For those of you who have not read any of Bierce's stories, do yourselves a favor and read them! His Civil War stories are incredible - but coldly realistic. The reason for this is Bierce fought in some of the bloodiest campaigns of the war, nearly losing his life several times. This certainly left an indelible impression of war in his mind: no glamoror glory, just the cruel waste of human life.
A.Bierce is my favorite writer. I often re-reading his storys. But he haven't enouch fame in my country. It's not easy task to faind his books here. Only from e-net!
I live near Meigs County, Ohio the birthplace of Ambrose Bierce. I agree with waterloo2you below that Chickamauga is one of his greatest stories along with " A Horseman in the Sky" (and of course An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge and Parker Addison, philosopher). This man does not receive the recognition he deserves. The stories above are great antiwar stories along the lines of Catch 22 and Johnny get your gun.
Check out the Ambrose Bierce boyhood home here in Elkhart,IN. It's a historycal mark here for his masterpieces. Ambrose Bierce was the second to enlist in Elkharts Army volunteers. Can't wait to see the movie.
I agree with thekindone: Parker Adderson, Philospher is one of the best. But all of Bierce's Civil War stories are excellent. Since he was an actual Civil War veteran (in fact he fought in some of its blooiest conflicts), his stories are completely cold and realistic. There are no heroes, just victims: the protagonists always experience some form of loss - their own lives or their loved ones. Also, watch "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (it's available on YouTube in 3 parts).
The trailor says it contains three stories. "Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge" is obviously one of them, but what are the other two? "Chickamuaga" is his greatest and most shocking short story, so I would be its not included in this story.
the: Ok. It's just when you say 'read parker adderson, philosopher' it seems you could be talking about an actual person. Any other authors you'd recommend. Got my hands full (literary wise) at the moment, but I like to have suggestions for later on.
Yup, film is out on DVD. Checkout Amazon. Really superb battle action, great acting, and of course, incredible writing from the master, Ambrose Bierce!
I have read everything Bierce has written and I didn't find out about this movie until now. I was just killing time, typed in Ambrose Bierce in the search box, and unexpectedly found this. Thanx for posting.
Trailer is good, but not as strong as the full movie, which I've watched at least six times already. It's the best Civil War film since "GLORY." Campbell Scott makes an appropriately surly Ambrose Bierce, and the make-up conversion of Vivian Schilling to look like Gertrude Atherton is astounding, especially when you look see how stunning she really is on the "making of" documentary (reminds me of the transformation job of Nicole Kidman into Virginia Woolf in "The Hours"). Check it out!
I agree that the DVD menu pages are not great, but my comments were about the MOVIE, not about the poor choice of graphics for the DVD menus! THE FILM ITSELF IS FANTASTIC, so who cares about the DVD menus? I don't know about you fellers, but I tend to skip right past the menus anyway, and get to the heart of the program!
If the menu isn't important, why bother including it? Why not just put a big red play button on the screen? All I'm saying is the first impression wasn't the best. The films were very good. But, the first impression (menu) wasn't. So, you're right; buy this DVD (which is quite good), IGNORE the menu and watch the films. Attention to detail?
Looks terrific. The music is cool as hell, surprising, uncliched, strange and wonderful. Congrats! Fog shot looked cool too . . . shot on Super 16 mm film by filmmakers who care about wuality and authenticity.
Actually, three of the nation's top Civil War historians were engaged as consultants on this film, which they describe as the "ONLY, FULLY AUTHENTIC RECREATION OF PROPER WEAPONRY, UNIFORMS, PROCEDURES AND TERMINOLOGY IN THE PAST TEN YEARS OF CIVIL WAR THEMED MOVIES." The other comments from csfilmsguy above also make virtually no sense whatsoever.
Hello, I saw this in the theater. CWFILMSGUY has never made a movie plain and simple. Nor is he a expert on the civil war. Good job on the film. A c.w. movie you have to think at-wow. Judy
Trailer was cool. Film a bit disappointing. Soldiers looked like costume farbs. Depends on what you like in a flick? Directors should hire advisors. There are a lot of guys out here that could help. Not a rip, just think a little attention to detail goes a long way. There's some cheesey cannon menu thing going on but the film is pretty cool. Some cool stuff on the bonus thing too. picture gallery was kind of a waste. Didn't get the chick with the dog thing. Was this in theaters?
Howdy there! I was involved as an extra in the segment "One Kind of Officer" two summers ago. My battery and I were featured rather prominently in several background shots. I donno 'bout others, but the fellers on my crew were all dressed in very correct period attire. We're all re-enactors and we take our hobby quite seriously.
The most phony lookin' garb that I could see was that worn by the actors themselves, not what was brought by those in the hobby. They tried, but sometimes in film it's hard to get every last detail that a re-enactor might stress over. At least they had historical consultants, they were indeed tryin'!
