It's tempting to set up Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain as a liberal idol – sadly, the Hollywood version of his battle isn't true
The story goes like this: 150 years ago today, Little Round Top was the key to the Union position at the battle of Gettysburg. If the Confederates had taken the hill, they would have won the battle. If the Confederates had won the battle, they would have won the war.
But the Confederates didn't take the hill, because a professor of languages and rhetoric from Bowdoin College commanded a bunch of Mainers in a heroic defence and, when their ammunition ran out, an even more heroic bayonet charge. Hollywood's version, in Gettysburg – a Ted Turner-funded epic based on The Killer Angels, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Shaara – goes like this:
Would that it were true. Would that the American Civil War was won by a "fighting professor" who looked like Jeff Daniels.
The story goes like this: 150 years ago today, Little Round Top was the key to the Union position at the battle of Gettysburg. If the Confederates had taken the hill, they would have won the battle. If the Confederates had won the battle, they would have won the war.
But the Confederates didn't take the hill, because a professor of languages and rhetoric from Bowdoin College commanded a bunch of Mainers in a heroic defence and, when their ammunition ran out, an even more heroic bayonet charge. Hollywood's version, in Gettysburg – a Ted Turner-funded epic based on The Killer Angels, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Shaara – goes like this:
Would that it were true. Would that the American Civil War was won by a "fighting professor" who looked like Jeff Daniels.
- 7/2/2013
- by Martin Pengelly
- The Guardian - Film News
It's not easy being Carrie Mathison, that's for sure.
In this tense, suspenseful episode of 'Homeland,' we finally learn the truth about her mystery ailment: she's bi-polar, and has been since college. Deprived of her medication following the attack on the square, which sent her to the hospital with a concussion and some nasty facial abrasions, she cascades into full-scale mania, berating the staff of the hospital over its inadequate supply of magic markers (my favorite line of the episode: "Is green elusive? I mean, my kingdom for a fucking green pen!") and giving Saul an awful scare. When he questions her, Carrie admits that her sister is medicating her, and Saul and Maggie Mathison are soon splitting up chaperone duties like a pair of amiable ex-spouses, since it's obvious that Carrie can't be left alone while she's in this condition.
Alarmed as he is by Carrie's predicament, Saul...
In this tense, suspenseful episode of 'Homeland,' we finally learn the truth about her mystery ailment: she's bi-polar, and has been since college. Deprived of her medication following the attack on the square, which sent her to the hospital with a concussion and some nasty facial abrasions, she cascades into full-scale mania, berating the staff of the hospital over its inadequate supply of magic markers (my favorite line of the episode: "Is green elusive? I mean, my kingdom for a fucking green pen!") and giving Saul an awful scare. When he questions her, Carrie admits that her sister is medicating her, and Saul and Maggie Mathison are soon splitting up chaperone duties like a pair of amiable ex-spouses, since it's obvious that Carrie can't be left alone while she's in this condition.
Alarmed as he is by Carrie's predicament, Saul...
- 12/12/2011
- by Michael Hogan
- Huffington Post
It’s the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, so obsessives should be prepping themselves for a deluge of tributes, History Channel retrospectives and Budweiser-fueled reenactments.
Although lauded documentarian Ken Burns made the definitive movie about the conflict, it took a media mogul like Ted Turner to create the ultimate dramatization of the whole North vs. South thing. Between 1993’s "Gettysburg" and 2003’s "Gods and Generals," the CNN honcho and former Mr. Jane Fonda sunk over $100 million into two massive productions that attempted to humanize both sides and offer some perspective on the nature of a country turned against itself.
"Generals" was a fiasco, but "Gettysburg" (now available on Blu-ray) is a surprisingly potent epic detailing the bloodiest, most significant battle in the Civil War.
Originally intended as a TNT miniseries, the film , which New Line released in theaters, definitely has that made-for-tv vibe; but counters it...
Although lauded documentarian Ken Burns made the definitive movie about the conflict, it took a media mogul like Ted Turner to create the ultimate dramatization of the whole North vs. South thing. Between 1993’s "Gettysburg" and 2003’s "Gods and Generals," the CNN honcho and former Mr. Jane Fonda sunk over $100 million into two massive productions that attempted to humanize both sides and offer some perspective on the nature of a country turned against itself.
"Generals" was a fiasco, but "Gettysburg" (now available on Blu-ray) is a surprisingly potent epic detailing the bloodiest, most significant battle in the Civil War.
Originally intended as a TNT miniseries, the film , which New Line released in theaters, definitely has that made-for-tv vibe; but counters it...
- 5/27/2011
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
Chicago – “Gettysburg” and “Gods and Generals” have legions of hardcore fans who adored them when they first played in theaters and will love the new Blu-ray editions that feel like hardcover books more than your standard disc release. One has to admire the marketing machine at Warner Bros. who can tie these titles in to the 150th Commemoration of the Civil War and make them perfect Father’s Day gifts at the same time.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.0/5.0
“Gettysburg” and its prequel “Gods and Generals” barely made a dent at the box office (as epic period pieces rarely do) but I’ve always gotten the impression that they have very loyal audiences, the kind of old-fashioned men who would sit down and watch these two Blu-rays back-to-back and lose a whole day in their Civil War recreation.
As for the rest of you, the films are good but not great. They both...
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.0/5.0
“Gettysburg” and its prequel “Gods and Generals” barely made a dent at the box office (as epic period pieces rarely do) but I’ve always gotten the impression that they have very loyal audiences, the kind of old-fashioned men who would sit down and watch these two Blu-rays back-to-back and lose a whole day in their Civil War recreation.
As for the rest of you, the films are good but not great. They both...
- 5/25/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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