Quotes About Reenactments

There have been some wonderful climbing films, but for the most part, they are reenactments.

When 'The Thin Blue Line' came out, I was criticized by many people for using reenactments, as if I wasn't dedicated to the truth because I filmed these scenes. That always and still seems to be nonsensical.

If one thing is accomplished in this story of the aftermath of Gettysburg, it is the hope that we can dispel some of the pure nonsense and myth that has grown up surrounding the Civil War, and which is perpetuated even now by movies, novels, and battle reenactments around the country.

The arenas are historic sites, preserved after the Games. Popular destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation. Go for a month, rewatch the Games, tour the catacombs, visit the sites where the deaths took place. You can even take part in reenactments. They say the food is excellent

In principle, rememberance of the War could be a way to probe these scars, many of which trailed back to the 1860's. But reenactments did precisely the opposite, blandly reconciling North and South in s grand spectacle that glorified battlefield valor and the stoicism of civilians.

An arm moving, a person kneeling to shoot in a uniform. It wasn't, of course, re-creating that day in 1970. The "real" feeling came from using film that reminded us of that day. So her reenactments used the materials—the look—of the collective memory.

Most movies are like predigested food because they are mere reenactments of something that happened (if ever) back in the scripting stage.