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Overall I feel as though this is by far the most accurate movie that we have watched yet. I watched a special making of feature on my DVD and was surprised at the amount of effort the movie's creators took to ensure that the costumes were as accurate as possible. The ideas for the uniforms came from actual revolutionary uniforms at the Smithsonian Museum. The featurette after the movie also talked about the basis for several of the main characters including Mel Gibson's character being based off of Thomas Sumter, Andrew Pickens and Francis Marion. It also mentioned Tarrington being based off of the real Tarleton. It seems to me that this movie did a good job with accuracy. While some of the actual battles may not be real they did mostly depict backwoods skirmishes.-- Kelly Sorber | Overall I feel as though this is by far the most accurate movie that we have watched yet. I watched a special making of feature on my DVD and was surprised at the amount of effort the movie's creators took to ensure that the costumes were as accurate as possible. The ideas for the uniforms came from actual revolutionary uniforms at the Smithsonian Museum. The featurette after the movie also talked about the basis for several of the main characters including Mel Gibson's character being based off of Thomas Sumter, Andrew Pickens and Francis Marion. It also mentioned Tarrington being based off of the real Tarleton. It seems to me that this movie did a good job with accuracy. While some of the actual battles may not be real they did mostly depict backwoods skirmishes.-- Kelly Sorber | ||
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| + | When I first saw The Patriot, it struck me as a very violent film. But this violence, however graphic, reflected accurately some of the realities on a battlefield. The cannonballs, for example, didn't just stop once they hit the ground - they kept moving, destroying everything in their path. That is just physics, but The Patriot is one of the first and only movies I have seen that actually shows this. I think the movie also does a good job depicting the skill level of the Colonial soldiers vs. the Redcoats. It was pretty obvious why the British enjoyed victory after victory - the Colonial regulars were just not prepared to challenge the Redcoats musket to musket on an open field in formation, a form of fighting the British had perfected. Only once the movie started depicting American guerrilla warfare in the form of Benjamin Martin and his militiamen did the Colonials appear to have the advantage. This is pretty accurate, when it came to formal fighting, the British were clearly better. When it came to unconventional warfare, the Colonials did have the advantage of knowing the land. ~Juliann Boyles | ||
The rules of war really astonished me. I cant believe that men really would go after the officers first. I thought that this was just something the movie did to show Benjamin Martins hatred toward the British officers. I was surprised to read about this in this weeks readings. But I guess when you think about the "rules of war" didn't really apply to this war when so many officers ordered the killing of women and children. -- Kellye Sorber | The rules of war really astonished me. I cant believe that men really would go after the officers first. I thought that this was just something the movie did to show Benjamin Martins hatred toward the British officers. I was surprised to read about this in this weeks readings. But I guess when you think about the "rules of war" didn't really apply to this war when so many officers ordered the killing of women and children. -- Kellye Sorber | ||
