The Patriot, Directed By Roland Emmerich

The movie, The Patriot, is the story of a South Carolina plantation owner, Benjamin Martin, who leads a local militia against British troops in the South during the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. Martin, who is a widower with six children and a veteran of the French and Indian War, wants nothing to do with the war until a brutal British Colonel, William Tavington, kills one of his sons and takes his eldest son, a member of the Continental Army, prisoner. Martin, who’s character is loosely based on Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, uses guerrilla warfare to cut British supply lines and attack outposts in an attempt to slow General

The American Revolution, when 13 American colonies waged war against the most powerful country in the world, Great Britain, for their independence. Soldiers who fought in the war and risked their lives to gain the freedom we have today, is just one of the many prime examples of prevailing hardships in battle. George Washington proved to be exemplary just like many others heroic patriots, like Henry Knox and Nathaniel Greene, when triumphing over the British soldiers with what little strength they had and defeating them. Their victory was more than enough proof on why they deserved independence. David McCullough’s 1776, describes and educates us about events which happened before the war and foreshadows up to the revolution. We learn about the hardships thrown at George Washington and the Continental army whose intentions switched from equal rights to complete emancipation. Battles throughout the Revolutionary War, like the Battle of Bunker Hill, are well known, but McCullough shows the reader how the Continental army continues to strive on even when victory is not in their favor.

The film 1776, directed by Peter H Hunt, produced by Columbia Pictures, and starring actors such as William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard, and more is a comedic and musical retelling of the events and struggles occurring in congress leading up to the declaration of the USA’s independence from Britain. The film takes place during 1776 in Philadelphia, mostly within the Carpenter’s Hall where the Second Continental Congress was held. While it only took place within Philadelphia, it was able to present the attitudes of the different colonies through the delegates.

The American Revolution, one of the most significant events in our world’s history, has established a huge impact on not only life back in the eighteenth and nineteenth century but our society today. The Acts of Parliament highly benefited the British but did not afford those same rights to the colonists until the formal issuing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776, in which colonial freedom was granted. The most controversial issue is which group caused it; a result of propaganda by the colonists. Multiple acts and protests contributed to this war, three influential ones being the Stamp Act, Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party.

II. Movie Summary: "The Patriot" takes place during the Revolutionary War. It's 1776 and intense fighting is going on in the north, while in the south the people are scrambling to recruit anyone who was willing to fight against the British. The main character, Benjamin Martin, is a veteran of the French and Indian war who

The Patriot directed Roland Emmerich tells the story of patriotic Americans fighting for their land. The main character, Benjamin Martin, is a retired war hero with many children. He is a hardworking man and loving father who always put his family first. Having already served once, Benjamin is trustworthy and admirable. While fighting for his land, Benjamin displays valiance and compassion.

The Patriot is an action movie that has many battle scenes, but in 1776, viewers know about the war only through letters delivered by dispatch riders. In two of the scenes one guy gets his leg blown off with a cannon ball and the other guy got his head blown off. In 1776 you, the viewers will never see a battle because you only hear about the battles through a dispatch. Like at the end of the movie in the final dispatch it said that the redcoats were at the bridge.

The movie that I selected and watched was Saving Private Ryan, directed by Steven Spielberg back in the 90’s. It was a pretty frightening movie but overall, a spectacular movie with great characters like, Tom Hanks and Matt Damon and had some amazing camera shots and heartwarming and sad quotes. The film starts off with Captain Miller and most of the American troops start invasion into Normandy, France attacking the Germans. Some casualties happen with Miller and his troops. Miller gets a call from the General of the Army ordering Miller to assemble a rescue team to save Private Ryan and bring him back home to his grieving mother because all of his siblings passed in the War in separate attacks. So he hires a few troops and a translator that

the movie the Patriot is about benjamin martin, a retired soldier who doesn't want anything except for peace and living a peaceful life with his family in his farm. unitill he faces the unjustice of the british army when they burned down his farm and house and murdered his son. Benjamine then comes to the decision of joining the american revolution and forming a resistance force in calorina that targets the british army. The movie goes between Benjamin fighting the british and saving his family and protecting them.

In his book 1776, David McCullough animates the events and people who fought for American freedom in a new light, bridging a gap between the past and the present. The events described in the novel encompasses the beginnings of the American Revolution during the year of the Declaration of Independence and, instead of putting the main focus on certain events or battles, McCullough emphasizes how the people involved may have felt throughout hardships, triumphs, and loss. In 1776 we see historical figures represented in a way never seen before, including their emotional reactions to events as well as their character, which is shown more and more as the book progresses. Events are evidently chronological, mostly in the year of 1776, and the

James Thatcher, an American militia soldier for the Continental Army, kept a journal of his thoughts and feelings. His journal shows that he was also disgusted by the Brittanian claim to rule the colonies “as the only supreme and uncontrollable legislative power,” (John Thatcher January) when he said that “the people of these colonies consider themselves as British subjects, entitled to all the rights and privileges of Freemen. It is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, given personally or by their representatives,” (John Thatcher January). This crime against the American's natural rights was Thatcher's reason for joining the Continental Army. John Thatcher’s personal accounts, which many Continental Army man and militia would agree upon as their motives too, supports the movie and also shows the impact the first Age of Enlightenment had on the people in the American colonies.

The movie “The Patriot” took place during the revolutionary war. The revolutionary war is one of the most pivotal moments in world history. It’s 1776 and the intense fighting was going on in the north, while in the south the people are scrambling to recruit anyone who was willing to fight the British (1). A fledgling collection of royal colonies dared to rebel against a kingdom that had provided them protection and even the very land they inhabited. However, the colonies no longer desired protection at the expense of liberty, they began to understand that security without liberty is really not security at all. However, in the movie should have been more focused on the actual American Revolution than on the story line concerning Benjamin Martin and his family (1). Instead of doing this, the movie focuses on Benjamin's eldest son Gabriel who was eager to get in on the action, and signs up with the rebel forces against his father's wishes, joins the fight against the British. The fuel of determination to fight ignited as Gabriel seek revenge for his beloved but

1776 is a film about the path to American independence. Specifically the actions and conversations that the continental congress took part in. John Adams is the first character that is introduced in the movie. He has proposed the Idea of American independence before the congress 23 times and has been rejected every time because Adams is perceived as obnoxious and disliked within the congress. Adams goes to Benjamin Franklin for help getting congress to listen to him and Franklin suggests that they get Richard Henry Lee to propose Independence instead of Adams, because the congressmen like Lee more than Adams. Richard Lee then proceeds to go to his home colony of Virginia to get approval for the resolution. Lee comes back to Philadelphia

You have been taught that this is the universe you live in. A universe where you, according to the Constitution, have rights as Americans. The right to be yourselves, no matter who you are, and what you do. You’re about to go into a whole other world in V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. V for Vendetta is about a future totalitarian world in England, where fascism has taken over, and the government force is so great that you have been forced to believe that you’re not individual, and that only the government tells you who you are. Life in this type of society is really disturbing, because there is no individualism, we are constantly manipulated, and there’s a twisted concept about heroes and villains.

The “Patriot” takes place in South Carolina in 1776 during the Revolutionary War. It is a story about a widowed father of seven, named Benjamin Martin. Benjamin was involved in the French and Indian War before marrying and starting a family. He is reluctant to join the conflict as he remembers too well his own experience in the earlier French and Indian War. After his wife passed away he does everything to keep his family together and away from war. He is a patriot who wants no part in a war with Britain.