The Civil War masterpiece Glory return to theaters today through Fathom to mark the film’s 30th anniversary. Directed by Edward Zwick off a screenplay by Kevin Jarre, the Tristar Pictures rel…
in a theater for the first time in many years. Did you see the movie you remembered or did you perceive it differently in any unexpected way? The movie registers in my memory in terms of my life, the age of my children, my marriage and various other things. So I do see it differently in those terms. But, watching it again, it’s not as if it is a different movie — although it does seem like a different movie in the culture now than it was then.
You know what’s funny is that now, in this age of CG, if you can have 200 Orcs, why not have two million Orcs? But the scale inis in fact a little sleight-of-hand. There were a couple days when we had 700 people. We went to a reenactment at Gettysburg for a day to shoot it in July for some of those early shots, but in fact I took some of the biggest days when we had those extras and I sort of salted them throughout the movie to give it that sense of scale.
DEADLINE: This was such a shining moment in the career of Denzel Washington. The two of you would work together again [onbut was it especially satisfying for you to watch his career ascent after his Oscar win forHe lives for the work and for the process of it. Obviously it meant a lot to him, I know, to be recognized like that but I have very particular memories of him and the things that stuck with me as we got older were different ones.
DEADLINE: Beyond the added authenticity to the film and the filmmaking, what other ways did the location and its history come across to you? What was it like being a Chicago filmmaker making a Civil War epic in the South? I was a young guy, maybe 34, 36, but I was a survivor of the politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s and issues of race were very prominent in my experience and in my consciousness.
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