With his cast of mostly volunteer actors mingling behind him, Shane Seley had no delusions of normalcy. "We totally are weird," the founder of Wide Awake Films said with a laugh.
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"The massacre was Missouri's Fort Sumter," Seley said. "We're not in St. Louis, but we'll do it justice in Kansas City."
He certainly didn't have trouble recruiting people to travel. To take part in the movie, historical re-enactors and civil-war buffs came from as far as Keokuk, Iowa. Among the men and women wearing wool pants and petticoats were attorneys and CEOs. Aside from a short break for pizza -- still sporting their 19th Century garb -- they hollered and cheered and fired their muskets for hours.
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