Jeff Daniels on his Gettysburg speech
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Jeff daniels should have got an award for his acting in playing the part of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. He did it impeccably!!!!
Should have won Best Actor. Same for Stephen Lang in God's and Generals
@@trajan231 Richard Jordan should have won Best Supporting.
Plus Sam Eillott and Tom Berenger
The list of great actors who really rose to the occasion in that movie is a long one.
Agreed
I was in that group watching him do the speech. The whole "thing" began when the production assistant started gathering us up saying that "Chamberlain wants to practice his speech". (They would refer to Jeff as the actual character.) I'm not from Maine, but there were quite a few guys there from Maine we became friends with. And I don't doubt his story here at all. I think before the movie he probably met a lot of people from Maine, and he might have felt pressure from them. But the day of the shoot, we were all in the flow of the movie. Every one of us knew the story, about how Chamberlain had to try to convince the 2nd Maine to stay with the army. We read the book, and knew the basics of the speech. But again, we were just cranking out one day after another. We set up the shot, and even though they said it would be a run through, they set up cameras. The started rolling, and we sat quietly. Jeff began his speech, and we started taking it in. I thought at some point he would pause, start again, adjust the shot, etc. But no. He continued on. About 3/4 of the way through, there was this transcendent moment. Here we were, a few weeks away from home, living the life of a soldier, sitting with all the men, listening to the colonel. And the speech became more inspirational. I started getting tears in my eyes, and I thought I was being such a wuss. The whole speech played out, and they said cut. One of the guys next to me, a retired Vietnam air force vet, audibly sobbed. Then we all looked at each other and we all had tears in our eyes. This was supposed to be "a rehearsal". But we realized we all had a special moment, that years later if we all met again, we would all go back to that day. Jeff did about 5 more takes; they were all great. But the "surprise" of that first take was what made it all so incredible.
Amazing story
Alexander Piela great account. That speech was amazing
I hope to God you didn’t make that up.
What an intense memory. The scene in the movie gives me chills! ive been watching this movie for 20 years! Thank you for all of your hard work on it.
@@scottb.6949 I have 20 friends who would tell you the same thing...
"I'll be personally, very grateful."
Another of many fine actors in Gettysburg. Jeff Daniels gave a brilliant portrayal of Chamberlin. 👏👏👏👍👍
We watched Gettysburg in high school and had to take a test afterward. One of the questions asked who we thought was the most influential person of the battle. I said Chamberlain. I even told myself the next pet I got I would name after him, and I did. Rest in peace Chamberlain 2003-2022.
As a Mainer I applaud his performance.
Jeff Daniels is one of my favorite actors. Nailed it as Chamberlain.
I think this movie was Jeff Daniels finest performance in his career. He was living it, he was in it and he gave a big piece of himself to make his role work. Hats off and kudos to Jeff Daniels
He was great! BAYONETSSSSSS!!!!!! Chills just thinking about that part. His speech to the potential deserters was great too.
Every time I watch that scene I cry. Every word is true!!!
Have to admit it was a helluva speech. Well done playing Col Chamberlain who is one of my favorite figures of the civil war. It wasn't just little round top either. He distinguished himself many times during and after the war. Little doubt that he deserved the medal of honor for his actions at Gettysburg. By wars end he had achieved the rank of Brig. General and was one of Grant's favorite officers. When Lee's troops were surrendering their arms at Appomattox he was tasked with over seeing this and had his men salute the confederates as they gave up their weapons. Showing them respect as soldiers and many experts say this helped begin the process to bring us back together as one nation.
As I've heard it, Chamberlain finished the war as a Major-General with the command of a division.
It's true. In fact, Grant was given the authority to promote any one to any rank below his, by Congress. Typically generals have to be approved by Congressional legislation, but they made an exception for Grant. He only promoted one Brigadier General to Major General during the war...I think you can guess which one. @@trajan231
That was the best week I ever spent in the hobby. As close to really period army living as we could get within reason. Food was good, too and the staff treated us a LOT better than they did with Gods and Generals.
1:05 you can tell that speech impacted him greatly...
Impacted me too...
And an excellent job impeccably done. Bravo Mr. Daniels 🇺🇸
That was one hell of a speech! It has motivated me from the first time I saw it in the move from over 20 years ago!
Mr Daniels was excellent in both Gods & Generals and Gettysburg. Hats off to C. Thomas Howell as well as the rest. Special thanks to General Pickett and Stonewall Jackson actor Steven Lang, who stole the show.
Jeff Daniels was very good as Joshua Chamberlain in the Gettysburg movie.
Excellent casting.
*BAYONETS!!!*
I love that part!! That was the best part of the movie for me. When I watch that scene, it makes me wish I was there fighting along side of him. He did that scene perfectly.
