It was good, but if he had blew the LT's head off stealing the corn I think would have been better having to keep dealing with him. Especially after they hung those boys.
“Will” or William Sumrall is my ancestor on which the actor was based off. And yes it’s probably the best line in the movie. But Will must have believed it too because he fled with Knight into the swamp as well. Great movie!
@@jothamdoronila2079 Why do bitchass cunts like you always downplay something other people like? Is it really the only way you can find relevancy in anything at all?
I enjoyed seeing the film after all the long hours, so many of us put into working this production. This being my first film job of any kind in 2015. Director Gary Ross, Matthew & many others. The professionalism & kindness on set gave me a new direction in life. Since I have continued to work multiple productions, big or small, background, supporting, lead roles. In hopes that as time passes I once more get to work with Matthew, Gary Ross, Garret Warren & others on the journey ahead.
@@30AndHatingIt The journey continued into many other productions, support, leads, stunts, 2017 Best Actor Award at Fear Fete. Stayed pretty busy, until 2018 had to pull back due to divorce & getting full custody of both kids. Finally, after 3 years, working as a Plant Manager & Field Supervisor, laid off August 2021 due to needing surgery. My oldest is graduating, the other is of age to manage, so they both told me it was time to go back to doing what I enjoyed most. December 2021, I got my foot back in the door with Emancipation - Will Smith, just got off of another set last week, working on rebuilding connections, & hope to become as busy as before working towards that major breakout role. Not all dreams are easy, & I've learned that, but every major actor I've had the pleasure to working with & speaking with have all told me never give up. I can't give up on life, therefor there is no reason to give up on my dreams. In time I really believe my name & skills as an actor will be out there for so many to enjoy or hate depending on the character. Best wishes to everyone.
That's a hell of a ride you've had. Much respect for "putting family first", you had your priorities in order. I just had a little boy, my first, at 35 and the mother and I are separating... so I relate to you there as well. Hard to have much hope these days, it's going to get worse before it gets better. I'm looking at having to give up my book, videos and woodworking just to be able to survive. I just hope I can find some calm and stability soon so I don't wind up looking back and wondering where all the time went. Anyway, enough debbie downer, I'm glad to hear you got back into doing what you love. Amazing to reestablish all those connections and it sounds like you have some pretty good drinking stories to tell. Keep doing YOU.
I showed the opening infantry assault and hospital scene to my U.S. history class once we started our lessons on the Civil War. It changed their entire approach. Now when we looked at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Clara Barton, etc, they knew what to imagine. I also showed the voting scene toward the end of the movie during our Reconstruction lessons. Thank you for this gift to our society.
Mississippi is probably one of richest state of the Confeterate and the rich did not start a war the slave owners started the war this man here changed his ways but he did it most men couldn't do that and I know the comment was 2 years ago but I dont care the rich man didn't start the war
@@TCB405 Hi there if you don't mind me asking Aren't all the Slave Owners are rich? I mean that is why they own slaves and that is how they got their riches cause they don't need to pay nobody to work in their fields. Peace :)
@@gamermeshie3180 I hate rich people I hate defending them but I will on this one I'm a Dixie boy my self and I say the civil war wasn't started from slavery even tho that's what I said in the past it started because of quote "states right" and "rebelling" and the list goes on BUT Dixie fought for quote "states rights" bs btw "defending their homes" truth on this one "and the expectation of slavery" so it goes hand in hand I'm tired of these stupid arguments or questions about the civil war cuz schools dont teach it people are being stupid and were gonna have another civil war cuz of it the American civil war is just 19th century politics it bores me now that's why I stopped going into head to head combat like a 3 year old Dixie boy fighting for the north I dont care any more I ain't answering your next question by the way
Finally a great civil war movie. I've always said you'll never undetstand America good and bad until you understand this terrible war. " Glory" I've always ranked number 1. Gods and Gens. and Gettysburg very good great acting a littlr bit to clean in the presentation .I would love to see Mel Gibson do a civil war movie it would be more realistic than Gods and Gens and Gettysburg. These movies are good, where they lack is how violent this War really was. "jones" is going to rock this country into reality of how the civil war is still being fought today in Ameica 150yrs. later. "Ken Burns" the civil war is finest documentry ever made on the subject.
This film was important to him to get this tremendous true story out to people to understand this American Travesty. The civil war continues today 150yrs later. When the the Confederates fired on fort sumter is was the most evil act of terrorism against the US. And that includes 9-11 and pearl harbor.
Matt is such a southerner as am I, his passionate portrayal of soldier surviving the long insufferable miserable chaos of this long complicated war, we see one man’s divided loyalties to home, family, and honor in this battle scene, and it gives a snap shot into what compelled each man who fought on this side to fight, and as Paul Harvey would say “and now you know the rest of the story.” Matt the coolest and smoothest actor of my generation. He’s so damn confident and talented.
When he's explaining the silent g in the gh sound, he lists several words that use it. One of them is "Alright". Matthew should have said alright several times!
You Americans are making me aggressive. Every single war in Europe was way worse than that: napoleonic wars, Franco Prussian war etc. And saying it was worse than WW2 is the biggest disrespect I’ve ever heard. The war between Nazi germany and the Soviet Union was the biggest and most brutal slaughtering in the history of mankind (soldiers AND civilians) The Allied powers would’ve lost the war without the Soviet Union.
@@Tobi-ln9xrthey def did the heavy fighting in Europe but don’t act like we didn’t supply over a third of their army bro the US did it’s part and took care of Japan on their own. The US could’ve defeated Germany on their own also war would’ve been a whole lot longer tho
This was a really good movie about yet another squelched part of history: poor soldiers realizing they were fighting so rich men could keep their slaves and doing something about it.
