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Cold Mountain

Soundtrack album by Various Artists

Released
December 16, 2003
Genre
Country/Folk
Label
Sony Music
Producer
T Bone Burnett
Cold Mountain is the original soundtrack of the 2003 film Cold Mountain starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renée Zellweger. Musician Jack White, who performed five songs on the soundtrack, also had a role in the movie, where he acted and sang as the character Georgia. The soundtrack was produced by T Bone Burnett.
The album won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music and the World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Soundtrack of the Year in 2003. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. The songs "Scarlet Tide", written by T-Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello, and "You Will Be My Ain True Love", written by Sting, were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in the same year. In 2005 both songs were nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media. And both song performed by the country legend Alison Krauss
Songs from the soundtrack were showcased at a special live concert performed around the time of the film's release. Titled "The Words and Music of Cold Mountain - Royce Hall Special," the entire concert was videotaped and is available as an extra feature on the Cold Mountain DVD set. Performers included Jack White, Sting, Alison Krauss, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Anthony Minghella, T-Bone Burnett, and the Sacred Harp singers.
In the wake of the success of this album, Back Roads to Cold Mountain, a collection of Appalachian Folk songs compiled by ethnomusicologist John Cohen, was released in 2004.


Contents  [hide]
1 Production
2 Track listing
3 Personnel (listed alphabetically)
4 References

Production[edit]
Burnett worked for over a year on the soundtrack.[1] Jack White, Sting, and Elvis Costello were commissioned to write tunes for the album. Musician and scholar Tim Eriksen served as consultant for the Sacred Harp portion of the film, and provided the singing voice for the character Stobrod.
Track listing[edit]




"Great High Mountain"







From the soundtrack of The Cold Mountain. It was performed by Jack White for the film, in which he played the character Georgia

Problems playing this file? See media help.
1."Wayfaring Stranger" - performed by Jack White – 4:25
2."Like A Songbird That Has Fallen" - Reeltime Travelers – 3:13
3."I Wish My Baby Was Born" - Tim Eriksen, Riley Baugus and Tim O'Brien – 3:09
4."Scarlet Tide" - Alison Krauss – 2:59
5."The Cuckoo" - Tim Eriksen and Riley Baugus – 1:39
6."Sittin' on Top of the World" — performed by Jack White (Walter Vinson, Sam Chatmon) – 3:48
7."Am I Born To Die?" - Tim Eriksen – 2:32
8."You Will Be My Ain True Love" (composed by Sting) - Alison Krauss – 2:31
9."I'm Going Home" - Sacred Harp Singers at Liberty Church – 2:18
10."Never Far Away" - performed by Jack White – 3:40
11."Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over" - Jack White – 3:16
12."Ruby With The Eyes That Sparkle" - Stuart Duncan and Dirk Powell – 3:11
13."Lady Margaret" - Cassie Franklin – 3:02
14."Great High Mountain" - Jack White – 4:33
15."Anthem" - Gabriel Yared – 3:24
16."Ada Plays" - Gabriel Yared – 3:18
17."Ada And Inman" - Gabriel Yared – 5:03
18."Love Theme" - Gabriel Yared – 3:40
19."Idumea" (1763 Methodist hymn, lyrics by Charles Wesley) - Sacred Harp Singers at Liberty Church – 3:18
Personnel (listed alphabetically)[edit]
Paul Ackling – Production Coordination
Heidi Andrade – Group Member
Roy Andrade – Group Member
Riley Baugus – Harmony Vocals
John Bell – Orchestration
Norman Blake – Mandolin, Arranger
Susan Bohling – Cor Anglais
Fernand Bos – Music Editor
Phil Bray – Photography
Nick Bucknall – Clarinet
Henry Burnett – Arranger
T Bone Burnett – Producer
Chad Carlson – Assistant Engineer
Simon Chamberlain – Piano
Keith Ciancia – Piano
John Cohen – Voices, Music Consultant
Dennis Crouch – Bass
Nancy Donald – Art Direction
Stuart Duncan – Fiddle, Violin
Tim Eriksen – Arranger, Harmony Vocals
Cassie Franklin – Harmony Vocals
Steve Genewick – Assistant Engineer
Brendan Gleeson – Harmony Vocals
David Gould – Assistant Engineer
Isobel Griffiths – Orchestra Contractor
David Hartley – Arranger
Roland Heap – Assistant Engineer
Emil Hellman – Assistant Engineer
Nick Ingman – Orchestration
Erick Jaskowiak – Assistant Engineer
Alan Jenkins – Editing
Alison Krauss – Engineer
Michael Lau Robles – Design
Rachel Levy – Soundtrack Coordination
Gavin Lurssen – Mastering
Mary Maurer – Art Direction
Jill Meyers – Music Consultant
Anthony Minghella – Arranger, Score Producer, Executive Soundtrack Producer
Stephane Moucha – Transcription
Sydney Negley – Production Coordination
Bob Neuwirth – Associate Music Producer
Sam Okell – Assistant Engineer
Simon Osborne – Engineer
Charles Paakkari – Assistant Engineer
Mike Piersante – Engineer, Mixing
Dirk Powell – Banjo, Arranger
Harry Rabinowitz – Conductor
John Richards – Engineer, Mixing
Martha Scanlan – Group Member
David Schnaufer – Dulcimer
Ivy Skoff – Production Coordination
Thomas Sneed – Group Member
Randy Spendlove – Executive in Charge of Music
Ralph Stanley – Arranger
Sting – Arranger, Harmony
David Theodore – Oboe
Martin Tillman – Cello
Kevin Townend – Orchestration
Patrick Warren – Harmonium
Albert Watson – Photography
Kirsty Whalley – Editing
Cheryl White – Harmony
Jack White – Guitar, Arranger
Sandy Wilbur – Musicologist
Rolf Wilson – Violin
Gabriel Yared – Piano, Orchestration, Score Producer

Awards
Preceded by
The Hours BAFTA Award for Best Film Music
 2003 Succeeded by
Diarios de motocicleta
 (The Motorcycle Diaries)
Preceded by
Frida World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Soundtrack
 2004 Succeeded by
War of the Worlds
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Stark, Phyllis (2003-04-05), "DMZ Ramps Up With A Diverse Release schedule". Billboard. 115 (14):34
  


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Cold Mountain (soundtrack)
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Cold Mountain

Soundtrack album by Various Artists

Released
December 16, 2003
Genre
Country/Folk
Label
Sony Music
Producer
T Bone Burnett
Cold Mountain is the original soundtrack of the 2003 film Cold Mountain starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renée Zellweger. Musician Jack White, who performed five songs on the soundtrack, also had a role in the movie, where he acted and sang as the character Georgia. The soundtrack was produced by T Bone Burnett.
The album won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music and the World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Soundtrack of the Year in 2003. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. The songs "Scarlet Tide", written by T-Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello, and "You Will Be My Ain True Love", written by Sting, were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in the same year. In 2005 both songs were nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media. And both song performed by the country legend Alison Krauss
Songs from the soundtrack were showcased at a special live concert performed around the time of the film's release. Titled "The Words and Music of Cold Mountain - Royce Hall Special," the entire concert was videotaped and is available as an extra feature on the Cold Mountain DVD set. Performers included Jack White, Sting, Alison Krauss, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Anthony Minghella, T-Bone Burnett, and the Sacred Harp singers.
In the wake of the success of this album, Back Roads to Cold Mountain, a collection of Appalachian Folk songs compiled by ethnomusicologist John Cohen, was released in 2004.


