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Did anybody else notice how perfect the feet of the dead men on the beach were? Pretty good healing after nasty feet from not having had boots. -Whitney H. | Did anybody else notice how perfect the feet of the dead men on the beach were? Pretty good healing after nasty feet from not having had boots. -Whitney H. | ||
| − | So, just like in ''Amistad'' a different character was used when the historical character would have been perfectly acceptable. In class, we learned that General Benjamin Butler created the idea of the contraband. If you can recall from the movie, Colonel James Montgomery conveniently created the idea of the contraband. I think it's a tad ridiculous that they changed the actual figure for this one in order to, in my opinion, create a villain. The | + | So, just like in ''Amistad'' a different character was used when the historical character would have been perfectly acceptable. In class, we learned that General Benjamin Butler created the idea of the contraband. If you can recall from the movie, Colonel James Montgomery conveniently created the idea of the contraband. I think it's a tad ridiculous that they changed the actual figure for this one in order to, in my opinion, create a villain. The contrabands were also then shown in a beyond negative light, acting as Col. Montgomery called them, "little monkey children." I'm also seeing a pattern of villains burning down homes for no reason. --Kelly Wuyscik |
== 2 Film's relationship to current scholarship or to primary sources from the time == | == 2 Film's relationship to current scholarship or to primary sources from the time == | ||
