[John H K]

Well, there was far too much speechifying.....I still think an entirely different concept of the movie focusing just on LRT or Chamberlain would have been superior overall.....or Chamberlain and more focus on his specific opponents at LRT.

[Uncle Jaque]

After all the hubbub, we didn't get to see "Gods and Generals", a "Prequil" to "Killer Angels"/Gettysburg.

It won't be out in DVD or Video untill about July 15, we are told.

From what we've heard, it was pretty much all about "Stonewall" Jackson, who was very well cast.
Jeff Daniels was older, considerably fatter, and did not pull off nearly as credible an impression of Gen. Chamberlain as he did in GB... and I thought that he was sort of marginal at that.

Sam Elliot would have made a better Chamberlain, IMHO, had he been about 20 years younger at the time. He was possibly the best Actor of the bunch, and some of my 3rd Maine Pards who worked as extras on GB related as to how he was the most popular and "down-to-earth" Actor on the set.

Several months before filming started, Sam wore his uniform around the ranch in all sorts of weather in order to "break it in" - and he certainly had that "authentic" look about him. He would come around to the camps at night between takes and hobnob with "the Boys" - share a cup of coffee around the campfire, swap jokes and the like.
He was very much liked by the small army of Reenactors who helped make that movie happen.

3 pictures are on the way to antijen in hopes that she can post them on Patriot Zone and thence to here.

[ontos-on]

I really dont get how people object to "speechifying" in the Gettysburg and the Gods and Generals movies. People were much more articulate back then and did tend to speak more formally. That's what happened. The portrayls of this helps give the viewer a sense of what was going on for the people who participated.

[R. Scott]

Many years ago (as an early teen) I read the book The 20th Maine. It documented the story of the regiment from activation to the end of the war.
That book made a lasting impression on me, inspiring a thirst for knowledge of the War Between the States. I visited the Gettysburg battlefield twenty years later and realized for the first time just how horrific the causalities were. The battle lines are marked with small stone markers on the flanks of each regiment. On the first day the 20th Maine regiment covered a front of close to a hundred yards. By the last day of battle it was dozens of yards – I could see both flank markers without moving.