3 major U.S. Civil War movies due in 2003: Could Rebel Flag Revival Follow? (My Title)

The Washington Times ^ | November 29th, 2002 | Scott Bowles

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Three MAJOR civil war cinema epics are due in 2003. 1) Robert Duvall plays Robert E. Lee in Gods & Generals, out Feb. 21; 2) Jude Law portrays a jaded confederate in Cold Mountain, due Dec. 25, 2003; and 3) Tom Cruise plays a Civil War veteran who witnesses the end of a Japanese culture in The Last Samurai, due Dec. 12, 2003. Gods & Generals is replete with special effects, although director Maxwell still used more than 10,000 extras to re-create battle scenes.

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Could this prompt Georgia to have a rebel flag referendum like Mississippi voters just successfully did?

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Here's a story that is (TEMPORARILY) still being ignored by the media and many Americans:

http://www.sierratimes.com/dixiemarch.htm &

http://www.southerncaucus.org/hkedgerton.htm

Asheville, NC - HK Edgerton, THE FORMER HEAD OF THE ASHEVILLE, NC NAACP and for the last 5 years, a defender of Confederate causes is a man on a mission. On Monday, October 14th, 2002, Mr. Edgerton in Confederate uniform and carrying his Third National Flag of the Confederacy will begin a 1,300 mile march from Asheville to Austin, Texas.

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ping

[Skooz]

From the link:

Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge) is working on Alexander the Great with hopes of nabbing Leonardo DiCaprio for the title role for the film, due in 2004.

UUhhh.....little Leo as Alexander he Great? UUUhhh.....

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1) South Carolina Gov. David Beasley was defeated in 1998, after he removed the Confederate Flag from the state capital.

2) 66 percent Mississippi voters retain the state's Confederate-themed flag.

3) 58 percent of voters keep Gulfport/BiloxiConfederate Flag flying.

4) King Roy Barnes (former GA Gov.) is defeated after he changed the Confederate-themed state flag of Georgia.

[Petronski]

Gods and Generals is going to be SO GOOD.

[jlogajan]

The flag of slavery???

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Better news for lovers of Western Civilization.

The Battle of Thermopylae, the bloody conflict between the Persians and Greeks in 480 B.C., is the subject of two possible studio films. Universal is developing Gates of Fire, while 20th Century Fox is weighing a remake of the 1962 film The 300 Spartans.

[Skooz]

There is no such thing as a "flag of slavery."

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UUhhh.....little Leo as Alexander he Great? UUUhhh.....

It would not work. But he was great in The Basketball Diaries. It is a brutal movie, based on a true story. I really recommend it.

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I'm really looking forward to "Gods & Generals" I spent many hours during my childhood on the battlefields in the Northern VA area where this movie was filmed.

[Hacksaw]

The flag of slavery???

No such thing, John. The overwhelming number of people who fought for the CSA were fighting for their home state, not slavery.

Even if the CSA had won, slavery would never have lasted - in fact General Lee disagreed with it and freed all his slaves before he took command.

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This post was poorly written, and I ahve pushed the abuse button on myself.

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Another question is...will these movies inspire separatism like that which swept the globe during the 1990's? With all the Washington D.C.-based corruption imposed on taxpayers nationwide, amidst increasingly mediocre "services", these movies could sew the seeds. Laugh now but our country's national debt just reached an all time high of $6.3 trillion dollars:

http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm

Meanwhile, baby-boomers are about to retire in droves. Hopefully these movies aren't overly watered down in p.c. or overly distracting romance.

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>>>This post was poorly written, and I ahve pushed the abuse button on myself.<<<

Not an attempt at censorship or anything.

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The Last Samurai tells the story of Civil War veteran Captain Woodrow Algren's visit to Japan in 1876.

Cold Mountain was filmed in in Romania..

I probably won't watch either of these, I just can't see Tom Cruise, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, or Renee Zellweger in any Civil War movie that I would enjoy.

I definitely will add "Gods and Generals" to my Civil War movie collection.

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>>>Cold Mountain was filmed in in Romania...<<<

How interesting that they'd film it in a country that, like the USA's Old South, was so unfairly demolished for generations by an oppressive centralized government.

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Self - censorship. As I read my first post, it struck me that I would be offended by it if it had been written by someone else. It could be read as expressing an anti- American sentiment that I don't have. Thus, I requested that it be deleted before I get heavily flamed.

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Here are some recent articles that help show how the current U.S. flag is actually the flag of racism, and not just the kind that disfavors whites, as the final 2 articles help demonstrate.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22619-2002Oct26.html

After graduation recently, 2.5 million American seniors enrolled in either a two-year or a four-year college. Almost a million did not. They were overwhelmingly poor, male and white. Much to the surprise of social scientists who traditionally have looked for educational problems among minorities, low-income black and Hispanic men are more likely to go to college right out of high school than white guys. So are young women of any background, in fact.

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1) Washington Post.com article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49287-2002Oct18.html

"A former Pentagon agency director and his top aide were charged yesterday with extortion and bribery for allegedly demanding payoffs, prostitutes and expensive watches in exchange for government contracts. Robert L. Neal Jr. headed the Defense Department's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization from 1996 to June 2001, and Francis D. Jones Jr. was his executive assistant. In a 52-page affidavit unsealed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria yesterday, federal agents said the two men instructed contractors to make payments to companies friendly to Neal and Jones to obtain or maintain lucrative federal jobs. The money would then be laundered through a sham company or a secret trust in the small principality of Liechtenstein, the affidavit said... The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization was created to help small and minority businesses obtain defense contracts. The office awards few contracts, but it exerts influence within the Pentagon, officials said... The office also directly controlled $28 million annually for the Mentor-Protege Program, in which small businesses find a large Defense Department contractor to serve as a partner and receive both training and contracts. One small business in the program told investigators that in 1997 and 1998, Neal and Jones demanded several payments of $8,000 to $15,000, "or they would take certain adverse actions or cease taking helpful actions" for the participant's company, according to Stroot's affidavit."

2) Washington Times article:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20021019-77594800.htm

"According to the affidavit, Mr. Neal and Mr. Jones, both of whom are black, engaged in a wide range of criminal activities during their tenure at the Pentagon, using their positions as leverage to receive illegal extortion payments, bribes and gratuities from minority or disadvantaged Defense Department contractors seeking to participate in the preference programs....Mr. Neal has been awarded the Secretary of Defense's Outstanding Public Service Medal and Outstanding Achievement Award, the OMB's Special Performance Awards, OMB's EEO Award and OMB's Divisional Awards for Special Performance."