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Re: The Patriot



But films can be based on actual events ... which is not the same as
stating that they ARE the actual event.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Archives & Archivists [mailto:ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU]On Behalf
> Of Jim Cross
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 12:32 PM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Re: The Patriot
>
> I understand that it is sometimes necessary to rearrange events and invent
> dialogue for conversations that happened (or are likely to have happened)
> for which no verbatim historical record exists. And I can forgive *slight*
> inaccuracies in historical details when it is done to enhance the
> cinematography (a maroon village on a river) or make it clear to the
> audience what is going on (Tarleton's Legion wearing red coats instead of
> green). Having said all that, I wish that Hollywood would just go ahead and
> do fiction, rather than say the movie is "based on" a historical personage
> or "on actual events."

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