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Rappahannock News Staff Wnter
Ron Maxwell, director of the films “Gettysburg” and “Gods and Generals," appeared at The Theater in Washington last Friday at a fundraiser for the renovation of the Rappahannock courthouse grounds in the town of Washington.
Maxwell's presentation on “The Civil War in Film" included a 30minute collection of scenes from “Gods and Generals." as well as about an hour of lecture and questions from the capacity audience of 230.
Maxwell’s main message for the evening was that “getting the history right” was more important than perpetuating myths or satisfying Hollywood’s box office requirements.
When asked if making his films had transformed him the way actors sometimes talk of being transformed by the roles they play. Maxwell said it took him 15 years to get “Gettysburg” made and another 10 to get “Gods and Generals” made. He said that nobody wanted to fund them or thought there was an audience for them.
“What it comes down to is, how badly do you want to tell this story and how truthfully?” Maxwell said “You really have to be ready to enter your core. Are you willing to go broke? Are you willing to have critics flay you alive?”
Maxwell said that Confederate General Robert E. Lee was a “towering figure” and that he was attempting to bring him and other characters
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