Ride with the Devil
Starring:Tobey Maguire, Jeremy W. Auman, Scott C. Sener, Skeet Ulrich, Glenn Q. Pierce, Kathleen Warfel, David Darlow, Zan McLeod, John Whelan (III), Roger Landes, Jeffrey Dover, Tyler Johnson, Kelly Werts, Michael W. Nash, John Judd (II), Don Shanks, Jay Thorson, Dean Vivian, Cheryl Weaver, James Caviezel
Director: Ang Lee
Studio: Universal Studios
Product Type: DVD
Editorial Review:
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Great period pictures make you feel as if you've stepped into another era, heard its language, breathed its spirit, and come away with a fresh perspective on that time as well as your own. Ride with the Devil is one of those special films--why wasn't it more widely embraced by reviewers and filmgoers? Did it rely too much on our patience for slow accumulation of unforced rhythms and meanings (as opposed to The Patriot, which "moved" audiences with cattle-prod simplicity and manipulation)? Ride with the Devil--smart, handsome, tenderly awed by how individual lives get ambushed by history--is ripe for rediscovery.
The Civil War of battlefields and plantation houses is nowhere to be seen here. Instead we see the war as an improvised and largely blundering but very bloody feud among neighbors in the border state of Missouri. In this bucolic war zone--more than a little reminiscent of the Balkans in the late 1990s--the Taiwanese-born director Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility) traces the destinies of several young Southern bushwhackers (guerrilla fighters) as they experience violence, the seasons, and different kinds of love. Skeet Ulrich draws the aristocratic glamour role (and top billing), but he's overshadowed by Tobey Maguire as a first-generation American, the magnificent Jeffrey Wright (a shameful oversight at Oscar time) as a freed slave fighting beside his former master, and singer Jewel in a very natural acting debut as the young widow who graces all their lives. The title The Birth of a Nation was already taken, but by the end of this movie you feel it would have applied here. -- Richard T. Jameson
Average customer rating:
- MORE PEOPLE NEED TO SEE THIS FILM
- Ride with the Devil Student Review
- ~Tobey as a Cowboy~
- brilliant film
- A Very Fine "Period Piece."
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Ride with the Devil
Starring: Tobey Maguire , Jeremy W. Auman , Scott C. Sener , Skeet Ulrich , and Glenn Q. Pierce
Director: Ang Lee
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Release Date: 2000-07-18 |
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Great period pictures make you feel as if you've stepped into another era, heard its language, breathed its spirit, and come away with a fresh perspective on that time as well as your own. Ride with the Devil is one of those special films--why wasn't it more widely embraced by reviewers and filmgoers? Did it rely too much on our patience for slow accumulation of unforced rhythms and meanings (as opposed to The Patriot, which "moved" audiences with cattle-prod simplicity and manipulation)? Ride with the Devil--smart, handsome, tenderly awed by how individual lives get ambushed by history--is ripe for rediscovery.
The Civil War of battlefields and plantation houses is nowhere to be seen here. Instead we see the war as an improvised and largely blundering but very bloody feud among neighbors in the border state of Missouri. In this bucolic war zone--more than a little reminiscent of the Balkans in the late 1990s--the Taiwanese-born director Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility) traces the destinies of several young Southern bushwhackers (guerrilla fighters) as they experience violence, the seasons, and different kinds of love. Skeet Ulrich draws the aristocratic glamour role (and top billing), but he's overshadowed by Tobey Maguire as a first-generation American, the magnificent Jeffrey Wright (a shameful oversight at Oscar time) as a freed slave fighting beside his former master, and singer Jewel in a very natural acting debut as the young widow who graces all their lives. The title The Birth of a Nation was already taken, but by the end of this movie you feel it would have applied here. -- Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews:
MORE PEOPLE NEED TO SEE THIS FILM.......2007-06-28
Mr. Lee's excellent depiction of the Border War on the Missouri/Kansas frontier provides a much-need context for that struggle that may help people of today to better understand what happened and why. The acting is uniformly impressive, the clothing is perfect, the film's location shots were filmed where the story actually took place for the most part, and most of all, the dialogue exactly captures the feel and flavour of the period. This is not a plot-driven film, it is carried along by the character developement and interaction. If you are looking for slam-bang action or set-piece Civil War battles, try another film. But if you want to explore causes, motivations and effects, check this film out. I'm glad that I did.
