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Cold Mountain
2003 · Film · 154 min
Directed by Anthony Minghella
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.
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On a tangent the movie Cold Mountain (2003) was translated to "Åter till Cold Mountain" in Swedish.
Now you may ask, where is the actual translation? They just added Swedish words to the original title (which just means back to Cold Mountain".
Who are these people and how do I apply for a job? It seems like a perfect workplace.
Have you ever seen the movie Cold Mountain? The story was set in the Appalachians, but the movie was filmed in the mountains of Romania. Beautiful.
One theory would be that CSA's draconian conscription operation (watch or read Cold Mountain, for example) emptied the countryside of its natural defenders. The conscription level may have been necessary given the idiotic location of the CSA capital, but quite a bit about CSA was idiotic.
In Missouri, which didn't secede but had a lot of Southern sympathizers, this conscription wasn't really a thing, and there was lots of asymmetric warfare. It actually started in the 1850s in what would become Kansas. (There are good movies about this too: The Outlaw Josey Wales and Ride with the Devil.)
Of particular interest:
[Gone Girl] now becomes the first major feature to have been edited using Adobe Premiere Pro CC. Industry insiders consider this Adobe’s Cold Mountain moment. That refers to when Walter Murch used an early version of Apple Final Cut Pro to edit the film Cold Mountain, instantly raising the application’s awareness among the editing community as a viable tool for long-form post production. Now it’s Adobe’s turn.
Incidentally, Gone Girl is also one of the best movies I've seen recently: http://jakeseliger.com/2014/10/05/thoughts-on-the-movie-gone-girl-by-david-fincher/
On a related note, a few years back the movie "Cold Mountain" was edited entirely using Apple Final Cut Pro: http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/murch/ The editor, Walter Murch, received an Academy Award nomination for his work.