Talk:Gettysburg (film)

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How does one cite personal experience for a claim? I had noted that this film had an overture, as I worked as a theatre projectionist at the time of its release.JudgePat 18:05, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Contradiction

The main section of this article and the trivia section contradict each other. The former says that the Park Service did allow filming on the actual battleground. The trivia section says that they did not.

JBFrenchhorn 12:10, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Good point. I've placed a citation request for the Trivia paragraph and will remove the paragraph in a couple of weeks unless someone fixes this. Based on conversations I've had at Gettysburg, I believe some scenes, such as Pickett's Charge, were filmed on site. The anecdote about power lines may actually be true, but I don't know. Hal Jespersen 16:35, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Historically accurate?

Doesn't that go a bit too far? I mean they're historically accurate in so far as they don't directly contradict history, but everything from Early and Ewell's performance in the first days of the battle to the flanking troops on Little Round Top are missing from the movie. I'm not criticizing the film, which I loved, but I'm saying it's a selective retelling at best. Ryanluck (talk) 08:31, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

I relocated the Trivia section into the main body of text, eliminating duplications. I also removed the sentence to which you object. I think the original writer of that sentence meant from a tactical standpoint -- troop deployments, use of weapons, etc. -- but it was rather ambiguous and could be argued against, which you have done. If someone would like to restore this sentence, they should do so with a secondary source citation. Hal Jespersen (talk) 17:37, 8 December 2007 (UTC)