The Patriot: Mel Gibson

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Is it possible to accurately portray the American Revolution, and still become popular? The Patriot, a fantastic movie, certainly tried, but did it succeed? The Patriot is a movie starring Mel Gibson, following the story of a revolutionary with a troubled past. In this essay, you will explore the history, production, and plot of this movie. In The Patriot, you will find the setting in the American Revolutionary period. This is a particularly hard setting to nail, for that period is very easy to inaccurately represent, due to the general glorifying of the times in the American public. The movie, however, keeps a relatively accurate picture, showing the major French involvement, the militias of the Americans, and showed plenty of the horrors