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| Posted: Fri Feb 12th, 2010 05:27 pm |
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In order to have a great film you have to have a great director,great cinematographer,great set design,assertive technical advisors,a great script,realism-realism-realism,a musical score that's is minimal but with simple themes,not boringly dramatic and emotional.I had mixed feelings about Gettysburg,Jeff Daniels was the best,along with the little round top sequence.Maxwell's direction was at best average,it was not cinematic,it had the look of a TV miniseries,but that aside it was ok.I waited for God's and Generals,a more complex saga that took covered lot's of ground.As I watched it in a local theatre,and I saw the Stonewall Brigade in formationand I saw Jackson riding in front of a group of overweight reenactors who want for us to beleive they are the Stonewall Brigade,I found myself becoming a little aggrevated.By the time it ended I was downright contemptuous of Maxwell,and the whole project.There are reasons why some movies lose money.In GandG's case it was because it was(is) a bad movie.Good movies usually make money,for a Civil War epic to make money it will have to be innovative,real,and great,it has to tell a story that gets envisioned then told to you with imagry so memorable it'll reach out and get you,take you in,so it's hard to take your eyes off the screen and when it's over you still see the images like they've been branded into your brain making the whole movie very sublime.Guys like Kubrick and David Lean understood epic making,Lean did it in Lawrence of Arabia,Kubrick in Full Metal Jacket.Maxwell does not understand movie viewers nowadays are slaves to detail,so seeing reenactors running for their lives,smiling,self concious,makes it all an insult,and embarrassing to watch.It's all about money(Ted Turner),throwing your mind and soul into the hope of making a enduring work of art for generations to come(Ted Turner) then loosing it all ,then stopping it all,because the film realized was fake-ish and tired,don't blame Ted Turner,don't blame anyone... cinema history takes care of that.
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