Contents  [hide]
1 Production
2 Track listing
3 Personnel (listed alphabetically)
4 References

Production[edit]
Burnett worked for over a year on the soundtrack.[1] Jack White, Sting, and Elvis Costello were commissioned to write tunes for the album. Musician and scholar Tim Eriksen served as consultant for the Sacred Harp portion of the film, and provided the singing voice for the character Stobrod.
Track listing[edit]




"Great High Mountain"







From the soundtrack of The Cold Mountain. It was performed by Jack White for the film, in which he played the character Georgia

Problems playing this file? See media help.
1."Wayfaring Stranger" - performed by Jack White – 4:25
2."Like A Songbird That Has Fallen" - Reeltime Travelers – 3:13
3."I Wish My Baby Was Born" - Tim Eriksen, Riley Baugus and Tim O'Brien – 3:09
4."Scarlet Tide" - Alison Krauss – 2:59
5."The Cuckoo" - Tim Eriksen and Riley Baugus – 1:39
6."Sittin' on Top of the World" — performed by Jack White (Walter Vinson, Sam Chatmon) – 3:48
7."Am I Born To Die?" - Tim Eriksen – 2:32
8."You Will Be My Ain True Love" (composed by Sting) - Alison Krauss – 2:31
9."I'm Going Home" - Sacred Harp Singers at Liberty Church – 2:18
10."Never Far Away" - performed by Jack White – 3:40
11."Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over" - Jack White – 3:16
12."Ruby With The Eyes That Sparkle" - Stuart Duncan and Dirk Powell – 3:11
13."Lady Margaret" - Cassie Franklin – 3:02
14."Great High Mountain" - Jack White – 4:33
15."Anthem" - Gabriel Yared – 3:24
16."Ada Plays" - Gabriel Yared – 3:18
17."Ada And Inman" - Gabriel Yared – 5:03
18."Love Theme" - Gabriel Yared – 3:40
19."Idumea" (1763 Methodist hymn, lyrics by Charles Wesley) - Sacred Harp Singers at Liberty Church – 3:18
Personnel (listed alphabetically)[edit]
Paul Ackling – Production Coordination
Heidi Andrade – Group Member
Roy Andrade – Group Member
Riley Baugus – Harmony Vocals
John Bell – Orchestration
Norman Blake – Mandolin, Arranger
Susan Bohling – Cor Anglais
Fernand Bos – Music Editor
Phil Bray – Photography
Nick Bucknall – Clarinet
Henry Burnett – Arranger
T Bone Burnett – Producer
Chad Carlson – Assistant Engineer
Simon Chamberlain – Piano
Keith Ciancia – Piano
John Cohen – Voices, Music Consultant
Dennis Crouch – Bass
Nancy Donald – Art Direction
Stuart Duncan – Fiddle, Violin
Tim Eriksen – Arranger, Harmony Vocals
Cassie Franklin – Harmony Vocals
Steve Genewick – Assistant Engineer
Brendan Gleeson – Harmony Vocals
David Gould – Assistant Engineer
Isobel Griffiths – Orchestra Contractor
David Hartley – Arranger
Roland Heap – Assistant Engineer
Emil Hellman – Assistant Engineer
Nick Ingman – Orchestration
Erick Jaskowiak – Assistant Engineer
Alan Jenkins – Editing
Alison Krauss – Engineer
Michael Lau Robles – Design
Rachel Levy – Soundtrack Coordination
Gavin Lurssen – Mastering
Mary Maurer – Art Direction
Jill Meyers – Music Consultant
Anthony Minghella – Arranger, Score Producer, Executive Soundtrack Producer
Stephane Moucha – Transcription
Sydney Negley – Production Coordination
Bob Neuwirth – Associate Music Producer
Sam Okell – Assistant Engineer
Simon Osborne – Engineer
Charles Paakkari – Assistant Engineer
Mike Piersante – Engineer, Mixing
Dirk Powell – Banjo, Arranger
Harry Rabinowitz – Conductor
John Richards – Engineer, Mixing
Martha Scanlan – Group Member
David Schnaufer – Dulcimer
Ivy Skoff – Production Coordination
Thomas Sneed – Group Member
Randy Spendlove – Executive in Charge of Music
Ralph Stanley – Arranger
Sting – Arranger, Harmony
David Theodore – Oboe
Martin Tillman – Cello
Kevin Townend – Orchestration
Patrick Warren – Harmonium
Albert Watson – Photography
Kirsty Whalley – Editing
Cheryl White – Harmony
Jack White – Guitar, Arranger
Sandy Wilbur – Musicologist
Rolf Wilson – Violin
Gabriel Yared – Piano, Orchestration, Score Producer

Awards
Preceded by
The Hours BAFTA Award for Best Film Music
 2003 Succeeded by
Diarios de motocicleta
 (The Motorcycle Diaries)
Preceded by
Frida World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Soundtrack
 2004 Succeeded by
War of the Worlds
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Stark, Phyllis (2003-04-05), "DMZ Ramps Up With A Diverse Release schedule". Billboard. 115 (14):34
  


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Cold Mountain (novel)
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Cold Mountain
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Author
Charles Frazier
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Historical novel
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press

Publication date
 1997
Media type
Print (hardcover)
Pages
356 (first edition)
ISBN
ISBN 0-87113-679-1 (first edition, hard)
OCLC
36352242

Dewey Decimal
 813/.54 21
LC Class
PS3556.R3599 C6 1997
Cold Mountain is a 1997 historical novel by Charles Frazier which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.[1] It tells the story of W. P. Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army near the end of the American Civil War who walks for months to return to Ada Monroe, the love of his life; the story shares several similarities with Homer's The Odyssey.[2] The narrative alternates back and forth every chapter between the story of Inman and that of Ada Monroe, a minister's daughter recently relocated from Charleston to a farm in the rural mountain community called Cold Mountain from which Inman hails. Though they only knew each other for a brief time before Inman departed for the war, it is largely the hope of seeing Ada again that drives Inman to desert the army and make the dangerous journey back to Cold Mountain. Details of their brief history together are told at intervals in flashback over the course of the novel.
The novel, which was Charles Frazier's first, became a major best seller, selling roughly three million copies worldwide. It was adapted into an academy award-winning film of the same name in 2003.
Frazier has said that the real W. P. Inman was his great-great-uncle who lived near the real Cold Mountain, which is now within the Pisgah National Forest, Haywood County, North Carolina. Frazier also used Hendricks County, Indiana native John V. Hadley's book Seven Months a Prisoner as the inspiration for the novel. [3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Awards and nominations
3 Adaptations
4 Reception
5 References

