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Re: [RC] Gods and Generals - Jackie Winkleman

For the Mustang people...
One of the horses in Gods and Generals was an adopted
BLM Mustang.  There is a little info and some pictures
on the BLM Wild Horse and Burro website. 

Kathi & Ed - Looks like George.

--- goearth <goearth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There is the ole saying.."if you can't say something
good, don't say nothing at all" but that was before
my time.  Maxwell tried to tell more story from his
perspective than he had time.  He failed because he
wrote it, produced it, directed it and Turner paid
for it.  Let me just say that we walked out at the
intermission and my wife, Maryann, thought it was a
Comedy and laughed when she wasn't supposed too. 
The beards were too fake,  the stars and heavens
were fake,  the towns seen from the vistas were
fake.  The horses were hack line horses for a fact. 
The Commanding General has a very fine
horse,everyone knows this, he has the best horse. 
There were no fine horses here and Virginia has some
very good horses.  The re-enactors guns were used
and they were stainless and the good ole boys just
didn't have that type of weapon with perfect stocks.
 The cannons looked like they came from a museum and
not across the countryside in the midst of winter. 
The oratory sounded like a Shakespearian Actor
trying to sound like a Virginian of that period. 
There was too much off topic innuendo that had
nothing to do with the story and it just made for a
cluttered waste of time.  I would not recommend this
film to anyone.  Duvall was OK, but R.E.Lee was a
Great Human Being with much emphathy and compassion
and the clearest blue eyes you could imagine. 
During the winter of 1863-64 after the defeat at
Gettysburg, Lee and his 60,000 troops spent the
winter in tents with hardly shoes on their feet much
less food in their bellies.  Lee could have gone to
one of the finer homes in the area but he chose to
be near his men in his tent after what many said was
a heart attack at Gettysburg.  He was much more of a
man and human being than this movie portrayed. 
Since this is a horse forum then i should mention
the horses.  Did you notice at the beginning when
Jackson was addressing his troops...on what to me
seemed like a skitzoid mare with ears telegraphing
all kinds of...whats going on here?  Well she must
have been too much for him because after that he was
shown on a sorrel that had a scrape on its shoulder,
but it was calm.  The funniest horse scene was when
J.E.B. Stuart came riding in at a gallop and a
sliding stop.  He may have been dashing but he was
not a buffoon.  For 54$million i would have hoped
that the final peice could have been better edited,
written and presented and not so hokey.  Of course
these observations come from someone who left at
intermission because i was not inspired or impressed
for the first 2 hours.  But like all entertainment,
those that find it interesting and factual will. 
There is another Civil War Movie coming to the area
to film and i hope they give a better factual
representation than Gods and Generals.   setis mot



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