Gettysburg - the film

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RE: Gettysburg - the film

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Me, I'm partial to "Gone With The Wind," but I do like "Gettysburg" quite a lot, despite Longstreet's ten-cent beard. Once I get past the beard, it's a very good movie.
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RE: Gettysburg - the film

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Personally i think that gettysburg is a superb movie despites obvious errors in costumes and historical accuracy.  Despite these there are many good aspects to the film.  I think Sheen was a very good choice for Lee (my opinion of course)  but one thing i would have changed was cutting some of the harrison senes and shorten chamberlains role in the battle, one colonel out of some four hundred colonels in the AOP is not that important.  They could have used this extra time to show in more detail the many different engagments that took place (exs. wheatfield, culps hill, etc...)
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They should have made a trilogy: a film for each day. Still could be done for TV.
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RE: Gettysburg - the film

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ORIGINAL: Drex

They should have made a trilogy: a film for each day. Still could be done for TV.

Actually it was supose to be part of a trilogy... "Gettysburg", "Gods & Generals", and "Last Full Measure"... I didn't know that when Gettysburg came out but when I watched the DVD for G&G a couple of years ago I noted someplace on the disk it mentioned the trilogy.

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Well, I meant the battle of Gettysburg itself could be the subject of a trilogy. Certainly each day has enough action to fill a couple of hours of film.
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oh, that was actually a fake beard ! I touhgt it was common practice those days to grow beards like that,
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ORIGINAL: dude

How many of you caught Ted Turner dieing when crossing the fence line on Picketts charge? (he's the guy yelling..."Let's go boys..." and then promptly gets shot. (His character was actually Col. Patton... George S. Patton Jr's Uncle.... (This is pointed out in the extra stuff somewhere on the DVD.)

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Strange. I was just doing some research on Third Winchester, and it says Patton died there (a year later!).
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Maybe someone with the DVD and bonus material may check why they let Patton die at Gettysburg although he lived one year longer in real life.
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Just seeing if this works

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Another test - feel free to delete
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LuckyCJS1001
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RE: Gettysburg - the film

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Last test
dude
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RE: Gettysburg - the film

Post by dude »

ORIGINAL: Gil R.
ORIGINAL: dude

How many of you caught Ted Turner dieing when crossing the fence line on Picketts charge? (he's the guy yelling..."Let's go boys..." and then promptly gets shot. (His character was actually Col. Patton... George S. Patton Jr's Uncle.... (This is pointed out in the extra stuff somewhere on the DVD.)

Dude


Strange. I was just doing some research on Third Winchester, and it says Patton died there (a year later!).

GSP Jr had two uncles in the the CW... both killed... one at Gettysburg and the other at Winchester... so you are right too... [:)]
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shenandoah
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RE: Gettysburg - the film

Post by shenandoah »

I think Robert Duval looked and played a better Lee(Gods and Generals) than Martin Sheen(Gettysburg). Duval has a farm in Northern Va. near Thourough Fare Gap(important place in the 2nd Manassas), so I think he really took the movie personal. I did have a little problem with the same actor playing Pickett in one and Jackson in the other. Jackson was very eccentric and they didn't portray that as much as they did his strict religious ways and fondnest of children.

These should have been movies or series on HBO. TV you couldn't show the violence which is what war is. Both were good movies but needed more depth which would make it longer. In GandG the fighting in Fredericksburg streets was done in Harpers Ferry.

Blue and Gray is with Stacey Keach and very long series. My only problem is that Keach seemed to be at every important battle/event during the entire war. The man got around too much.
LuckyCJS1001
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RE: Gettysburg - the film

Post by LuckyCJS1001 »

The ACW deserves to get the 'Band of Brothers' treatment.

The more I read and play the game (well learn the game is more accurate) the more I realize what a monumental event it was in American history.

Imagine what Gettysburg or Antietam could be made to look like with today's effect specialists.

I am surprised it has not been done. The ACW has it all. The incredible courage of the men at the front. The heartbreak of families and friends pitted in battle against each other. The fact that a lot of the fighting was near civilian populations. (Still amazes my 21st Century mind that civilians would take picnics to watch the war as they did at 1st Bull Run. ) The whole African American backdrop. And quite possibly the most quotable war ever.

Lincoln's Gettysburg address could be made into one of the all time greatest movie moments.

Let's start a thread :

Which actors, alive or dead should play the characters in the film of the ACW. :-)
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Gil R.
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RE: Gettysburg - the film

Post by Gil R. »

ORIGINAL: dude

GSP Jr had two uncles in the the CW... both killed... one at Gettysburg and the other at Winchester... so you are right too... [:)]

Ahh! The old Double-Pattons trick! Second time I've fallen for it this month...
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MengCiao
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RE: Gettysburg - the film

Post by MengCiao »

ORIGINAL: fortdick

I hated the way they portrayed Lee.  First, Sheen is an anti-war liberal, and I was offended with him playing the part.  Secondly, they made Lee seem indecisive and weak.  The entire purpose of the Pennsylvania campaigh was to draw the AotP into the open for a fight.  Lee may have misjudged the situation, but he knew what he was doing.

Also, the did not explain well enough Ewell's hesitation in attacking the union right.  Or that, had Jackson been alive, the battle could have been won the first day.  The movie had a definate union slant.

How odd. My edition of the Ideological Encyclopedic Decoder has M. Sheen down as a PWC. I'm assuming that is a pro-war Conservative and not a post-holocaust water closet.
Perhaps it is a misprint.
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RE: Gettysburg - the film

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LOL! 
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