Plot[edit]
The novel opens in a Confederate military hospital near Raleigh, North Carolina where Inman is recovering from battle wounds during the American Civil War. The soldier is tired of fighting for a cause he never believed in. After considering the advice from a blind man and moved by the death of the man in the bed next to him, he decides one nightfall to slip out of the hospital in order to return to his home at Cold Mountain, North Carolina.
At Cold Mountain, Ada's father soon dies. The farm, named Black Cove, that the genteel city-bred Ada lives on is soon reduced to a state of disrepair. But she is saved from destitution by a resourceful-but-homeless young woman named Ruby, who soon moves in with her. Together they soon clean the place up and return it to productivity. Ruby also teaches Ada how to survive in these very different times.
Inman soon becomes aware of the Confederate Home Guard who hunt down military deserters from the Confederacy. He meets a preacher called Veasey, whom he catches in the act of attempting to murder his pregnant lover. After Inman dissuades him, they travel together. They butcher a dead cow that had fallen into a creek and the cow's owner, Junior, gives them away to the Home Guard. They are put into a group of other captured prisoners, and march for days before the Home Guard decides to simply shoot them because they are "too much trouble". Veasey steps forward to try to stop them and is killed. Inman survives when he takes a graze from a bullet that has already gone through Veasey and they think he is dead. They dig a shoddy mass grave and Inman pulls himself out, helped in part by some passing wild pigs. He cannot bury Veasey so he turns him face down and continues on.
Inman's journey is rough. He faces hunger and an attempted armed robbery at a rural tavern even though he carries a LeMat revolver for protection. Occasionally he is helped and sheltered by civilians who want nothing to do with the war. Through cunning ingenuity he helps one of them track and recover a hog, her only possession and source of food for the winter which had just been seized from her by Union soldiers. He is also helped by a woman who owns goats, who gives him advice and medicines to finally heal his wounds.
Ruby's father, Stobrod, is caught stealing corn at Ada's farm. Ruby reveals he was a deadbeat who abused and neglected her when she was very young; he is also a Confederate deserter. Nevertheless Ruby grudgingly feeds him. Soon he returns another day with a simple-minded friend named Pangle. Together they entertain everyone by playing the fiddle and banjo. However the Home Guard, led by the sadistic Captain Teague, eventually track them down and shoot them. A third companion, referred to as "Georgia", escapes the killing and goes off to alert Ada and Ruby. The two women ride and find Stobrod barely alive. Ada and Ruby pitch camp to give him a place to recover.
After Inman arrives at Black Cove to find it empty, he sets out to find Ada on the mountain. Unexpectedly he soon encounters her out hunting wild turkeys. Both have changed so greatly in their appearance and demeanor since they parted that it is some moments before they recognize one another. Inman takes up camp with Ada and Ruby. Ruby is afraid Ada will dismiss her now she has a husband, and Ada reassures her that she needs her as a friend and for her ideas and help. Ruby gives the pair her blessing. Later Ada and Inman make love. They happily begin to imagine the life they will have together at Black Cove and make plans for their future.
However, as the party begins the trek back to the farm they encounter the Home Guard. A shoot-out commences in which Inman kills all the members of the Home Guard except for a 17-year-old Birch, Teague's vicious protégé. Inman eventually corners the boy against a rock ledge where he is reluctant to shoot him down in cold blood. However, after attempts fail to convince Birch to lay down his arms and leave, the boy shoots and kills Inman.
Ada is left a pregnant widow. She raises her daughter at Black Cove where she lives with Ruby and Stobrod. Ruby has married the boy from Georgia, named Reid, and has three children.
Awards and nominations[edit]
Cold Mountain won the National Book Award,[1][4] the W.D. Weatherford Award (1997),[5] and the Boeke Prize (1998).
Adaptations[edit]
It was later adapted for the screen by director Anthony Minghella in the 2003 film Cold Mountain, starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renée Zellweger. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Jude Law, and won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Renée Zellweger.
The novel has been adapted into an opera, Cold Mountain (opera), which will be presented during the 2015 summer festival season by The Santa Fe Opera, in co-commissions and co-productions with Opera Philadelphia and the Minnesota Opera. The work has been composed by 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner in music, Jennifer Higdon, from a libretto written by Gene Scheer. It will be Higdon's first opera.[6]
Reception[edit]
Cold Mountain has received a mixed critical reception. "Kirkus Reviews" in The Atlantic praises Frazier’s use of language, writing "Frazier has Cormac McCarthy's gift for rendering the pitch and tang of regional speech, and for catching some of the true oddity of human nature". Kirkus goes on to say that Cold Mountain is "a promising but overlong, uneven debut." Again the critic praises and rebukes the novel stating "The tragic climax is convincing but somewhat rushed, given the many dilatory scenes that have preceded it." The length of the novel and the slow pace of the storytelling are again brought into question when the critic claims "There's no doubt that Frazier can write; the problem is that he stops so often to savor the sheer pleasure of the act of writing in this debut effort."[7] The online periodical Publisher’s Weekly produced a more positive review of the book’s writing: "Frazier vividly depicts the rough and varied terrain of Inman's travels and the colorful characters he meets". Publisher’s Weekly goes on to say that "Frazier shows how lives of soldiers and of civilians alike deepen and are transformed as a direct consequence of the war's tragedy."[8]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "National Book Awards – 1997". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
 (With acceptance speech by Frazier and essay by Harold Schechter from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)
2.Jump up ^ Polk, James (July 13, 1997). "American Odyssey". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
3.Jump up ^ "Justice John Vestal Hadley 1840-1915", on www.in.gov
4.Jump up ^ Smith, Dinitia (November 19, 1997). "Civil War Novelist Wins the National Book Award". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
5.Jump up ^ "Weatherford Award". Retrieved 2007-08-12.
6.Jump up ^ "The Santa Fe Opera Announces New Works for Forthcoming season" on santafeopera.org. Retrieved 8 April 2014
7.Jump up ^ "Cold Mountain". Kirkus Reviews.com. Atlantic Monthly. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
8.Jump up ^ "Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier". Publisher's Weekly. Atlantic Monthly. Retrieved 2 August 2014.




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Andrea Barrett National Book Award for Fiction
 1997 Succeeded by
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Cold Mountain (novel)
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Cold Mountain
Cold mountain novel cover.jpg
Recent edition cover

Author
Charles Frazier
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Historical novel
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press

Publication date
 1997
Media type
Print (hardcover)
Pages
356 (first edition)
ISBN
ISBN 0-87113-679-1 (first edition, hard)
OCLC
36352242

Dewey Decimal
 813/.54 21
LC Class
PS3556.R3599 C6 1997
Cold Mountain is a 1997 historical novel by Charles Frazier which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.[1] It tells the story of W. P. Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army near the end of the American Civil War who walks for months to return to Ada Monroe, the love of his life; the story shares several similarities with Homer's The Odyssey.[2] The narrative alternates back and forth every chapter between the story of Inman and that of Ada Monroe, a minister's daughter recently relocated from Charleston to a farm in the rural mountain community called Cold Mountain from which Inman hails. Though they only knew each other for a brief time before Inman departed for the war, it is largely the hope of seeing Ada again that drives Inman to desert the army and make the dangerous journey back to Cold Mountain. Details of their brief history together are told at intervals in flashback over the course of the novel.
The novel, which was Charles Frazier's first, became a major best seller, selling roughly three million copies worldwide. It was adapted into an academy award-winning film of the same name in 2003.
Frazier has said that the real W. P. Inman was his great-great-uncle who lived near the real Cold Mountain, which is now within the Pisgah National Forest, Haywood County, North Carolina. Frazier also used Hendricks County, Indiana native John V. Hadley's book Seven Months a Prisoner as the inspiration for the novel. [3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Awards and nominations
3 Adaptations
4 Reception
5 References

