Posted on 01/30/2003 8:52:27 AM PST by stainlessbanner
On the contrary, I think Lang did a good job of acting, and of portraying something of Jackson, but I don't think he captured his charisma, which was what Jackson mostly was -- the man was, in all accounts I've heard or read about him, a walking bundle of charisma, even more so than Robert E. Lee.
The problem with G's & G's is that they didn't give both the Jackson and Lee roles to Robert Duvall -- the only man on the set who could have mastered either. The gave him Lee. I've asked my movie-maven cousin whom he would have cast as Stonewall Jackson, and I await his reply. Other than Duvall, I can't think of a modern actor who could handle that role. I just can't.
Someone commented about Martin Sheen as Lee in Gettysburg.....yes, I'd have to agree. The man is so turgid with liberal brain-fat that he couldn't act Bobby Lee if he were inspirited with the general's own ghost. It was a real disappointment, almost as bad as Tom Berenger and what my cousin noticed was a terrible false beard as General Longstreet.
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