Ride with the Devil Student Review.......2007-06-12
Ride with the Devil is a thrilling movie about four rebels fighting for the south but were neither in the Union nor the Confederacy, they were individual rebels. They fight when they know they can win, although one time in the movie they are over powered and one of their friends is shot. Along with the fighting there is a romance theme in the movie when they meet a woman and the man who was shot fell in love with her but died. Unfortuanaly he got her pregnant, and his other friend becomes the father. Where he no longer is a rebel causing problems in the south.
This is a pro-south movie where the plot is changed to make the south look good, and the north look bad. Some of the events were changed to alter the plot and make the north look bad. These "individual rebels" were actually like the mafia of today. They would destroy houses, business, kill people, unless they got some type of payment for them not to do that, and the people would have to continue to pay these rebels for their "protection." They tried to stay out of the war, and work behind the scene causing trouble in towns, but everyone and a while they would need to fight off the army. In the very beginning of the movie, these rebels burn down a trading post and kill the owner, he did not pay for his protection, and to make matters worst, he was working with the Union. The movie does not portray it that way, but from a historical context that was what happened. There was also a point when a man on a horse gathers everyone together to ride up to Kansas and fight off the northerners, which could be a parallel to when Jefferson Davis had as many as seventy-five thousand men ride to Richmond, Virginia to fight off the Union. The historical context is there, but you need to know background information to recognize it, if you do not have any background information, you would believe that the south was virtually innocent and there never should have been a war.
~Tobey as a Cowboy~.......2007-05-10
This is an Amazing Film. Not only is Tobey Maguire in it. But the story is very interesting. The battle scenes were really good. Its one of those films that you would watch over and over again.
brilliant film.......2007-05-08
Set during the civil war in bleeding kansas and Missouri the film follows two young men who join 'Quantrills Raiders' and take revenge upon the union for its greivious acts against southerners. During the savage war an entire town, Lawrence, is massacred by these 'bushwackers'. However the group falls apart and Jack and hsi friend, who is a freed slave, end up living with a single pregnant woman in a small town untouched by the fighting. THe story follows as Jack falls in love with Sue, placyed by Tobey Meguire and Bjork respectively the cast is wonderful and the acting superb.
The movie however is inexoribly drawn towards a confrontation where an enemy from Jack's past and the Civil war may catch up with the love nest. The timidity and virginity of Jack is also a problem as are the conservative morals of the local menfolk. The interplay between the men in the film, the action, and the fact that it is modelled on real events that took place along the mason-dixon line, makes for a wonderful film.
Seth J. Frantzman
A Very Fine "Period Piece.".......2007-05-05
A very Fine "Period Piece."
It does it's Job very well. This movie has great Heart, great Dialog, and many suprising Performances.
It's a Keeper :-)
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Average customer rating:
- MORE PEOPLE NEED TO SEE THIS FILM
- Ride with the Devil Student Review
- ~Tobey as a Cowboy~
- brilliant film
- A Very Fine "Period Piece."
|
Ride with the Devil [Region 2]
Starring: Tobey Maguire , Jeremy W. Auman , Scott C. Sener , Skeet Ulrich , and Glenn Q. Pierce
Director: Ang Lee
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Ulrich, Skeet
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Vivian, Dean
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- Pharaoh's Army
- Wicked Spring
- The Ice Storm
- Andersonville
- Blue Vs. Gray - Killing Fields
ASIN: B00004T8VQ |
Amazon.com
Great period pictures make you feel as if you've stepped into another era, heard its language, breathed its spirit, and come away with a fresh perspective on that time as well as your own. Ride with the Devil is one of those special films--why wasn't it more widely embraced by reviewers and filmgoers? Did it rely too much on our patience for slow accumulation of unforced rhythms and meanings (as opposed to The Patriot, which "moved" audiences with cattle-prod simplicity and manipulation)? Ride with the Devil--smart, handsome, tenderly awed by how individual lives get ambushed by history--is ripe for rediscovery.
