My dream movie is a two hour long Socratic dialogue between a Union soldier and confederate POW (or vice versa, doesn’t really matter) on the issues of the day: slavery and the fate of the Union of course, but also the fate of the Indians, labor, Catholicism, and other contemporary concerns. Who would watch this?

>>213107505 (OP)
Normies would walk out of the theater when they realized that was the whole movie and would barely understand the dialect

>>213107505 (OP)
What are the chances that this film's writer would give an accurate, nuanced, thoughtful examination of the best arguments of the period? Versus a ham fisted lecture on contemporary progressive opinions?

I'd watch it

>>213107505 (OP)
You should write the script

>>213107909
zero because it was all bullshit to justify sending the poor to die to secure the wealth of the wealthy.

>>213107505 (OP)
It's an interesting premise but is it just two dudes talking for 2 hours? I feel like you need something going on in between their conversations. Spiritual experiences, or even borderline mystical encounters with characters that are the manifestation of the country's current and past ethos while the soldier/POW grapple with their place amongst the country's history

Sounds like a boring pseud slop

>>213107505 (OP)
chatgpt can write this, why would it need images

>>213107909
Tbh I’d think even if they did do that the speech patterns would be very anachronistic

>>213108460
>It's an interesting premise but is it just two dudes talking for 2 hours? I feel like you need something going on in between their conversations.

It's been done before, but you're probably right considering the state of modern audiences.

>>213107909
Are there even people alive knowledgeable enough about American history to do that? Everyone from the 90's onwards has been totally mind-raped into thinking our country revolves around Africans, holes, and wars against the chuds.

>>213108460
Make them diplomatic attaches overseas and news reports of the war come in throughout the movie. Or make a court trial with the confederate on trial, a deranged jury, and a sympathetic but principled union judge.

>>213107505 (OP)
I wouldn't watch a movie length performance of it at a cinema, sorry. But I'd watch it at home. For free, of course.

>>213107505 (OP)
Were there even many Catholics in the States at that time?

>>213107505 (OP)
No, it should be about a Confederate soldier and a jewish merchant, and the jewish merchant is suave and elegant while the Confederate soldier is a ranting hick. The movie should be about the jewish lawyer educating the Confederate soldier about how not to be racist and violent. The Confederate soldier sees the error of his ways, tips his hat to the jewish merchant, and the two become lifelong friends.

>>213111541
Worse yet, the views of actual people who lived in that time have been memoryholed and replaced. We're dangerously close to, if not already at a point where history is just a work of fiction written by the ruling class

>>213111690
I thought we were already at that point and have been for years if not decades.

>>213111747
There's still boomers that keep family records / heirlooms / notes usually in the south and Midwest. Virtually the last true sources. When they croak I'm sure millennials will just toss them away as "problematic"

>>213111653
There were a decent amount. Something that gets memory-holed is the fact that the Union was classist and militantly Protestant, while the South liked everyone who was White.

>>213107505 (OP)
*yawn*

>>213107505 (OP)
Do they have believable contemporary accents or is just a couple nepobabies reading lines like they’re from Southern California. This is a dealbreaker

Could be good but it wouldn't make money. Then again you'd obviously cast 2 big names

>>213112110
Which is a shame as this kind of thing would really shine with two no-names (or more realistically overlooked-talent not in the A-list) getting their big chance.
Otherwise it would just feel like Bigname Actor A talking to Bigname Actor B: the movie, oh and there's civil war stuff

>>213108460
>It's an interesting premise but is it just two dudes talking for 2 hours?
It's only 90 minutes, but The Sunset Limited is my 11th favorite movie of all time.

>>213111690
I think we're already at that point in the minds of most normies and in all academics and educators. For most of my life I ignored American history as being boring and a bit depressing, but going through older history books paints such a lively picture. You actually get caught up in events and see tons of parallels to modern politics. The history imparted on the population, as it is in most places, is a series of myths whose message gives legitimacy to the establishment.