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Re: The Patriot



I know exactly what you are talking about... we've meshed a few characters
at work in order to make the interpretation easier and more understandable.

Kristin Torgerson

Historic Saint Mary's City
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From: Jill Schneider <jschnidr@USGS.GOV>
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Subject: Re: The Patriot


> Yes - and a character can be INSPIRED by an actual person without being
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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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> > 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
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> > green). Having said all that, I wish that Hollywood would just go ahead
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> > do fiction, rather than say the movie is "based on" a historical
> personage
> > or "on actual events."
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