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Gettysburg	comment	Gettysburg is a 1993 Battle Epic film about the pivotal battle of The American Civil War, financed by Ted Turner, directed and written by Ronald F. Maxwell, and closely adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1974 novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara.It focuses on four main participants in the battle: Generals Robert E. Lee (Martin Sheen) and James Longstreet (Tom Berenger) on the Confederate side and Brig. Gen. John Buford (Sam Elliott) and Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (Jeff Daniels) on the Union side, though Buford's part ends about a third of the way through the movie. All of the characters in the movie are based on real people with the sole exception of Chamberlain's Lancer, Sgt. Buster Kilrain (Kevin Conway).The film also stars Maxwell Caulfield as Col. Strong Vincent, C. Thomas Howell as Lt. Thomas Chamberlain, Richard Jordan (in his final role) as Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead, James Lancaster as Lt. Col. Arthur Fremantle and Stephen Lang as Maj. Gen. George Pickett.The film is particularly known for its extremely long Pickett's Charge sequence, and for just being extremely long period, clocking in at four hours! (Four and a half in the Blu-Ray release, which restored all the deleted scenes including some that had been in the trailer but didn't make the theatrical cut.) This is because the film was originally intended to be aired as a miniseries; when Turner, who had just acquired the film's distributor New Line Cinema, saw part of the film during production, he realized it was much bigger than your average miniseries, and thus had the film released theatrically.The film was followed up in 2003 with a prequel film, Gods and Generals, based on the novel of the same name by Shaara's son Jeff, which detailed the Backstory of many of the characters.
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Gettysburg / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
Gettysburg / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: John Bell Hood was barely 32 during the battle, but actor Patrick Gorman was 59 at the time of the film's release, and looks it. Sam Elliott was almost 50 when portraying 37-year-old John Buford.
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Gettysburg / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Gettysburg / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Ted Turner appears as a Confederate colonel named Patton (distant relative of THAT Patton) ... who died during Pickett's Charge.
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Gettysburg / int_130436b9	type	Annoying Younger Sibling
Gettysburg / int_130436b9	comment	Annoying Younger Sibling: Tom, for Col. Chamberlain, even though they're both adults. Chamberlain has to frequently remind Tom to call him "sir," not Lawrence.
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Gettysburg / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Gettysburg / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: Most people who get shot on camera just clutch a part of their body and fall over (if from a gun), or get tossed in the air (if from a cannon — even at ranges that should've reduced them to chunky salsa on the spot). This is probably because the film was originally intended to be a mainstream TV miniseries and thus couldn't show the more gory aspects of war. However, the wounded often do sport bloody bandages afterward, most notably Buster Kilrain and John Bell Hood. Additionally, the thousands of volunteer Civil War reenactors who portrayed most of the fighting forces would not have had enough experience with squibs, which can be quite painful.
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Gettysburg / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Gettysburg / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Pickett after his eponymous charge. See Everybody's Dead, Dave, above. Armistead, when he hears during his own dying moments that his best friend Hancock is also wounded. Trimble has one while describing to Lee how Ewell failed to take a key hill.
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Gettysburg / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Gettysburg / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: In-Universe. After hearing that Chamberlain is a professor of rhetoric and classics at Bowdoin College, General Hancock asks if there is a story from antiquity where two Fire-Forged Friends are forced to fight on opposite sides in a war, and then face each other across the same battlefield. Chamberlain says there must be one, even if he can't recall the specifics at the moment.
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Gettysburg / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Gettysburg / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Shortly before the war started, Armistead told his old friend Hancock "If I should ever raise my hand against you, may God strike me dead!". For two years, Armistead and Hancock occasionally ended up on the same battlefield, but their respective units never actually fought. Until Pickett's Charge, when Armistead's brigade is sent as part of a force ordered to take a ridge held by Hancock's Corps. Armistead is mortally wounded during the fight. At the beginning of Pickett's Charge one of Hancock's aides asks him to get off his horse (so he'll be a less obvious target), to which he replies "There are times when a Corps commander's life does not count." Later during the battle, still riding his horse, he is shot and badly wounded (but survives).
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Gettysburg / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Gettysburg / int_17ce80aa	comment	General Garnett is this, as he feels obliged to cleanse the stain on his honor caused by condemnation he received by Stonewall Jackson before the latter's death by taking part in Pickett's Charge on horseback.
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Gettysburg / int_18baa751	type	Historical Villain Downgrade
Gettysburg / int_18baa751	comment	Historical Villain Downgrade: The film's tunnel focus on the battle neglects the fact that before and after the battle, the Confederates captured African-Americans (runaway slaves, ex-slaves, and freedmen) and sent them back to Virginia as slaves. Likewise, it doesn't mention that the Army of Northern Virginia itself was heavily reliant on slave labor, with thousands of slaves serving in a wide range of labor and support roles.
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Gettysburg / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Gettysburg / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Robert E. Lee, Joshua Chamberlain, James Longstreet, and Winfield Hancock, both in-universe and historically.
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Gettysburg / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
Gettysburg / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: The Union soldiers chant "Fredericksburg!" as the Confederates retreat after Pickett's Charge. This is doubly meaningful since the men chanting are from Hancock's corps and the flag of the Irish Brigade can be seen behind the stone wall, and both units are famous for their part in charging a stone wall at Fredericksburg, a previous battle that played out almost exactly the same as this one, just with positions reversed.
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Gettysburg / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Gettysburg / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Ken Burns, whose interest in the Civil War was sparked by the novel, appears as a Union officer urging General Hancock to stop riding along the line during the artillery barrage.
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Gettysburg / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Gettysburg / int_1ba17583	comment	While Robert Lee gets plenty of dialog and screentime, his counterpart General George Meade, the overall commander of the Army of the Potomac, gets only a single scene so brief that it serves only to save him from being The Ghost entirely. In reality, after his arrival late on the first night, Meade was far more active in surveying his lines and coordinating his forces on the second and third days than Lee, who spent most of his time sitting outside A.P. Hill's headquarters waiting for his commanders to carry out their orders.note The movie does excise the novel's claim that Meade wanted to retreat on the second day, which was accepted history at the time of writing but is now known to be a slander by Sickles.
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Gettysburg / int_1c21e3fb	type	The Place
Gettysburg / int_1c21e3fb	comment	The Place: Also an example of One-Word Title. The movie is named after the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Gettysburg / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Gettysburg / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: The courteous phrasing used by Southern aristocrat Lee creates a problem when he orders General Ewell to take a certain hill "if practicable." Most of Lee's generals would have mentally deleted the phrase and understood it as an order to take the hill. Ewell interprets it literally and decides it is not practicable, refusing General Trimble's increasingly frustrated requests to send someone up there to seize it.note Detailed analysis of the Confederate and Union troops on the first day does show that Ewell had reason to think they might be flanked and that it was not the straight shot that Trimble claims. As a result, Trimble says, many good men are going to die trying to take that hill tomorrow. (Although the film implies that the hill is Little Round Top, it was actually the other end of the line, Culp's Hill. General Geary, a civil engineer, constructed breastworks on his own initiative and made the summit practically impregnable.) J.E.B Stuart's adventure deprives Lee of vital information and cavalry support during his march north, for which he is calmly reprimanded by Lee when he finally arrives on Day 2.note This was later overplayed by ex-Confederate writers seeking scapegoats, since the first day was a serendipitous triumph for the Confederates and Stuart's absence didn't really force Lee's hand on Day 2 or Day 3, but Stuart's absence with the cream of his cavalry did leave Lee's army with less-than-optimal reconnaissance that resulted in Heth's infantry lumbering into Buford's cavalry at Gettysburg rather than allowing Lee to concentrate his forces before engaging the Federals.
