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Copperhead
American Thinker ^ | June 28, 2013 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 06/28/2013 12:23:43 AM PDT by neverdem

It's a miracle! A fascinating and compelling movie whose plot is driven by the protagonist's fidelity to the Constitution. (In fact there were more mentions of the Constitution than any other movie I have ever seen.) You have never seen a movie like Copperhead, and you ought to take the opportunity to see it on a big screen if you live in one of the forty-some cities where it is opening today. But even if you don't, it is available today via all on-demand platforms, which is a great strategy to reach the widely dispersed audience that would appreciate this movie and have access to on-demand via cable, satellite, or the internet.

The story covers several months starting in the spring of 1862, as the Civil War began to felt in upstate New York, where dairy farmer Abner Beech holds a very politically incorrect view for his time and place: he is a so-called Copperhead who believes that the war was unwise, that President Lincoln has violated the Constitution in his conduct of the war, and the Confederacy should be allowed to go its own way or reunite with the Union, as it wishes.

Far from being a racist indifferent to slavery, Beech deplores it, and the viewer discovers that he has been secretly part of the Underground Railroad funneling fugitive slaves to Canada. The neighbors that react negatively to his stance have no clue as to his beliefs, and the abuse he endures is in the end tragic in unexpected ways. I won't spoil the plot, but it is the very opposite of a preachy, talky movie about politics. The characters have depth, the acting and directing are terrific, and the plot moves forward in a completely logical and compelling manner. There is romance, conflict, violence, and much more...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: copperhead
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1 posted on 06/28/2013 12:23:43 AM PDT by neverdem
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2 posted on 06/28/2013 12:29:27 AM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: neverdem
So far, MSM reviewers seem to hate it. Always a positive sign.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/copperhead_2013/#contentReviews

3 posted on 06/28/2013 12:34:20 AM PDT by TChad
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To: neverdem

Copperhead...aka peace democrat....were very pro slavery ....the thought that a copperhead would have anything to do with freeing slaves is laughable...

This looks like history revision at play to me...shoving a copperhead in a democrats face leaves them defensless when they try and spin the southern strategy myth...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copperhead_(politics)


4 posted on 06/28/2013 2:30:50 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '12)
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To: neverdem

I wonder if that black congress woman, who’s name escapes for the moment, will have a cameo appearance since she was freed...from slavery...

I tend to forget the names of ignoramuses...


5 posted on 06/28/2013 2:56:14 AM PDT by Popman (Godlessness is always the first step to the concentration camp.)
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To: neverdem; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Cincinatus' Wife; ...
It is showing in Dallas at the AMC Mesquite 30
19919 Lyndon B Johnson Fwy, Mesquite, TX 75149
(972) 329-3990
http://www.amctheatres.com/movie-theatres/amc-mesquite-30 - See more at: http://www.copperheadthemovie.com/see-the-film/theater-listing#sthash.UBF93opq.dpuf

Gadzooks! I’ll be at the 12:30 screening, so see ya... there!

6 posted on 06/28/2013 3:08:23 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: neverdem
It is hard for most Americans to relate to the USA of 150 years ago when FedGov™ was considered a small but useful tool to do a few specific things. Most people had allegiance to their state first, as it should be. But alas the state now is a cartoon of its old self, here to maintain roads and give you a little sticker to put on your license plate.

The Republic is dead and Lincoln started the ball rolling towards FedGov™ domination.

During this time of great destruction and Lincoln's hatred for states rights, the the Copperheads were the only decent people North of the Mason-Dixon, God bless the Copperheads.

I will see this movie....

7 posted on 06/28/2013 3:12:21 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Crim

Eggzackly.

In the mid-term election that apparently plays a big role in the plot, the Democrats’ (Peace and War) primary strategy was to exacerbate racial antagonism. In the NYC draft riots of 1863, the rioters were largely, though not exclusively, focused on killing black men.

Haven’t seen the movie, and don’t know if I will, but I strongly suspect it portrays the Copperheads as 1970s Vietnam War resisters before their time.

Which is a shame. A much better movie could have been made by showing the complexity of the issue. That attitudes we applaud today (like pacifism) and those we despise (like virulent even for the time racism) were often inextricably linked.

Locating the movie in NY was also pretty odd, as the real Copperheads were concentrated in the midwest.


8 posted on 06/28/2013 3:13:57 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: central_va

God bless racist democrats?

Really?


9 posted on 06/28/2013 3:30:00 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '12)
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To: Crim
God bless racist democrats? Really?

Guess what? EVERYONE in the mid 19th century was a racist by today's standards, even the demi-God Lincoln was a racist.

10 posted on 06/28/2013 3:36:34 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Sherman Logan
Haven’t seen the movie, and don’t know if I will

Afraid of deprogramming the reconstructed history that permeates your brain?

11 posted on 06/28/2013 3:38:36 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Ah yes...I guess the abolitionists were racist then...since everyone was a racist....

Neo-confederacy isnt cool...


12 posted on 06/28/2013 3:39:49 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '12)
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To: Crim

In the mid-nineteenth century Abolitionists were considered a small group of crazy people, radical kooks , even in the North.


13 posted on 06/28/2013 3:41:28 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: neverdem

This discussion shows how complex the issues in the Civil War were. Once side fighting to preserve states’ rights and property rights, but human beings were part of that property, while the other side was fighting to preserve the union, and prevent the spread of slavery, but had to set the power of the federal government over that of states and individuals in order to accomplish that goal.

The point of Lord of the Rings and Star Wars was that evil means used to pursue good ends will have evil results. I think one can see that in the Civil War.


14 posted on 06/28/2013 3:50:04 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: neverdem
Copperheads were strong proponents of Southern slavery and decried abolitionism on Constitutional grounds.

They abhorred the Underground Railroad as an organized conspiracy to violate the "rights" of slave states and their citizens in defiance of the constitutionality of the Dred Scott,

One might as well make a movie with a fictional Northern protagonist who was a staunch opponent of the Confederacy, participated in Sherman's March and also advocated legalizing slavery in the North.

The film is ahistorical and incoherent.

15 posted on 06/28/2013 3:50:40 AM PDT by wideawake
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The Copperheads by Herold Frederic

Frederic was born in Utica, New York, to Presbyterian parents. After his father was killed in a train accident when Frederic was 18 months old, the boy was raised primarily by his mother. He finished school at fifteen, and soon began work as a photographer. For four years he was a photographic touch-up artist in his hometown and in Boston. In 1875 he began work as a proofreader for the Utica Herald and then the Utica Daily Observer. Frederic later became a reporter, and by 1882 he was editor of the Albany Evening Journal.

Sounds like a Yankee to me. I wonder how he made up all of these "fantasies"...

16 posted on 06/28/2013 3:57:17 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
You realize that Frederic's book was a novel, right? A work of fiction?
17 posted on 06/28/2013 4:05:26 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake

Actually I have never read it. I am going to Amazon and get a copy now. Tom Clancy wrote novels too. So were his works unworthy?


18 posted on 06/28/2013 4:09:04 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: wideawake
If anyone interested here is the link to The Coppeheads on Amazon. Link here.
19 posted on 06/28/2013 4:11:22 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Popman

Maxine Waters


20 posted on 06/28/2013 5:21:17 AM PDT by SilverMine (ever member of congress should be horse whipped)
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