The Martins care for both British and American wounded from a nearby battle, before British Dragoons, led by Colonel William Tavington, arrive, capture Gabriel with the intention of hanging him as a spy, and take captive the African-American hired-hands who work on Benjamin's land. Two years later, Charleston falls to the British and a wounded Gabriel returns home carrying dispatches. Fearing war against Great Britain, Benjamin abstains the vote is nonetheless passed, and, against his father's wishes, Benjamin's eldest son Gabriel joins the Continentals.
5.3 Depiction of atrocities in the Revolutionary Warĭuring the American Revolutionary War in 1776, Captain Benjamin Martin, a veteran of the French and Indian War and a widower with seven children, is called to Charleston to vote in the South Carolina General Assembly on a levy supporting the Continental Army.5.2 Criticism of Tavington as based on Tarleton.5.1 Criticism of Benjamin Martin as based on Francis Marion.
In his review of the film, critic Roger Ebert wrote, "None of it has much to do with the historical reality of the Revolutionary War". Despite receiving generally positive reviews from critics, it was harshly criticized by British critics and historians and stirred controversy in the United Kingdom due to its themes of anti-British sentiment, its fictionalized portrayal of British figures and atrocities, including killing wounded soldiers and prisoners of war, the film's main villain shooting a child in cold blood and an ahistorical scene in which a church filled with colonists is locked and burned which was controversial due to it being similar to the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre, a World War II war crime perpetrated by the Waffen-SS in June 1944. Most of the film's events occur in the Southern theater of the war. Rodat has said Martin is a composite character based on four historical men: Andrew Pickens, Francis Marion, Daniel Morgan and Thomas Sumter.
The story takes place mainly in rural Berkeley County in South Carolina and depicts Benjamin Martin (Gibson), an American colonist opposed to going to war with Great Britain who, along with his adult son, (Ledger) gets swept into the Revolutionary War when his home life is disrupted and one of his sons is murdered by a cruel British officer (Isaacs). Then perhaps you should have told him the rules of loyalty.The Patriot is a 2000 American epic historical war film written by Robert Rodat, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Mel Gibson, Chris Cooper, Heath Ledger and Jason Isaacs. No! Colonel, he's a uniformed dispatcher, he's a carrying a marked case. He's a dispatch rider and that's a marked case!ĭestroy the livestock. He is a spy hang him, put his body on display. They have nothing to do with the dispatchers. I was wounded and these people gave me care. and your losses, are shared by more then you know. You're wrong Benjamin, you matter to your men, and to others as well. If we win this next battle victory in the war is within our grasp. Green and Dan Morgen are down from Virginia. and the cost is more then i can bear.īenjamin, we have a chance. I have long feared, that my sins would return to visit me. Why do men feel they can justify death? Is it arrogance or. Benjamin nothing will replace your sons, but if you come with us you can justify their sacrifice. My wife Alexandria is with child, my first.
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