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Gettysburg / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Gettysburg / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Longstreet. Buford in the novel; the adaptation to the screen makes it necessary for him to turn his pre-battle presentiment into dialogue, rather than thought.
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Gettysburg / int_1f862cf	type	Dare to Be Badass
Gettysburg / int_1f862cf	comment	Dare to Be Badass: Armistead when his brigade sees the wreck that Pickett's Charge has turned into and halts. "Come on boy, come on! What'll you think of yourself tomorrow? Virginians! Virginians! With me! Who will come with me?" The challenge is accepted, but fails nonetheless.
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Gettysburg / int_213e1088	type	Losing the Team Spirit
Gettysburg / int_213e1088	comment	Losing the Team Spirit: Subverted. Despite being popularly (mis)remembered as the turning point of the war and the battle the Confederacy couldn't recover from, when Lee blames himself for the failure of Pickett's Charge his men vehemently deny his words and even ask to reform and try again. The closing title card even states, "The spirit of the Southern army was far from broken, and the war would rage on for two more devastating years."
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Gettysburg / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Gettysburg / int_225b682	comment	Throw-Away Guns: After his wounds make it difficult for him to reload a weapon, Buster continues to fight at Little Round Top by taking loaded rifles off of the fallen, using them, and then casting them aside to find a new one.
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Gettysburg / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
Gettysburg / int_22f6000b	comment	In-universe, Pickett's reply to Lee in the Everybody's Dead, Dave incident.
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Gettysburg / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Gettysburg / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: General Stuart offers to resign after failing to do his job properly, and Lee refuses as he still needs him and doesn't think it will happen again. It's not shown in the movie, but the same thing happened to Lee himself when he offered his resignation to Jefferson Davis after the battle.
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Gettysburg / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Gettysburg / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Longstreet, for the Confederates: Buford, for the Union:
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Gettysburg / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
Gettysburg / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Lee's "teaches my fingers to fight" narration is from The Bible, Psalm 144. Hancock asks Chamberlain if the Good Book (or some other source of antiquity) says anything about brothers who are on opposite ends of the battlefield.
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Gettysburg / int_2612a967	type	It Has Been an Honor
Gettysburg / int_2612a967	comment	It Has Been an Honor: Sgt. Kilrain to Col. Chamberlain after being severely wounded at Little Round Top.
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Gettysburg / int_2b5ab7c1	type	Analogy Backfire
Gettysburg / int_2b5ab7c1	comment	Analogy Backfire: Pickett compares the secession of the South to gentlemen resigning from a private club. His fellow officers roll their eyes, but it actually works on Fremantle much better than Kemper's diatribe on states' rights. Fremantle goes on about how the Southerners are so like the English and descended from them, citing their names as proof, and bringing up Longstreet as an example. Longstreet points out that he's actually of Dutch descent and reminds Fremantle that the U.S. beat the British, twice.note To be fair, the War of 1812 was really a draw since the British were far more worried about a certain Frenchman and the Americans lost most of their impetus after invading Canada proved more difficult than the "mere matter of marching" they'd assumed.
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Gettysburg / int_2dae4381	type	My Master, Right or Wrong
Gettysburg / int_2dae4381	comment	My Master, Right or Wrong: Longstreet shows some of this when Hood asks to outflank the Round Top positions. Lee had already turned down Longstreet's request to perform a strategic movement of the army in that direction and told Longstreet to send Hood right into the right side of the Union line. So Longstreet insists he must order Hood to follow Lee's orders exactly, rather than giving Hood some leeway to interpret them creatively with a tactical outflanking of the position. Ironically, this means Longstreet won't let Hood do tactically precisely what he's upset at Lee for not allowing him to do strategically, thereby refusing to allow Hood to find the actual right flank (out where Chamberlain is) and instead forcing him into a costly frontal assault on Devil's Den.
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Gettysburg / int_2e732207	type	Home by Christmas
Gettysburg / int_2e732207	comment	Home by Christmas: General Hancock laments when the fighting started - two years previously - everyone thought that the war would be over within a month. And he had no way of knowing that it would go on for another two years after the current battle ended.
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Gettysburg / int_35a24c16	type	Geo Effects
Gettysburg / int_35a24c16	comment	Geo Effects: Capturing and holding the high ground is a major point of the tension. Day 1: Buford rails against Meade, predicting the cautious commander will delay, allowing the Confederates to simply march onto the high ground if he doesn't deploy his brigade to stop the enemy vanguard, and then will recklessly attack the Confederates. In real life, Meade moved his units much faster than was expected, and also was prudent enough to hold back on offensive maneuvers and let Lee smash into his defenses. Day 2: The Confederates attack the Union left flank, including Little Round Top and Devil's Den. Hood describes it as the "worst ground I ever sawnote for his troops," and sarcastically notes that the Union force could defeat their charge simply by rolling rocks down the hill. Day 3: The Confederates are forced to divert some of their artillery fire on the Union cannons placed on the high ground. Pickett's Charge, uphill, over open ground, into the teeth of the reinforced Union centre is brutally shattered.
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Gettysburg / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
Gettysburg / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: Some of the Confederate troops made the march from Virginia to Gettysburg on bare feet. The opening engagement of the battle was started when General Heth tried to raid the city's warehouses to resolve this issue. (Of course, there were no shoes, since one town resident remarks that Confederate raiding parties had already been around for days and the citizens "can't shoe a plow horse with what they didn't take.")
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Gettysburg / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
Gettysburg / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: The whole Battle of Little Round Top, from viewpoint of the North. One highly depleted regiment, slightly augmented by former deserters, versus innumerable waves of Confederates. Before the battle, Chamberlain gives a short speech to emphasize to his men that "we are the flank", the end of the line, and that no matter what, they will not retreat—because if they do, the Union line collapses.
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Gettysburg / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Gettysburg / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The film goes out of its way to portray Pickett's Charge (and to some degree the war itself) as this, particularly with Longstreet's long, detailed description of the withering firepower and obstacles the soldiers of Pickett's Charge will face.
