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Ron Maxwell wasn't done with the Civil War. The director behind the critically acclaimed epics "Gettysburg" and "Gods and Generals" revisits the familiar subject of the War Between the States with his new film, "Copperhead," which will host its world premiere at the State Theatre June 28 at 7:30 p.m. “I wanted to explore something more intimate," Maxwell said of the film. "My previous pictures focused on officers and leaders, but, in reality, the war was fought by teenage boys, most from small towns whose families ended up devastated by the war even if no battles were fought nearby." Copperhead...

Nothing has been finalized but Director Ron Maxwell (IMDB resume here) was in the middle of an interview with local host (sometimes national sub) Dan Patrick at KSEV 700AM. Ron was going on about how much of a traitor (my word, not his) Michael Moore was for providing aid and comfort to the terrorists in Iraq. He also talked about how Mr. Moore made no reference to how many people Saddam Hussein was murdering every year. Nor did he mention the children who starved because of corruption in the Oil For Food program (which was pilfered by France and the...

<p>MILLBROOK, Va. — The sun rises over the Blue Ridge Mountains, casting a spotlight on a 140-year-old Civil War battle that is about to rise again. In the grass still wet with dew, two bearded men in navy blue overcoats sleep, leaning against a pile of taxidermied horses. Nearby, men in gray coats wait in line for a woman holding sponges and gauze. Her worktable is soaked with a thick red substance leaking from gallon-sized jugs. Sleepy men and women emerge from trailers, their arms laden with cables, rakes, walkie-talkies, muskets, fake corpses. A strange contraption blows white smoke over the rolling green hills, masking the landscape in a cloud. "This is going to be the best and most accurate Civil War movie ever made," says historical consultant Patrick Falci, observing the scene. This Shenandoah Valley alfalfa farm in southwest Virginia is standing in for Manassas, the Washington, D.C., suburb where two major battles of the Civil War were fought.</p>

2003 was a big year for Civil War movies. Gods and Generals, based on Jeff Shaara's novel of the same name hit theaters in the spring. Gods and Generals was a paean to the Old Confederacy, reflecting the "Lost Cause" interpretation of the war. This school of Civil War historiography received its name from an 1867 book by Edward A. Pollard, who wrote that defeat on the battlefield left the south with nothing but "the war of ideas." I know from the Lost Cause school of the Civil War. I grew up in a Lost Cause household. I took it...

Promoting a revision of history? 10/19/03By RONALD F. MAXWELL Special to the Register George Ewert, director of the Museum of Mobile, thinks my movie, "Gods and Generals," "seeks to rewrite the history of the American South, downplaying slavery." Moreover, as a self-proclaimed champion of the brave new South, it appears that he would like to run a re-education camp for adults and a brave new school for children so that Alabamians can be taught to hate their past, to reject their ancestors, and to condemn and even to forget their history. Most disturbing, from the point of view of a...

When George Ewert , director of the Museum of Mobile, wrote a stinging movie review of the Civil War film "Gods and Generals," he likely did not expect an equally harsh critique from Mayor Mike Dow . Ewert's review, "Whitewashing the Confederacy (SPLC link)," was not kind to the Ted Turner film."'Gods and Generals' is part of a growing movement that seeks to rewrite the history of the American South, downplaying slavery and the economic system that it sustained. In museums, schools and city council chambers, white neo-Confederates are hard at work in an effort to have popular memory trump...

The movie, Gods and Generals is now out on video and I had the pleasure of watching it last night (Mrs. irish guard is not very big on violent movies). I remember from the original post when the movie came out, the character of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson stole the show and I was stunned by the focus on religion and each of the principal character's unabashed expression of their religious faith. The news today is troubling all around; gay marriages and Bishops, priest pedophelia, Muslim violence....all religion related. I am certain I will be flamed for this post, but it...

Last February the Claremont Institute's Mackubin T. Owens authored a review of the movie Gods and Generals that ran in the Washington Times, National Review, and a couple other publications. The review was heavily critical of the movie's portrayal of the confederacy. This month I recieved a copy of the Claremont Review of Books for July 2003 and saw another civil war article by Owens, this one about two recent civil war books. As I read through it several passages sounded extremely familiar. So I pulled up the old one from February and, sure enough, Owens had cut n' pasted...

Earl Salisbury, a 44-year-old Civil War re-enactor from Goldsboro, picked up one of the first copies of "Gods and Generals" released on DVD Tuesday and found himself on the cover. "Right, smack, dab in the center," Salisbury said. "I almost fell over dead. I'm the tall, skinny guy with stripes on his arm."He said he had obtained the schedule for the filming of "Gods and Generals." He and a fellow re-enactor, his 21-year-old son, William, started going to the film shoots calling for Confederate soldiers. From summer to December 2001, they camped or stayed in hotels in Staunton, Va.; Hagerstown,...