By the way, I'd like to know what "cheesy cannon menu thing" yer referin' to. If you mean the cannon crew on the menu screen... that's us! I agree I'm not pleased with the way that picture turned out, but as I recall it was a candid shot made when we were just messin' around. I'll admitt there's some farb in this movie, but sometimes ya just gotta bite the bullet and put up with it. All ya can do is make yer own impression as accurate as possible and call it good.
No offense to you fellers... the cheesy cannon menu thing had to do with the silly red cannon icon used as a pointer on the DVD. Hobby? Or History? My point exactly.
I rented this movie last weekend at Movie Gallery and thought it was quite good. We've since ordered a copy from Amazon for our DVD library. What we liked was the skillful balance between the action of the battle sequences, with the intellectual - literary level discussion and analysis from Bierce (played by Campbell Scott) about the futilities of war. It's surprisingly "current" and topical in nature, which made it enjoyable on many levels.
@ManicStreetStevO It was made into a short film in 1962. I agree more attention needs to be paid to Bierce's works.
GirLInSecondLife 8 months ago
For those of you who have not read any of Bierce's stories, do yourselves a favor and read them! His Civil War stories are incredible - but coldly realistic. The reason for this is Bierce fought in some of the bloodiest campaigns of the war, nearly losing his life several times. This certainly left an indelible impression of war in his mind: no glamoror glory, just the cruel waste of human life.
frtw4428 1 year ago
Hey, Vivian Schilling! She was on MST3K!
sekyunseung 2 years ago
A.Bierce is my favorite writer. I often re-reading his storys. But he haven't enouch fame in my country. It's not easy task to faind his books here. Only from e-net!
TheGurtang 2 years ago
I live near Meigs County, Ohio the birthplace of Ambrose Bierce. I agree with waterloo2you below that Chickamauga is one of his greatest stories along with " A Horseman in the Sky" (and of course An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge and Parker Addison, philosopher). This man does not receive the recognition he deserves. The stories above are great antiwar stories along the lines of Catch 22 and Johnny get your gun.
Ihateworking1 2 years ago
Check out the Ambrose Bierce boyhood home here in Elkhart,IN. It's a historycal mark here for his masterpieces. Ambrose Bierce was the second to enlist in Elkharts Army volunteers. Can't wait to see the movie.
amorios25 2 years ago
I agree with thekindone: Parker Adderson, Philospher is one of the best. But all of Bierce's Civil War stories are excellent. Since he was an actual Civil War veteran (in fact he fought in some of its blooiest conflicts), his stories are completely cold and realistic. There are no heroes, just victims: the protagonists always experience some form of loss - their own lives or their loved ones. Also, watch "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (it's available on YouTube in 3 parts).
frtw4428 3 years ago
The trailor says it contains three stories. "Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge" is obviously one of them, but what are the other two? "Chickamuaga" is his greatest and most shocking short story, so I would be its not included in this story.
waterloo2you 3 years ago
I've only recently heard of Bierce. Any particular collection or story that I should read first?
NGS712 4 years ago
yes.
read "shadows of blue and gray"
its a collection of his short stories and some various parts of his memoirs
caejacks 4 years ago
caejacks: Just out of curiosity, is it a book that was published in his lifetime or something that was put together after his 'death'.
NGS712 4 years ago
read parker adderson, philosopher. one of my favourite
thekindone 4 years ago 2
the: Is this a story by Bierce?
NGS712 4 years ago
yep, its one of his short stories
thekindone 4 years ago
the: Ok. It's just when you say 'read parker adderson, philosopher' it seems you could be talking about an actual person. Any other authors you'd recommend. Got my hands full (literary wise) at the moment, but I like to have suggestions for later on.
NGS712 4 years ago
His most famous work is a collection of short stories called IN THE MIDSTS OF LIFE. It's available by Signet Classics.
He resented being compared to Edgar Allan Poe, even though they have certain traits in common.
BeatBuddy 4 years ago
Beat: Thanks :)
NGS712 4 years ago
Yeah you should read "Tales of soldiers and civilians"
kantil17 3 years ago
Heard word of a possible sequel, with three or four more Ambrose Bierce tales from the Civil War. Sounds like a good idea!
2TimeOscarWeiner 4 years ago
Looks awesome! Is this a real movie that's going to be coming out?
GettysburgGhost1863 4 years ago
Yup, film is out on DVD. Checkout Amazon. Really superb battle action, great acting, and of course, incredible writing from the master, Ambrose Bierce!
Hannover1 4 years ago
I have read everything Bierce has written and I didn't find out about this movie until now. I was just killing time, typed in Ambrose Bierce in the search box, and unexpectedly found this. Thanx for posting.
