Movies from an Independent Confederacy

The North always did have a taste for Southern culture, even in the antebellum period, so I could see a well-made movie or two managing to succeed up North.

Next-Day Deliverance? Gods Generals and Greenbacks? Spaceballs 2: the search for more money?
 
Maybe they pioneer the car chase theme a few years before Bullitt? Say along twisty mountain roads with precipitous drops?
 

Saphroneth

Banned
In the CSA of my timeline, assuming some paralellism, Hollywood movies will be trying to break into the Council Bluffs film hegemony.
 
So where will Confederate Westerns be filmed? Dallas? San Antonio? Maybe even El Paso when real desert conditions are required?...
As the Western was based at least partly on the cattle drives from the South to the North after the Civil War will they still occur if the Confederacy is a separate state?

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Yeah we're all slaveocrats and idiots. Do you just hate the South or do you just not know any better?

Although certainly no fan of the CSA saying that they "couldn't understand film" is indeed ridiculous. It doesn't take a particle physicist to point a camera and shoot film! I don't think it would be up to US standards (Although the occasional genius might get close if the CSA is lucky) but it would have films.
 

EMTSATX

Banned
Although certainly no fan of the CSA saying that they "couldn't understand film" is indeed ridiculous. It doesn't take a particle physicist to point a camera and shoot film! I don't think it would be up to US standards (Although the occasional genius might get close if the CSA is lucky) but it would have films.
I agree with you on that. It's not a hard technology (provided the technology tree stays the relative same.) I would sort of their earlier movies to be like... are you ready? The Soviet Union. Not in ideology of course but idealistic. I am sure that they would switch to comedy and romance the same time US did.

If the US and the CSA found them selves fighting on the same side, you might get a series of "sentimental" variety. Stuff like "Brother against Brother" or "the good Yankee". You know the sadness of the split was a a totally sad or the Yankee soldier who falls in love with a beautiful Southern Belle.

The romances would be a lot of "magnolia and moon light" crap.
 
To make a very obvious point: Most Hollywood movies were not about the American Revolution or George Washington or for that matter the Civil War, and most Confederate movies will not be about Robert E. Lee or the ACW either. In fact, most will be almost indistinguishable from Hollywood films--romantic comedies, musicals, westerns, detective stories, etc. (There will be comic "darkie" characters, but Hollywood had them too.) In fact, plenty of films from Nazi Germany were quite innocuous, and Stalin's USSR produced a musical comedy in 1934 ("The Happy-Go-Lucky Guys") that was almost pure Hollywood.

Popular movies do differ from country to country, but not as much as some people here seem to think.
 

aspie3000

Banned
To make a very obvious point: Most Hollywood movies were not about the American Revolution or George Washington or for that matter the Civil War, and most Confederate movies will not be about Robert E. Lee or the ACW either. In fact, most will be almost indistinguishable from Hollywood films--romantic comedies, musicals, westerns, detective stories, etc. (There will be comic "darkie" characters, but Hollywood had them too.) In fact, plenty of films from Nazi Germany were quite innocuous, and Stalin's USSR produced a musical comedy in 1934 ("The Happy-Go-Lucky Guys") that was almost pure Hollywood.

Popular movies do differ from country to country, but not as much as some people here seem to think.

Yeah, that's true but in a very religious conservative type of culture, I wonder if these different genres of films would be more censored and sanitized like in the 1950s.
 
To make a very obvious point: Most Hollywood movies were not about the American Revolution or George Washington or for that matter the Civil War, and most Confederate movies will not be about Robert E. Lee or the ACW either. In fact, most will be almost indistinguishable from Hollywood films--romantic comedies, musicals, westerns, detective stories, etc. (There will be comic "darkie" characters, but Hollywood had them too.) In fact, plenty of films from Nazi Germany were quite innocuous, and Stalin's USSR produced a musical comedy in 1934 ("The Happy-Go-Lucky Guys") that was almost pure Hollywood.

Popular movies do differ from country to country, but not as much as some people here seem to think.

I would agree with most of it but I think they would be distinguishable from Hollywood films, at least the higher budget ones, due to lack of financing. Hollywood productions would have better photography, better film sets , better writing , and better actors in the higher end films. CSA films would be equivalent to small budget films in the US.
 
Yeah, that's true but in a very religious conservative type of culture, I wonder if these different genres of films would be more censored and sanitized like in the 1950s.
Stalin's USSR was just as bad in this respect as a government dominated by religious conservatism. Socalist realism was the law: Any art had to somehow advance the communist agenda. If one musical comedy could come out of this environment, it could happen at some point in the CSA.
 
I wonder if Hollywood films with a squeaky-clean image would be mocked as "Confederate films", since films with those sort of saccharine, traditional values sort of style (especially low-budget ones) could easily become a stereotype of the CSA film industry. Probably because even if there's no nationally mandated film censorship, all the states would have their own film censorship, and they'd probably lean well toward traditional morality.
 
I wonder if Hollywood films with a squeaky-clean image would be mocked as "Confederate films", since films with those sort of saccharine, traditional values sort of style (especially low-budget ones) could easily become a stereotype of the CSA film industry. Probably because even if there's no nationally mandated film censorship, all the states would have their own film censorship, and they'd probably lean well toward traditional morality.

I doubt it, I think most CSA films would be beneath notice by US Citizens. I also doubt that most early 20th century US films would be more risqué. US films always tended to be puritanical than European ones.
 
I doubt it, I think most CSA films would be beneath notice by US Citizens. I also doubt that most early 20th century US films would be more risqué. US films always tended to be puritanical than European ones.

Before the Hays Code, there were some pretty non-Puritanical US films.
 
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