Posted on 07/30/2013 7:15:08 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
Conservatives are grabbing popcorn and lining up to catch a new historical drama with modern connections.
“Copperhead,” the new film from director Ron Maxwell, focuses on the Northern opponents of the American Civil War and stars Billy Campbell, Angus MacFadyen and Peter Fonda.
At least one conservative — Richard Viguerie, chairman of ConservativeHQ.com — emailed his audience to tell it about the movie “that every conservative needs to see.”
“[W]hile Copperhead is about the Civil War, believe me, it will hit close to home for every conservative fighting to preserve our Constitution and our American way of life,” Viguerie wrote. “Because Copperhead is about standing up for faith, for America, and for what’s right, just like you and I are doing today. In fact, I’ve never seen a movie with more references to the Constitution, or a movie that better sums up our current fight to stand up for American values and get our nation back on track.”
The movie, which is based on the novel by Harold Frederic, follows Abner Beech, a New York farmer who doesn’t consider himself a Yankee, and is against slavery and war in general.
Asked about whether he sees his film as conservative, Maxwell told POLITICO, “I think if ‘Copperhead’ has any relevance at all, in addition to illuminating a time and place from our common heritage, it’s as a cinematic meditation on the price of dissent. I’ve never thought of dissent as a political act belonging to the right or left. It’s an act of liberty, expression of the rights of a free person — free not just in law but free from the confines and pressures of the tyranny of the majority.”
Maxwell said while the concept of dissent is as “old as time,” in the U.S., “it’s protected in the Constitution.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Only interested if the South gets to win this time...
I think a more interesting movie would focus on the larger numbers of Southerners who opposed the Confederacy.
And savaged by the Obama and the Dems and the media by rank abuse of power.
Read some of the alternate history books by Harry Turtledove.
Conveniently, that unmade movie is already titled, “Scalawag”!
Somehow, I don’t think ANOTHER movie about big government supporting equalitarians would have much appeal.
There were abolitionists who opposed the war because they felt that war would not solve the issue of slavery.
why should i go see a movie just because someone tells me to? i’ll see whatever movies i want, when i want, and don’t need nor want people telling me that because i’m conservative, that i have to see this movie.
sorry for the rant. bad day today;-)
LOL ... and sorrow for your bad day.
Looking forward to the Civil War epic “Carpetbagger”!
Not at all popular to say in some parts, but true. There are areas of eastern Tennessee and extreme western North Carolina which were as solidly GOP as the south was solidly Democrat from the U.S. Grant through the Eisenhower administrations.
People also forget that in the pivotal presidential election of 1860, three states which later played such a prominent role in the Civil War voted for the Constitutional Union Party (the same one which elected Andrew Johnson to the U.S. Senate): Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Even more interesting would be a documentary on the New York and New England business interests that pushed Lincoln to start the war.
"The great popular heart is not now and never has been in this war. It was a revolution of the politicians, not the people."
Just like the 1960’s, the 1860’s was infected by a bunch of long-haired, anti-war hippies protesting and rioting in New York.
That is not about the 'Civil' War. It's about Hillary Klintoon's senate run in 2000.......
The trvth is out there—for those w/the eyes and ears for it—mostly online, but ez to find!
Semper Trvth !!!!!
Dick G
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Agree.
WWI was a sequel to that wasn’t it?
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