Cold Mountain (2003) on Netflix
R20032h 34mDramaHistoryRomance
W.P. Inman, a carpenter, loves Ada Monroe, who came from Charleston to Cold Mountain to look after her father, a preacher. When North Carolina secedes, he enlists in the Confederate army.
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Plot summary
When North Carolina leaves the Union, the men of Cold Mountain join the Confederate army, among them W.P. Inman, a carpenter. He loves Ada Monroe, who came from Charleston to look after her father. They share a first kiss the day he leaves, and she promises to wait. Three years on, wounded in a hospital, Inman hears a letter from Ada begging him to come home, and he deserts, walking back toward the mountain. In Cold Mountain, Ada's father has died, and she keeps the family farm in Black Cove going with help from her neighbors.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Cold Mountain (2003)
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- Walter Murch edited the film on Apple's sub-$1000 Final Cut Pro software "using several off-the-shelf PowerMac G4 computers", where expensive Avid systems were the usual standard for a big-budget picture. His work was documented in the 2005 book Behind the Seen.
- Principal photography started on July 10, 2002, but MGM pulled out in October. Executive producer Harvey Weinstein was going to cancel the shoot, then agreed to fund the $80 million project after receiving a $10 million tax break.
- Tom Cruise, at the time married to star Nicole Kidman, wanted to play Inman, but the studio did not want to meet his $20 million fee demand.
- The film was shot mostly in Romania, one of a growing number of Hollywood productions made in Eastern Europe, because Transylvania had less infrastructure, such as power cables and paved roads, and was less marked by modern life than the Appalachians.
- Historians have picked at the film's opening Battle of the Crater, which is shown happening in broad daylight although it actually began at 4:44 am with the detonation of the mine.
