"Copperhead" Trailer (anti-Civil War movie?)

[Zatch]

 

[brushfire]

DiLorenzo was suggesting this movie - I'm looking forward to it.

 

[FrankRep]

A Must-See Movie Coming This June


Thomas DiLorenzo
February 10, 2013


Ron Maxwell of "Gettysburg" fame has a new movie coming out entitled "Copperhead: The War at Home." A friend who has seen an advance screening says "it is terrific."

"Copperhead" is the libelous term the Lincoln regime assigned to its Northern state critics who were also known as "Peace Democrats" or "Jeffersonians." ( See Frank Klement's book, Lincoln's Critics: The Cooperheads of the North). Our friend Bill Kauffman is the film's screenwriter.

Here's more info on the movie.

The neocons will throw a fit and behave like knaves, jerks, and pompous asses, as usual, whereas their compatriots in the left-wing media will make a few smarmy remarks about the film and then ignore it.


Books:

Lincoln's Critics: The Copperheads of the North

Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North​

 

[Aratus]

sometimes the trailer to a flic has the better scenes of the movie almost totally in it. case in point, Johnny Depp's RUM DIARIES.
COPPERHEAD has wondrous cinematography and a period piece feel the trailer only hints at. I'm doing posting number five now...

 

[Aratus]

all of today's living film critics look like total idiots, only roger ebert had the insight
or wisdom to really give one a feel for the film! he died way way way too soon...

 

[Michael Landon]

My wife and I watched this the other night and we both liked it. It was a bit slow but the dialogue, especially regarding the Constitution, was very good.

- ML

 

[Lucille]

We haven't watched it yet but it is available for steaming on amazon already. I'd like to support it in the theater but it's too far to go, so I'll rent it a few times to make up for it!

How Not to Watch ‘Copperhead’
Sidney Blumenthal misunderstands a film about peace, community, and the limits of dissent—not the Union or Confederate causes.
By Bill Kauffman • July 24, 2013

I’ve been writing books for 25 years now—I’m sure that silver anniversary festschrift is just around the corner—and I never reply to critics. I’ve had my say between the covers; let the reviewer have her say. Besides, life is too short and precious for squabbling with strangers. But Sidney Blumenthal’s claim in the Atlantic that Ron Maxwell’s film “Copperhead,” for which I wrote the screenplay, is “propaganda for an old variation of the neo-Confederate Lost Cause myth” is nonsense. (As recently as 2005 the Atlantic’s erstwhile literary editor, the great Benjamin Schwarz, was recommending my work to readers. Time doth fly.)

Mr. Blumenthal is so busy burning strawmen that he misses the point of the movie (and even misreports the ending, which he must not have seen). “Copperhead” does not re-argue the Civil War, nor is it about the antiwar movement in the North. It measures the impact of the war on the Corners, one small settlement in Upstate New York. Abner Beech, the title character, does not even consider himself a Copperhead; he is, rather, an old-fashioned Jefferson-Jackson agrarian Upstate New York Democrat. (In contrast with the Democratic Party in New York City, the Upstate Democracy contained a large and noble faction that had long sought to bar slavery from the territories and limit the power of the slavocracy.)

The movie is about the effect of war on a community. It is about the way that wars tear families apart. It is about the challenge of loving one’s neighbor. And it is about dissent, which is never exactly in robust condition in the land of the free...

 

[roho76]

While I like the concept of this movie, it didn't seem to well made. The dialog was very bad. The acting was even worse. A lot of uncomfortable pauses in the dialog. I appreciated the content but I couldn't even make it past the first half an hour.

 

[Henry Rogue]

While I like the concept of this movie, it didn't seem to well made. The dialog was very bad. The acting was even worse. A lot of uncomfortable pauses in the dialog. I appreciated the content but I couldn't even make it past the first half an hour.

Was it as bad as "Atlas Shrugged" part 1? That was disappointing.

 

[Lucille]

Was it as bad as "Atlas Shrugged" part 1? That was disappointing.

They made a huge mistake, and then they go throwing good money after bad. It should have been a miniseries on teevee. Its audience would have been huge.

 

[Lucille]

I'm ashamed to say we never did rent this. It's on the Sony movie channel on the 23rd. I have my DVR set.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-not-to-watch-copperhead/

Peace, community, dissent, respect for rural Christianity: these are “Copperhead’s” themes. And they are as American as Crazy Horse, baseball, and Jack Kerouac.

 

[Dianne]

I'm ashamed to say we never did rent this. It's on the Sony movie channel on the 23rd. I have my DVR set.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-not-to-watch-copperhead/

Thanks for the info. I really wanted to see this movie, but it disappeared from Red Box.