But I always get goosebumps at the end when they all sign the document and the bell starts ringing!
It is such an important moment in history for the USA and as well as the world!
I do too. Every time.
I do! Every time! I love this movie. So far, I have collected the Broadway soundtrack, the movie soundtrack, the London soundtrack, the libretto, the sheet music, and the comic book.
I only wish I could get the libretto signed by William Daniels, Ken Howard, Blythe Danner and John Cullum. A few years ago, a friend and I even wrote a Ghost and Mrs. Muir fan-fiction story about them watching this movie on the BiCentennial. The joke being William Daniels appeared on GAMM the year before starring in the play on Broadway.
How sad, that you were not born in my time, nor I, in yours.
Every time!
shareFor me it's the last half of "Is Anybody There?" Gets me every time.
shareIt was a moment that changed the world. Forever.
shareI saw it on Broadway, in its first run, and I'll never forget it as long as I live. I still remember the copy of the Declaration of Independence that the audience got. Beautifully printed on heavy vellum.
I also remember the song "Momma...Look Sharp", for another reason. The Battle of Watchung, in New Jersey, was fought all around the Area where I lived. I wouldn't actually call it a "Battle", as it was fought by Old People, Women and Half-Grown Children. It was essentially a campaign of Harassment: keeping the British Occupied long enough so that George Washington's Army could escape to the nearby Watchung Mountains.
G*d only knows how many civilians died during the skirmish. It must have been a Pip, though, because people were still finding musket balls and the occasional button, as late as 1944.
I do hope he won't upset Henry...
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It is a great ending.
But only John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress, and it's Secretary, Charles Thomson, signed tne Declaration of Independence on July 4.
The other members signed it on August 2.
What is now known as the Liberty Bell was not rung to celebrate the declaration
on July 4. It was possibly rung on July 8, although there is no record of that being done. The tradition was that the bell on the Statehouse would be rung on special
occasions. But the tower containing it may have been too fragile.
Certainly on July 8 the first public reading of the Declaration was made. It was done before an assembled crowd in Philadelphia. Some days had to pass after the document was approved by the Congress so that copies could be made for distribution.
But dramatic license is well used here for an ending that gives us a feeling of great pride and joy in being Americans.