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Go read your favorite "Gettysburg" film review and be done with it.What were we expecting anyway? Well, it was nearly twice as long. And, it gave us an intermission so far into the film that half the audience had already stumbled to the restroom.
The film focused on Lee and (mostly) Stonewall, portraying them as deeply religious men who, ironically, believed in "killing the enemy". Their politics revolved around the notion that their homes were their "country" and not Mr. Lincoln's union. Slavery was downplayed as the key issue of their politics, again defaulting to "Gods will" on most issues. Their Bible-quoting sharply contrasted their northen counterparts behavior. (Thanks, Ted.)
The battle scenes were lengthy, but the tight camera shots told off on the production budget. And, Ted helped himself to a brief cameo in this one. (It was painless.)
The credits let us know that this IS a trilogy. So there is one more chance the South will rise again.
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I was disappointed in the movie but am a Civil War junkie....my favorite part was Chancellorsville with the Wagnerian type music backing up the men coming out of the woods and the relentless march of Jackson with his lieutenants...I think the film could have improved with some substantial editing and got hung up trying to give too much personal background on the main players. I give thanks to Ted Turner for making the effort and don't begrudge him the one scene he was in, although it was superfluous.
The definitive Civil war film has yet to be made. It's a shame, as there are many battles, events and characters that could be drawn on.
Edward Zwicks "Glory" has a stunning performance by Denzel Washington, a soundtrack to die for, and very little else unfortunately.
I think had Sam Peckinpah or John Ford done a Gettysburg or an Antietam that would have been really something...
Eric
A great picture could be made on the battle of Franklin Tennessee. For one thing it would get us out of the boring Eastern Theater of war and out West where the war was really won by the Manly Men of The Old Northwest.And a great cast of characters; half-out-of-his-mind Hood, the drunken Cheatam and doomed Cleburne, drunken Wagner crazily trying to take on the whole Rebel army with 2 brigades, intrepid Opdyke rushing to the front of his spontaneously counterattacking Illinoisans and Buckeyes (an "I'm supposed to be in charge, I'd better get in front of this mob" kind of thing), young Carter killed in his own yard, the 5 slain Rebel generals laid out side-by-side on a front porch; good stuff.
Plus the Western Yankees look better on film than the paper-collar Easterners, as evidenced by the number of the reenactors in "Gettysburg" that affected the Western Yankee look. In some scenes the 20th Maine looked more like the 20th Indiana.
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