Praise for Courage, NH

De : James Bretney
À : James Riley ; "monique@colonybay.net"
Cc : "info@rileysfarm.com"
Envoyé le : Mercredi 8 août 2012 12h53
Objet : Re: Thank you from Courage, New Hampshire!

Dear James and Monique,

I watched episodes 1 thru 3 and I can't wait for 4.  I learned about the series through a mutual friend, Patrick Finerty.  I think Finerty plays a Tory.  (I love Finerty - underrated actor.)  My general impressions is that it is a drama told from a Christian evangelical point of view.  There are some first time filmmaker mistakes.  At times, I think the performances are campy.  There are some actors I like and some I don't like conversely there are some characters I like and some I don't like.

The production design is beautiful.  The visual effects are very good.  I admire your bravery in taking on such an awesome subject matter.  I really enjoy your social commentary laced inside the subplots.  I enjoyed seeing AlfonZo Rachel and Governor Wentworth's character.  I googled and wikipedia'd Wentworth.  My favorite actor is Nathan Kershaw mostly because I identified with his problem in Episode 1.  I think Episode 1 is your best though you keep upping the ante and we are starting to get to know these characters more.  

My favorite characters are the baddies.  I sympathize with Edmund Burke's conservatism and would probably be a Tory until I was on the wrong side of the Crown's whims.  Though Burke and Pitt the Elder wanted to avert a confrontation with the colonies.  Your series is in the same niche as Mel Gibson and that series about Adams.  My own sympathies would be that of John Dickinson of Delaware until the bullets are flying or that of Sam Adams.  I can be a bit of a firebrand if provoked.    

But England is still preferable to an alliance with capricious France the enemy they went to war with not more than 10 years ago.  England did have a right to tax the colonies to pay for their own protection.  

The fact that your show can evoke such thoughts says something of its power.  

It is a hard thing you are doing.  I have tried it myself and I regret to say that I am not nearly along as you are, but I admire your success and will patronize the series as a customer and a donor until you get the big bucks from History Channel or something like that.

God Bless!

 

James A. Bretney
President, Airborne Productions, Inc | 
520 255 4137