john coski: it was interesting that it was recorded in richmond. chair holzer: government subsidies, which the confederates would have never dreamed about. [laughter] >> one of the things i really like about it was the portrayal of mary cobb i can. i think it was very impressive -- to me, sally fields is still the flying nun, so to speak. [laughter] but i felt that the depiction of her as someone wracked by greed, as opposed to just being a madwoman, was really wonderful. >> i think the great thing about the movie that it focused on politics. of all the things you could have done with abraham lincoln and the civil war that is also in the very capital where the confederate government was based , for those things were reenacted. but i thought it was a bold move by spielberg to say, you know, first of all, it shows that the white north is still wrestling. and some of the racist things the democrats said took your breath away, would also remind you that the war itself could resolve all the things that needed to be resolved. that still require the 13th,