Posted on 05/18/2018 9:39:06 AM PDT by Magnatron
Our greatest general was N.B. Forrest, ya dern Philistines! Second greatest (and most movie-worthy) Stonewall Jackson.
Joel Edgerton could play the role.
Patton’s cousin Lewis B. was no slouch, either!
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Check out Robert Duvall's portrayal in Gods and Generals. It's pretty much every picture you've ever seen of Lee, come to life.
Duvall’s too old now,though. Sad,he would have been wonderful.
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Grant was short, thin and young.
But I agree. Leo is a terrible choice and Spielberg is well past his prime. I don’t think the movie could be any better than what’s already in my mind.
Spielberg made a big mistake with picking shia labeouf for the Indiana Jones movie and now DiCraprio as General Grant! Really? !
Grant was quite a horseman (General Longstreet thought he was the most capable rider at West Point) and it was said he had more stamina than far younger men who rode with him.
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He was also the leader in demerits at West Point. Later on he was considered the best horseman in the Army. He finished in the middle of his class and then was a quartermaster.
When the Civil War started he was a clerk in his father’s store and had to beg for a commission.
You are very uninformed and wrong.
They’ve already done “Patton”....
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Grant was much better and influential right through WWII.
And personality-wise they were opposites. Patton was extremely ambitious while Grant had close to no ambition at all.
http://www.civilwarhome.com/casualties.htm
https://www.ben-hur.com/faq/#shiloh
“In General Grant and the Rewriting of History: How the Destruction of William S. Rosecrans Influenced Our Understanding of the Civil War, Frank Varney challenges Ulysses Grant’s widely read Personal Memoirs, especially as they pertain to the wartime performance of Union General William Rosecrans. Varney, an assistant professor of history at Dickinson State University in North Dakota, questions long-held beliefs regarding events involving Grant and Rosecrans in the all-important western theater. While Varney covers a lot of ground in this first volume of a projected two-volume series, the central theme is his contention that, given Grant’s propensity “to make himself look better and blame his errors on others”—coupled with the unwillingness of many historians to challenge “Grant’s veracity”—the general’s flawed version of events has distorted the nation’s understanding of America’s defining conflict (x-xi).
Varney takes a number of well-known Civil War historians—Bruce Catton, Peter Cozzens, Shelby Foote, Lesley J. Gordon, Earl J. Hess, James McPherson, Allen Nevins, Brooks Simpson, and Steven Woodworth, just to name a few—to task for sometimes engaging in lazy scholarship. While some come in for more criticism than others, Varney calls each of them out for a variety of mistakes or errors in judgment, the most egregious of which is falling under the spell of Grant’s Memoirs when drawing conclusions regarding Grant’s successes and Rosecrans’ failures. While Varney’s allegations have some merit, the author’s claims often fall flat in light of his own missteps...
...Aside from these significant criticisms of Varney’s work, he does successfully demonstrate that Grant’s Memoirs need to be treated with the same careful reading as other Civil War memoirs, that Grant and others did sometimes go out of their way to undercut Rosecrans’ accomplishments, and that historians have at times given Grant’s version of events a pass. Again, the central tenet of his book is compelling.”
https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/blogs/varney-general-grant-and-the-rewriting-of-history-2013
https://www.amazon.com/General-Grant-Rewriting-History-Understanding/dp/1611211182
I suspect Grant will be a water walker in the movie.
No chance in this era.
Ping
That dude that use to be the “most interesting man in the world”.
I love that visual...must have been a reason it was in a lot of westerns!
As someone pointed out, he was too old then.
Given a good script and a good director, DiCaprio can do well. “The Aviator” and “J. Edgar” are fine films, IMHO.
I’d give this a home video look if it’s produced.
I have it on DVD, which they only finally put out a couple years ago.
Wow, he is my picture forever of George. Right age, too, for a change. People need to realize Washington was still a youngish man starting the war, at only 43. Not some old white-haired paunchy fart.
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