Plot[edit]
The novel opens in a Confederate military hospital near Raleigh, North Carolina where Inman is recovering from battle wounds during the American Civil War. The soldier is tired of fighting for a cause he never believed in. After considering the advice from a blind man and moved by the death of the man in the bed next to him, he decides one nightfall to slip out of the hospital in order to return to his home at Cold Mountain, North Carolina.
At Cold Mountain, Ada's father soon dies. The farm, named Black Cove, that the genteel city-bred Ada lives on is soon reduced to a state of disrepair. But she is saved from destitution by a resourceful-but-homeless young woman named Ruby, who soon moves in with her. Together they soon clean the place up and return it to productivity. Ruby also teaches Ada how to survive in these very different times.
Inman soon becomes aware of the Confederate Home Guard who hunt down military deserters from the Confederacy. He meets a preacher called Veasey, whom he catches in the act of attempting to murder his pregnant lover. After Inman dissuades him, they travel together. They butcher a dead cow that had fallen into a creek and the cow's owner, Junior, gives them away to the Home Guard. They are put into a group of other captured prisoners, and march for days before the Home Guard decides to simply shoot them because they are "too much trouble". Veasey steps forward to try to stop them and is killed. Inman survives when he takes a graze from a bullet that has already gone through Veasey and they think he is dead. They dig a shoddy mass grave and Inman pulls himself out, helped in part by some passing wild pigs. He cannot bury Veasey so he turns him face down and continues on.
Inman's journey is rough. He faces hunger and an attempted armed robbery at a rural tavern even though he carries a LeMat revolver for protection. Occasionally he is helped and sheltered by civilians who want nothing to do with the war. Through cunning ingenuity he helps one of them track and recover a hog, her only possession and source of food for the winter which had just been seized from her by Union soldiers. He is also helped by a woman who owns goats, who gives him advice and medicines to finally heal his wounds.
Ruby's father, Stobrod, is caught stealing corn at Ada's farm. Ruby reveals he was a deadbeat who abused and neglected her when she was very young; he is also a Confederate deserter. Nevertheless Ruby grudgingly feeds him. Soon he returns another day with a simple-minded friend named Pangle. Together they entertain everyone by playing the fiddle and banjo. However the Home Guard, led by the sadistic Captain Teague, eventually track them down and shoot them. A third companion, referred to as "Georgia", escapes the killing and goes off to alert Ada and Ruby. The two women ride and find Stobrod barely alive. Ada and Ruby pitch camp to give him a place to recover.
After Inman arrives at Black Cove to find it empty, he sets out to find Ada on the mountain. Unexpectedly he soon encounters her out hunting wild turkeys. Both have changed so greatly in their appearance and demeanor since they parted that it is some moments before they recognize one another. Inman takes up camp with Ada and Ruby. Ruby is afraid Ada will dismiss her now she has a husband, and Ada reassures her that she needs her as a friend and for her ideas and help. Ruby gives the pair her blessing. Later Ada and Inman make love. They happily begin to imagine the life they will have together at Black Cove and make plans for their future.
However, as the party begins the trek back to the farm they encounter the Home Guard. A shoot-out commences in which Inman kills all the members of the Home Guard except for a 17-year-old Birch, Teague's vicious protégé. Inman eventually corners the boy against a rock ledge where he is reluctant to shoot him down in cold blood. However, after attempts fail to convince Birch to lay down his arms and leave, the boy shoots and kills Inman.
Ada is left a pregnant widow. She raises her daughter at Black Cove where she lives with Ruby and Stobrod. Ruby has married the boy from Georgia, named Reid, and has three children.
Awards and nominations[edit]
Cold Mountain won the National Book Award,[1][4] the W.D. Weatherford Award (1997),[5] and the Boeke Prize (1998).
Adaptations[edit]
It was later adapted for the screen by director Anthony Minghella in the 2003 film Cold Mountain, starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renée Zellweger. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Jude Law, and won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Renée Zellweger.
The novel has been adapted into an opera, Cold Mountain (opera), which will be presented during the 2015 summer festival season by The Santa Fe Opera, in co-commissions and co-productions with Opera Philadelphia and the Minnesota Opera. The work has been composed by 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner in music, Jennifer Higdon, from a libretto written by Gene Scheer. It will be Higdon's first opera.[6]
Reception[edit]
Cold Mountain has received a mixed critical reception. "Kirkus Reviews" in The Atlantic praises Frazier’s use of language, writing "Frazier has Cormac McCarthy's gift for rendering the pitch and tang of regional speech, and for catching some of the true oddity of human nature". Kirkus goes on to say that Cold Mountain is "a promising but overlong, uneven debut." Again the critic praises and rebukes the novel stating "The tragic climax is convincing but somewhat rushed, given the many dilatory scenes that have preceded it." The length of the novel and the slow pace of the storytelling are again brought into question when the critic claims "There's no doubt that Frazier can write; the problem is that he stops so often to savor the sheer pleasure of the act of writing in this debut effort."[7] The online periodical Publisher’s Weekly produced a more positive review of the book’s writing: "Frazier vividly depicts the rough and varied terrain of Inman's travels and the colorful characters he meets". Publisher’s Weekly goes on to say that "Frazier shows how lives of soldiers and of civilians alike deepen and are transformed as a direct consequence of the war's tragedy."[8]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "National Book Awards – 1997". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
 (With acceptance speech by Frazier and essay by Harold Schechter from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)
2.Jump up ^ Polk, James (July 13, 1997). "American Odyssey". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
3.Jump up ^ "Justice John Vestal Hadley 1840-1915", on www.in.gov
4.Jump up ^ Smith, Dinitia (November 19, 1997). "Civil War Novelist Wins the National Book Award". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
5.Jump up ^ "Weatherford Award". Retrieved 2007-08-12.
6.Jump up ^ "The Santa Fe Opera Announces New Works for Forthcoming season" on santafeopera.org. Retrieved 8 April 2014
7.Jump up ^ "Cold Mountain". Kirkus Reviews.com. Atlantic Monthly. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
8.Jump up ^ "Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier". Publisher's Weekly. Atlantic Monthly. Retrieved 2 August 2014.




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Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain Poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Anthony Minghella
Produced by
Sydney Pollack
William Horberg
 Albert Berger
 Ron Yerxa
Screenplay by
Anthony Minghella
Based on
Cold Mountain
 by Charles Frazier
Starring
Jude Law
Nicole Kidman
Renée Zellweger
Music by
Gabriel Yared
Cinematography
John Seale
Edited by
Walter Murch

Production
 company

Mirage Enterprises
 Bona Fide Productions

Distributed by
Miramax Films

Release dates

December 25, 2003


Running time
 154 minutes
Country
United States
 United Kingdom
 Romania
 Italy
Language
English
Budget
$79 million
Box office
$173,013,509[1]
Cold Mountain is a 2003 epic war drama film written and directed by Anthony Minghella. The film is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Charles Frazier. It stars Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renée Zellweger in leading roles as well as Natalie Portman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Melora Walters, Jena Malone, Donald Sutherland, Brendan Gleeson, Ray Winstone, Jack White, Kathy Baker, Cillian Murphy and Giovanni Ribisi in supporting roles.
The film tells the story of a wounded deserter from the Confederate army close to the end of the American Civil War who is on his way to return to the love of his life.
Cold Mountain opened to positive reviews from critics and won several major awards. Renée Zellweger won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for her role in the film. It was also a success at the box office and became a sleeper hit grossing more than double its budget worldwide.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Awards
4 Production 4.1 Filming locations
4.2 Editing
5 Reception
6 Soundtrack
7 Historical accuracy
8 See also
9 References
10 External links