CHAAAAAAAAGGGEEE!!!!! that took alot of guts. No ammo and retreat isnt an option. He really took command and was a leader.
Fantastic job. Great movie.
From a re-enactor of Company E, 2nd Vermont Volunteer Regiment of Infantry.
He killed it (no pun intended). Chamberlain was the man.
Jeff, i thank you sir. Job Well done as Colonel Chamberlain in Gettysburg
What sucks is that we will never see the 3rd film "The Last Full Measure" due to damn sequel and it's speech delivery as well as Jeff Daniels age now :(
If Last Full Measure is made they could use makeup and CGI to make him look younger.
One of the great scenes from a great movie
I wonder if I'm the only Texan who gets goosebumps and is mesmerized by this great scene.
You are not
Jeff did an Oscar performance that was never seriously recognized, as did Sam Elliot !
I may not agree with his politics, but he nailed Chamberlain.
I think that's why he played the part.
@Delawanna Hollywood Liberal
0:56 Mike drop!😊
Yes, he did!
Go Blue Jeff!!!! Purple Rose forever!!!!
Jeff stole the show in that movie in my opinion.
And a little note from history, Col.Chamberlain received the Medal of Honor for his actions on Little Big Top.
Not right away though !!! Thirty years later he was awarded- the MoH-1893
Little round top
@Leo Peridot Plus it may have been the only award for bravery at that time. The standards have changed even today. I got a AAM for Grenada as an E-4, E-5/6's got ARCOMs, Plt Ldr/Plt Sgt's got Bronze Stars. In Desert Storm, E-5/6's got Bronze Stars, Plt Ldr's/Plt Sgt's got Silver Stars !!!
@Leo Peridot I agree 100%, I assume that was the reason for downgrading the awards. In the 82nd we got CIBs and initially we didn't wear em.... I heard a story about Ranger Bn boys in school and left when the unit was alerted just for the star, CIB and combat patch. I would've done the same thing. 500' going against a bunch of Cuban "workers"..no sweat. When we arrived they were sitting around eating....lol 2/505 stayed until Dec 12th or so. I had the chance to go to DS w/ a NG Med Co and should've transferred... I still regret that.
@Leo Peridot badge hunters.....sad & disgusting the CAB is a goofy award anyway
And a good one it was. Could not believe it was the same guy that did dumb and dumber.
…and….he…nailed it.
It's a good scene. Actually my favorite scene is Kilrain's "Killer Angel" speech, in which Chamberlain is essentially the foil. Good movie in any case.
The Speech and "the world accordong to Buster" are both fabulous scenes. Buster sums up how the world should work when he says, "Anyone who judges by the group is a peawit. You take men one at a time."
I´m allways stunned when I hear the speech. Did Chamberlain actually make such a speech to potential deserters or was it just in the movie/book?
My understanding is that Chamberlain said or wrote most of what was in the speech over the years following the war and the Michael Shaara combined them into one speech for Dramatic effect.
Hail Caesar .. Those about to die salute you
Joshua Chamberlain was his own best PR person. Much did happen, much did not. History… well it took a back seat.
I liked his speech before Fredricksburg much better
I thought they were confederate prisoners because he says "If you choose to join us." This whole time since I saw the movie new way back when, I thought he was speaking to Confederate soldiers.
They were Union. They were weary from fighting and wanted to quit.
The way things work during the Civil War is that they would raise regiments of men and have them sign up for different amounts of time. Sometimes the regiments would be for a short as 90 days. Sometimes for a year 2 years or 3 years. As the story of the 2nd Maine, I will good portion of the regiment signed up for a 2-year time., The other group that ended up in the movie had signed up for three years. This group of mutineers believes that they had only signed up to fight with the 2nd Maine.
But as The Story Goes, they were committed to yet another year. But they would sooner have a mutiny. That's when Joshua Chamberlain convince them to stick around with the 20th Maine.
You mean chaarge?
"Gentlemen, I think if we lose this fight...we lose the war...so if you choose to join us I will be personally very grateful."
"BAYONETS!!!!!!"
There is a victimology going around today. Mining for grievances. NO. We are judged by WHAT WE DO or not do NOW, in this life in the Land of the Living say from 1960 A.D. onward...we are NOT what family we are born into our social class or how much money or possessions we have. WE ARE WHAT WE DO TODAY, NOW.
It wasn’t really 300, though . . . .
It was 120; eventually 117 "picked up the musket," don't know what happened to the remaining 3 mutineers.
