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I will say the movie portrayed the confederates very stereotypically. They all looked like they could be members of the Charlie Daniels Band or Lynard Skynard. – Wesley Weeks | I will say the movie portrayed the confederates very stereotypically. They all looked like they could be members of the Charlie Daniels Band or Lynard Skynard. – Wesley Weeks | ||
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| + | Glory treats the 54th throughout the movie as the first group of former slaves and free black men to fight in the Civil War. There is no mention of precedent for its formation outside of the interactions with the other black regiment. We know the 54th was not the first black regiment formed, nor the first group in combat, especially considering the sailors engaged in naval combat... The creation of Cpl. Thomas Searles character is equally problematic. He seems to be there only to create the extra drama of a friend of Shaw's in the unit. If the film producers wanted to communicate the experience of a Northern, educated black man in the regiment, introducing Douglass' sons would have been far more interesting. - JT Newcomb | ||
== 2 Film's relationship to current scholarship or to primary sources from the time == | == 2 Film's relationship to current scholarship or to primary sources from the time == | ||
