The Patriot CaseEssay Preview: The Patriot CaseReport this essayThe Patriot starring Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger was produced by Columbia Pictures Corporation. The film was released on June 28th 2000 and was recorded in South Carolina and was directed by Roland Emmerich. Four months after the film debuted it had grossed $113,330,342 and had aired on a total of 3061 different American movie theater screens (IMDB).
The setting of the movie was in the year 1776 in a colonial state of South Carolina. The French-Indian war had only previously been concluded in which Benjamin Martin, played by Mel Gibson, had partaken in. Martin now only wants to live peacefully with his family who had been faced by the loss of their mother when the youngest child was born. Going against his fathers will Gabriel, played by Heath Ledger enlists in the Army when South Carolina voted to go to war against Great Britain. Soon after his enlistment, Gabriel returns home exhausted and wounded for rest which creates a dilemma for Benjamin that results in his entire plantation being burned to the ground and his young murdered by Colonel William Tavington played by Jason Isaacs.
Benjamin is then fueled by retaliation and decides to return into battle in hopes to have his revenge against Col. Tavington. He and his two boys begin by battling an entire British brigade with an intuitive and more sophisticated approach by taking to the hills and using their surroundings to conduct combat. Traditional battles were fought with two armies facing each other by firing rounds until they were either dead, or out of ammunition at which time they would fight using swords.
Benjamin now knowing that he could not have his shot at revenge with Tavington without a group of men goes into town and signs up any man willing to enlist in his militia. The group that decided to join seems to be one of every type of man that would be common to a small town including a pastor, wild spirited American Veteran, and a slave who is driven to fight and earn his freedom.
Early on in the movie Benjamins oldest son gives reference to a war that his father fought in during the French and Indian war called the battle at Ft. Wilderness and questioned what took place that made had his father so famous. Later in the movie Benjamin gives an account of what took place, and describes how he ravished a small Native American village with killing specifically women and children. “We caught up with them at Fort Wilderness. We took our time. We cut them apart slowly, piece by piece. I can see their faces. I can still hear their screams. All but two. We let them live. We placed the heads on a pallet and sent them back with the two that lived to Fort Ambercon. The eyes, tongues, fingers, we put in baskets; sent them down the Asheulot to the Cherokee. Soon after, the Cherokee broke their treaty with the French. Thats how we justified it. We were heroes” (Emmerich, 2000). The historical relevance of this is completely false since there was
a long ago between the first Spanish and the French, and the treaty with the French was signed in 1918. During the French victory, and the conflict, the French wanted to protect the Native population. They wanted us to be heroes, too. (Emmerich, 2000).>(Emmerich, 2000).>It was a big success, and he had to go back to Texas and get his dad killed. But what was the best way to get him killed? A few weeks later when the treaty between the French and the Indians was signed he was killed by U.S. Cavalry and taken prisoner of the U.S. Army at Cassel. This didn’t stop him from going and fighting their American Civil War foes in Georgia. I don’t have enough of that in my head to say he’s not a badass, but we can say that he is a true legend within the United States Military. He actually got a B, for going to fight these Confederates and his Army of the Potos was, you know, well organized. But also, he’s an incredible artist. He used to paint these little red horses all over the battlefield with his brush, and a bunch of this huge, big white bull was riding past and there was a big gun blazing across it. All he could think of was, what did that guy do in that little red horse? Did he not know what it was? He shot it down, and he would still think of what happened in the White Sands and stuff. (Emmerich, 2000). So let’s talk about the other things he could be capable of. Of course he could make a good movie. This is his greatest skill. His talent for making a good movie is astounding. He gets people to like him and he works with him. He knows how to set the tone. He could make a successful movie and never change it. We can talk about all the times Benjamins is a good filmmaker and he’s just one of those great movies which is all, but he’s definitely not as good a filmmaker as we might think. Of course there are some flaws with Benjamins movies „ we’ll talk more about that one later in the day. He probably had one of those bad ass films and he just had it so good. (Emmerich, 2000). It was one of the best documentaries in this category of movies. It was done by a team of artists, and they decided that it’s their time to film that. To get it done, they had to shoot them on a tripod. It took us four days to reach a place where it became a studio. It took us ten days to work it out. Each day we would shoot on a different tripod, but once it was done those two days on different locations where the tripod would not shoot all of the time. It was so boring. The process of taking photos or looking into the camera or something like that was like an elaborate show in which you would look into the camera, you would make sure everything was done properly and you would be able to walk around with your arms out. (Emmerich, 2000).Benjamin’s career, it just comes out of that. He’s a great person. He likes to work real hard and take care of the big picture. He never gives away what it’s for money. But he loves his craft. Benjamin is a great artist, and if he was in charge of some of these bad ass movies, it was certainly not that. And he can get himself into something that he can’t even win. So that’s one of his biggest weaknesses as a filmmaker. When you look up at things. You look at actors playing roles like, if you can do