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 Roland Emmerich, the director, is infamous for his massive set pieces and hundreds of hundreds of extras. Everything that happens in this movie is pretty typical of some of his other historical movies, such as Anonymous (2011), which is about the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare. Explosions, random love interests, lots of dirt and blood, and a romanticized version of the past. -Madison Roberts Roland Emmerich, the director, is infamous for his massive set pieces and hundreds of hundreds of extras. Everything that happens in this movie is pretty typical of some of his other historical movies, such as Anonymous (2011), which is about the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare. Explosions, random love interests, lots of dirt and blood, and a romanticized version of the past. -Madison Roberts
  
-I felt the movie showed that the United States loves to glorify the men who fought in the revolutionary war. In the US the Revolution is thought of as our beginning and to make the men who fought in it look like heros makes the US look good. I thought the scene that captured this best was when Mel Gibson grabs the flag, runs into combat, and flips the horse. +I felt the movie showed that the United States loves to glorify the men who fought in the revolutionary war. In the US the Revolution is thought of as our beginning and to make the men who fought in it look like heros makes the US look good. I thought the scene that captured this best was when Mel Gibson grabs the flag, runs into combat, and flips the horse. --Helen Dhue
  
 This movie was only made 20 years ago. Which doesn't seem like that long ago but the way they portrayed African Americans is really telling. The**y sugarcoated it, the slaves at Benjamin Martins plantation weren't slaves they were just "freed men who work the land". In South Carolina. In 1776. Something doesn't add up here. Any time there was a moment of racial tension which when presented were very light, it was immediately followed with something like the conversation Gabriel had with the African American man in the militia fighting for his freedom.** Gabriel said something along the lines of "In this new world after the war all men will be created equal". Which we know was not the case. If anything this film just trys to gloss over the fact that slavery was a bad thing occurring during this time.- Dan Dilks This movie was only made 20 years ago. Which doesn't seem like that long ago but the way they portrayed African Americans is really telling. The**y sugarcoated it, the slaves at Benjamin Martins plantation weren't slaves they were just "freed men who work the land". In South Carolina. In 1776. Something doesn't add up here. Any time there was a moment of racial tension which when presented were very light, it was immediately followed with something like the conversation Gabriel had with the African American man in the militia fighting for his freedom.** Gabriel said something along the lines of "In this new world after the war all men will be created equal". Which we know was not the case. If anything this film just trys to gloss over the fact that slavery was a bad thing occurring during this time.- Dan Dilks
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