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Gods and Generals

  • 20032003
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 3h 39m
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Gods and Generals (2003)
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The rise and fall of confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, as he meets with military success against the Union from 1861 to 1863, when he is accidentally killed by his own soldiers... Read allThe rise and fall of confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, as he meets with military success against the Union from 1861 to 1863, when he is accidentally killed by his own soldiers.The rise and fall of confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, as he meets with military success against the Union from 1861 to 1863, when he is accidentally killed by his own soldiers.
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    • Ron Maxwell
    • Jeff Shaara(book)
    • Ron Maxwell(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Stephen Lang
    • Robert Duvall
    • Jeff Daniels
    • Ron Maxwell
    • Jeff Shaara(book)
    • Ron Maxwell(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Stephen Lang
    • Robert Duvall
    • Jeff Daniels
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    Robert Duvall in Gods and Generals (2003)
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    ROBERT DUVALL as General Robert E. Lee
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    Mira Sorvino and Jeff Daniels in Gods and Generals (2003)
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    Stephen Lang
    Stephen Lang
    • Gen. Stonewall Jackson
    Robert Duvall
    Robert Duvall
    • Gen. Robert E. Lee
    Jeff Daniels
    Jeff Daniels
    • Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
    Donzaleigh Abernathy
    Donzaleigh Abernathy
    • Martha
    Mark Aldrich
    Mark Aldrich
    • Adjutant
    George Allen
    • Confederate Officer
    Keith Allison
    Keith Allison
    • Capt. James J. White
    Royce D. Applegate
    Royce D. Applegate
    • Gen. James Kemper
    • (as Royce Applegate)
    Bruce Boxleitner
    Bruce Boxleitner
    • Gen. James Longstreet
    Bo Brinkman
    Bo Brinkman
    • Major Walter Taylor
    Mac Butler
    • Gen. Joseph Hooker
    Robert Byrd
    Robert Byrd
    • Confederate General
    • (as Robert C. Byrd)
    Shane Callahan
    Shane Callahan
    • Bowdoin Student
    Billy Campbell
    Billy Campbell
    • Gen. George Pickett
    David Carpenter
    David Carpenter
    • Rev. Beverly Tucker Lacy
    John Castle
    John Castle
    • Old Penn
    Jim Choate
    • Gen. Bernard Bee
    Martin Clark
    Martin Clark
    • Dr. George Junkin
      • Ron Maxwell
      • Jeff Shaara(book)
      • Ron Maxwell(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Martin Sheen was in the Washington, D.C. area in early September 2001, filming scenes for The West Wing (1999). He was prepared to take a Tuesday morning flight from Dulles to LAX if Warner Brothers agreed to pay him $1 million to reprise his role of Robert E. Lee from Gettysburg (1993). Because Warner Brothers passed, Sheen was not on Flight 77 the morning of September 11, 2001.
    • Goofs
      Robert Edward Lee and Thomas Jonathan Jackson are shown wearing full beards at the very start of the Civil War, but they did not look like this until sometime later. Lee had dark hair going gray and wore a drooping mustache of the type favored by army officers in the 1850s. He grew his well known beard while serving as Jefferson Davis's military advisor. Jackson was clean shaven and grew a beard later out of his well known disinterest in personal grooming and appearance.
    • Quotes

      Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: All these thousands of men. Many of them not much more than boys. Each one of them some mother's son, some sister's brother, some daughter's father. Each one of them a whole person loved and cherished in some home far away. Many of them will never return. An army is power. Its entire purpose is to coerce others. This power can not be used carelessly or recklessly. This power can do great harm. We have seen more suffering than any man should ever see, and if there is going to be an end to it, it must be an end that justifies the cost. Now, somewhere out there is the Confederate army. They claim they are fighting for their independence, for their freedom. Now, I can not question their integrity. I believe they are wrong but I can not question it. But I do question a system that defends its own freedom while it denies it to an entire race of men. I will admit it, Tom. War is a scourge, but so is slavery. It is the systematic coercion of one group of men over another. It has been around since the book of Genesis. It exists in every corner of the world, but that is no excuse for us to tolerate it here when we find it right infront of our very eyes in our own country. As God as my witness, there is no one I hold in my heart dearer than you. But if your life, or mine,is part of the price to end this curse and free the Negro, then let God's work be done.