Plot[edit]
Jude Law plays a young man named W. P. Inman at Cold Mountain, a provincial North Carolina town. He meets Ada (Nicole Kidman) and is at the fledgling stages of a relationship with her when he marches off to war as a Confederate soldier.
On the morning of July 30, 1864, Inman and other Confederate troops are entrenched outside Petersburg during its siege. The teenaged Oakley (Lucas Black) is handing out clothes from a wheelbarrow while Inman reads letters from Ada. The soldiers are tired and bored. Most are seasoned veterans who have been fighting for over three years. But meanwhile Union engineers are filling a mine under the Confederate trenches with gunpowder barrels while above, hundreds of Union troops are waiting to attack. Suddenly back at the Confederate siege works, a rabbit hops into the trench. Just as one of the men is about to capture it, the ground rises from under him and there is a huge explosion. The Union soldiers had lit the barrels, and most of the trench explodes. As Inman and Oakley get up, dazed from the blast, they see Union troops charging at them. As the Union soldiers charge, they run right into the crater where the trench used to be, and are trapped in a kill zone. The Confederates fire down at them but the fighting becomes hand to hand and Oakley is pulled down in by a Union soldier and Inman goes after him. Before Inman can reach him, Oakley is bayoneted but not killed. Inman shoots the Union soldier and pulls Oakley out of the chaos. The battle ends with a Confederate victory. As the Confederates are cleaning up after the battle, Inman comforts Oakley as he is pulled to the hospital on a cart. Later that day Oakley dies in the hospital with Inman and Stobrod Thewes (Brendan Gleeson) beside him.
The next night, Inman, Swimmer (Jay Tavare) and his platoon are sent out to kill surviving Union troops trapped behind the lines. During the raid other Confederate troops open fire killing several Confederates and wounding Inman. While lying in the hospital, he has a letter from Ada read to him in which she pleads with him to stop fighting, stop marching, and come back to her. Inman then decides to desert and go home to Cold Mountain.
On his journey he meets the corrupt preacher Reverend Veasey (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who is about to drown his pregnant slave lover. Inman stops Veasey, and leaves him tied up to face the town's justice. Exiled from his parish, Veasey later rejoins Inman on his journey. They help a young man named Junior (Giovanni Ribisi) butcher his cow and join him and his family for dinner. Junior leaves the house after the feast, and the women in Junior's family seduce Veasey, and Junior's wife, Lila, tries to seduce Inman. Junior returns home with the Confederate Home Guard and both Inman and Veasey are taken prisoner.
While the home guard officers attempt to hide from a group of Union soldiers, Veasey is killed, but Inman is able to escape with a wound. An old and wizened woman (Eileen Atkins) finds him and nurses him back to health.
Inman later meets a grieving young widow named Sara (Natalie Portman) who is raising her infant child Ethan alone; he stays the night at her cabin. The next morning, three Union soldiers arrive demanding food. Sara rushes Inman away (for his protection, and to avoid being accused of harboring a deserter), but he hides only a few feet away from the house. Two of the soldiers harass Sara and leave Ethan in the cold, though one (Cillian Murphy) attempts to keep the baby warm. The lead soldier attempts to rape Sara but is killed along with the other soldier by Inman. The kindhearted soldier is shot by an enraged Sara.
Parallel with Inman's adventures, the film follows Ada's wartime experiences. Ada is a city woman who only recently moved to the rural farm named Black Cove. She met Inman on her first day at Cold Mountain, and had a brief romance with him the night before he left for the army. Shortly after Inman leaves, her minister father (Donald Sutherland) dies, leaving her alone on the farm and with little prospect for help, as the young, able-bodied men are off at war.
She is completely inept at working the farm, having been raised to become a southern lady. She manages to survive thanks to the kindness of her neighbors, one of whom eventually sends Ruby Thewes (Renee Zellweger) to her. Ruby is a young woman who has lived a hard-scrabble life and is very adept at the tasks needed to run the farm. Ruby lives at the farm with Ada, and together they take the farm from a state of disaster to working order. Meanwhile, Ada writes constant letters to Inman in hopes of meeting him again and renewing their romance.
The two women form a close friendship and become each other's confidantes. They also are friends with the Swangers (James Gammon and Kathy Baker), who live down the road from Black Cove. It is at the Swangers' well that Ada "sees" a vision of Inman coming back to her in the snow, surrounded by crows.
During the war, Ada and Ruby, and other members of their community, have several tense encounters with men of the Home Guard. This branch of the Home Guard is led by Captain Teague (Ray Winstone), whose grandfather once owned much of Cold Mountain. He and his deputies hunt deserters, partially with the goal of Teague seizing their land. Teague also lusts after Ada.
Although the purpose of the Home Guard was to protect the South and its citizen population from the North, they have become violent vigilantes who hunt and often kill deserters from the Confederate Army, and terrorize citizens who they believe are housing or helping the deserters. This includes the Swangers' sons, who, by torturing their mother, they coax out of hiding and kill. Esco Swanger - the family patriarch - is also killed protecting his sons.
Ruby's estranged father Stobrod (Brendan Gleeson), also a Confederate deserter and a violin player, arrives and reconciles with her. He convinces her to make a coat for his intellectually challenged banjo player Pangle (Ethan Suplee). Ruby also finds herself drawn to mandolin player Georgia (Jack White).
While camping, Stobrod, Pangle and Georgia are cornered by the Home Guardsmen led by Teague. Pangle unintentionally reveals the band as the deserters Teague is seeking. Georgia is hidden a few feet away and witnesses the shooting of Pangle and Stobrod. He escapes to Black Cove Farm and informs Ruby and Ada, who rush to the campsite to find Pangle dead and Stobrod badly injured. Ada helps Ruby remove a bullet from Strobrod's back, and they decide to take shelter in some cabins in the woods to avoid Teague and his men.
It is at this point that the two story lines come together. Inman finally reaches Cold Mountain, and he is almost killed by Ada before she recognizes him. They later consummate their love and spend the night together.
The Home Guardsmen, however, soon find Ada, Inman, Ruby & Stobrod on the mountain and are determined to kill Inman, as they know he's a deserter. While fighting off the Guardsmen, Inman shoots and kills the young and violent Lieutenant Bosie (Charlie Hunnam), but he is mortally wounded as well. Ada goes to him, and finds him just as she saw in her vision at the well... coming back to her in the snow surrounded by crows. He dies in her arms.
The film ends several years later with Ada, Ruby and their families celebrating Easter. Ruby has married Georgia, and the two have a young daughter and an infant child. It is also revealed that Ada's night with Inman had given her a child, Grace Inman.
Cast[edit]
##Jude Law as W. P. Inman, a Confederate soldier who deserts the war to be with Ada
##Nicole Kidman as Ada Monroe, a young woman who lives on Cold Mountain and is Inman's love interest
##Renée Zellweger as Ruby Thewes, a woman who helps Ada work on her farm after her father's presumed death
##Eileen Atkins as Maddy, an old shepherd woman who nurses Inman back to health
##Kathy Baker as Sally Swanger, an old woman who lives on Cold Mountain and is Ada's friend
##James Gammon as Esco Swanger, Sally's husband who is also Ada's friend
##Brendan Gleeson as Stobrod Thewes, Ruby's father, who faked his own death during the war
##Philip Seymour Hoffman as Reverend Veasey, an immoral preacher who befriends Inman
##Charlie Hunnam as Bosie, a member of Teague's home guard
##Cillian Murphy as Bardolph, a Yankee (Union) Soldier who, with others, comes to the home of Sara
##Natalie Portman as Sara, a widowed woman who lives with her infant son
##Giovanni Ribisi as Junior, a woodsman who shelters and betrays Inman and Veasey
##Donald Sutherland as Reverend Monroe, Ada's preacher father
##Ethan Suplee as Pangle, traveling companion of Georgia
##Jay Tavare as Swimmer, Inman's best friend and a soldier in the Confederate Army
##Jack White as Georgia, a Confederate deserter and Ruby's love interest
##Ray Winstone as Teague, the sadistic Captain of the Confederate Home Guard unit in Haywood County, North Carolina.
##Lucas Black as Oakley, a teenage Confederate soldier from Cold Mountain who is killed in battle
##Emily Deschanel as Mrs. Morgan, a volunteer at the Confederate hospital where Inman recuperates from his injuries
##Jena Malone as a ferry girl who is killed in an ambush while helping Inman and Veasey
##Melora Walters as Lila, Junior's attractive wife, who tries to seduce Inman
##Taryn Manning as Shyla, one of Lila's three sisters who seduces Veasey
Awards[edit]
The film was nominated for more than seventy awards, including seven Academy Award nominations. Renée Zellweger won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in the film.
In addition, the film was nominated for the following Academy Awards:
##Best Actor (Jude Law)
