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Repeated Inaccuracies: a) Once again, throughout the whole movie, we see amazing accuracy in shooting with muskets. Accuracy is vague when it gets to the face-to-face in lines on a field kind of fighting, but when the militia, and even Samuel and Nathan early on, are shooting, they're much better shots than the British regulars. b) really early on, when we see Continental soldiers (?) opening up nice, huge, sheaves of yellow, genetically engineered corn. -Whitney H. | Repeated Inaccuracies: a) Once again, throughout the whole movie, we see amazing accuracy in shooting with muskets. Accuracy is vague when it gets to the face-to-face in lines on a field kind of fighting, but when the militia, and even Samuel and Nathan early on, are shooting, they're much better shots than the British regulars. b) really early on, when we see Continental soldiers (?) opening up nice, huge, sheaves of yellow, genetically engineered corn. -Whitney H. | ||
| − | + | Benjamin Martin says in the movie “why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?” Was there any idea that the new government would be a democracy at the time and if there was, was that decided? If anyone knows, please post. I would imagine that the idea of making it a democracy (Or more technically a republic) existed but it was far from decided. –Wesley Weeks | |
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I think it's kind of funny that a movie that so embodies the American national myth was directed by a German and starred two Australians. But seriously, The Patriot is such a perfect representation of what late twentieth and twenty-first century Americans want American history to be. The Revolution (yes, with a capital R) was in large part saved by a group of plucky, underdog militia. The British were either quaint and out of touch (Cornwallis) or ruthlessly evil (Tavington). And, of course, racism was overcome and the American Revolution created a new sense of equality...that wouldn't be put into effect until the 1960s. Whoops. - Sarah Richardson | I think it's kind of funny that a movie that so embodies the American national myth was directed by a German and starred two Australians. But seriously, The Patriot is such a perfect representation of what late twentieth and twenty-first century Americans want American history to be. The Revolution (yes, with a capital R) was in large part saved by a group of plucky, underdog militia. The British were either quaint and out of touch (Cornwallis) or ruthlessly evil (Tavington). And, of course, racism was overcome and the American Revolution created a new sense of equality...that wouldn't be put into effect until the 1960s. Whoops. - Sarah Richardson | ||
| + | It seems to me that this movie serves as an excellent primary source about how we reimagine our history. That reimagining allows us to view our nation as having really existed, in a unified form since the Revolutionary War. For instance, sure there are race problems at that time but as Gabriel says, we’ll be able to build a new world. We’re clearly passed all that now. Similarly, it’s ridiculous when Charlotte says “it’s a free world, or it will be.” – Wesley Weeks | ||
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