    • Crazy credits
      The movie was dedicated to the memory of John F. Maxwell and Royce D. Applegate.
    • Alternate versions
      The Director's Cut of the film includes additional action scenes from the Battle of Antietam. The battle scenes are shown from the perspectives of Jackson and Chamberlain, and mostly focus on the fighting in Miller's Cornfield which was a major deciding point of the battle.
    • Connections
      Featured in Bob Dylan Across the Green Mountain (2003)
    • Soundtracks
      'Cross the Green Mountain
      Written and Performed by Bob Dylan

      Courtesy of Columbia Records

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    Great visuals, but where's the drama?
    `Gods and Generals' plays less like a movie and more like a three-hour-and-49-minute long lesson in Civil War history. Grueling and plodding, the film is almost the antithesis of `Gone With the Wind,' in that while both films are epic tales told from the viewpoint of the defeated South, `Gods and Generals' (unlike the earlier film) has been essentially drained of all emotion, drama and characterization. `Gods and Generals' may be a more `realistic' war film than `Gone With the Wind' (what wouldn't be?), but it's not nearly as entertaining.

    `Gods and Generals,' which begins right after the firing on Fort Sumter and ends shortly before the Battle of Gettysburg, is the first part of a planned trilogy. Despite a handful of `name' players in the cast (Robert Duvall, Jeff Daniels, Mira Sorvino and even Ted Turner in a ludicrous cameo appearance), writer/director Ronald F. Maxwell is unable to bring a single character in his film to convincing life (with the possible exception of `Stonewall' Jackson, who gets to carry the burden of what little drama the film has almost single-handedly). In lieu of dialogue, the actors spend most of their time looking wistfully up to heaven or scanning the mist-shrouded horizon while delivering endless homilies about the rightness of the cause and the place of God in human affairs. To keep it all palatable for more enlightened and egalitarian-minded modern audiences, the filmmakers are quick to have the Southern characters declare that, even though the South is forced to fight against the North to protect its God-given right to sovereignty, they, as individuals, are all personally opposed to slavery as an institution and firmly believe that their resident blacks will be freed someday as a matter of course. Hell, the Northerners in this film seem more prejudiced against black people than the Southerners, who just can't say enough good things about their sycophantic slaves.

    The battle scenes, though well staged and appropriately graphic in nature, are strangely unmoving, primarily because we have no emotional stake in any of the characters we see doing the fighting. Without anyone for us to focus on and care about, the audience becomes little more than curious bystanders, passive and unengaged observers of this brutal display of ritualized slaughter. Although the visuals are splendid throughout, the musical score, except in a few places, is like a thick, heavy syrup poured over the entire film.

    By providing subtitled identification of the principal people, places, dates and battles, `Gods and Generals' does provide a service as a history lesson of sorts. As a drama, however, the film is woefully lacking in every way imaginable. `Gods and Generals' may thrill the heart of the diehard Civil War buff. The rest of us will have to stick to our dreams of Scarlett and Rhett, and of a romanticized vision of the South that only a Golden Age Hollywood mogul would have dared come up with.
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    • Given that slavery was a brutal and immoral practice, why would anyone today (including the makers of this film) side with the Confederates, who supported slavery, against the Union, which sought to abolish it?
    • What are the differences between the Theatrical Version and the Extended Cut?

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    • Release date
      • February 21, 2003 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Antietam Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Maryland, USA
    • Production companies
      • Turner Pictures (I)
      • Antietam Filmworks
      • Esparza / Katz Productions
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