The Civil War of battlefields and plantation houses is nowhere to be seen here. Instead we see the war as an improvised and largely blundering but very bloody feud among neighbors in the border state of Missouri. In this bucolic war zone--more than a little reminiscent of the Balkans in the late 1990s--the Taiwanese-born director Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility) traces the destinies of several young Southern bushwhackers (guerrilla fighters) as they experience violence, the seasons, and different kinds of love. Skeet Ulrich draws the aristocratic glamour role (and top billing), but he's overshadowed by Tobey Maguire as a first-generation American, the magnificent Jeffrey Wright (a shameful oversight at Oscar time) as a freed slave fighting beside his former master, and singer Jewel in a very natural acting debut as the young widow who graces all their lives. The title The Birth of a Nation was already taken, but by the end of this movie you feel it would have applied here. -- Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews:
MORE PEOPLE NEED TO SEE THIS FILM.......2007-06-28
Mr. Lee's excellent depiction of the Border War on the Missouri/Kansas frontier provides a much-need context for that struggle that may help people of today to better understand what happened and why. The acting is uniformly impressive, the clothing is perfect, the film's location shots were filmed where the story actually took place for the most part, and most of all, the dialogue exactly captures the feel and flavour of the period. This is not a plot-driven film, it is carried along by the character developement and interaction. If you are looking for slam-bang action or set-piece Civil War battles, try another film. But if you want to explore causes, motivations and effects, check this film out. I'm glad that I did.
Ride with the Devil Student Review.......2007-06-12
Ride with the Devil is a thrilling movie about four rebels fighting for the south but were neither in the Union nor the Confederacy, they were individual rebels. They fight when they know they can win, although one time in the movie they are over powered and one of their friends is shot. Along with the fighting there is a romance theme in the movie when they meet a woman and the man who was shot fell in love with her but died. Unfortuanaly he got her pregnant, and his other friend becomes the father. Where he no longer is a rebel causing problems in the south.
This is a pro-south movie where the plot is changed to make the south look good, and the north look bad. Some of the events were changed to alter the plot and make the north look bad. These "individual rebels" were actually like the mafia of today. They would destroy houses, business, kill people, unless they got some type of payment for them not to do that, and the people would have to continue to pay these rebels for their "protection." They tried to stay out of the war, and work behind the scene causing trouble in towns, but everyone and a while they would need to fight off the army. In the very beginning of the movie, these rebels burn down a trading post and kill the owner, he did not pay for his protection, and to make matters worst, he was working with the Union. The movie does not portray it that way, but from a historical context that was what happened. There was also a point when a man on a horse gathers everyone together to ride up to Kansas and fight off the northerners, which could be a parallel to when Jefferson Davis had as many as seventy-five thousand men ride to Richmond, Virginia to fight off the Union. The historical context is there, but you need to know background information to recognize it, if you do not have any background information, you would believe that the south was virtually innocent and there never should have been a war.
~Tobey as a Cowboy~.......2007-05-10
This is an Amazing Film. Not only is Tobey Maguire in it. But the story is very interesting. The battle scenes were really good. Its one of those films that you would watch over and over again.
brilliant film.......2007-05-08
Set during the civil war in bleeding kansas and Missouri the film follows two young men who join 'Quantrills Raiders' and take revenge upon the union for its greivious acts against southerners. During the savage war an entire town, Lawrence, is massacred by these 'bushwackers'. However the group falls apart and Jack and hsi friend, who is a freed slave, end up living with a single pregnant woman in a small town untouched by the fighting. THe story follows as Jack falls in love with Sue, placyed by Tobey Meguire and Bjork respectively the cast is wonderful and the acting superb.
The movie however is inexoribly drawn towards a confrontation where an enemy from Jack's past and the Civil war may catch up with the love nest. The timidity and virginity of Jack is also a problem as are the conservative morals of the local menfolk. The interplay between the men in the film, the action, and the fact that it is modelled on real events that took place along the mason-dixon line, makes for a wonderful film.
Seth J. Frantzman
A Very Fine "Period Piece.".......2007-05-05
A very Fine "Period Piece."
It does it's Job very well. This movie has great Heart, great Dialog, and many suprising Performances.
It's a Keeper :-)
![Ride with the Devil [Region 2]](http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/216PB9B0C9L.jpg)
Average customer rating:
- MORE PEOPLE NEED TO SEE THIS FILM
- Ride with the Devil Student Review
- ~Tobey as a Cowboy~
- brilliant film
- A Very Fine "Period Piece."
|
Ride with the Devil [Region 2]
Starring: Tobey Maguire , Jeremy W. Auman , Scott C. Sener , Skeet Ulrich , and Glenn Q. Pierce
Director: Ang Lee
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
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Maguire, Tobey
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Ulrich, Skeet
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Vivian, Dean
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Lee, Ang
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Similar Items:
- Pharaoh's Army
- Wicked Spring
- The Ice Storm
- Andersonville
- Blue Vs. Gray - Killing Fields
ASIN: B00005T62F |
Amazon.com
Great period pictures make you feel as if you've stepped into another era, heard its language, breathed its spirit, and come away with a fresh perspective on that time as well as your own. Ride with the Devil is one of those special films--why wasn't it more widely embraced by reviewers and filmgoers? Did it rely too much on our patience for slow accumulation of unforced rhythms and meanings (as opposed to The Patriot, which "moved" audiences with cattle-prod simplicity and manipulation)? Ride with the Devil--smart, handsome, tenderly awed by how individual lives get ambushed by history--is ripe for rediscovery.
