Lee points out that his house is just across the Potomac. Secretary Blair to take command of the United States Army to put down the rebellion. General Lee, played superbly by Robert Duvall, is asked by U.S.
It is on the eve of the War Between the States. Gods and Generals opens with a quote by George Eliot about the importance of a sense of place. Everybody in the screening audience of industry professionals was moved to tears at points and swept along by the power of the presentation by Ron Maxwell and his team. It is a magnificent epic about the Civil War, historically accurate in nearly every respect, yet powerfully entertaining and emotive. Many of the actors from the movie Gettysburg reprise their roles in the new movie, which also features the new characters Stonewall Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Myra Hancock, Mary Custis Lee and Fanny Chamberlain.įrom the Battle of Fredericksburg to the Battle of Chancellorsville, when Jackson is mortally wounded by his own men, Gods and Generals paints a brilliant portrait of the lives of these great leaders during the tumultuous years leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg. Using his own script of Jeff’s book, Ron Maxwell filmed Gods and Generals in and around Sharpsburg, Md., the site of the Antietam Battlefield, and on actual historic locations in Virginia and West Virginia. Jeff Shaara (son of Michael Shaara, author of The Killer Angels) wrote the prequel. Gods and Generals is the prequel to “The Killer Angels,” the novel on which the movie Gettysburg was based. Lee featured as dictated by history and by the arc of the movie’s storyline. Because the book is so vast, the movie focuses on General Jackson, with Gen. 21, accurately portrays the history of the war, the human characters and the faith of the key players, up through the death of Gen. His new movie, which opens nationwide Feb. Ron Maxwell, the renowned director of the critically acclaimed epic movie “Gettysburg,” wrote and directed Gods and Generals. This tragic and yet heroic event pitted brother against brother on an immense and tragic scale.
There has never been an historic event which influenced the American people as much as the Civil War, or the War Between the States or the War of Northern Aggression, depending on your point of view.
It tells the powerful story of the most important event in the history of the United States in an accurate and faith-honoring way. “Gods and Generals,” based on the best-selling book by Jeff Shaara, is such a movie. (BP)–Rarely does a big-budget Hollywood movie come along that reflects history and the Christian faith of the protagonists in an historical event accurately and faithfully.
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