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[J.W. Dumas]

"I'm the dude playin' the dude disguised as another dude: I know what dude I am!"
Anyone know the movie?

Tropic Thunder

 

[FrazierC]

Tropic Thunder

Wow, that was fast. I posted that like two minutes ago... impressive

 

[Drew]

Well, in any movie that included Ben Butler, he would have to be played by Danny DeVito!

If DeVito gets Butler, I vote Woody Allen gets Banks!

 

[J.W. Dumas]

Wow, that was fast. I posted that like two minutes ago... impressive

I have been waiting for that quote ever since I suggested Downey Thank God you're here...finally.

 

[Karen Lips]

Could see Matthew McConaughey as George Custer (minus the southern accent).

I always thought Matthew McConaughey would make a good Nathan Bedford Forrest.

 

[Karen Lips]

I would like to see a movie made about the Battle of Franklin and also the seige of Vicksburg. A movie about the last Gettysburg Reunion would be good too.

 

[damYankee]

Robin Williams as Wigfall?

 

[damYankee]

Lets go all the way, throw caution to the wind, throw names into a hat and what ever gets pulled out that's who plays what..
Morgan Freeman as Gen. Lee !

 

[MajRyg]

As the FNG, I'll throw my hat in the ring. As a movie I'd like to see produced, and being honored to be from the state of G.A. Custer's death, I'd like to see a movie made of that man's fluke of a rise in career during the CW. Bottom of the class in West Point and ultimately a 23 year old cav general tearing it up behind the lines at Gettysburg.
a. The actor? Mathew McConaughey would make a decent Custer but not for this age of Custer. I'm really drawing a blank on this one.
b. Does the movie portray this as an underdog get's his day story or a wtf were they thinking tragedy where everyone already knows the ending?

 

[J.W. Dumas]

As the FNG, I'll throw my hat in the ring. As a movie I'd like to see produced, and being honored to be from the state of G.A. Custer's death, I'd like to see a movie made of that man's fluke of a rise in career during the CW. Bottom of the class in West Point and ultimately a 23 year old cav general tearing it up behind the lines at Gettysburg.
a. The actor? Mathew McConaughey would make a decent Custer but not for this age of Custer. I'm really drawing a blank on this one.
b. Does the movie portray this as an underdog get's his day story or a wtf were they thinking tragedy where everyone already knows the ending?

Hmm, not a bad idea comin' from an FNG. Shame that his disasterous final battle overshadowed his remarkable ACW career. How about Chris Pine (the 'new' James T. Kirk in Star Trek) as Custer?

 

[yankee belle]

I would like to see a movie made about the Battle of Franklin and also the seige of Vicksburg. A movie about the last Gettysburg Reunion would be good too.

I like that reunion movie idea. It would be interesting to explore the vets thoughts and views long after the fact.

 

[diane]

Lets go all the way, throw caution to the wind,math row names into a hat and what ever gets pulled out that's who plays what..
Morgan Freeman as Gen. Lee !

I'm down with that but only if we can have Jackie Chan as Grant!

 

[Nathanb1]

Maybe Quentin Tarantino can make it.

 

[66TH Indiana]

While the Generals garner nearly all attention in Civil War films, I would insist on focusing on the story from a soldier's perspective, preferably to soldiers that lived through the battle. The odd Lieutenant, a few Sergeants and Corporals and the remaining main charters fleshed out by your ordinary ever day knuckle dragging Private. I would do the battle scenes much like Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War or the opening landing scene from Saving Private Ryan or the first few episodes of Band of Brothers, to demonstrate just how brutal the Civil War really was. The resulting imagery of the film would remind viewers of what really happened and possibly removing some of that lustrous sheen of romanticism, which surrounds the War to this day.

I would avoid the high notions of "Fighting to Save the South from the Tyranny of Oppression" or "Fighting to Restore the Union" or " Fighting to Free the Slaves" mentality which dog period films. My focus would be on the soldier's perspective and the thoughts of survival, the senseless slaughter of men for what was arguably a draw and the Us versus Them mentality which no doubt played on both sides of the battlefield.

My cast would consist of smaller bit part actors and unknowns, much as was done in Band of Brothers. Not having a leading actor with "Star Power" would no doubt take away from the box office numbers, but not having to stroke the ego of a "Star" would not force the film to compete with the performance of said "Star"

I would not include the Hollywood formula for modern war films; The gang gets together, they are a hot mess, someone is a GI Joe in the mob of new recruits, someone is a Joe Sh-- The Rag Man, but becomes the hero of the unit, fight the battle and win the war haminahaminah. I would start with two opposing forces, receiving orders to met at some out of the way place in Maryland, march onto the field of battle and slaughter each other and limp away scratching their heads, wondering exactly what they accomplished at such a high cost, then moving off to yet another round of slaughter.

This would make a great basis of a movie IMHOP. In fact make it almost in real time say 3 hours of
a combat engagement similar to the part in " The Thin Red Line " where the Marines are trying to take
Hill 210, with a Nick Nolte type Officer rallying his Company in battle and the way it plays out as a
Civil War battle would.

 

[damYankee]

Has anyone seen the movie O ? The modern version of Othello? Where a black actor played the lead roll?
It may sound a bit PC, but if you wanted to make a movie that would draw young people in to history maybe it would be a good idea to cast minorities.

 

[BillO]

Has anyone seen the movie O ? The modern version of Othello? Where a black actor played the lead roll?
It may sound a bit PC, but if you wanted to make a movie that would draw young people in to history maybe it would be a good idea to cast minorities.

Perform it in the nude and rap the dialog and that would probably work. Or throw in some zombies.

 

[damYankee]

Perform it in the nude and rap the dialog and that would probably work. Or throw in some zombies.

I knew that would get a response....I wasn't being serious..

 

[K Hale]

Sure, why not? He has the eyes and attitude for it.
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Holeeeee....

 

[K Hale]

Re: Casting the Confederate Congress

Uh..........................

Fan-freaking-tastic, right there.

 

[66TH Indiana]

The movie would be called " The Wheatfield "

Ben Affleck as Colonel Harrison Jeffords

Mark Wahlberg as Colonel Edward Cross