The Civil War of battlefields and plantation houses is nowhere to be seen here. Instead we see the war as an improvised and largely blundering but very bloody feud among neighbors in the border state of Missouri. In this bucolic war zone--more than a little reminiscent of the Balkans in the late 1990s--the Taiwanese-born director Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility) traces the destinies of several young Southern bushwhackers (guerrilla fighters) as they experience violence, the seasons, and different kinds of love. Skeet Ulrich draws the aristocratic glamour role (and top billing), but he's overshadowed by Tobey Maguire as a first-generation American, the magnificent Jeffrey Wright (a shameful oversight at Oscar time) as a freed slave fighting beside his former master, and singer Jewel in a very natural acting debut as the young widow who graces all their lives. The title The Birth of a Nation was already taken, but by the end of this movie you feel it would have applied here. -- Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews:
MORE PEOPLE NEED TO SEE THIS FILM.......2007-06-28
Mr. Lee's excellent depiction of the Border War on the Missouri/Kansas frontier provides a much-need context for that struggle that may help people of today to better understand what happened and why. The acting is uniformly impressive, the clothing is perfect, the film's location shots were filmed where the story actually took place for the most part, and most of all, the dialogue exactly captures the feel and flavour of the period. This is not a plot-driven film, it is carried along by the character developement and interaction. If you are looking for slam-bang action or set-piece Civil War battles, try another film. But if you want to explore causes, motivations and effects, check this film out. I'm glad that I did.
Ride with the Devil Student Review.......2007-06-12
Ride with the Devil is a thrilling movie about four rebels fighting for the south but were neither in the Union nor the Confederacy, they were individual rebels. They fight when they know they can win, although one time in the movie they are over powered and one of their friends is shot. Along with the fighting there is a romance theme in the movie when they meet a woman and the man who was shot fell in love with her but died. Unfortuanaly he got her pregnant, and his other friend becomes the father. Where he no longer is a rebel causing problems in the south.
This is a pro-south movie where the plot is changed to make the south look good, and the north look bad. Some of the events were changed to alter the plot and make the north look bad. These "individual rebels" were actually like the mafia of today. They would destroy houses, business, kill people, unless they got some type of payment for them not to do that, and the people would have to continue to pay these rebels for their "protection." They tried to stay out of the war, and work behind the scene causing trouble in towns, but everyone and a while they would need to fight off the army. In the very beginning of the movie, these rebels burn down a trading post and kill the owner, he did not pay for his protection, and to make matters worst, he was working with the Union. The movie does not portray it that way, but from a historical context that was what happened. There was also a point when a man on a horse gathers everyone together to ride up to Kansas and fight off the northerners, which could be a parallel to when Jefferson Davis had as many as seventy-five thousand men ride to Richmond, Virginia to fight off the Union. The historical context is there, but you need to know background information to recognize it, if you do not have any background information, you would believe that the south was virtually innocent and there never should have been a war.
~Tobey as a Cowboy~.......2007-05-10
This is an Amazing Film. Not only is Tobey Maguire in it. But the story is very interesting. The battle scenes were really good. Its one of those films that you would watch over and over again.
brilliant film.......2007-05-08
Set during the civil war in bleeding kansas and Missouri the film follows two young men who join 'Quantrills Raiders' and take revenge upon the union for its greivious acts against southerners. During the savage war an entire town, Lawrence, is massacred by these 'bushwackers'. However the group falls apart and Jack and hsi friend, who is a freed slave, end up living with a single pregnant woman in a small town untouched by the fighting. THe story follows as Jack falls in love with Sue, placyed by Tobey Meguire and Bjork respectively the cast is wonderful and the acting superb.
The movie however is inexoribly drawn towards a confrontation where an enemy from Jack's past and the Civil war may catch up with the love nest. The timidity and virginity of Jack is also a problem as are the conservative morals of the local menfolk. The interplay between the men in the film, the action, and the fact that it is modelled on real events that took place along the mason-dixon line, makes for a wonderful film.
Seth J. Frantzman
A Very Fine "Period Piece.".......2007-05-05
A very Fine "Period Piece."
It does it's Job very well. This movie has great Heart, great Dialog, and many suprising Performances.
It's a Keeper :-)
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