i wanted to show tads reaction that john wilkes bruce one of the worst people that ever lived but i thought it was important to connect the audience to a terrible personal sense of loss was no more heartbreaking figure that and tad who died from him but it to a kim about 10 years to do it. >> but that is up part that i thought was so ironic that he sought that fantasy that day. >> something that came up the ending of the film the last scenes with tad id -- tad and abraham lincoln that the flag never would have touched the ground but some have thought it would have ended just before that. what is the collaboration to bring those scenes together? >> i thought it was important to show the assassination have been but not a good idea to end with him walking into the "twilight" what i find obnoxious but every emetine said reconstruction will be harder than the civil war but i did not want the approach boardwalks off into glory. the was murdered by a lunatic. the loss of abraham lincoln is a catastrophe of its imponderable proportion. i also thought i wanted to make sure somewhere in the movie lik