Re: What kind of person was Stonewall Jackson?

On Jun 28, 7:29 am, "Michael" <michaelwy...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Thanks for you reply "Will in New Haven" . I know a little history, but
I
> have much to learn yet. Another scene that bothered me from the film
Gods
> and Generals was when they had Stonewall Jackson crying about the death
o=
f a
> little girl. And also they had him praying at all sort of times. That
fil=
m
> really made me puke.

Neither would have bothered me. It was a pious age, even though they
did not flinch from what we consider a great moral failing. Jackson
was even more pious than the average man in that day and age. He
certainly _did_ pray openly and on many occasions. The story of his
mourning the death of a little girl is not at all incompatable with
what we know of him.
I don't know the film and I never read the book but it sounds like an
accurate ****trayal of Jackson, up to a point. You must know that he
didn't _think_ he was a villain. So he forgot to snarl and curse and
tie little girls on train tracks. Do you want all your historical bad
guys to wear a black hat and kick puppies? Or do you think that people
on the wrong side should be ****trayed _dis_honestly because it would
be more politically correct?

>
> I guess, I would compare the south with apartheid (they had appartheid
th=
ere
> untill 1964). Yet unlike apartheid the south is shrouded in
sentimentalit=
y
> and myth. Even one of my favorite songs The Band's The Night They Drove
O=
ld
> Dixie Down is full of this feelling. They should be celebrating the fact
> that a great evil has gone from the world. They should have scenes in
mov=
ies
> where the brave soldiers are confronted with evil they defended and
which
> show the moral dillemma that resulted. In stead they show Stonewall
Jacks=
on
> praying and crying about little girls like he was some kind of saint.
>

When the Ministry for Truth, comrade, makes the movies, they will
impart the proper values, I assure you. Even if they have to lie.
After all, the fact that he prayed all the damn time is so
inconvenient. Try very hard not to say _should_ about art for a week.
It would be a great exeercise for you.

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Will in New Haven
=93I have seen the David, seen the Mona Lisa too
And I have heard Doc Watson play Columbus Stockade Blues"
Guy Clark - "Dublin Blues=94
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