Is the Patriot a true representation of real events

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Is the Patriot a true representation of real
events?
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Introduction In
this PowerPoint presentation you will learn about
the American war of Independence and how the
British government made their own laws which
started the war. You will also find out about the
film The Patriot and how it is biased. This
Project is in two halves one about the real thing
and one about the Film.
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The Real Events of the American
Independence!
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The Declaration of Independence

• The American colonies fell out with Britain
  because the British were helped to defeat France
  by the American colonists, but the British didnt
  thank them.

• On 4th July 1776 the colonists sent the British
  government the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

• This stated that the colonists were now the
  UNITED STATE OF AMERICA.

• It was written by Thomas Jefferson.

• It said that all men should be free and equal
  and everyone had the right to freedom and
  happiness.

Thomas Jefferson
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What happened to the American colonies?

• Goods were being transported in and out of
  America on British ships, This made the colonists
  very angry.

• The British brought in the stamp act in 1765.
  This meant that the colonists had to pay taxes
  for newspapers and legal documents.

• The tax was to pay for the British Army in
  America.

• The colonists refused to pay the tax.

• The British applied taxes to the good going to
  America.

• This made the colonists angry and led to a riot
  in Boston, in 1770.

• Five people were killed because the British
  soldiers fired upon the crowd.

• In 1773 a cargo of tea arrived at the port of
  Boston. The ships were raided by the colonists
  and they dumped 340 chests of tea into the
  harbour.

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• They did this because they were protesting about
  having to pay tax for it.

• The British closed the port and sent in soldiers
  to keep order.

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The Film The Patriot
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The good points of the film
The film has good points that happened or may
still happen now in big massacres, such as

• The bloody events.

• The Power of the canon ball e.g. although its
  not going fast its got charged power inside it.

• How close the battle range would be.

• How inaccurate the guns would be, because the
  round bullets were too small for the barrel, the
  bullets would bounce off the insides of the
  barrel and wouldnt come out straight.

• The black people being taken as slaves.

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The bad points of the film
The film the Patriot is a bad representation of
the real thing as it changes several things such
as

• The small boy dying to make the father join the
  American army.

• The use of explosives.

• How biased they were being on the English e.g.
  everything they did was evil.

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The Americans

• The Americans were in red clothes.

• They could change there ranks easily as a higher
  ranked solider could do the job, all he had to do
  was say so.

• The Americans got help from the France as they
  couldnt wait kill the English.

• They had a good leader that out smartened the
  English, the English called him The Ghost .

• They would hide in corn fields and wait for
  English solider to go by, and then shoot them.
  This was called Gorilla fighting.

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The English

• The English were in Blue clothes.

• The English had better tac-tics than the
  Americans.

• The English would kill any black man that
  wouldnt be a slave and fight against
  America.

• They didnt believe in the American rules of
  war.

• Not every English and American citizen wanted to
  go to war.

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About the film.

• The film was written by Robert Rodat.

• Robert Rodat was American.

• He made the film because he hated the the
  English and he wanted to show how brutal they
  behaved and that is why the film is biased.

Robert Rodat
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Conclusion
In this investigation I have watched the Patriot
and researched on the American war of
independence. I have learnt lots of things that I
didnt know before this investigation.
I think the film was a good image on the war of
independence and the fiction part was good too
as it pulled the audients in. But the film was
not a true representation of the real thing.
By Andrew Sykes 8tr