Cold Mountion

[johan_steele]

Actually the film was made inEastern Europe... less power lines & obvious 21st Century issues, the majority of extras were Hungarian Army IIRC as it was easier to get men who looked the part that way than going for the avaerage CW re-enactor. We're too well fed and generally too tall.

Despised the book, never saw the movie... I'll wait for the Library to get a copy.

[texascavcadet]

Thought it was somewhere not in the USA

[larry_cockerham]

Filmed in Romania. Didn't look much like NC to me, but then I was concentrating on Nicole Kidman part of the time.

[Fifth Iowa]

...and not Renée Zellweger???

[larry_cockerham]

Fifth Iowa, you must not have seen the movie. Considerably different presentation.

[Fifth Iowa]

Originally Posted by larry_cockerham

Fifth Iowa, you must not have seen the movie. Considerably different presentation.

I was just kidding. Nicole is quite alluring in the film. But, of course, I'm only saying that from an objective point of view. I'm a truly blessed man, looking forward to celebrating my thirtieth wedding anniversary this coming July!

[matthew mckeon]

Cold Mountain is actually a remake of the awesome Clint Eastwood movie, Outlaw Josey Wales. Like CM, Clint is a returning war vet. Like Jude Law, he kills people by the dozen, like Jude Law he runs across quaint country folk, and falls in love with a beautiful blonde.

Clint kills and kills in this picture. He's supposed to be a bushwhacker with Bloody Bill Anderson, he' armed with ten or fifteen pistols, and he's constantly shooting Jayhawkers, bounty hunters, stray fur traders, grubby smugglers and a couple of dirt farmers. My brother and I once counted how many, and I lost count at 19. At one point, someone suggests they bury some of his latest victims. Clint sneers "buzzards gotta to eat, same as worms." Who is he kidding? He'd have to wait for the invention of a backhoe
to bury the mounds of corpses in this classic flick.

Like Jude Law, he has a final showdown with the bad guys and shoots a bunch. Unlike Law, Clint knows to shoot ALL the BAD GUYS!

[Fifth Iowa]

This is my favorite Clint Eastwood movie. You have a neutral farmer from a border state drawn into the war by atrocities committed against his family. (Doubtless this happened many times, on both sides.)

Along with Eastwood, we get a very memorable performance from Chief Dan George. He plays Lone Watie (who, in the book, is identified as the nephew of General Stand Watie, a Cherokee from Indian Territory, who was the last Confederate general to surrender at the end of the war.)

Watie offers the delightful line: "I didn't surrender, but they took my horse and made him surrender. They have him pulling a wagon up in Kansas I bet."

[matthew mckeon]

Chief Dan George definitely steals the movie. Another line:

"They called us the civilized tribes. Civilized means easy to sneak up on."

The homeguard in Cold Mountain were seen as nasty nasty nasty, which may be true of the CW period(I don't know). They have a modern feel to me, like the menacing "security forces" or "militias" in Bosnia or elsewhere.

[blue_zouave]

Originally Posted by matthew mckeon

Cold Mountain is actually a remake of the awesome Clint Eastwood movie, Outlaw Josey Wales. Like CM, Clint is a returning war vet. Like Jude Law, he kills people by the dozen, like Jude Law he runs across quaint country folk, and falls in love with a beautiful blonde.

So the filmmakers of The Outlaw Josey Wales have not yet sued Charles Frasier for plagarism??

Maybe they're just both based on "The Odyssey." Homer has been dead too long for his estate to sue for the use of the idea.

Zou