##Best Cinematography (John Seale)
##Best Editing (Walter Murch)
##Best Original Score (Gabriel Yared)
##Best Original Song (T-Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello for the song "The Scarlet Tide")
##Best Original Song (Sting for the song "You Will Be My Ain True Love")
Production[edit]
Cold Mountain, where the film is set, is a real mountain located within the Pisgah National Forest, Haywood County, North Carolina. However, it was filmed mostly in Romania, with numerous scenes filmed in Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The film was one of an increasing number of Hollywood productions made in eastern Europe. This is occurring as a result of much lower costs in the region; and in this specific instance, Transylvania was less marked by modern life than the Appalachians (fewer power lines, electric poles, paved roads and so on). Musician Ryan Adams was approached for the role of Georgia but declined.
Filming locations[edit]
##Carpathian Mountains, Romania
##Carter's Grove - 8797 Pocahontas Trail, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
##Charleston, South Carolina, USA
##College of Charleston - 66 George Street, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
##North Carolina, USA
##Potigrafu, Romania
##Richmond, Virginia, USA
##South Carolina, USA[2]
Editing[edit]
The film also marked a technological and industry turnaround in editing. Walter Murch edited Cold Mountain on Apple's sub-$1000 Final Cut Pro software using off-the-shelf G4s. This was a leap for such a big budgeted film, where expensive Avid systems are usually the standard editing system. His efforts on the film were documented in the 2005 book Behind the Seen: How Walter Murch Edited Cold Mountain Using Apple's Final Cut Pro and What This Means for Cinema.[3]
Reception[edit]
Cold Mountain was met with overall positive reviews from critics, with Zellweger's performance receiving wide acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a grade of 71% "Fresh" from critics.[4] On Metacritic, the film received a grade of 73 out of 100 points possible based on 41 generally favorable reviews.[5]
Popular film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of four possible, noting that "It evokes a backwater of the Civil War with rare beauty, and lights up with an assortment of colorful supporting characters."[6] Richard Corliss, film critic for Time Magazine, went even further, giving the film a 100 points out of 100 possible ; he called it "A grand and poignant movie epic about what is lost in war and what's worth saving in life. It is also a rare blend of purity and maturity—the year's most rapturous love story."
Soundtrack[edit]
Main article: Cold Mountain (soundtrack)
Cold Mountain: Music from the Motion Picture shares producer T Bone Burnett with the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a largely old-time and folk album with limited radio play that still enjoyed commercial success, and garnered a Grammy. As a result, comparisons were drawn between the two albums. The soundtrack, however, also employs many folk and blues elements.
It features songs written by Jack White of The White Stripes (who also appeared in the film in the role of Georgia), Elvis Costello and Sting. Costello and Sting's contributions, "The Scarlet Tide" and "You Will Be My Ain True Love", were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and featured vocals by bluegrass singer Alison Krauss. Gabriel Yared's Oscar-nominated score is represented by four tracks amounting to approximately fifteen minutes of music.
Historical accuracy[edit]
The most obvious inaccuracy occurs early in the film with the giant explosion that kicked off the Battle of the Crater during the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia. The scene was filmed in broad daylight although the actual explosion occurred in pre-dawn darkness at 4:44 a.m.
Several scholars reviewed the movie for its representation of historical studies on North Carolina during the Civil War, especially the mountainous western region of the state. Their justification is the effect popular media has on national and worldwide perceptions of Appalachian people, particularly southern Appalachians in this case. The opinions vary, but the consensus among them is that the historical context of the movie is close to the scholarship. Although these scholars disagree about the accuracy of particular elements of the movie, they agree that the story gets at least some things right.[7]
These scholars admit that the film misrepresents some aspects of the region during the time. “Neither slavery nor slaves play much part in the film, with only fleeting references to both,” says John Inscoe. John Crutchfield notes that “we see a thoroughly contemporary understanding at work … that views slavery in decidedly moral terms.” Another negative criticism is that it is nowhere close to a faithful representation of the geography of North Carolina, especially the town in Cold Mountain, which plays a major role in the story. Silas House claims that “For a story that relies so much on sense of place, it was obvious throughout that the majority of the film had been shot in Europe.” A native of the area, Anna Creadick, says, “… the film’s geography was annoyingly off-kilter. True, the Carpathians are somebody’s mountains, but they’re not mine.” Lastly, Martin Crawford claims, “the novel’s underlying sentimentality limits its value as historical fiction and thereby undercuts its representational authority.” For Crawford, the story is far too romantic and emotional for the historical context.
On the other hand, they praise the film for its conformity to the historical scholarship in other subjects. Inscoe asserts his astonishment that “the final product should … provide so unflinching a portrayal of the bleak and unsettling realities of a far less familiar version of the Civil War, but one that would be all too recognizable to thousands of hardscrabble southern men and women who lived through it.” Focusing on the impact of the war on women, he adds, “Even more powerful – and more historically based – are other incidents that convey the brutal toll taken on mountain women, who as mothers, wives, and widows are forced to protect their families, sometimes by violently retaliating against their tormentors.” Silas House says, “for the most part I thought director Anthony Minghella did an honorable job of portraying our region.” He agrees with Inscoe on the subject of the area’s population, stating, “most of all the characters are dignified, determined, and intelligent human beings, like the vast majority of Appalachians, and I am glad that this movie exists.” For House, the film goes beyond the people of western North Carolina to include all Appalachian communities.
As for the music, House states that “most of the songs in the film were written specifically for the movie,” but traditional forms of singing in the region make up for it. Jack Wright, not to be confused with "Jack White" (John Anthony Gillis), who plays a musician in the film, expresses that the film honestly represents the music of the region, even with a couple of non-regional additions, like “Sitting on Top of the World” and “Great High Mountain.” In contrast to House’s remark, Wright says, “some of the best of the soundtrack was not composed for the movie but garnered from the body of time-tested and proven masterpieces of an earlier rural American culture.” Such selections were not necessarily performed authentically in the film: the two Sacred Harp songs, although generally authentic to the period and region, contained verses and vocal parts not yet written at that time.[8]
See also[edit]
##Captain Daniel Ellis
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Cold Mountain (2003)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
2.Jump up ^ "Filming locations for 'Cold Mountain'". IMDb. Amazon.com. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
3.Jump up ^ Joe Cellini. "Walter Murch: An Interview with the Editor of 'Cold Mountain'". Apple.com. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
4.Jump up ^ "Cold Mountain". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixter. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
5.Jump up ^ "Cold Mountain". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
6.Jump up ^ Ebert, Roger (2003-12-24). "Cold Mountain". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
7.Jump up ^ Arnold, Edwin T., Tyler Blethen, Amy Tipton Cortner, Anna Creadick, John Crutchfield, Silas House, John C. Inscoe, Gordon B. McKinney and Jack Wright. "APPALJ Roundtable Discussion: Cold Mountain, the Film.” Appalachian Journal (Spring/Summer 2004): 316-353; Crawford, Martin. "Cold Mountain Fictions: Appalachian Half-Truths.” Review of Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. Appalachian Journal (Winter-Spring 2003): 182-195; and Inscoe, John C. “Cold Mountain Review.” The Journal of American History (Dec., 2004): 1127-1129.
8.Jump up ^ "Cooper v. James". Music Copyright Infringement Resource. USC Gould School of Law. Retrieved 2014-05-23. "At the time of the Civil War these songs, in the only available edition of the Sacred Harp, had only one verse apiece, and neither contained an alto part."
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Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain Poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Anthony Minghella
Produced by
Sydney Pollack
William Horberg
 Albert Berger
 Ron Yerxa
Screenplay by
Anthony Minghella
Based on
Cold Mountain
 by Charles Frazier
Starring
Jude Law
Nicole Kidman
Renée Zellweger
Music by
Gabriel Yared
Cinematography
John Seale
Edited by
Walter Murch

