Joined: Mar 04, 2004 Posts: 4926 Location: Suburb of Philadelphia
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:20 pm Post subject: Re: Da Movie - Favorite Line
corydon wrote:
... I especially liked his conversation with the British guy right before Pickett's Charge where he went on to say that all of Virginia was there.
And the boy over there with the color guard. That's Private Robert Tyler Jones.
His grandfather was President of the United States.
The colonel behind me, that's Colonel William Aylett.
Now, his great grandfather... was the Virginian Patrick Henry.
It was Patrick Henry who said to your King George II: "Give me liberty or give me death." _________________ I Remain
Your Ob't Servant
Allan
Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.
A Great Civilization is not Conquered from Without until It has Destroyed Itself from Within
I should have remembered his name. He's got an extended scene with Longstreet too. While that scene gives you some good incite into some of the strategy that went on, you can see why it was cut. _________________ "Let us have faith that right makes might..."
- Abraham Lincoln
RickAllen Official Chronicler of Gettysburg Tours!
Joined: Feb 13, 2004 Posts: 4288 Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject:
All I remember of my time on that set, was that we were camped off of Pumping Station Road and we took pick-up truck shuttles into town.
Other than that, we all lined up for the Picketts Charge scene, but mostly it was "hurry up and wait". I was there for two separate weekends.......but if anything I did wound up on film, it was only as one gray dot amongst many.
It was huge though........not quite as big as the 135th........but quite large
indeed!
Regards,
Rick _________________ " Do you like French fries, Wyatt Earp?"
Joined: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 767 Location: Sitting in a chair
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:22 pm Post subject:
Wow! I'm impressed!
If I bring my copy of the movie with me for the spring muster, will you autograph it?
_________________ "There are nights here with the moonlight, cold and ghastly & the whippoorwills & the screech owls alone disturbing the silence when I could tear my hair & cry aloud for all that is past & gone."- Mary Chesnut
Joined: Jul 05, 2008 Posts: 65 Location: Springfield, IL
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:24 pm Post subject: Da Movie - Favorite Lines
Rick, it must have been such a thrill to have been a part of the filming on that day. Did you feel as if you were back in time?
I remember reading in one of Mark Nesbitt's books about certain paranormal experiences that some reenactors recorded during filming; notably, the change in temperature in the "dips" of ground during the filming of Pickett's Charge.
One of my most memorable experiences in Gettysburg was walking Pickett's Charge at 3:00 on July 3rd, 2003...
Anna _________________ "Trust in God and Fear Nothing."
Joined: Mar 20, 2004 Posts: 2519 Location: By the winding Allegheny
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:56 pm Post subject:
Rick,
The greater question here is, can we see you in Da Movie ??? May I please have your autograph and on a signal corp flag too ?? Woohhoo.. Now we know 1,2,3,4,5 movie stars on here !! Mike, JD, Linda, Rick and ... who was that other one?????
You humble guy ...ya never said a word.
Our captain and his brother were in Gettysburg too. Jason was in a couple scenes ( climbing over the Emmitsburg Rd fences on da charge) and is the drummer behind Chamberlain on the painting Kuntzler did and the march where the ladies come out and say, 'I thought the war was in Virginia' . Christopher was also in G&G with General Jackson , he was a little drummer boy. Also a couple of our men were in G&G one was in the firing squad with the deserters, other was in the scene where 'there stands Stonewall' .
I think it would be something you never will get to experience again in a lifetime, so treasure it dearly.
Wow ....
Mindy _________________ There is nothing so kingly as kindness; there is nothing so royal as truth.
Joined: Jun 05, 2005 Posts: 1666 Location: Maryland
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:08 am Post subject:
Hi Rick...... Will you be signing autographs at the Muster? _________________ He who finds no pleasure in a naked sword, a falcon's flight, a noble horse, a beautiful woman, has no real lust for life. (Early German Sword inscription)
Joined: Mar 04, 2004 Posts: 4926 Location: Suburb of Philadelphia
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:45 am Post subject: Re: Da Movie - Favorite Lines
anna wrote:
One of my most memorable experiences in Gettysburg was walking Pickett's Charge at 3:00 on July 3rd, 2003...
Anna! So... were you trailing the re-enactors' column? (That is if you started off at PoW). If so - you were "right behind me"
AWESOME!!!
july 3, 2003 - 140th Anniversary - was the 1st time that I walked the Hallow Field as a part of LH\Re-enactors Crowd. Shortly afterwards I have posted on WoV all the feelings that I have experienced before, during and even after that memorable walk (unfortunately that post didn't survive)....
It is amusing to find someone who "did it with me" so many years after!!! _________________ I Remain
Your Ob't Servant
Allan
Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.
A Great Civilization is not Conquered from Without until It has Destroyed Itself from Within
Joined: Mar 04, 2004 Posts: 4926 Location: Suburb of Philadelphia
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:04 am Post subject:
Here are some of the photos of that March taken by our own Ellis:
_________________ I Remain
Your Ob't Servant
Allan
Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.
A Great Civilization is not Conquered from Without until It has Destroyed Itself from Within
Joined: Feb 24, 2004 Posts: 331 Location: SOUTHERN Ontario
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:16 am Post subject:
Hey, i'm in that last pic!!!
Our Captain from the 21st was in the movie, apparently there is a scene where you can see him, but i've never found it. Another member of the 21st, one of the founders in fact, died during the making. He had a heart attack, and died in GB hospital a few days later. He is buried close to where i live, and his headstone has a Confederate flag on it. At least one of our guys was in Gods and Generals.
Regards, Mitch. _________________ It seems to be sacrificing much, but what should we not be willing to sacrifice, even life itself, for the liberty of our country.
Private Robert A. Moore 17th Mississippi Regiment Co. G, Confederate Guards
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