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Gettysburg / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
Gettysburg / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: Buford, Chamberlain, and Hancock in the sense that, though their actions aren't really upgraded in any significant way, they are brought to the forefront of the audience's attention in a manner that plays up their importance to the detriment of dozens of equally heroic and important actions elsewhere on the field. Ironic given that the book and film are what pulled them out of historical obscurity.note Col. David Ireland and the 137th New York deserve special mention for doing on Culp's Hill precisely what Chamberlain and the 20th Maine did on Little Round Top. This film and its source material played a major role in rehabilitating James Longstreet's reputation in both professional and popular history, which before had mostly followed the ex-Confederate narrative that badmouthed Longstreet as a scapegoat for the defeat at Gettysburg (and therefore the entire war) because he became a Republican and publicly criticized Lee after the war. However, Shaara's narrative takes the opposite extreme of portraying him as the blameless Only Sane Man, effectively arguing that Lee lost the battle (and therefore the war) because he didn't listen to Longstreet, downplaying Longstreet's own command flaws, particularly his somewhat desultory performance on 2 July (which might've affected the overall resultnote On one hand, had Longstreet attacked sooner Sickles' Corps would've been better integrated with the rest of the Union line, which could've made things worse for the Confederates; on the other hand, had Sickle been where he was supposed to be, Union reinforcements might not have been so prompt and Longstreet's units wouldn't have had to fight for Devil's Den, the Peach Orchard, the Wheat Field, and Little Round Top.), and especially by painting him as fundamentally against bloody frontal assaults (which his brilliant successes at Gaines's Mill, Second Bull Run, Chickamauga, and his self-determined Epic Fail at Fort Sanders all contradict). Pickett generally receives the Tragic Hero treatment, noticeably downplaying the fact that historically he was at best a mediocre commander and wasn't really tragic in any sense beyond the bare fact of leading one third of the charge. Also, he would go on to become infamous for executing 22 Union prisoners of war for desertion after he found out they were Southerners who had been previously serving in North Carolina militia units, even though the NC militia was not part of the Confederate army and deserting it was not a crime under North Carolina's laws. The youngest among those he condemned to death was just 15.
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Gettysburg / int_3e95582f	type	The Greatest Story Never Told
Gettysburg / int_3e95582f	comment	The Greatest Story Never Told: Harrison laments that spy work is hard on an actor, since if he does the job right the audience doesn't know that he's acting.
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Gettysburg / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
Gettysburg / int_434d893c	comment	Funny Foreigner: Col. Fremantle probably isn't meant to be funny, but the filmmakers accentuated his Englishness so much by having him wear a bright red dress uniform (which the historical character certainly didn't do), stroll around the Confederate camp daintily drinking tea from a china cup and saucer, and generally have some of the only comic-relief in the entire film that it has this effect. Harrison, in the Director's Cut, explains to Longstreet how he uses his acting skills to discover Union positions. He poses as an Irish farmer with a strong accent looking for a runaway wife, but who is cowardly and terrified of Union soldiers—the locals who laugh up their sleeve at him helpfully tell him what areas to "avoid." Even though the farmer is his own fiction, Harrison says he can't help but feel sorry for him.
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Gettysburg / int_44cdd259	type	War Is Glorious
Gettysburg / int_44cdd259	comment	Before the battle, Buford is convinced that if the Union doesn't hold the high ground, Meade will be pressured into an attack and the Union troops will "charge valiantly and be butchered valiantly," and the story will be extolled as an example of War Is Glorious by self-important blowhards after the fact, which is a pretty good description of how Pickett's Charge played out and how the "Lost Cause" movement treated it afterward.
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Gettysburg / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Gettysburg / int_44fc28e8	comment	General Stuart shows this trait when he gets so upset by Lee's rebuke that he lays down his hat and sword and says "Since my services are no longer—", clearly implying his resignation, but gets cut off by a most annoyed General Lee that there is no time for such useless Honor Before Reason, telling him they need him to make up for his mistake and fight rather than quit.
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Gettysburg / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Gettysburg / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: From the North, the Chamberlain brothers admit they admire their Southern counterparts. From the South, the fact that they are going up against Hancock is enough to cause Longstreet and Armistead apprehension. Lee calls the Union troops "those people" rather than "the enemy," just as the real Lee did.
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Gettysburg / int_48384f95	type	Intermission
Gettysburg / int_48384f95	comment	Intermission: At least when it was shown in a theater. But then, it was planned as a four-hour, two-day TV mini-series before they decided to show it in theaters.
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Gettysburg / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Gettysburg / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: In the wake of Pickett's charge, General Lee comes across a wounded General Kemper, who reports that the doctors have diagnosed his wound as mortal. This actually happened, but the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue makes no mention of Kemper, leaving the viewer to assume he died at Gettysburg when in fact he survived the battle and the war and had merely believed (with good reason) that he'd been mortally wounded. His wound continued to trouble him until his death thirty years later.
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Gettysburg / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Gettysburg / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The battlefields are all so pretty to look at, before the blowing up happens... The start of Pickett's Charge across an open field: all those troops marching in order, banners unfurled. In Real Life, a Union general declared that initially it was the most beautiful thing he ever saw. An Enforced Trope example, as the movie was filmed at the actual Gettysburg National Military Park, which is in a careful state of preservation (estimated at being over 80% identical to the 1863 condition). Virtually every location that is shown in the movie is the identical place to where the event happened, in the identical state it was in during the Civil War.
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Gettysburg / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
Gettysburg / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: There are two women with dialogue in the whole movie. Justified Trope given the fact that it's all about the soldiers.
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Gettysburg / int_4e324321	type	Single-Issue Wonk
Gettysburg / int_4e324321	comment	Single-Issue Wonk: Some of the Confederates express this view of the Northern focus on slavery as a reason for the war, saying they honestly don't care about it either way and see themselves as fighting for their "rahts". Longstreet even muses that they'd have won their independence already if they'd freed the slaves before firing on Fort Sumter, removing emancipation as a motive for the other side and keeping in Britain and France's good graces.note This statement is original to the movie; in the book, Longstreet acknowledges that slavery, though not his reason, is still the reason. Additionally, many Northerners vehemently opposed emancipation, which is why Lincoln initially tried to cast the war solely as an effort to preserve the Union and not an effort to end slavery. Regardless of Pickett's analogy of the gentlemen's club and the "rahts" of the enlisted men, slavery really was the essential cause. It was the foundation of the Southern economy—rich whites would lose their wealth without it, and poor white men like the prisoners (while they often expressed it differently) were interested in maintaining their racial dominance, hence why they murdered Black prisoners-of-war and struggled so hard to end Reconstruction and institute segregation after the war. Even Robert E. Lee called the Emancipation Proclamation a "savage and brutal policy â€¦ which leaves us no alternative but success or degradation worse than death."
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Gettysburg / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Gettysburg / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In-universe, Pickett's reply to Lee in the Everybody's Dead, Dave incident.
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Gettysburg / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
Gettysburg / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: Pickett considers "All this book-learnin'" to be "unbecoming of a soldier," and graduated dead last in his West Point class. While unseen, George Armstrong Custer is mentioned briefly in several deleted scenes; he likewise graduated last from West Point.
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Gettysburg / int_5400644b	type	CantCountBullets
Gettysburg / int_5400644b	comment	Can't Count Bullets: Happens a few times when dealing with revolvers (rifles at this time were still single-shot, by and large). Tom Chamberlain runs out at a crucial moment, having no time to reload and about to be shot when the 2nd Maine deserters save him. Shortly after this, there's a brief stalemate between Colonel Chamberlain and a Confederate officer. Arrested in his charge, Chamberlain stands and waits for the Confederate to fire; when the revolver simply clicks, the officer surrenders. Buster mentions that with muskets, the problem is failing to count in the other direction: panicked troops sometimes load their weapon, then load it again, without remembering to fire the shot already in place.