Production
 company

Mirage Enterprises
 Bona Fide Productions

Distributed by
Miramax Films

Release dates

December 25, 2003


Running time
 154 minutes
Country
United States
 United Kingdom
 Romania
 Italy
Language
English
Budget
$79 million
Box office
$173,013,509[1]
Cold Mountain is a 2003 epic war drama film written and directed by Anthony Minghella. The film is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Charles Frazier. It stars Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renée Zellweger in leading roles as well as Natalie Portman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Melora Walters, Jena Malone, Donald Sutherland, Brendan Gleeson, Ray Winstone, Jack White, Kathy Baker, Cillian Murphy and Giovanni Ribisi in supporting roles.
The film tells the story of a wounded deserter from the Confederate army close to the end of the American Civil War who is on his way to return to the love of his life.
Cold Mountain opened to positive reviews from critics and won several major awards. Renée Zellweger won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for her role in the film. It was also a success at the box office and became a sleeper hit grossing more than double its budget worldwide.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Awards
4 Production 4.1 Filming locations
4.2 Editing
5 Reception
6 Soundtrack
7 Historical accuracy
8 See also
9 References
10 External links

Plot[edit]
Jude Law plays a young man named W. P. Inman at Cold Mountain, a provincial North Carolina town. He meets Ada (Nicole Kidman) and is at the fledgling stages of a relationship with her when he marches off to war as a Confederate soldier.
On the morning of July 30, 1864, Inman and other Confederate troops are entrenched outside Petersburg during its siege. The teenaged Oakley (Lucas Black) is handing out clothes from a wheelbarrow while Inman reads letters from Ada. The soldiers are tired and bored. Most are seasoned veterans who have been fighting for over three years. But meanwhile Union engineers are filling a mine under the Confederate trenches with gunpowder barrels while above, hundreds of Union troops are waiting to attack. Suddenly back at the Confederate siege works, a rabbit hops into the trench. Just as one of the men is about to capture it, the ground rises from under him and there is a huge explosion. The Union soldiers had lit the barrels, and most of the trench explodes. As Inman and Oakley get up, dazed from the blast, they see Union troops charging at them. As the Union soldiers charge, they run right into the crater where the trench used to be, and are trapped in a kill zone. The Confederates fire down at them but the fighting becomes hand to hand and Oakley is pulled down in by a Union soldier and Inman goes after him. Before Inman can reach him, Oakley is bayoneted but not killed. Inman shoots the Union soldier and pulls Oakley out of the chaos. The battle ends with a Confederate victory. As the Confederates are cleaning up after the battle, Inman comforts Oakley as he is pulled to the hospital on a cart. Later that day Oakley dies in the hospital with Inman and Stobrod Thewes (Brendan Gleeson) beside him.
The next night, Inman, Swimmer (Jay Tavare) and his platoon are sent out to kill surviving Union troops trapped behind the lines. During the raid other Confederate troops open fire killing several Confederates and wounding Inman. While lying in the hospital, he has a letter from Ada read to him in which she pleads with him to stop fighting, stop marching, and come back to her. Inman then decides to desert and go home to Cold Mountain.
On his journey he meets the corrupt preacher Reverend Veasey (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who is about to drown his pregnant slave lover. Inman stops Veasey, and leaves him tied up to face the town's justice. Exiled from his parish, Veasey later rejoins Inman on his journey. They help a young man named Junior (Giovanni Ribisi) butcher his cow and join him and his family for dinner. Junior leaves the house after the feast, and the women in Junior's family seduce Veasey, and Junior's wife, Lila, tries to seduce Inman. Junior returns home with the Confederate Home Guard and both Inman and Veasey are taken prisoner.
While the home guard officers attempt to hide from a group of Union soldiers, Veasey is killed, but Inman is able to escape with a wound. An old and wizened woman (Eileen Atkins) finds him and nurses him back to health.
Inman later meets a grieving young widow named Sara (Natalie Portman) who is raising her infant child Ethan alone; he stays the night at her cabin. The next morning, three Union soldiers arrive demanding food. Sara rushes Inman away (for his protection, and to avoid being accused of harboring a deserter), but he hides only a few feet away from the house. Two of the soldiers harass Sara and leave Ethan in the cold, though one (Cillian Murphy) attempts to keep the baby warm. The lead soldier attempts to rape Sara but is killed along with the other soldier by Inman. The kindhearted soldier is shot by an enraged Sara.
Parallel with Inman's adventures, the film follows Ada's wartime experiences. Ada is a city woman who only recently moved to the rural farm named Black Cove. She met Inman on her first day at Cold Mountain, and had a brief romance with him the night before he left for the army. Shortly after Inman leaves, her minister father (Donald Sutherland) dies, leaving her alone on the farm and with little prospect for help, as the young, able-bodied men are off at war.
She is completely inept at working the farm, having been raised to become a southern lady. She manages to survive thanks to the kindness of her neighbors, one of whom eventually sends Ruby Thewes (Renee Zellweger) to her. Ruby is a young woman who has lived a hard-scrabble life and is very adept at the tasks needed to run the farm. Ruby lives at the farm with Ada, and together they take the farm from a state of disaster to working order. Meanwhile, Ada writes constant letters to Inman in hopes of meeting him again and renewing their romance.
The two women form a close friendship and become each other's confidantes. They also are friends with the Swangers (James Gammon and Kathy Baker), who live down the road from Black Cove. It is at the Swangers' well that Ada "sees" a vision of Inman coming back to her in the snow, surrounded by crows.
During the war, Ada and Ruby, and other members of their community, have several tense encounters with men of the Home Guard. This branch of the Home Guard is led by Captain Teague (Ray Winstone), whose grandfather once owned much of Cold Mountain. He and his deputies hunt deserters, partially with the goal of Teague seizing their land. Teague also lusts after Ada.
Although the purpose of the Home Guard was to protect the South and its citizen population from the North, they have become violent vigilantes who hunt and often kill deserters from the Confederate Army, and terrorize citizens who they believe are housing or helping the deserters. This includes the Swangers' sons, who, by torturing their mother, they coax out of hiding and kill. Esco Swanger - the family patriarch - is also killed protecting his sons.
Ruby's estranged father Stobrod (Brendan Gleeson), also a Confederate deserter and a violin player, arrives and reconciles with her. He convinces her to make a coat for his intellectually challenged banjo player Pangle (Ethan Suplee). Ruby also finds herself drawn to mandolin player Georgia (Jack White).
While camping, Stobrod, Pangle and Georgia are cornered by the Home Guardsmen led by Teague. Pangle unintentionally reveals the band as the deserters Teague is seeking. Georgia is hidden a few feet away and witnesses the shooting of Pangle and Stobrod. He escapes to Black Cove Farm and informs Ruby and Ada, who rush to the campsite to find Pangle dead and Stobrod badly injured. Ada helps Ruby remove a bullet from Strobrod's back, and they decide to take shelter in some cabins in the woods to avoid Teague and his men.
It is at this point that the two story lines come together. Inman finally reaches Cold Mountain, and he is almost killed by Ada before she recognizes him. They later consummate their love and spend the night together.
The Home Guardsmen, however, soon find Ada, Inman, Ruby & Stobrod on the mountain and are determined to kill Inman, as they know he's a deserter. While fighting off the Guardsmen, Inman shoots and kills the young and violent Lieutenant Bosie (Charlie Hunnam), but he is mortally wounded as well. Ada goes to him, and finds him just as she saw in her vision at the well... coming back to her in the snow surrounded by crows. He dies in her arms.
The film ends several years later with Ada, Ruby and their families celebrating Easter. Ruby has married Georgia, and the two have a young daughter and an infant child. It is also revealed that Ada's night with Inman had given her a child, Grace Inman.
Cast[edit]
##Jude Law as W. P. Inman, a Confederate soldier who deserts the war to be with Ada
##Nicole Kidman as Ada Monroe, a young woman who lives on Cold Mountain and is Inman's love interest
##Renée Zellweger as Ruby Thewes, a woman who helps Ada work on her farm after her father's presumed death
##Eileen Atkins as Maddy, an old shepherd woman who nurses Inman back to health
##Kathy Baker as Sally Swanger, an old woman who lives on Cold Mountain and is Ada's friend
##James Gammon as Esco Swanger, Sally's husband who is also Ada's friend
##Brendan Gleeson as Stobrod Thewes, Ruby's father, who faked his own death during the war
##Philip Seymour Hoffman as Reverend Veasey, an immoral preacher who befriends Inman
##Charlie Hunnam as Bosie, a member of Teague's home guard
##Cillian Murphy as Bardolph, a Yankee (Union) Soldier who, with others, comes to the home of Sara
##Natalie Portman as Sara, a widowed woman who lives with her infant son
##Giovanni Ribisi as Junior, a woodsman who shelters and betrays Inman and Veasey
##Donald Sutherland as Reverend Monroe, Ada's preacher father
##Ethan Suplee as Pangle, traveling companion of Georgia
##Jay Tavare as Swimmer, Inman's best friend and a soldier in the Confederate Army
##Jack White as Georgia, a Confederate deserter and Ruby's love interest
