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Ride With The Devil
There have been many movies and books made over the years that depict what happened during the civil war. Some include Glory and Gettysburg. One such movie is Ride with the Devil. It is a movie about the American Civil War along the Kansas- Missouri border. It was released in November of 1999. This film was based on a historical novel by Daniel Woodrell, Woe to Live On, published in 1987. The elements in this film are accurate and could have happened during the American Civil War era.
Ride with the Devil, staring Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich, is an action packed movie about two childhood friends, Jake Roedel and Jack Bull Chiles. The two friends join a group of guerilla fighters shortly before the American Civil War begins. The two friends …show more content…
This book is a fictional story. It is not directly based on a particular part during the war, but a similar story very well could have happened. When the movie was released in 1999, the title of the book was changed to Ride with the Devil. This movie is very accurate to the book. The story line is very similar and does not vary too much. Jake Roedel is sixteen in the book, as opposed to nineteen in the movie. One famous quote from both the book and movie is “It ain't right, and it ain't wrong. It just is” (Ride with the …show more content…
Though this film does not show everything that happened during the American Civil War, the portions of history it did portray were accurate. This movie could be used for a learning tool, but it should not be the only piece of information given to explain the entire era of the American Civil War. This movie only covers the Kansas- Missouri border and mainly only represents what the southerners went through. I did not know what the terms “Jayhawkers” and “Bushwhackers” pertained to, but I had heard the terms used prior to watching this movie. I found it to be a good movie and I would recommend this film to someone interested in a fictional story about the American Civil War along the Kansas- Missouri border.
Ride with the Devil is an action packed film about the American Civil War along the Kansas- Missouri border. The book, Woe to Live On, is the story on which Ride with the Devil is based, is a fictional story, so it is not based on an actual event in history, but something similar could have very well happened. Ride with the Devil has an accurate story line. This film could be used as an educational piece as long as it is not the only piece shown, and the audience is aware it is a fictional
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