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Gettysburg / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Gettysburg / int_56515a39	comment	The 20th Maine is moved to the center of the Union line after its beating on Little Round Top because the Union thinks that it's the safest place on the line. In the previous scene, Lee and Longstreet were planning an all out assault on that very spot. This actually represents the biggest difference from the real battle, as the 20th Maine was stationed on Big Round Top at the time and did not participate in repelling Picket at all. This may have been an unintentional error on the part of the writers, as Colonel Chamberlain and his brother were at that spot during Pickett's Charge, doing exactly what they are seen doing in the film, requesting more ammunition for the 20th Maine.
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Gettysburg / int_590e1c70	type	Frontline General
Gettysburg / int_590e1c70	comment	Frontline General: The norm on both sides from brigade commanders like Armistead, Kemper, Garnett, Buford, and Vincent, on up to division commanders like Pickett, Hood, and Trimble, and even sometimes to corps commanders like Longstreet, Reynolds, and Hancock. Lee specifically warns Longstreet against his habit of going too far forward, as he's already lost a number of generals (particularly Stonewall Jackson) to this trope and feels he cannot spare Longstreet.note A bullet to the throat would in fact put Longstreet out of action for several months almost a year later at the Battle of the Wilderness.
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Gettysburg / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Gettysburg / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Several of the opposing generals are well acquainted, having served together before the war. The friendship of Armistead and Hancock is given the most weight. Though it never comes up in the movie, George Pickett would not tolerate any insults to President Abraham Lincoln in his presence. Pickett was admitted to West Point was thanks to congressional appointment by then-Congressman Lincoln and never forgot his personal debt to Lincoln, even as he fought for the South.
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Gettysburg / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
Gettysburg / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: Lee says this repeatedly after the failure of Pickett's Charge, which really happened. Some of the men hotly dispute this and offer to reform and try again.
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Gettysburg / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
Gettysburg / int_60b21fa3	comment	The Lancer: Kilrain to Col. Chamberlain. Longstreet to Lee.
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Gettysburg / int_61c7f576	type	Sedgwick Speech
Gettysburg / int_61c7f576	comment	Sedgwick Speech: Reynolds has an abridged form. Ironically, the actual General Sedgwick was sort of involved in the battle, though he is not portrayed in the film, mostly because his VI Corps arrived last and was held in reserve. Hancock suffers a serious but non-fatal version of this during Pickett's Charge.
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Gettysburg / int_6205f4e5	type	Courtly Love
Gettysburg / int_6205f4e5	comment	Courtly Love: Armistead with Almira Hancock, General Hancock's wife. Though there was no romance between them, Armistead has his family bible (an intensely personal possession) sent to her in the event of his deathnote in the film; in reality he gave it to her before joining the Virginia forces and in the novel part of his breakdown during his own during his own death is that he fears Mira receiving the terrible news that her husband was wounded. Years before, while he was a captain, Lewis Armistead was near-suicidal from the loss of his wife and children to scarlet fever when his friend Hancock and Almira took him in, making them his surrogate family.
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Gettysburg / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Gettysburg / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: So many little details, but one in particular: At the beginning of the film, Chamberlain's shoulder boards show the rank of Lt. Colonel (oak leaves). By the events on Little Round Top he's wearing the rank of a full Colonel (eagles). It's a bit of Shown Their Work, as well, as Chamberlain received his promotion to colonel in June of 1863.
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Gettysburg / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Gettysburg / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Armistead when telling Longstreet about his last meeting with Hancock before the war and upon learning that Hancock has also been wounded. Joshua Chamberlain when told by Tom that Kilrain has died. Longstreet is so certain that Pickett's Charge will fail that he is too choked up to order the assault. When Pickett asks him if he should begin the attack, the best the heartbroken Longstreet can manage is a nod. Made worse by how eager and elated Pickett is to carry out the order.note This is actually how Longstreet issued the order in reality, according to his memoirs (which the novel The Killer Angels drew heavily from).
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Gettysburg / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Gettysburg / int_6bd689ca	comment	One scene has Armistead tearfully revealing to Longstreet that the last time he'd met Hancock, he'd sworn, "May God strike me dead!" if he should raise a hand against his friend. He's mortally wounded in Pickett's Charge, only to break down in shock and tears when he's told that Hancock was also struck: "Not the both of us!" The Picket's Charge sequence underscores how alike they are by having each calm his men during the artillery exchange using the exact same words.
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Gettysburg / int_6cf4a648	type	Non-Uniform Uniform
Gettysburg / int_6cf4a648	comment	Non-Uniform Uniform: Reflecting Truth in Television, the Confederate troops largely lack consistent uniforms like their blue-clad Union adversaries and instead wear a great variety of simple clothes and hats; its basically just the officers who get a grey uniform, and several of the Generals are still wearing blue uniforms, if a different shade from that worn by Union soldiers.note The reason for this was a lack of centralized logistics for all units, so clothes were supplied by individual states that often lacked the textile industries needed to mass-produce uniforms and the Union blockade prevented them from acquiring them from anywhere else efficiently. Meanwhile, even the Federal troops have noticeable variety and customization, particularly in headgear, even within individual units.
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Gettysburg / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Gettysburg / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The DVD cover is Longstreet and Chamberlain staring at each other over a field of clashing soldiers. Longstreet and Chamberlain didn't actually know each other, and while Longstreet was second-in-command of the whole Army of Northern Virginia, Chamberlain was a lieutenant colonel commanding just one of at least 250 Union infantry regiments with no part in determining overall strategy.
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Gettysburg / int_79ba6777	type	Pocket Protector
Gettysburg / int_79ba6777	comment	Pocket Protector: A bullet ricochets of Chamberlain's sword scabbard during the battle.
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Gettysburg / int_7a08e8d1	type	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
Gettysburg / int_7a08e8d1	comment	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is annoyed with his brother for calling him "Lawrence" in front of the troops, as he thinks it will lead to accusations of favoritism. There's also this exchange when a Jerkass captain from another regiment fails to properly address him:
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Gettysburg / int_7ae40f90	type	Manly Facial Hair
Gettysburg / int_7ae40f90	comment	Manly Facial Hair: Every man (which is to say, every cast member) has extremely luxuriant facial hair, which is Truth in Television for the era, albeit not always a credit to the make-up department. General Longstreet, in particular, looks like a beard with Tom Berenger attached to it.
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Gettysburg / int_7b23aecb	type	Bayonet Ya
Gettysburg / int_7b23aecb	comment	Bayonet Ya: Out of ammunition and stamina to hold and repulse another Confederate charge, Chamberlain famously decides to use the bayonets on the end of their rifles and charge.
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Gettysburg / int_80ed8406	type	Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough
Gettysburg / int_80ed8406	comment	Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough: Col. Chamberlain has this dynamic with Buster Kilrain.
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Gettysburg / int_812f36e8	type	Nausea Fuel
Gettysburg / int_812f36e8	comment	Nausea Fuel: In-universe with the Union hospital. Tom clutches his stomach as he relates the horrific conditions to his brother.
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Gettysburg / int_820133fd	type	Tragic Hero
Gettysburg / int_820133fd	comment	Tragic Hero: Armistead above all others: driven by his own honor to fight against his best friend, haunted by the memories of Hancock and his beautiful wife Almira, he still musters the courage to lead his Virginian troops into the Union lines, bravely holding his sword aloft with his hat on it as a standard... and is mortally wounded doing so. Making it worse for him is being told that his good friend Hancock was wounded during that charge...