Civil War epic shut down by 'PC crowd'? 'Gods and Generals' a painful disappointment at box office Posted: March 22, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Art Moore © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The makers of the Civil War epic "Gods and Generals" believed they had a ready-made audience in people of faith who normally shun Hollywood for its celebration of immorality and ridicule of religion. "Gods and Generals," released Feb. 21, is writer, producer and director Ron Maxwell's attempt to accurately recount a century-and-a-half-old chapter of American history that has not stopped inflaming discord. One obvious result of Maxwell's passion for historical...

The makers of the Civil War epic "Gods and Generals" believed they had a ready-made audience in people of faith who normally shun Hollywood for its celebration of immorality and ridicule of religion. "Gods and Generals," released Feb. 21, is writer, producer and director Ron Maxwell's attempt to accurately recount a century-and-a-half-old chapter of American history that has not stopped inflaming discord. One obvious result of Maxwell's passion for historical fidelity is Confederate officers in their "full humanity," whose motivations, speech and actions arise from their devout Christian faith. Stephen Lang as Gen. Stonewall Jackson and Robert Duvall as Gen....

The politically correct elites have effectively squashed recently released Christian movies such as Pierce Brosnan's EVELYN and Ron Maxwell's poignant Civil War epic, GODS AND GENERALS. They have been helped along by apathy among Christian and conservative activists, who apparently think that, simply because an anti-Christian bigot like Roger Ebert condemns a movie, that must mean the movie is no good. Thus, instead of ignoring the vitriolic comments from politically correct, leftist film critics in the secular media, Christians and conservatives have abandoned family-friendly, Christian-friendly movies like EVELYN and GODS AND GENERALS, and, hence, helped to feed the lie that...

Jeff Shaara's novel "The Last Full Measure" has recently been optioned by Ted Turner Pictures. The script was recently commissioned. First draft screenplay expected January '03 for possible filming summer '03 in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. This film will follow all the characters from 'Gods and Generals' and 'Gettysburg' from July 1863 to April 1865, with the additional characters of U.S. Grant, Sheridan and Sherman. Additional information on 'Last Full Measure' will be posted on this page as the project advances.

Ron Maxwell, the director of GODS AND GENERALS, is wondering why Christians are not supporting this historically accurate, entertaining, and faith-filled movie? This great movie, which contains many appeals to God and shows the sacred Christian roots of our American heritage, will be pulled from many theaters soon, even this week. Many movies last only a week or two in theaters and must capture momentum as soon as possible. How can we get the word out on GODS AND GENERALS? PLEASE email Christian teachers, homeschoolers, believers, pastors, historians, history buffs, etc., about GODS AND GENERALS. Tell them that time is...

"Gods and Generals" opened in movie theaters this past weekend, and at last we have a movie that presents truthful history rather than fiction or politically correct revisionism. This epic recounts the gripping history of the Civil War prior to Gettysburg, and there isn't a dull moment in its awesome four hours. The movie faithfully shows the sincere motives of the valiant men of principle on both sides. The movie shows that the Northerners fought to preserve the Union, and Virginians fought to defend their homeland against federal troops sent into their state (Southerners certainly did not die to defend...

<p>The first Civil War movie of consequence, D.W. Griffith's heroic and horrific masterpiece, "Birth of a Nation," was an electrifying polemic that demonized the North and the slaves, and glorified the Klan.</p> <p>Yet, for all of "Birth of a Nation's" moral faults, the subject made for exciting cinema. President Woodrow Wilson remarked that it was "like history written with lightning."</p>

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The Beauregard-Vernon NAACP on Thursday formally denounced an upcoming Civil War re-enactment. The local chapter cited racism and hatred as its reasons for opposition. The Rev. James Piper was the chief spokesman during the meeting Thursday. About 20 people attended. "I have checked, and the NAACP is against reenactments nationwide," he said...Piper said his group is against anything that "brings disharmony" and that "disrupts social and civil peace."

The movie Gods and Generals, features prominently in the March 2003 issue of TAE now on newsstands. Despite mixed reviews, the movie promises to enliven debate over the Civil War. In our January/February 2001 issue, TAE interviewed eminent Civil War historian Shelby Foote. Our conversation with him follows: Take a spirited ramble with America’s most literary historian as he discusses racism, Civil War battles, Lincoln, computers, the Confederate flag, novel writing, television, rednecks, the Klan, big government, and Yellow-dog Democrats. Shelby Foote Shelby Foote, a native of Greenville, Mississippi, was the author of five much-admired novels when his career took...

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