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Gypsie Love is a Battlefield
The 32 buildings constructed for the set of the town in Cold Mountain were built of sawn logs, just as they would have been in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in the 1860s. The set was in Romania, but apparently Romanian mountain forests look more like the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in the 1860s than anything left in the United States or Canada.
The Romanian soldiers playing Confederates and Federals were drilled using the same manuals as Civil War soldiers, and they apparently look more like the real thing, because they're thinner and younger than modern day Americans.
The leading actors even wore the correct underwear beneath their historically researched costumes - known in the trade as doing a von Stroheim, because Erich von Stroheim insisted on undie realism in 1924 for Greed. In Cold Mountain's press notes, the costume designer, Ann Roth, says it helps the actors to walk properly.
· Gone With the War & Wind see also Colder Love
· Book Review [ courtesy of Amazon Offer]
· Cold Mountains & Cold Rivers [ via Amazon River]
· LIGHTISH LOVE: Just Your Type?
