Sarah Kay Bierle, Frank Jastrzembski, Dan Welch, Brian Swartz, and Tom McMillan discuss the movie “Gettysburg” and that film’s 30th anniversary. They’ll chat about favorite moments, essays about the movie in the Emerging Civil War books, historical challenges, and the legacy of the movie!
Here are links to the books:
The Civil War and Pop Culture https://emergingcivilwar.com/2023/08/02/the-ecw10-series-the-civil-war-and-pop-culture/
Entertaining History: The Civil War in Literature, Film, and Song
https://emergingcivilwar.com/publication/entertaining-history/
Passing Through the Fire: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in the Civil War https://emergingcivilwar.com/publication/passing-through-the-fire/
Hancock and Armistead: Behind the Gettysburg Legend of Two Friends at the Turning Point of the Civil War https://www.amazon.com/Armistead-Hancock-Gettysburg-Friends-Turning/dp/0811769941
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It's the best Gettysburg movie because it's been the only Gettysburg movie. One of the great lost opportunities.
Wallpapery score, uneven performances, bloated editing with a whole lot of unnecessary repetition.
Would love to see a director like Miguel Sapochnick, Mel Gibson, or the Russo Brothers take on CAIN AT GETTYSBURG.