"Field of Lost Shoes - Trailer" Topic

"Based on a true story of the American Civil War, culminating at the Battle of New Market in May 1864, a group of teenage cadets, sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute, must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley."

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Amicalement
Armand

Very good movie, saw it at the New Market Battlefield several years ago. It was on Netflix for some time too.

Great battlefield to visit, VMI is the caretaker. You can visit the battlefield, VMI, George Marshall museum, Washington and Lee University, Lee's tomb, Jackson's grave and also he's home when he taught at VMI.

Thanks for sharing the info

Kim

Battle of New Market – good movie

Thanks!

Amicalement
Armand

When I was a Keydet at VMI, we used to go to the battlefield on New Market Day and charge across the field. We didn't lose any shoes doing it, of course the lawn was manicured. As one of the few Yankees there I was continuously asked my "opinion" of THE WAR. (I had been told to just shut up and reply "VMI won the Civil War – facts can be inconvenient things)

That was long ago, I am not sure if they still follow that tradition. I anticipate that the current political situation makes it untenable.

Oh gods, this "Lost Cause" drek – it's enough to make "Gods and Generals" looks like the work of Sergei Eisenstein

It starts by rewriting history to egregious ends, Field of Lost Shoes recounts the true-life saga of seven Virginia Military Institute cadets who in 1864 died in service to the Confederate Army during the Battle of New Market.

It is awash in phony-looking facial hair and clichéd period drama, defines those brave boys via their love of black people, their embrace of Jews, and their desire to fight so that they might protect their homeland from "foreign invaders," uphold their "traditions," and preserve their "future." Save for a brief prologue, there isn't a pro-slavery Southern man to be found in this fantasyland vision of the Civil War, only kind-hearted, open-minded progressives who want to be with their love-at-first-sight gals, or pursue sculpting careers, or liberate their oppressed African American brethren.

That counterfeit romantic portrait is contrasted with the contemptuous depiction of Ulysses S. Grant as a "butcher" and the Union as a bunch of child-murderers led by a goofily mustached David Arquette.

From the cadets risking their own hides to save that of bread-baking slave "Judge" to a pow-wow in which they share their hopes and dreams with commander John C. Breckinridge, all the way to the late sight of a Jewish cadet reading from the New Testament (see, he's really one of them!), the film stands as a pinnacle of revisionist e.

Glup!….

Amicalement
Armand

So it's a good movie, then.