Then he made me hate him for his role as Frank griffin in godless. Two polar opposites
OK? Why is this on TH-cam
The Chamberlain speech in Gettysburg is very pretty. Too bad it's a complete fantasy. No one in the Union army, especially in the summer of 1863, was fighting to free slaves. Not even Lincoln was striving for this. The first time this idea was even seriously considered was 5 months later at the Gettysburg Address (which, btw, freed exactly zero slaves). Lincoln admitted the speech wasn't really a battle cry for emancipation, but actually a political maneuver to keep Europe from intervening on behalf of the Confederacy (which England was seriously considering). The Civil War was fought (from the Northern view) to preserve the Union, and the status quo - which btw included slavery. Neither was the war fought about slavery from the Southern view. A President who had won exactly 2 counties out of 1000 in the southern states in the 1860 election was somehow "representing" them, and he drafted 75,000 men to invade his own country. It was self-defense. I could go on and on but no one is reading this and no one cares about the truth anyway.
Remind us what as the key difference between Southern states and the vast majority of Northern states ?
No denying that most northerners were fighting mainly to keep the Union alive, but no denying either that in US history all pre-war events leading into war had the slavery issue, and it’s extension on US territories, at their core.
@@Daniel-wi6sk The Southern states wanted to secede from the Union and carry on in their own way, like we did with the British. They didn't want to overthrow the Union government. Of course slavery was the key issue, but the South was fighting primarily because Lincoln blockaded and invaded the South. The status quo benefited the Northern states greatly; not so the South (unfair tariffs, refusal to comply with Fugitive Slave Act, poor representation in the White House, ever-present threat of abolition, etc.). There's your difference. Anyway my point in the first comment was Chamberlain's speech in the movie could never have happened, and even if it did it wouldn't have insoired any of his troops at all.
Well, it's good to hear something coming out of this guy's mouth aside from the usual profanity!
BS the British had been fighting a war on slavery since 1808, when they declared global slavery illegal and formed the West African Squad that was eventually raised to twenty five vessels, Chamberlain makes the boast that in the fight against slavery the US was the only country in history to do so. Slavery had been illegal in England since 1082. The war of 1812 when the US declared war on the English was partly due to the British intercepting and freeing slaves destined to the US on US slaving vessels. In 1772 a case went throught the courts in London England, Somerset vs Stuart a run away slave in England recaptured by his owner pleaded for his freedom in a English court, under English law he was freed, the ruling in effect was that any man that steps on English soil is a free man, the abolitionist in England wanted to transfer this English law to the colonies freeing all slaves. In 1776 the American colonies broke with the British, for life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, or was it to keep their slaves ?
@Thomas Main
Yet Great Britain still had/has the caste system that commoners can only be enlisted, while the aristocracy are the officers.
General Armistead's speech to Lt. Colonel Fremantle, explains the big difference between their countries' armies. Had the CSA & US forces only allowed the aristocracy to be officers, no one would've learned of Stonewall Jackson CSA, Benjamin O. Davis II Commander of "The Red Tails" Black Pilot Squadrons & others.
@@lonewolf379th So the American Civil War was not to end slavery, but to stop the sons of rich people, getting promoted over the poor, or rich kids avoiding the draft, sorry if that was the reason you failed, the caste system by the way was a indian system, in the UK it was and is called the class system as it is in the US.
He says “this has not happened much” not “ever”. “Much”.
@@amfarrell42 Until the British launched a global campaign to end slavery, it had never happened.
Slavery was not abolished in Great Britain until 1833 with The Slavery Abolition Act which freed almost a million slaves across the Empire (except India). The slave TRADE was abolished in Great Britain & the Empire in 1807. The American War of Independence began in 1775 & ended in 1783, LONG before either slavery, or the slave trade, was abolished by Great Britain. As you can plainly see, the thirteen colonies did not break with Britain to ''keep their slaves''. Before the war of 1812 began, the Royal Navy had been intercepting American ships & pressing American citizens into service, that was the point of contention from the U.S. Government, & not that the British were freeing slaves. The case you quote from 1772 was Somerset v Stewart, which did not address the issue of slavery in Great Britian ''no master ever was allowed here to take a slave by force to be sold abroad because he had deserted from his service, or for any other reason whatever; we cannot say the cause set forth by this return is allowed or approved of by the laws of this kingdom, therefore the black must be discharged ''..........The case did much to highlight the plight of slaves in Great Britain and across the Empire, it did not make slavery or the trading of slaves illegal. Your claim that slavery had been illegal in England since 1066 is quite incorrect, it was neither illegal nor was it legal, as no ruling in law had ever made it one thing or the other. When slavery was actually made illegal in 1833, an estimated 46,000 people owned slaves in Great Britain alone. I'm English & your attempt here to have America shoulder the blame for slavery is quite wrong, and revisionist history at it's very worst.