##Ray Winstone as Teague, the sadistic Captain of the Confederate Home Guard unit in Haywood County, North Carolina.
##Lucas Black as Oakley, a teenage Confederate soldier from Cold Mountain who is killed in battle
##Emily Deschanel as Mrs. Morgan, a volunteer at the Confederate hospital where Inman recuperates from his injuries
##Jena Malone as a ferry girl who is killed in an ambush while helping Inman and Veasey
##Melora Walters as Lila, Junior's attractive wife, who tries to seduce Inman
##Taryn Manning as Shyla, one of Lila's three sisters who seduces Veasey
Awards[edit]
The film was nominated for more than seventy awards, including seven Academy Award nominations. Renée Zellweger won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in the film.
In addition, the film was nominated for the following Academy Awards:
##Best Actor (Jude Law)
##Best Cinematography (John Seale)
##Best Editing (Walter Murch)
##Best Original Score (Gabriel Yared)
##Best Original Song (T-Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello for the song "The Scarlet Tide")
##Best Original Song (Sting for the song "You Will Be My Ain True Love")
Production[edit]
Cold Mountain, where the film is set, is a real mountain located within the Pisgah National Forest, Haywood County, North Carolina. However, it was filmed mostly in Romania, with numerous scenes filmed in Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The film was one of an increasing number of Hollywood productions made in eastern Europe. This is occurring as a result of much lower costs in the region; and in this specific instance, Transylvania was less marked by modern life than the Appalachians (fewer power lines, electric poles, paved roads and so on). Musician Ryan Adams was approached for the role of Georgia but declined.
Filming locations[edit]
##Carpathian Mountains, Romania
##Carter's Grove - 8797 Pocahontas Trail, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
##Charleston, South Carolina, USA
##College of Charleston - 66 George Street, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
##North Carolina, USA
##Potigrafu, Romania
##Richmond, Virginia, USA
##South Carolina, USA[2]
Editing[edit]
The film also marked a technological and industry turnaround in editing. Walter Murch edited Cold Mountain on Apple's sub-$1000 Final Cut Pro software using off-the-shelf G4s. This was a leap for such a big budgeted film, where expensive Avid systems are usually the standard editing system. His efforts on the film were documented in the 2005 book Behind the Seen: How Walter Murch Edited Cold Mountain Using Apple's Final Cut Pro and What This Means for Cinema.[3]
Reception[edit]
Cold Mountain was met with overall positive reviews from critics, with Zellweger's performance receiving wide acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a grade of 71% "Fresh" from critics.[4] On Metacritic, the film received a grade of 73 out of 100 points possible based on 41 generally favorable reviews.[5]
Popular film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of four possible, noting that "It evokes a backwater of the Civil War with rare beauty, and lights up with an assortment of colorful supporting characters."[6] Richard Corliss, film critic for Time Magazine, went even further, giving the film a 100 points out of 100 possible ; he called it "A grand and poignant movie epic about what is lost in war and what's worth saving in life. It is also a rare blend of purity and maturity—the year's most rapturous love story."
Soundtrack[edit]
Main article: Cold Mountain (soundtrack)
Cold Mountain: Music from the Motion Picture shares producer T Bone Burnett with the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a largely old-time and folk album with limited radio play that still enjoyed commercial success, and garnered a Grammy. As a result, comparisons were drawn between the two albums. The soundtrack, however, also employs many folk and blues elements.
It features songs written by Jack White of The White Stripes (who also appeared in the film in the role of Georgia), Elvis Costello and Sting. Costello and Sting's contributions, "The Scarlet Tide" and "You Will Be My Ain True Love", were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and featured vocals by bluegrass singer Alison Krauss. Gabriel Yared's Oscar-nominated score is represented by four tracks amounting to approximately fifteen minutes of music.
Historical accuracy[edit]
The most obvious inaccuracy occurs early in the film with the giant explosion that kicked off the Battle of the Crater during the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia. The scene was filmed in broad daylight although the actual explosion occurred in pre-dawn darkness at 4:44 a.m.
Several scholars reviewed the movie for its representation of historical studies on North Carolina during the Civil War, especially the mountainous western region of the state. Their justification is the effect popular media has on national and worldwide perceptions of Appalachian people, particularly southern Appalachians in this case. The opinions vary, but the consensus among them is that the historical context of the movie is close to the scholarship. Although these scholars disagree about the accuracy of particular elements of the movie, they agree that the story gets at least some things right.[7]
These scholars admit that the film misrepresents some aspects of the region during the time. “Neither slavery nor slaves play much part in the film, with only fleeting references to both,” says John Inscoe. John Crutchfield notes that “we see a thoroughly contemporary understanding at work … that views slavery in decidedly moral terms.” Another negative criticism is that it is nowhere close to a faithful representation of the geography of North Carolina, especially the town in Cold Mountain, which plays a major role in the story. Silas House claims that “For a story that relies so much on sense of place, it was obvious throughout that the majority of the film had been shot in Europe.” A native of the area, Anna Creadick, says, “… the film’s geography was annoyingly off-kilter. True, the Carpathians are somebody’s mountains, but they’re not mine.” Lastly, Martin Crawford claims, “the novel’s underlying sentimentality limits its value as historical fiction and thereby undercuts its representational authority.” For Crawford, the story is far too romantic and emotional for the historical context.
On the other hand, they praise the film for its conformity to the historical scholarship in other subjects. Inscoe asserts his astonishment that “the final product should … provide so unflinching a portrayal of the bleak and unsettling realities of a far less familiar version of the Civil War, but one that would be all too recognizable to thousands of hardscrabble southern men and women who lived through it.” Focusing on the impact of the war on women, he adds, “Even more powerful – and more historically based – are other incidents that convey the brutal toll taken on mountain women, who as mothers, wives, and widows are forced to protect their families, sometimes by violently retaliating against their tormentors.” Silas House says, “for the most part I thought director Anthony Minghella did an honorable job of portraying our region.” He agrees with Inscoe on the subject of the area’s population, stating, “most of all the characters are dignified, determined, and intelligent human beings, like the vast majority of Appalachians, and I am glad that this movie exists.” For House, the film goes beyond the people of western North Carolina to include all Appalachian communities.
As for the music, House states that “most of the songs in the film were written specifically for the movie,” but traditional forms of singing in the region make up for it. Jack Wright, not to be confused with "Jack White" (John Anthony Gillis), who plays a musician in the film, expresses that the film honestly represents the music of the region, even with a couple of non-regional additions, like “Sitting on Top of the World” and “Great High Mountain.” In contrast to House’s remark, Wright says, “some of the best of the soundtrack was not composed for the movie but garnered from the body of time-tested and proven masterpieces of an earlier rural American culture.” Such selections were not necessarily performed authentically in the film: the two Sacred Harp songs, although generally authentic to the period and region, contained verses and vocal parts not yet written at that time.[8]
See also[edit]
##Captain Daniel Ellis
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Cold Mountain (2003)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
2.Jump up ^ "Filming locations for 'Cold Mountain'". IMDb. Amazon.com. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
3.Jump up ^ Joe Cellini. "Walter Murch: An Interview with the Editor of 'Cold Mountain'". Apple.com. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
4.Jump up ^ "Cold Mountain". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixter. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
5.Jump up ^ "Cold Mountain". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
6.Jump up ^ Ebert, Roger (2003-12-24). "Cold Mountain". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
7.Jump up ^ Arnold, Edwin T., Tyler Blethen, Amy Tipton Cortner, Anna Creadick, John Crutchfield, Silas House, John C. Inscoe, Gordon B. McKinney and Jack Wright. "APPALJ Roundtable Discussion: Cold Mountain, the Film.” Appalachian Journal (Spring/Summer 2004): 316-353; Crawford, Martin. "Cold Mountain Fictions: Appalachian Half-Truths.” Review of Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. Appalachian Journal (Winter-Spring 2003): 182-195; and Inscoe, John C. “Cold Mountain Review.” The Journal of American History (Dec., 2004): 1127-1129.
8.Jump up ^ "Cooper v. James". Music Copyright Infringement Resource. USC Gould School of Law. Retrieved 2014-05-23. "At the time of the Civil War these songs, in the only available edition of the Sacred Harp, had only one verse apiece, and neither contained an alto part."
External links[edit]
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##Cold Mountain at Rotten Tomatoes
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##Cold Mountain at Box Office Mojo


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