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Re: The Patriot
Yes - and a character can be INSPIRED by an actual person without being
that person!
Jill L Schneider
USGS - Alaska Technical Data Unit
907-786-7457
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http://tundra.wr.usgs.gov/wrmrsAK/
Andrea Leigh
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But films can be based on actual events ... which is not the same as
stating that they ARE the actual event.
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> From: Archives & Archivists [mailto:ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU]On
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> Of Jim Cross
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> 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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