Bryan_C
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Jul 21, 2012
- Location
- North of Fort Stevens, DC
Recently I got a copy of the Extended Director's Cut of Gods & Generals. It almost makes the original theatrical release a completely different film, in my opinion. It definitely flows better as a movie. It got me wondering if it was supposed to be the intended release of the film and not the version we say in 2003. One of the biggest criticisms (and there are many) of the 2003 version is that it is "poorly edited" and many of the supblots are not developed. But the Director's Cut makes a lot of things make more sense. I'm wondering if it was originally supposed to be the 2003 release and then, for some reason, I don't know why, it was "poorly edited" to be the film as most of us know it.
One thing I've noticed in the difference between the two films is the order of some of the scenes is different. In the theatrical release the scenes go like this:
One thing I've noticed in the difference between the two films is the order of some of the scenes is different. In the theatrical release the scenes go like this:
- Introduction of Adelbert Ames/20th Maine (caption reads "Camp Mason, Maine, Spring 1862")
- Jackson salutes his troops ("You are the First Brigade!")
- Hancock and Couch meet with Burnside to argue for sending a light force troops across the Rappahannock, November 1862
- Jackson says farewell (instead of "Godspeed") to his troops (he was reassigned to the Shenandoah Valley) November 1861
- Introduction of Adelbert Ames/20th Maine in August 1862 ( in the summer of 1862, President Lincoln called for 300,00 more volunters- "We Are Coming, Father Abraham, 300,000 More-" and the 20th Maine was one of those regiments which answered the call. The regiment was not formed until August 1862 and the date was deliberately changed for the movie.)
- Battle of Antietam (movie gets the date wrong )
- Hancock and Couch meet with Burnside to argue for sending a light force troops across the Rappahannock, November 1862