What do you think of my idea of pitching Mel Gibson an idea for making a non-woke trilogy of films on General Robert E. Lee using "R.E. Lee" by Douglas Southall Freeman as the basis? Make a script out of that four volume biography. Make it real gritty, real af, historically accurate violence, and nonwoke. Make a script that is not deferential to modern sensibilities.
No fat Confederates also in the film. The Army of Northern Virginia diet in the field (i.e. maybe you got something to eat every couple of days??? Maybe not??) was very effective.
I think it would be the same as printing money. It would definitely piss people off, but I think it would draw people in.
I think a movie or mini series about Jack Hinson would be a huge hit.
In the fall of 1862, Jack’s 22-year-old son George Hinson, and his 17-year-old brother, Jack, went deer hunting about a mile from their home as they always did. Unfortunately, they came across a Union patrol who suspected them of being bushwhackers.
The boys were tied to a tree then shot, after which their bodies were dragged back to town. There the corpses were paraded around the Dover courthouse square as an example of the Union’s zero-tolerance policy toward resistance. The remains were then decapitated and left there, while the heads were brought to the Hinson plantation.
Of Scottish-Irish descent, Jack could not let the murders of his sons go unpunished. He buried his children’s remains, then sent the rest of his family and slaves to West Tennessee to stay with relatives.
He then commissioned a special 0.50 caliber rifle with a percussion-cap muzzle-loader. Besides its lack of decorative brass ornamentation, this rifle was also unique because it had a 41” long octagonal barrel that weighed 17 pounds. The length of the barrel ensured that he could accurately hit targets from half a mile away.
Jack survived the war and cut 36 circles in the barrel of his rifle to mark the number of Union officers he killed. Union records, however, blame him for over 130 kills – though it’s believed that he may have killed “only” a little more than 100