings motivation. Did Johnson refuse King’s idea or is that just how Ava DuVernay, the director wanted to portray him? Lincoln is about the passing of the 13th Amendment. Throughout most of the movie the representatives from each country meet in a courtroom to argue about whether or not to pass the 13th Amendment should. Steven Spielberg, the director forgot to include Fredrick Douglass in the movie. Nevertheless, Douglass was an important part of Lincoln’s presidency. Why
DuVernay misrepresented Johnson and Spielberg did not mention Douglass. What is worse, a misrepresentation or no representation at all? I believe that both of the directors made extensive mistakes when creating these films. DuVernay made a mistake when misrepresenting Johnson. When viewers see the movie, they will have false interpretations of Johnson, which will mislead people into portraying Johnson like he supported black people not being able to vote. Spielberg made a mistake when he did not include Douglass in his film because when viewers see this movie they will not even know that Douglass even exists. I believe that DuVernay’s situation is worse of false representation because it is better that you do not include them because then people would have to look up who the character is which will give them the real information rather that misrepresenting an exceedingly important person that helped pass the Voting Rights