is it me or do c w movies side more with the confederacy

yankeegal

If I can remember correctly every cw movie I can remember watching made me feel ashamed to be a yankee. :oops:Does anyone else agree?

charge_of_glory · Captain Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 136

I've only seen one so I don't really know, but Glory is a good yankee movie. It actually makes the North look good lol. It seems like a lot of civil war things side with the Confederacy. I was in Gettysburg recently and I was very surprised. Being a Northern town and the site of a huge Union victory, I couldn't believe that it was very Confederate. I guess people look at the North as being the mean "parent", forcing the rebels to behave and all, so they side with the South. It's quite a shame too I think.

yankeegal · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 11:49 pm Post subject:

does anybody know any real good civil war movies that arnt all one sided?

N.W.15thAR · Captain Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 167

They take the side of the Confederates cause its not a side alot of people see or know alot about. Plus it will help sell tickets and movies. Also, I dont know if this would make any differace, but most reenactors are confederate. But who knows!

Pvt. Gale
N.W. 15th Arkansas

Lawrence63 · Corporal Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 3

Yeah, it seems to me that most Civil War movies are biased to one side. Especially Gods and Generals. The book was fairly balanced, but for some reason the movie was unfairly biased towards the Confederates. The only time you see a union commander is either in the few scenes with Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (Whoo hoo!!) or two very small scenes with Winfield Scott Hancock. TV Guide described it as "The life and times of Stonewall Jackson". The book equally and fairly depicted leaders on both sides, yet while watching it I felt I was seeing a big North-bashing on the big screen. Now, Gettysburg was more fairly balanced, but it would have been cooler if Michael Shaara had put Meade in for a bigger part of the book. In the movie, we only see him for a minute, while we see Lee through the entire movie. But, what are you gonna do?