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Gettysburg / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Gettysburg / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Pickett has an energetic and eccentric personality, and is a very animated and entertaining storyteller.
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Gettysburg / int_859bbabc	type	The Cassandra
Gettysburg / int_859bbabc	comment	Early in the movie Buford rages quietly to his subordinate that Meade will move too slow to take the hills, necessitating a desperate charge across open ground in an attempt to dislodge the rebels. He goes on that he can see it "clear as day" that it would surely fail and with high casualties and there would be nothing he could do about it except "help it fail". This happens exactly as he predicts. Except it happens to the Confederates as a direct result of Buford acting quickly to change the starting conditions and prevent it. Also, General Meade moved his troops faster than anyone expected, which was why Lee was surprised to find the Army of the Potomac so close.
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Gettysburg / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Gettysburg / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Confederate General James Kemper says the doctors have told him his wound taken during Pickett's charge is fatal, but his ultimate fate is not mentioned in the ending, implying that he died at Gettysburg. In real life, Kemper survived the war, going on to become governor of Virginia in 1874. He did die from that wound, but not until 1895. Chamberlain's brigade commander Strong Vincent has a few exchanges with Chamberlain, stresses upon him that he Hold the Line, and is later reported as badly wounded, but no more is said of him. In fact he died of his wounds on July 7th. Confederate General Isaac Trimble is shown in a scene criticizing General Ewell for failing to take a hill on the first night of the battle, then participating in Pickett's Charge, where he is shown giving a quote about the charge he would actually give in real life after the war. The real life Trimble was wounded so severely during Pickett's charge on the following day that Lee had to leave him behind to be captured when the army retreated back to Virginia. He lost a leg and spent the rest of the war as a POW, but survived his wounds and lived until 1888, passing away that year at the age of 86. Johnston Pettigrew is implied to have been killed in Pickett's Charge. In truth, while he was wounded in the charge, he survived the battle, but was mortally wounded while covering the Army of Northern Virginia's retreat at the battle of Falling Waters two weeks later. John Bell Hood is last seen in the hospital in danger of losing his arm and bemoaning the terrible cost of his attack on Day 2. While the doctors would managed to save his crippled arm, he would lose the use of it and go on to lose an entire leg at Chickamauga before rising to command the Army of Tennessee, which he would lead to the slaughter in massive frontal assaults at Franklin, sometimes called the "Pickett's Charge of the West." After the war, Hood worked in the insurance business until he (at age 48), his oldest daughter, and his wife died from a Yellow Fever outbreak in 1879. Union General George Meade, the overall commander of the Army of the Potomac, is only shown on screen for a few minutes and then never even mentioned again. In real life, Meade was hailed as a hero for leading the army to victory at Gettysburg, but earned Lincoln's ire for not being aggressive enough in his pursuit of Lee after the battle, enabling the Army of Northern Virginia to escape back to Richmond and fight on. Meade remained in command of the AOTP for the rest of the war, but once Ulysses Grant was promoted to commander of all Union armies in March of 1864, Meade's role was largely secondary, as Grant would take personal charge of the Eastern theater of operations. Meade spent the rest of his life in the army and died in 1872 at the age of 56. His reputation suffered after his death because Sickles (who survived until 1914) disparaged Meade's performance at Gettysburg on multiple occasions, which found its way into historical scholarship.
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Gettysburg / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Gettysburg / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Armistead gives one to Fremantle before Pickett's charge. The real Fremantle was so impressed by Pickett's Charge he wrote a book predicting that the South would win the war. It was published a few months before the South surrendered.
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Gettysburg / int_86bb7d97	type	Cultured Badass
Gettysburg / int_86bb7d97	comment	Cultured Badass: Before the war, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin College in Maine. He would return to the college after the war and would eventually teach every subject in the curriculum with the exception of science and mathematics. He was a fluent speaker of nine languages other than English (Greek, Latin, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac), and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic society. For his determination and tactical prowess at Gettysburg, he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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Gettysburg / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Gettysburg / int_875615dd	comment	Lee calls the Union troops "those people" rather than "the enemy," just as the real Lee did.
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Gettysburg / int_87decdec	type	Disorganized Outline Speech
Gettysburg / int_87decdec	comment	Disorganized Outline Speech: Chamberlain gives a small speech to the deserters of the 2nd Maine, noting that the 20th has faced similar horrors, starting with a thousand men and today having 250, and enumerates why he's still fighting himself—to make America truly free ground—and even though the 2nd is coming whether they like it or not, the 20th could really use their help. It's low-key and off-the-cuff, but nonetheless he convinces all but six to fight again.
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Gettysburg / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Gettysburg / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Pretty much everyone, but especially most of the Southerners, as their supplies/equipment were much more haphazard than the North (i.e. much more "ragtag" than the North, but both with a whole bunch of Misfits).
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Gettysburg / int_924d0f71	type	Cavalry Officer
Gettysburg / int_924d0f71	comment	Cavalry Officer: John Buford of the Union is a grim and grizzled campaigner who makes an expert analysis of the ground at Gettysburg and boldly moves his troops to seize the advantage for the Union before it can be taken from them. J.E.B. Stuart is a youthful showboater who, though certainly brave, lacks good judgment and costs Lee valuable intelligence.
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Gettysburg / int_94cce63e	type	Fighting Irish
Gettysburg / int_94cce63e	comment	Fighting Irish: Buster Kilrain, as well as a cameo of the famous Irish Brigade receiving absolution before battle. At the end of Pickett's Charge, the 69th Pennsylvania was pivotal in repulsing the Confederates who made it to the wall, and their Irish battle flags are prominent during the melee.
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Gettysburg / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Gettysburg / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Facing a new Confederate charge with almost no ammunition left, Chamberlain realizes, "We can't run away. If we stay here, we can't shoot." Given the choice between the unfeasible options of holding and retreating, Chamberlain decides to charge (with bayonets).
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Gettysburg / int_95265081	type	Leeroy Jenkins
Gettysburg / int_95265081	comment	Union III Corps commander Dan Sickles, one of the most influential (and controversial) Union commanders on the field gets demoted right out of the film entirely even though it was primarily his men who resisted Longstreet's attack on Day 2 and his actions that resulted in Chamberlain's position on Little Round Top. The fighting in Devil's Den is depicted briefly, but only as a few scenes during the main focus on Little Round Top.
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Gettysburg / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Gettysburg / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Plenty on both sides since armies naturally take breathers from fighting each other.
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Gettysburg / int_9b0f37de	type	Contemplate Our Navels
Gettysburg / int_9b0f37de	comment	Contemplate Our Navels: There are quite a few scenes with characters sitting around discussing the war, slavery, their thoughts and feelings, and what could or should have been.
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Gettysburg / int_9b6e33f3	type	Death by Cameo
Gettysburg / int_9b6e33f3	comment	Death by Cameo: Ted Turner plays Waller T. Patton, a Confederate colonel (and great uncle of that Patton) who gets killed during Pickett's Charge.
