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Scenes We Love: The Patriot
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I can already feel the heat of the historians rising at the very title of this post, so let me begin by saying that there's no doubt that The Patriot isn't a good film. It bears very little resemblance to anything that our forefathers did in 1777, and is enjoyable only as a piece of frock coat fantasy. If you watch it in the same historical mindset you'd watch The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in, it's quite enjoyable and a decent way to spend a fireworkless Fourth.
I watch it purely for Jason Isaacs, whose Col. Tavington might as well be twirling a mustache and tying a heroine to the train tracks. You can practically hear the filmmakers going "I still don't think the English are coming off evil enough. How about he kills off some more women and children? And how about another one of Mel Gibson's kids?" But it doesn't matter how many atrocities he commits in the name of the Crown, I still root for him not only because he's handsome, but because I'm a bit of a Loyalist. Part of me wishes my Virginia ancestors hadn't decided to forgo afternoon tea, fish and chips, the BBC, and the National Rail. But hey, then I wouldn't be here on Cinematical with you fine people, so it's all worked out for the best.
With that, here's one of my favorite scenes from The Patriot. Sure, I could post the tomahawk scene (much cooler), but in a movie full of over-the-top moments, nothing makes me laugh harder than the loss of Cornwallis' supply ship, and Isaacs' reaction.
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Warners Preps Bio of Revolutionary War Hero Nathan Hale
Filed under: Action », Drama », Warner Brothers », War »
Few people today remember what Nathan Hale is famous for. Even in my home state of Connecticut, where he's officially recognized as our State Hero, he is probably often thought of as just another one of the many Revolutionary War patriots we learned about in high school. Perhaps you have a good enough memory to link him with his most famous quote, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" (which may have been actually ripped off from a contemporary play)? Well, don't worry if you haven't held on to your history book knowledge; that is what we have Hollywood for. Warner Bros. will be producing a biopic about Hale, based on M. William Phelps' upcoming book "For the Sake of Liberty: America's First Spy."I'll watch just about any movie set during the American Revolution -- heck, I even enjoy The Patriot -- so I'll be looking forward to this. Even though it's being produced by one of the men responsible for Wild Wild West (Barry Josephson), as long as it features Rebels versus Red Coats, I'm down. I'm actually curious to see how the film depicts Hale's first and only espionage mission, an undercover operation that ended tragically with his hanging. The only versions of the story I've read, which are short, textbook writings, make him seem, in my opinion, to have been an awful spy. After all, his cover was blown and he was found out rather quickly. Phelps' new biography may shed some new light on what actually went down, but regardless, Hale was something of a failure, though a very heroic failure nonetheless. The studio may want to cast an actor who doesn't have a reputation for being a chameleon.
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