Difference between revisions of "329--Week 4 Questions/Comments"
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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. | ||
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| + | One thing I noticed in the movie that we discussed in class was how some white soldiers disapproved of black men being allowed to enlist in the militia. There was one scene in particular which I thought the movie got right where one of the white soldiers made a snide comment on how he believed that black soldiers should not be given weapons. ~Katherine Stinson~ | ||
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| + | Were incidents of excessive cruelty, such as the one where all the townspeople are told to go into the church, and are locked up and then the church is burned down with them still in the church, common, or were incidents like that one in the movie used just for dramatic effect in the movie? ~Katherine Stinson~ | ||
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| + | As for how the upper-class are portrayed in this movie, I think the British upper-class were portrayed as rather silly, and air-headed. An example of this is when Benjamin Martin and his men dress up as British soldiers, and burn down the British ship that is docked while the British are having a party. As the ship bursts into flames, one of the ladies at the party looks at the ship, laughs, and squeals "Ooh fireworks!", indicating that she clearly has no idea what was happening. ~Katherine Stinson~ | ||