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Gettysburg / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Gettysburg / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: It's passed off as a joke, but Chamberlain tries to reassure his men while they march into position on Little Round Top that the rebel artillery coming their way won't hit them because they "always overshoot." The next day, the massive artillery barrage Lee orders to weaken the Union line prior to Pickett's Charge is shown to have nearly zero effect because most of the cannons are overshooting.
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Gettysburg / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Gettysburg / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: The short version of Longstreet's explanation of what is going to happen when they attempt Pickett's Charge: the troops will be facing a unsurvivable storm of firepower beginning with cannonballs and rifled musketry bullets, then when they closer they will face grapeshot anti-personnel cannon ammunition and then all that plus canister ammunition (Basically turning field cannons into giant shotguns). Armistead appears to agree with that, as while looking over the ground shortly before making the charge, he quotes Jesus' dying words.
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Gettysburg / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
Gettysburg / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: Brigadier James Kemper (who was Speaker of the Virginia House concurrently with his service in the Confederate Army) gives Col. Fremantle a miniature tirade about the years leading up to the war, complaining that the Yankees focused on "the darkies, always the darkies" (i.e., slavery), while refusing to discuss the real issue: that the federal government has no more right to dictate economic and social policy to the individual states, than the King of England had the right to levy taxes against subjects he'd never met on the other side of the Atlantic.
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Gettysburg / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Gettysburg / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Chamberlain orders Tom to "plug a hole" in the line during the heat of battle and belatedly realizes that he's just put his little brother right in front of the Confederates with no cover whatsoever.
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Gettysburg / int_a5f0752f	type	Rule of Drama
Gettysburg / int_a5f0752f	comment	An obvious one sees Joshua Chamberlain's 20th Maine Regiment pulled from the line and relocated from Little Round Top to Cemetery Ridge in time for Pickett's Charge, which of course never happened but is dramatically understandable as it gives the main Union protagonist a front-row seat to the movie's climax. As such, in real life it wasn't Thomas Chamberlain but another officer, Capt. Henry H. Bingham, who found the wounded Lewis Armistead after the battle and informed him of General Hancock's injury.
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Gettysburg / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
Gettysburg / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: The "open-field, Napoleonic-style infantry battles" variant. Fully justified, though: while today we would call frontal assaults like Pickett's Charge ludicrous, and the film goes out of its way to put this sentiment into several characters' mouths, the fact is that in this era massive frontal assaults were an entirely acceptable tactical doctrine used by even the most cautious commanders on both sides, and remained so really until the invention of reliable wireless communication. Pickett's Charge was far from the first or the last such assault of the war, and not even the largest or bloodiest, just the most famous (ironically because it almost worked). Moreover, Lee and his men had seen such attacks work at Gaines's Mill, Second Bull Run, and Chancellorsville, and Pickett's Charge actually had fairly good odds of success had the Confederate artillery not overshot the bulk of the Union forces hunkered down tight to the line on the ridge, making it far more of a For Want Of A Nail than a Foregone Conclusion. Another part of the difficulty, which is implicit but not directly pointed out, is that most of the commanding generals mostly received the same education and were personally familiar enough with each other. This helped them get into bloody stalemates because of the way they predicted their foes and were predictably countered, and so on and so forth.
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Gettysburg / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Gettysburg / int_a8559a9f	comment	The start of Pickett's Charge across an open field: all those troops marching in order, banners unfurled. In Real Life, a Union general declared that initially it was the most beautiful thing he ever saw.
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Gettysburg / int_a863ef67	type	Cultured Warrior
Gettysburg / int_a863ef67	comment	Cultured Warrior: Several of the officers are portrayed as learned men, most prominently Col. Chamberlain (professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin College). Others include Gen. Pettigrew (scholar of the University of North Carolina) and Col. Vincent (from Harvard).
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Gettysburg / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Gettysburg / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Chamberlain, to the 2nd Maine, and again later to the officers of the 20th Maine. Armistead to his brigade the morning of Pickett's Charge, both in the movie and in Real Life.
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Gettysburg / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Gettysburg / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Before the battle, Buford is convinced that if the Union doesn't hold the high ground, Meade will be pressured into an attack and the Union troops will "charge valiantly and be butchered valiantly," and the story will be extolled as an example of War Is Glorious by self-important blowhards after the fact, which is a pretty good description of how Pickett's Charge played out and how the "Lost Cause" movement treated it afterward. The 20th Maine is moved to the center of the Union line after its beating on Little Round Top because the Union thinks that it's the safest place on the line. In the previous scene, Lee and Longstreet were planning an all out assault on that very spot. This actually represents the biggest difference from the real battle, as the 20th Maine was stationed on Big Round Top at the time and did not participate in repelling Picket at all. This may have been an unintentional error on the part of the writers, as Colonel Chamberlain and his brother were at that spot during Pickett's Charge, doing exactly what they are seen doing in the film, requesting more ammunition for the 20th Maine.
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Gettysburg / int_ab729e43	type	Disappointed in You
Gettysburg / int_ab729e43	comment	J.E.B Stuart's adventure deprives Lee of vital information and cavalry support during his march north, for which he is calmly reprimanded by Lee when he finally arrives on Day 2.note This was later overplayed by ex-Confederate writers seeking scapegoats, since the first day was a serendipitous triumph for the Confederates and Stuart's absence didn't really force Lee's hand on Day 2 or Day 3, but Stuart's absence with the cream of his cavalry did leave Lee's army with less-than-optimal reconnaissance that resulted in Heth's infantry lumbering into Buford's cavalry at Gettysburg rather than allowing Lee to concentrate his forces before engaging the Federals.
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Gettysburg / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Gettysburg / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: "Fife and Gun," a catchy and energetic theme played over scenes of men being slaughtered by rifle and cannon fire. It's actually the tune the Union band was playingnote Called 'Hell on the Wabash' if you're interested. as the infantry marched towards the battle on the first day, and the soundtrack picks up the tune and amplifies it.
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Gettysburg / int_ad3d8092	type	Heartbroken Badass
Gettysburg / int_ad3d8092	comment	Heartbroken Badass: When Fremantle notes how dour Longstreet often is, it's explained to him that scarlet fever devastated Longstreet's family the previous year. Later, Longstreet is further distressed by knowingly ordering Pickett's division to make an attack he knew was suicidal.
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Gettysburg / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Gettysburg / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: General Pickett's division has not yet seen action in a major battle, and he's eager to change that. Then General Lee picks his division to lead an attack on the third day. Pickett's division is shattered by the defending Union Army, losing just over half its number in killed, wounded, and missing.
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Gettysburg / int_b1ed0e0c	type	Rank Up
Gettysburg / int_b1ed0e0c	comment	Rank Up: It's not called out and is a Freeze-Frame Bonus, but Chamberlain begins the film wearing the rank of lieutenant colonel, with oak leaves on his shoulder boards. By the Little Round Top scene he is wearing the eagle of a full colonel.
