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In Reply to: Ted Turner and Generals posted by albee33 on February 21, 2003 at 16:31:12:
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
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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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