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The Film Analysis Of The Movie The Patriot

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The Patriot

The Patriot is known as this action packed, adventurous movie, and most americans have watched this movie despite the fact of its inaccuracies, also depicting america as great and the british as bad. This movie takes place in 1776, this was before the declaration of independence was signed and a idea was proposed about breaking away from the king and initiating a new nation was great but arguable. Not all the americans wanted to be independent from Great Britain, there was separation between the rebels and the colonials ,the rebels that wanted have to freedom and the Colonials that wanted to stay faithful to the king, america was nowhere near to united. The boston incident turned into a civil war. Later on, loyalists saw the british military as a authorized army, therefore loyalists joining the army because they were nationalistic like the rebels. However, in the movie they point out one loyalist because in the movie The Patriot they depict the americans in a positive light because if they stuck to true history they couldn't do that and would make the americans look bad.

The filmmakers modified the history to put them in positive light for example they created this American hero named Benjamin Martin they depict him to be this heroic,flawless hero but in fact he is not even a person in history he is a made up fictional character based on francis marion and made up of other historical figures. Furthermore, they showed america united when in fact they were

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