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Gettysburg / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Gettysburg / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: General Reynolds' arrival is so welcome that Buford has to wipe away a few tears. Reynolds was Lincoln's first choice to replace Hooker, but Reynolds declined as Lincoln could not guarantee a lack of interference from Washington. In the extended footage, Reynolds is depicted as a capable, confident commander with a quick understanding of the situation and the affection of his subordinates. General Hancock is viewed as this by both the Union side and the Confederates. Armistead may be a little biased when he says that "God don't make 'em any better," but Hancock's corps being on top of Cemetery Ridge is another blow to Longstreet when he considers the cost of the forthcoming charge. This one is Truth in Television. Winfield Hancock was one of the best Union corps commanders, especially in the Army of the Potomac. The fact that he was never promoted again is still considered by many to be a political decision since he was a known Democrat, though this overlooks the debilitating nature of his chronic wounds and the fact that his II Corps was nearly tripled in size, meaning any ostensible promotion to command an Army would entail either ousting fellow Democrats like George Meade or William Sherman, moving to a comparative backwater like the Army of the Gulf, or accepting a far smaller command like the 10,000-man Army of the James.
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Gettysburg / int_b7248073	type	My Country, Right or Wrong
Gettysburg / int_b7248073	comment	My Country, Right or Wrong: A Confederate prisoner of war says he isn't fighting for "darkies" but for his own rights and his state.
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Gettysburg / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Gettysburg / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: A particularly nice example of the trope with the actors faces morphing into the actual historic figures, a nice reverse of the opening credits where the historical figures morphed into the actors.
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Gettysburg / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Gettysburg / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Rebel units charge without or against orders a few times, most importantly in the first engagement of the battle.
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Gettysburg / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Gettysburg / int_b8e3f20a	comment	There's a brief shot of a general and his officers surveying the ground with binoculars on Little Round Top. Although given no lines, the actor is playing Gouverneur Warren, the staff officer credited with spotting Hood's division and ordering the Union occupation of Little Round Top, who is memorialized with a statue in that exact pose◊, directly behind the actor.
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Gettysburg / int_bdb5c651	type	Real Men Love Jesus
Gettysburg / int_bdb5c651	comment	Real Men Love Jesus: Characters main and minor are seen praying or quoting the Bible throughout the movie. Hancock even rides up to Fr. Corby giving absolution to the entire Irish Brigade.
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Gettysburg / int_be239f55	type	Noble Confederate Soldier
Gettysburg / int_be239f55	comment	Noble Confederate Soldier: The film makes a great deal of how brave the Confederate soldiers were and sidesteps their enslavement of any Black person they found in Pennsylvania. Kemper and Pickett defend "the Cause" as being about "states' rights" (a conveniently nebulous phrase that the Lost Cause adopted after the war) while Longstreet, Lee, and Armistead try to avoid talking about it at all. Instead, their position is that they don't agree with secession but couldn't stomach the idea of fighting against their home state (and although the real Lee and Longstreet did record their internal conflict, neither of them were thrilled with the idea of racial equality).
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Gettysburg / int_c1105f41	type	Hold the Line
Gettysburg / int_c1105f41	comment	Chamberlain's brigade commander Strong Vincent has a few exchanges with Chamberlain, stresses upon him that he Hold the Line, and is later reported as badly wounded, but no more is said of him. In fact he died of his wounds on July 7th.
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Gettysburg / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Gettysburg / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Early in the movie Buford rages quietly to his subordinate that Meade will move too slow to take the hills, necessitating a desperate charge across open ground in an attempt to dislodge the rebels. He goes on that he can see it "clear as day" that it would surely fail and with high casualties and there would be nothing he could do about it except "help it fail". This happens exactly as he predicts. Except it happens to the Confederates as a direct result of Buford acting quickly to change the starting conditions and prevent it. Also, General Meade moved his troops faster than anyone expected, which was why Lee was surprised to find the Army of the Potomac so close. Actor Richard Jordan plays Confederate General Lewis Armistead, who is mortally wounded during Pickett's charge and dies shortly after the battle. Jordan was suffering the from cancer at the time, and he died shortly after filming for the movie was completed. Even more poignantly, the producers learned of Jordan's death while editing that very scene.
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Gettysburg / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Gettysburg / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin College in Maine before joining the army.
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Gettysburg / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
Gettysburg / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: In 2011, a "Director's Cut" was released which added about 20 minutes of previously-cut footage to the film. This includes Buford's interactions with local civilians, Harrison's explanation of the "character" he uses to spy on Union positions, and more footage of John Reynolds, along with some extensions of existing scenes.
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Gettysburg / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Gettysburg / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: An in-universe one for the Confederates, when Armistead's forces finally reach the Union line and almost manage to break it. Then Union reinforcements arrive...
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Gettysburg / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Gettysburg / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: The opening cast roll ends with "and Stephen Lang as Pickett".
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Gettysburg / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Gettysburg / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Tom Chamberlain is still upbeat and enthusiastic after three years of war. He makes a point of getting to know antagonistic folks and trying to befriend them, whether that's the deserters his brother convinced to join the 20th Maine or captured Confederates.
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Gettysburg / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Gettysburg / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Thoroughly inverted since the primary characters are almost exclusively officers who go into great detail about what their plans are and how they think they will work.
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Gettysburg / int_c914e68d	type	Cigar Chomper
Gettysburg / int_c914e68d	comment	Cigar Chomper: One of Longstreet's first acts on screen is to light up a cigar while he interviews Harrison.
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Gettysburg / int_ca895242	type	Officer and a Gentleman
Gettysburg / int_ca895242	comment	Officer and a Gentleman: Many of the officers fit this mold, with Colonel Chamberlain, General Lee, and General Pickett being the most prominent examples.
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Gettysburg / int_cd23ee7d	type	Colonel Badass
Gettysburg / int_cd23ee7d	comment	Colonel Badass: (Lt.) Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. The badass comes out when he thinks he's been shot (the shot really bounced off his sword, but it clearly left him in shock and he has a limp for the rest of the movie). As they're dragging him back he sits up and shoots a charging man with his revolver. The historical Chamberlain was also a badass in that he was wounded six times during the war and survived in an era when just one was usually enough to kill you.note While those wounds did eventually kill him, it took until 1914 for them to do so, possibly making him the last Civil War veteran to die of battle wounds. In fact, his penchant for not only surviving wounds that would kill or cripple other men but continuing to fight led to his earning the nickname (on both sides) of 'Bloody Chamberlain'—literally, as he was often covered in his own blood. He later became Governor of Maine and Ambassador to France.
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Gettysburg / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Gettysburg / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: The Confederates may be fighting to defend a government and society based on the mass-enslavement of people viewed as racially inferior, but the vast majority of the men in the Confederate Army don't own any slaves at all and plenty of them like Lee and Longstreet really just seem to be fighting because they can't bear the thought of invading their own homes.
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Gettysburg / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Gettysburg / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: Also an example of The Place, as the title is named after the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Gettysburg / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Gettysburg / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: In the film, Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Freemantle is constantly being introduced by this or that Confederate Officer as if he was an official representative of the British government, and has several discussions about the war with Confederate military officials. Freemantle himself speaks and acts as if he was (though he never verbally confirms other people's assumptions). The truth was that Colonel Freemantle was a tourist. He had come to the Confederacy on his own simply because he was curious about the US Civil War, and knew that the Confederates were less likely to double-check his "credentials" than the Union. As a result, he was constantly wined and dined by Confederate high society during the war.
