GDG- movies

[Wyatt Doremus]

GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com> writes:
>I wish they would make a "Saving Private Ryan" style
>Civil War movie.  All the ones I've seen, gloss over
>the pure brutality of battle and there is very little
>bloodshed.  Not that I'm a blood and guts fanatic, but
>my respect for World War 2 veterans skyrocketed after
>seeing Spielberg's movie and I think the Civil War
>would be made more pertinent to future generations
>with a more realistic depiction.  Put it this way,
>what you read in books, is nowhere near what I've seen
>on the silver screen.  
>
>Mike Brubaker

Mike,
     I agree.  Perhaps that's what's kept Play for a Kingdom from
becoming a movie.  The battle descriptions in that are as savage as
any I've read.

Wyatt Doremus
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