Gettysburg,the movie
#7294303
06/26/21 05:27 PM
06/26/21 05:27 PM
|
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 2,494 Garden,Michigan
Buck (Zandra)
OP
trapper
|
OP
trapper
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 2,494
Garden,Michigan
|
I haven't watched this movie in years,I had the VHS tape but when the VHS player died that was that.With an all star cast this show is one of my all time favorites.I remember reading where Tom Berenger,who plays Gen.James Longstreet and a Civil War buff would try to steer the scenes back to authentic detail if he thought the writers had strayed away from the real happenings of the battle.It's a great time to watch it with the anniversary of the battle coming up,if you have it.I can't imagine how many extras were hired ,thousands.The fight scenes are second to none.The wife is enjoying it as much as I am.Really brings home the sacrifices that were made during that period on both sides.A great movie.
Buck(formely known as Zandra)
|
|
|
Re: Gettysburg,the movie
[Re: Buck (Zandra)]
#7294369
06/26/21 06:53 PM
06/26/21 06:53 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 1,703 Wisconsin
Green Bay
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 1,703
Wisconsin
|
Yes a great movie. There are some interesting cameos too - Ken Burns delivers a message to General Hancock and Ted Turner is shot during Pickett's charge.
Author of The Lure Hunter: A Guide to Finding Fishing Lures
|
|
|
Re: Gettysburg,the movie
[Re: Green Bay]
#7294375
06/26/21 06:59 PM
06/26/21 06:59 PM
|
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 2,494 Garden,Michigan
Buck (Zandra)
OP
trapper
|
OP
trapper
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 2,494
Garden,Michigan
|
Yes a great movie. There are some interesting cameos too - Ken Burns delivers a message to General Hancock and Ted Turner is shot during Pickett's charge. Now that is interesting! Never heard those!
Buck(formely known as Zandra)
|
|
|
Re: Gettysburg,the movie
[Re: warrior]
#7294384
06/26/21 07:12 PM
06/26/21 07:12 PM
|
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 2,494 Garden,Michigan
Buck (Zandra)
OP
trapper
|
OP
trapper
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 2,494
Garden,Michigan
|
The scenes of little round top get me because I had a ggg grandfather that went up that hill. I can't imagine what it was like there that day
Buck(formely known as Zandra)
|
|
|
Re: Gettysburg,the movie
[Re: warrior]
#7294386
06/26/21 07:16 PM
06/26/21 07:16 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,007 PA
elkaholic
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,007
PA
|
The scenes of little round top get me because I had a ggg grandfather that went up that hill. My great grandfather defended that hill. He was in the PA unit that captured a bunch of Alabamians that made it to the top.
Millions of trees die every year to print environmentalist publications
|
|
|
Re: Gettysburg,the movie
[Re: Buck (Zandra)]
#7294407
06/26/21 07:47 PM
06/26/21 07:47 PM
|
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 2,494 Garden,Michigan
Buck (Zandra)
OP
trapper
|
OP
trapper
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 2,494
Garden,Michigan
|
I find it fascinating listening to those stories of the descendents.We have relatives that fought in the war,but I don't know if they were at Gettysburg.I worked for the ?National Park Service for 15 years and worked with a couple of guys that previously had worked at Gettysburg,and one that worked at Antietem.I always regretted not starting for the NPS earlier in life where I could have have worked Civil War sites.
Buck(formely known as Zandra)
|
|
|
Re: Gettysburg,the movie
[Re: Buck (Zandra)]
#7294423
06/26/21 08:00 PM
06/26/21 08:00 PM
|
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 849 Michigan
coonlove
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 849
Michigan
|
It is one of my favorite movies, but one must remember that it based on the book by Jeff Shara. The book follows the main characters accurately, but leaves out several key elements. Culp's hill isn't even mentioned and the large cavalry battle was also left out. It's still outstanding. The extras were mostly re-enactors and were very professional. A local bus driver was one of them and he told me that to stretch the extras, they would be Union troops one day and rebels the next. he was filmed being killed 3 times! The cannon barrage is incredible.
"I'm the paterfamilias"
|
|
|
Re: Gettysburg,the movie
[Re: Buck (Zandra)]
#7294432
06/26/21 08:09 PM
06/26/21 08:09 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 21,163 North East Kansas
Marty
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 21,163
North East Kansas
|
Lee screwed the pooch @ that battle.....we pay the price for that today.
E 'Honey Badger Militia' Sleep, the anti woke adote.
|
|
|
Re: Gettysburg,the movie
[Re: hippie]
#7294437
06/26/21 08:16 PM
06/26/21 08:16 PM
|
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 2,494 Garden,Michigan
Buck (Zandra)
OP
trapper
|
OP
trapper
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 2,494
Garden,Michigan
|
Google pcn Gettysburg battlefield walks. Some videos should come up.
Its a local tv station that films NPS giving tours every year on the anniversary of the battle. Thank you!
Buck(formely known as Zandra)
|
|
|
Re: Gettysburg,the movie
[Re: Buck (Zandra)]
#7294498
06/26/21 10:42 PM
06/26/21 10:42 PM
|
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 2,494 Garden,Michigan
Buck (Zandra)
OP
trapper
|
OP
trapper
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 2,494
Garden,Michigan
|
Visiting Gettysburg is on my bucketlist.A shame to mar such a site with rainbow flags.Good God,what's this country coming to?
Buck(formely known as Zandra)
|
|
|
Re: Gettysburg,the movie
[Re: elkaholic]
#7294504
06/26/21 10:59 PM
06/26/21 10:59 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 25,883 Georgia
warrior
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 25,883
Georgia
|
The scenes of little round top get me because I had a ggg grandfather that went up that hill. My great grandfather defended that hill. He was in the PA unit that captured a bunch of Alabamians that made it to the top. Papa Cain made it back down and survived long enough to rebuild his life and fortune back home as he lost everything in the war but he moved to town, Opelika AL, and went into business eventually being able to build a nice home that still stands today and is now a bed and breakfast. I just took possession of his rocking chair this weekend. It was bought new in 1860 and has rocked several generations of babies including myself, my mama and grandmother and my younguns and now grand younguns.
|
|
|
Re: Gettysburg,the movie
[Re: Jtrapper]
#7294511
06/26/21 11:29 PM
06/26/21 11:29 PM
|
Joined: Oct 2018
Posts: 5,573 Dunbar, Wisconsin
Pike River
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Oct 2018
Posts: 5,573
Dunbar, Wisconsin
|
Friend just got back from visiting up there, they got the rainbow flags flying all over it now. I'm not antigay but how in the world is that appropriate for the site? Seems so out of context.
|
|
|
|
|