Nicolas Cage

Really not funny now.

Right.

Considering what happened.

But that's what created the laughter in the theater.

Yeah, you're soctologizing old man trap.

Like that.

But Twain, the things he said, like lightning being distributed right, is going to be around.

If we haven't gotten rid of our species in a thousand years, that will still be funny.

Exactly.

He's doing a double duty.

He's heading backwards or forwards.

Well, you know, a lot of it, it is exciting, and it's nice to see that they are evergreen, and you hope that the emotional archaeology that we are partaking in

will last and be durable, that it isn't just going to be about the buckle collectors or the guys who are interested in the caliber of the guns or the movement of regiments, but a human story that we try to tell.

The Civil War was bottom-up as well as top-down.

The World War II, of which it's the only film that I've ever done in which the territory was filled with other projects, hundreds, thousands of documentaries.

But no one had decided to try to tell the two theaters, the European and the Pacific Theater, simultaneously as they happened.

World of War didn't do it.

Nobody did.

A victory at sea.

And nobody tried to then also fold in the home front as well as a bottom-up thing.