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Post by chuckwagon on Nov 27, 2005 22:43:52 GMT -6
Cruisin' the internet and found these tidbits on the upcoming Stone/Son. Supposedly will be filmed in Canada (don't have to pay US union scale) and due out in 2007:
The Sun has learned the Academy Award-winning director of Platoon, J.F.K. and Born on the Fourth of July will direct an epic film about Gen. George Armstrong Custer that producers are hoping to shoot in southern Alberta in mid-2006.
The movie, Son of the Morning Star, would revolve around Custer, the U.S. Army officer who clashed famously with the Plains Indians at the Little Big Horn in 1876. The script is based on the book by Evan Connell.
Calgary film commissioner Sue Bristow confirms Morning Star’s producers have already scouted the province, although Stone hasn’t been here himself.
“Alberta is their first choice,” she says.
The project isn’t a firm go yet, however, as the production is still securing financing.
America's youngest and most decorated civil war general details Custer's battle with U.S. Grant, then-president, over military corruption and Custer's potential bid for the White House.
Bid for the White House? According to what history book?
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Post by alfuso on Nov 28, 2005 8:14:49 GMT -6
chuckwagon
gotta wonder comic book they get their "facts" from
alfuso
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Post by Diane Merkel on Nov 28, 2005 8:34:53 GMT -6
They said it was going to be a "political thriller."
More fiction that the Average Joe will believe is fact.
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Post by Scout on Nov 28, 2005 8:59:14 GMT -6
Grant has Custer killed at the LBH so he can't win the presidency....I can see it coming!
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Post by Autie on Nov 28, 2005 14:02:34 GMT -6
If this is as historically accurate as JFK, I can't wait!!!!
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Post by redwhiteman on Nov 28, 2005 14:38:41 GMT -6
I gave up on tv and movies getting it "right" a long time ago. This news doesn't even interest me. Not that I mind it being reported. But from Custer with his saber at the LBH in They Died with their Boots On to the visually stunning, though overly-political correct, Dances with Wolves, I just don't care. I'd rather read a book about the subject than see a movie and complain about every scene. What bothers me most is that this is how most Americans learn their history.
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Post by crzhrs on Nov 28, 2005 14:44:07 GMT -6
<I'd rather read a book about the subject than see a movie and complain about every scene. What bothers me most is that this is how most Americans learn their history. >
Very true . . . watching TV shows and movies is how I first "learned" about history. Then once I got interested in certain subjects I started to read about them. Boy what a difference when you read books by historians and scholars! Of course, it's important to read several books regarding a certain subject to get a better picture and understanding (many authors do have agendas).
And don't forget forums like these, I've learned a lot more and gotten different viewpoints about historical events here than in some books!
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Post by weir on Nov 28, 2005 14:48:31 GMT -6
Evan Connell already rewrite history in SOTMS (see the forgeries about Indian losses in Washita). So imagine Connell mixed with Stone... I think we will have Mister X telling Libbie in the Mall in Washington DC that the Indians Wars were fought because of the military lobby, that the US secret services are also responsible of the Mexican War, the Civil Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the Peloponnesian War...
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Post by crzhrs on Nov 28, 2005 14:53:07 GMT -6
<Indians Wars were fought because of the military lobby, that the US secret services are also responsible of the Mexican War, the Civil Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the Peloponnesian War... >
Hmm . . . you may have something there!
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Post by Timothy Ratliff on Nov 28, 2005 19:41:23 GMT -6
I don't know why that struck me as incredibly funny.
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Post by alfuso on Nov 29, 2005 4:22:05 GMT -6
<Indians Wars were fought because of the military lobby, that the US secret services are also responsible of the Mexican War, the Civil Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the Peloponnesian War... >
Who could forget the pathos of Grant Surrendering to Wellington at Argincourt?
Or the sublime irony of Saul on Bunker Hill?
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Post by weir on Nov 29, 2005 4:47:07 GMT -6
In Stone's dreams Curley is a Pinkerton's agent leading Custer on a false trail... Terry is the mastermind of the "black operation" with Sitting Bull, John Jacob Astor the guy who gives money, Orvil Grant the link to the mob, Sheridan the general "Y", Napoleon III the international link (DeRudio) with the Pope (Keogh), Reno and Benteen the patsys... And who ignored White Bull was a an Illuminati ? That Martini was included in one of Leonardo Da Vinci's paintings...?? Prepare yourself : Stone is travelling in the West.
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Post by greenpheon on Dec 1, 2005 10:12:19 GMT -6
Recently I was reading "The Journey of Crazy Horse A Lakota History" by Joseph Marshall. He says the name "Son of the Morning Star" was not meant to be positive. It is a reference to the fact that Custer attacked Black Kettle's village at dawn at the Washita.
Greenpheon
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Post by custerstillstands on Dec 1, 2005 10:19:53 GMT -6
Custer's attack at the Washita was a positive thing. Cheyennes learnt how it feels to be attacked after a whole year of cutting in pieces, burning and raping women, men and children. Custer respected the laws of war, Cheyennes never did.
Anyway, Son of the Morning was the name given by Ree Scouts in Dakota territory.
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Post by crzhrs on Dec 1, 2005 10:53:29 GMT -6
The laws of war? Is there such a thing?
Son of the Morning Star was given by Ree Scouts to Custer
The Cheyenne called him Squaw Killer for his part in the Washita.
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