Oscar for this crap? You serious? I can't even begin to describe at how many levels Saving Private Ryan was over this piece of junk. Then again, crappy movies did get Oscars before just because it was politically correct.
@@freshwhisper1343 Yeah, you are right. The beginning and a bit in was great, but then it got extremely boring with nothing happening and just became Union propaganda.
I don't believe there really was any age standard. The whole idea of children being excluded from military service is a relatively new concept. I do know that during the civil war both sides had child 'non-combatants' in various support roles: Field kitchen, stable hands, drummers, fifes, ect. They would be dismissed before the unit entered combat. In at least two instances young boys (12-16) associated with military schools were put into battle as reserves, but ended up as front line combatants. Only in the last century have modern armies created age requirements. There is a litteral translation as to the origin of the word "Infantry", and historically boys filled the ranks of armies. In some places they still do.
Yjeslave system was held together by Sheriff's posses who patrolled the rods and back trails at night looking for runaways.The system broke down when the South mobilized the posses into the army's cavalry's each town's militia and volunteers were vacuumed up and assigned to war-service regiments. That left the slaveowners with no hands forced maintain the old order of things. The very presence of Union troops nearby accelerated the old South's dissolution. Saves deserted ol' Massato follow the Union troops, while the neat fences, and orchards vanished into Union campfires, great houses were requisitioned as hospitals, doors taken off their hinges and used as desks, surgeon's operating tables, and store food stuffs were requisitioned for the use of the army!The work of generations could vanish overnight-and so much of the nation's total value was un the form of slaves, that their liberation drained capitol out of the south! Moreover the agricultural South was dependent on trade with the upper midwestern states of the Union for most of it svegetables, produce and herbs!
You know you’ve seen plenty of war films and know about military history - when you mistake the battle as a WWI era due to trenches, then second guess is Napoleonic, but then you realize it’s Civil War cause the southern accent in a span of a few seconds
Maybe do your homework and you'll get the right answer, trench warfare was very active during the Civil War, your incorrect about your history in war strategy
I've got my Great Great Grandfather's Confederate D Bowie knife from this battle. Signed up in Henry County in Alabama. Native Creek Indian. Not proud of this battle but curious about what he would have lost if he didn't sign up.
The confederates were constantly supplementing their clothing and equipment with non-standard, even Union equipment. At Antietam there was a group of confederates wearing recently captured union uniforms that caused some confusion.
I cannot understand that the Americans fought a war over whether a man can or cannot own another man. We in the British commonwealth decided in a act of parliament that one cannot a century before the Americans.
@@justabloke1806 England still needed the cotton for its textile industries, they supported the south with its weapons and gunpowder, cannons and everyday products that were in great need. If a reason for the slavery continuing on like it did the blame can be found in Eli Whitney’s cotton gin which significantly increased cotton production requiring more slaves to work larger plantations to export north and of course to Europe like Britain. Before the cotton gin, separating the seeds was by hand and the output was dictated by how many slaves were needed and how to feed them if only so much work could be done. The cotton gin changed all that, increasing plantation size requiring more slaves to work the fields. England played their role in slavery continuing on by being a ready and able buyer of the South’s cotton and other products. States rights became a reason to control their commerce and limit the ever growing appetite of the north. Out of all this what occurred was England finding its new source from Eqypt and and the African continent.
The part when his nephew died was so sad. They were so close to escaping when some dipshit with rank ordered every one out of the trench before himself. He wasn’t a leader and got the young man killed. Someone barking orders occasionally doesn’t have your best interest in mind.
the confederacy kinda reminds me of the military we have today in america, only instead of fighting for slavery their fighting for corporatocracy. either way, both armies are fighting and dying to keep rich people rich. either way, its sick and terrible. both our country and the soldiers deserve better. when the heck is a revolution like this one gonna come.
The Union was loosing the war unting one single moment. Abraham Lincoln made a covenant before God that all men would be free and that the war would be dedicated to the abolition of slavery. Up Until that point the union had on won a single battle.
Nope. By the end of 1862 the Union had captured most of the Mississippi valley and had laid siege to Vicksburg. The Union had already routed the Confederacy in this western campaign before the Emancipation Proclamation took effect.
@@DutchGuyMike no its the reason. u only need to look at the southern states' secession declarations to see why they seceded. slavery is mentioned early and often. i understand southerners try to make it look like slavery was just one minor reason so you dont have to feel guilty though.
Imagine being so inbred and uneducated you can't even write out your comment properly. From now on either start your comments or end them with Dur Hur so we know what a trailer park level intellect you are.
is it just me or does it seem crazy to anyone else that they would go feed corn to hogs rather than eating it? If you are in danger of starving, why on earth would you waste good food like corn on pigs so you could get a much smaller amount of meat from them in the future? Corn can be made into flour or even eaten as is, and the amount of corn it would take to raise pigs would be quite a lot. I thought the whole advantage of animals like pigs, chickens and goats were that they could essentially be left to roam around and feed themselves for the most part.
@@JB-lp9xr those two situations aren’t comparable in the slightest. One resulted in not only the upheaval of a way of life and culture but also shattered unity and national identity for a generation. That same rebellion also caused the death of 600,000+ men in just a few years. You’re an idiot who believes the Republican Party pushed those radicals to revolt at the capital. Meanwhile the old Democratic Party actually seceded and pushed propaganda to get southerners willing to fight for what they saw was a war against their way of life. It’s one thing to be uneducated about a subject but don’t go around spreading your ignorance.