BeatBuddy 4 years ago
I've got to see this movie . . .Bierce was the master. . ..
serling307 5 years ago
So, what did ya' think?
cwfilmsguy 4 years ago
He resented being compared to Edgar Allan Poe. The similarities between the two are really superficial, as in Orwell and Huxley, Wells and Verne.
BeatBuddy 4 years ago
Trailer is good, but not as strong as the full movie, which I've watched at least six times already. It's the best Civil War film since "GLORY." Campbell Scott makes an appropriately surly Ambrose Bierce, and the make-up conversion of Vivian Schilling to look like Gertrude Atherton is astounding, especially when you look see how stunning she really is on the "making of" documentary (reminds me of the transformation job of Nicole Kidman into Virginia Woolf in "The Hours"). Check it out!
2TimeOscarWeiner 5 years ago
I agree that the DVD menu pages are not great, but my comments were about the MOVIE, not about the poor choice of graphics for the DVD menus! THE FILM ITSELF IS FANTASTIC, so who cares about the DVD menus? I don't know about you fellers, but I tend to skip right past the menus anyway, and get to the heart of the program!
Hannover1 5 years ago
If the menu isn't important, why bother including it? Why not just put a big red play button on the screen? All I'm saying is the first impression wasn't the best. The films were very good. But, the first impression (menu) wasn't. So, you're right; buy this DVD (which is quite good), IGNORE the menu and watch the films. Attention to detail?
cwfilmsguy 5 years ago
Looks terrific. The music is cool as hell, surprising, uncliched, strange and wonderful. Congrats! Fog shot looked cool too . . . shot on Super 16 mm film by filmmakers who care about wuality and authenticity.
ndsedan 5 years ago
Actually, three of the nation's top Civil War historians were engaged as consultants on this film, which they describe as the "ONLY, FULLY AUTHENTIC RECREATION OF PROPER WEAPONRY, UNIFORMS, PROCEDURES AND TERMINOLOGY IN THE PAST TEN YEARS OF CIVIL WAR THEMED MOVIES." The other comments from csfilmsguy above also make virtually no sense whatsoever.
Hannover1 5 years ago
Hello, I saw this in the theater. CWFILMSGUY has never made a movie plain and simple. Nor is he a expert on the civil war. Good job on the film. A c.w. movie you have to think at-wow. Judy
cwdetail 5 years ago
Trailer was cool. Film a bit disappointing. Soldiers looked like costume farbs. Depends on what you like in a flick? Directors should hire advisors. There are a lot of guys out here that could help. Not a rip, just think a little attention to detail goes a long way. There's some cheesey cannon menu thing going on but the film is pretty cool. Some cool stuff on the bonus thing too. picture gallery was kind of a waste. Didn't get the chick with the dog thing. Was this in theaters?
cwfilmsguy 5 years ago
Howdy there! I was involved as an extra in the segment "One Kind of Officer" two summers ago. My battery and I were featured rather prominently in several background shots. I donno 'bout others, but the fellers on my crew were all dressed in very correct period attire. We're all re-enactors and we take our hobby quite seriously.
RebelYell1861 5 years ago
The most phony lookin' garb that I could see was that worn by the actors themselves, not what was brought by those in the hobby. They tried, but sometimes in film it's hard to get every last detail that a re-enactor might stress over. At least they had historical consultants, they were indeed tryin'!
RebelYell1861 5 years ago
By the way, I'd like to know what "cheesy cannon menu thing" yer referin' to. If you mean the cannon crew on the menu screen... that's us! I agree I'm not pleased with the way that picture turned out, but as I recall it was a candid shot made when we were just messin' around. I'll admitt there's some farb in this movie, but sometimes ya just gotta bite the bullet and put up with it. All ya can do is make yer own impression as accurate as possible and call it good.
RebelYell1861 5 years ago
No offense to you fellers... the cheesy cannon menu thing had to do with the silly red cannon icon used as a pointer on the DVD. Hobby? Or History? My point exactly.
cwfilmsguy 5 years ago
I saw this in a theater. Good movie. Strong themes.
Fhwriter 5 years ago
I rented this movie last weekend at Movie Gallery and thought it was quite good. We've since ordered a copy from Amazon for our DVD library. What we liked was the skillful balance between the action of the battle sequences, with the intellectual - literary level discussion and analysis from Bierce (played by Campbell Scott) about the futilities of war. It's surprisingly "current" and topical in nature, which made it enjoyable on many levels.
2TimeOscarWeiner 5 years ago
Full feature now available on DVD at AMAZON.COM, WALMART.COM and at Wal-Mart stores nationally!!!
Hannover1 5 years ago