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Gettysburg / int_d96bb569	type	Artistic License â€“ Explosives
Gettysburg / int_d96bb569	comment	Artistic License â€“ Explosives: The blanks used in the artillery barrages were cut down to 1/4 charge so as not to spook the many horses used in the production, with the full sound added in post-production (the tell is that the cannons have a very small recoil). The cannons also produce less smoke than the real barrages would have.note Given how smoky they still are, this fact should give you a good idea of how limited visibility was for the soldiers.
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Gettysburg / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Gettysburg / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: On the first day, Reynolds' I Corps shows up to save Buford's division. Ironically, Buford's unit was the actual cavalry, while the relieving units were infantry.
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Gettysburg / int_dce640ce	type	Real-Person Epilogue
Gettysburg / int_dce640ce	comment	Real-Person Epilogue: The movie ends with photos of each actor turning into photos of the real people the characters were based on.
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Gettysburg / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Gettysburg / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: There's a brief shot of a general and his officers surveying the ground with binoculars on Little Round Top. Although given no lines, the actor is playing Gouverneur Warren, the staff officer credited with spotting Hood's division and ordering the Union occupation of Little Round Top, who is memorialized with a statue in that exact pose◊, directly behind the actor. There's also a shot of a dead Confederate soldier at General Webb's feet being dragged off. While it's unknown if Webb actually stood there, the position of the dead rebel is well known to anyone who visits the park... the Confederate High Water Mark.
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Gettysburg / int_e0ecc959	type	Changed My Mind, Kid
Gettysburg / int_e0ecc959	comment	Changed My Mind, Kid: Three of the six holdouts from the 2nd Maine ultimately agree to join the fight and and later save Tom Chamberlain.
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Gettysburg / int_e11e88b6	type	Thousand-Yard Stare
Gettysburg / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: Pickett, after Pickett's Charge. "General Lee...I have no division!"
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Gettysburg / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Gettysburg / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Chamberlain tells his brother to address him formally. Generals, on the other hand, tend to do whatever they want.
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Gettysburg / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Gettysburg / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Shortly before the battle, Chamberlain is told he cannot give up his position on Little Round top under any circumstances. Chamberlain follows these orders to the letter, even when his officers suggest their situation is looking insurmountable.
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Gettysburg / int_e6ecbb82	type	Battle Epic
Gettysburg / int_e6ecbb82	comment	Battle Epic: Four (and-a-half) hours of it!
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Gettysburg / int_e7b73414	type	Sniper Rifle
Gettysburg / int_e7b73414	comment	Sniper Rifle: General John Reynolds is killed by a Confederate sniper armed with a Whitworth rifle fitted with a telescopic sight.
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Gettysburg / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Gettysburg / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When General Stuart tries to resign, mild-mannered General Lee loses his temper at this counterproductive Honor Before Reason nonsense.
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Gettysburg / int_e8cae797	type	Freudian Trio
Gettysburg / int_e8cae797	comment	Freudian Trio: Pickett's brigade commanders; Armistead is the ego, Kemper the id, and Garnett the superego. Could also be said for the leaders the divisions in Picket's Charge as a whole (Pickett, Trimble, and Pettigrew).
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Gettysburg / int_e9784ee6	type	Epic Movie
Gettysburg / int_e9784ee6	comment	Epic Movie: Four hours long, plenty of familiar faces, lots of action, epic score by Randy Edelman; it's got all the components.
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Gettysburg / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: On the third day, Lee tells Longstreet that "With my old war horse in command, attacking on ground of his own choosing, we cannot fail." Unfortunately, Pickett's Charge is not an attack on ground of Longstreet's choosing, but an attack on ground of Lee's choosing over Longstreet's objections. The attack fails miserably.
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Gettysburg / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: A confederate soldier gets nailed between the legs with a rifle stock during the action at Little Round Top.
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Gettysburg / int_ed874c14	comment	Self-Made Man: Buster Kilrain's motive for fighting is to prove that he is a worthwhile man, to be treated as he deserves and not as his father deserves, and says that "any man who judges by the group is a peawit."
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Gettysburg / int_f110c25	comment	Self-Destructive Charge: Pickett's Charge, and Longstreet completely called it well in advance. A deleted scene strongly suggests that Devil's Den was one for Hood's divisionnote even though they actually took the hill, just as Hoodnote and Longstreet — though he (and Hood by proxy) were overruled by Lee feared in the theatrical cut.
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Gettysburg / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Depicting a battle in which over 50,000 men were killed or wounded over three days. The 20th Maine started the war with 1,000 men but has been cut down to 250 by the time of the battle. The 2nd brings them back up to 360 for their fight on Day 2, but casualties on Little Round Top drop the unit down to 120 by Day 3) because the Union is just using them until there's no one left. Bodies carpet the battlefield and medical treatment is almost as dangerous as going into battle in the first place. Old friends who are like brothers are forced to fight each other, and Pickett's Charge is a hideous mistake that leaves six thousand men dead or wounded on the field.
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Gettysburg / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: After invading the North for the second time, the Army of Northern Virginia has access to unusually generous rations, as Maj. Taylor makes clear when he encourages General Lee to have a hearty breakfast: "We have flapjacks in small mountains. Fresh butter, bacon, wagons of ham, apple butter, ripe cherries. You really ought to pitch in, sir. Courtesy of our host, the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania."
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Gettysburg / int_f6b70c98	comment	The South in general. Discussed more thoroughly in the book when Longstreet privately thinks that "honor without intelligence" could lose the war for the Confederacy, but the movie contains some of it, such as the line, "We should have freed the slaves, then fired on Fort Sumter." (Difficult when slavery was their casus belli, as a scan of S.C.'s Strongly Worded Letter demonstrates.) Fremantle views it in a more positive light and sees it as something the South and Britain have in common.
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Gettysburg / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: Intentionally by Chamberlain, accidentally by Fremantle. Chamberlain's actually happened in Real Life, only there were actually three brothers present. The third, John Calhoun, was the chaplain for the 11th Maine and assisted at the medical field station during the battle. No mention of him was made in the book or movie, the third brother was kept separate for the same reason.
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Gettysburg / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Longstreet, who became somber after scarlet fever swept through his family in 1862, killing several of his children.note The novel says it killed his wife and children, but in fact at least one of his children survived and his wife lived until 1889.
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Gettysburg / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Gettysburg / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The visual details are incredibly accurate, helped in part by the loads of re-enactors they cast as extras. Their own costumes were incredibly accurate, and they actually corrected mistakes by the production team. Plus, filming on-location at the historically-preserved Gettysburg National Military Park guaranteed full geographic accuracy.
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Gettysburg / int_ffb79066	comment	Chromosome Casting: It's a war film. The only female cast members are some civilians as the army marches to and through Gettysburg, and none of them get more than two lines.
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Gettysburg / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: Longstreet temporarily becomes one after watching Pickett's Charge fail. He recklessly races to the front, determined to meet the expected Union counterattack in person while artillery falls all around him. He snaps out of it when one of his aides is thrown off his horse by Union guns and tells him, "There's no use trying to get yourself killed, General. The Lord will come for you in his own good time." General Garnett is this, as he feels obliged to cleanse the stain on his honor caused by condemnation he received by Stonewall Jackson before the latter's death by taking part in Pickett's Charge on horseback.
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