Cowpens; history + art in movie series REVOLUTIONARY WAR by Discovery
Archimedes Plutonium
> Something about the battle of Cowpens fascinates me. And I suspect this
> battle alone would make an entire nice movie.
This battle alone would make an entire great movie itself. And it
would be relatively cheap because it involves a battle of around 2,000
men and so can be accurately portrayed in drama.
What fascinates me about Cowpens is how a small army wins over a
large one. From the start when Nathaniel Green outwits Cornwallis by
dividing his army. Then Daniel Morgan has the hard task of organizing
and disciplining his ragtag group of men. Morgan teaches them exactly
what he wants done, and he puts them up against the Broad River so that
they cannot run but must fight. The story is history now, where 750
Americans smash Tarleton's 1,100 elite British. And they fight the
British in the style of the British, using the linear-tactics. Cowpens
was the turning point of the Rev. War.
But please, when you make the movie COWPENS, have actors that are not
the common actors. We are all tired of seeing Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks,
etc in every movie. And when the movie COWPENS is made, try to fit each
major character with an actor whose age either matches or is less than
by a year or two than that of the character. To see a 50 year old Tom
Hanks storm Normandy acting as a 18 year old Private Ryan does not make
a great movie. To make a masterpiece movie requires that the movie
content itself always remains far far above any of its actors. One of
the reasons that the movie QUEST FOR FIRE is a masterpiece is because
we are never bothered by any of its actors for we recognize none of
them.
I do not want Hollywood to make the movie COWPENS, because the
Hollywood formula is too heavy on the pedal for money. A Hollywood
COWPENS would star Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks and a group of
septagenarians as 17 to 19 year old soldiers. Then Hollywood would have
that Romeo kid, what is his name, De Capriccio? act as George
Washington. Hollywood never gets any age-realism in its movies. And
Hollywood seems to never understand that we are sick and tired of
seeing the same faces over and over.
Which makes me wonder about psychology theories, does familarity
breed contempt? Does saturation breed contempt? Too much of something
seems to turn some inner switch in the brain to repulsion and
opposition.