NF Fixing Gettysburg

[rbortega]

Here is a three part critique of the film Gettysburg I came across on YouTube. If you can look past some crude language, the presenter in the videos does make some valid points about the film's short comings. Also, a couple highlights are a silly parody of the Lee-Stuart scene at the end of Part 2 and the presenter talking about participating in a reenactment of Pickett's Charge in 2013 at the end of Part 3.

 

[Irishtom29]

That fella does some pretty good stuff and knows some history. I dig the way he rips Gods and Generals.

 

[wausaubob]

I was watching Band of Brothers. This guys Youtube made me notice Spielberg including a shot of a female nurses hands. The documentary style of Gettysburg was memorable after that. But then, Spielberg, after all.

 

[rbortega]

That fella does some pretty good stuff and knows some history. I dig the way he rips Gods and Generals.

If you are curious he posted an in-depth critique of Gods and Generals on YouTube as well.

 

[Irishtom29]

The double take of Longstreet and Fremantle in the first video is hilarious.

The criticisms of the movie for it's preachiness, poor flow, pedestrian direction and general slipshod and low rent air are right on.

 

[Belfoured]

A lot of excellent points made. For just one, the battle scenes reek of B-movie sanitizing. Spielberg made that obsolete forever, starting with SPR.

 

[wausaubob]

Gettysburg is more of a documentary of re-enactors, than of actual history. The sanitized violence looks very noticeable after Band of Brothers. After BoB, fireworks loose their appeal.

 

[Irishtom29]

A lot of excellent points made. For just one, the battle scenes reek of B-movie sanitizing. Spielberg made that obsolete forever, starting with SPR.

I suspect Spielberg saw Phil Karlson's 1960 picture "Hell to Eternity" a few times.