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made it to the film. It's just an entirely different story, and I have to tell you, I've heard from literally thousands of people through my website, and I get emails every day and try to be as accessible as I can, and the overwhelming percentage of those that wrote me said, 'How could you let them butcher your book like that?' I have no answer to that because I had no control or power to change what came up on the screen."
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originally liked the movie, but he later said that he was disappointed it was not more similar to the book. He said, "It's enormously different, it's radically different from the book. There are characters in the film that do not exist in the book, and a great many characters in the book that never
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Jackson on the ground. He is then taken to a field hospital where his arm is amputated. Lee remarks that while Jackson has lost his left arm, he (Lee) has lost his right. Jackson dies shortly after of pneumonia he had contracted during recovery. Jackson's
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Director's Cut" being released eight years later in 2011. The film was both a critical and commercial failure. Although film critics complimented its
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as being "generally happy" with their condition. He also criticizes the relative lack of attention given to the motivations of Union soldiers fighting in the war. He excoriates the film for allegedly implying, in agreement with Lost Cause mythology, that the South was more "sincerely
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are ordered to retreat and spend two nights on the battlefield, sleeping with the dead. Chamberlain and the defeated Union soldiers depart
Fredericksburg. Jackson and Lee return to the city, and Lee is confronted by an angry citizen whose house has been destroyed by Union artillery.
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faces an opposing force almost twice their size. Jackson calls upon his chaplain, Beverly Tucker Lacy who knows the area, and asks him to find a route by which the
Confederate forces can infiltrate in secret. Jackson then leads his forces in a surprise attack on an unprepared
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Maxwell blamed the decision to cut the film for a single theatrical release as the cause of its failure, saying "because we had to take so much out, I must confess the story-telling became disjointed in a way that we just couldn't completely fix."
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in 2000 and decided to personally finance it after they turned him down. The final cost of the film was $ 60 million for the production and $ 30 million for the distribution of it, making it one of the most expensive
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William B. Feis similarly criticized the director's decision "to champion the more simplistic-and sanitized-interpretations found in post-war "Lost Cause" mythology". Writing for the
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on May 24, 2011. The film also received special screenings across the country to commemorate the anniversaries of important Civil War battles, starting with a July 22, 2011, presentation at
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performances and historically accurate details such as costumes, they criticized its length, pacing, and screenplay. The consensus of critics was that it had a "pro-Confederate slant". The
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for assistance against the
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merger and estimated his investment in the film to be worth 15 percent of his assets, to cancel his and
Maxwell's plans to adapt the third book in the Shaara family's Civil War trilogy
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theatrical release to 3 hours and 40 minutes in order to focus on
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was the original choice to play Stonewall Jackson, but scheduling conflicts prevented his availability in the summer and fall of 2001 when the movie was filmed.
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Kauffman, Bill. "The Civil War returns: the struggle that forged America and launched modern warfare comes to life in a major new film. (Cover Story)."
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derided the movie as a modern-day telling of Lost Cause mythology. Woodworth called the movie "the most pro-Confederate film since
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1529:Metacritic
1504:Activision
1488:Video game
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1209:Soundtrack
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