Mike wrote:I'd rate Glory #1 with Cold Mountain 2nd.
I agree the dialogue in G'burg & G&Gs is too contrived. Ted Turner's attempt to teach history to the masses.
I agree. Glory's easily #1. Cold Mountain unfourtantly (for my own interests, it's an excellent movie on it's own merits though) doesn't really focus on what I consider to be the more "interesting" parts of the war, but I thought where the war infringed on the drama it was focused on, it was done quite well.
A bio-epic on Sherman would be fascinating. Easily one of the more compelling personnalities and underrated as a topic. Lee, Lincoln, and Grant have been done to death and unfourtantly anything to do with them is an invitation to nitpicking and criticism. No chance you could make everyone happy with any treatment of them.
In terms of "battles", Chancellorsville (but it'll inevitably come across as Lee/Jackson worship), Shiloh (underrated as a battle topic), and the Wilderness campaign.
If you wanted to do a "solider's life" deal, the siege around Richmond and Petersburg of course.
And something with a little more western flavor, any of the more infamous Missouri partisans.
And for a naval picture? Easy, slam dunk picture i'm shocked hasn't been made yet. Follow the
Alabama and the
USS Kearsarge immediately leading up to their famous duel (and of course, have the duel be the climax of the movie) outside of Cherbourg.