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Ronald Fitzgerald Maxwell (nacido el 3 de enero de 1949) es un director y guionista de cine independiente nacido en Clifton, Nueva Jersey. Es mayormente conocido por dirigir la película de 1993 1 Gettysburg y la de 2003 2 Gods and Generals, sobre la guerra civil estadounidense.
Years active. 1976 – present. Ronald "Ron" F. Maxwell (born January 5, 1949) is an American film director and screenwriter from Clifton, New Jersey. He is most famous for writing and directing the American Civil War historical fiction films Gettysburg (1993), Gods and Generals (2003), and Copperhead (2013).
Ronald F. Maxwell (nacido el 3 de enero de 1949) es un director y guionista de cine independiente nacido en Clifton, Nueva Jersey. Es mayormente conocido por dirigir la película de 1993 [1] Gettysburg y la de 2003 [2] Gods and Generals, sobre la Guerra Civil Estadounidense.
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Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from the Union Army as Virginia votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy, beginning the Civil War. Major Jackson, who is a professor at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington at the outset of the war, leaves his family behind to fight in the Battle of Manassas. Jackson is asked by a retreating General ...
Confederate Army
1. Robert Duvall as General Robert E. Lee 2. Stephen Lang as Lieutenant General Stonewall Jackson 3. Bruce Boxleitner as Lieutenant General James Longstreet 4. W. Morgan Sheppard as Major General Isaac R. Trimble 5. William Sanderson as Major General A.P. Hill 6. Billy Campbell as Major General George Pickett 7. Patrick Gorman as Major General John Bell Hood 8. John Castle as Brigadier General William N. Pendleton 9. John Prosky as Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistead 10. Royce D. Applegate a...
United States Army
1. Alex Hyde-White as Major General Ambrose E. Burnside 2. Brian Mallon as Brigadier General and later Major General Winfield Scott Hancock 3. James Garrett as Brigadier General John C. Caldwell 4. Matt Letscher as Colonel Adelbert Ames (20th Maine) 5. Jeff Daniels as Lieutenant Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain(20th Maine) 6. Tim O'Hare as Lieutenant Colonel St. Clair Augustine Mulholland (116th Pennsylvania) 7. Jonathan Maxwell as Captain Ellis Spear(20th Maine) 8. Kevin Conway as Sergean...
Civilians
1. Cooper Huckabee as Henry Thomas Harrison, a Confederate spy and friend of John Wilkes Booth 2. Mira Sorvino as Fanny Chamberlain, wife of Joshua Chamberlain 3. Malachy McCourt as Francis Preston Blair, journalist & editor 4. Kali Rochaas Anna Jackson, wife of Stonewall Jackson 5. David Carpenter as Reverend Tucker Lacy 6. Karen Hochstetter as Roberta Corbin 7. Christie Lynn Smithas Catherine Corbin 8. Lydia Jordanas Janie Corbin 9. Martin Clark as Dr. George Junkin 10. Damon Kirsche as Har...
Ted Turner originally pitched an adaption of Gods and Generals to Warner Bros. Pictures in 2000 and decided to personally finance it after they turned him down. The final cost of the film was $60 million for the production and $30 million for the distribution of it, making it one of the most expensive independent filmsever produced. Turner has a ca...
The extended director's cut was released for Blu-ray Disc on May 24, 2011. The film also received special screenings across the country to commemorate the anniversaries of important Civil War battles, starting with a July 22, 2011, presentation at George Mason Universityto commemorate the 150th anniversary of the First Battle of Bull Run. Among the...
In 2003, the film score was composed by John Frizzell, with some minor contributions by Randy Edelman, who composed the score for the previous Gettysburg. The soundtrack is notable for containing a new song commissioned for the movie and written and performed by Bob Dylan, Cross the Green Mountain. The track was later included on the compilation al...
A video game based on the movie was released on March 1, 2003. It was developed by Anivision Value and published by Activision.
Critical response
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes lists an 8% approval rating based on 121 reviews, with an average rating of 3.60/10. The critical consensus reads, "Filled with two-dimensional characters and pompous self-righteousness, Gods and Generals is a long, tedious sit. Some may also take offense at the pro-Confederate slant." Metacriticgives the film a score of 30 out of 100 based on 29 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film one and a half out of f...
Historical response
Gods and Generals is widely viewed as championing the Lost Cause ideology by creating a presentation more favorable to the Confederacy. Writing in The Journal of American History, historian Steven E. Woodworth derided the movie as a modern-day telling of Lost Cause mythology. Woodworth called the movie "the most pro-Confederate film since Birth of a Nation, a veritable celluloid celebration of slavery and treason." He summed up his reasons for disliking the movie by saying: Woodworth criticiz...
Author's response
Author Jeff Shaara originally liked the movie,but he later said that he was disappointed it was not more similar to the book. He said, "It's enormously different, it's radically different from the book. There are characters in the film that do not exist in the book, and a great many characters in the book that never made it to the film. It's just an entirely different story, and I have to tell you, I've heard from literally thousands of people through my website, and I get emails every day an...
Gods and Generals at AllMovieGods and Generals at IMDbGods and Generals at Rotten TomatoesGods and Generals at Box Office MojoDioses y generales. Dioses y generales ( Gods and Generals, en inglés) es una película épica de 2003 que relata la Guerra Civil Norteamericana dirigida por Ronald F. Maxwell. 1 La acción desarrolla entre 1861 y 1863 retrata por igual ambos bandos, describe las batallas y la situación de las familias que vivieron la guerra.
Director. Producer. Writer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Play trailer 2:21. Copperhead (2013) 1 Video. 4 Photos. Ronald F. Maxwell is the son of a World War II veteran and a French war bride. He grew up in New Jersey where he graduated from Clifton High School.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ronald F. Maxwell (born January 5, 1949) is an independent film director and writer from Clifton, New Jersey. He is most famous for writing and directing the American Civil War epics Gettysburg, 1993 and Gods and Generals, 2003.
