privateflemming
Corporal
- Joined
- Jul 2, 2019
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- California, USA
I'm sure everyone here can relate to that fact there are surprisingly few Civil War movies and even fewer good ones. This is strange for an event as momentous in American history as the Civil War. I can list the Civil War movies I think are good or even "decent" on one hand while there are several times that many great American WWII movies I can think of.
So the question is, if you had $150 million to make one big-budget Civil War movie with complete executive control of everything, what would you make it about and what would be the outline of your story. You can be specific or more vague but the goal should be to make it something you think would have a large popular appeal that regular people would like while still maintaining historical integrity, not just something obscure and personally interesting to you or overly long and preachy and unrelatable *cough* Gods & Generals *cough*. What would you actually do to make a great movie that would popularize the Civil War and encourage movie studios to follow in your footsteps?
So the question is, if you had $150 million to make one big-budget Civil War movie with complete executive control of everything, what would you make it about and what would be the outline of your story. You can be specific or more vague but the goal should be to make it something you think would have a large popular appeal that regular people would like while still maintaining historical integrity, not just something obscure and personally interesting to you or overly long and preachy and unrelatable *cough* Gods & Generals *cough*. What would you actually do to make a great movie that would popularize the Civil War and encourage movie studios to follow in your footsteps?
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