There isn’t many films about the American Revolution, and the ones that have been made have either bombed at the box office or been accused of distorting the truth.
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Possibly because the story is kind of boring, there isnt really very much that happens. The British tend to sit around and sip tea in the parlors of loyalists, the colonists are always out in the woods, camped out, starving and freezing, people riding horses, and when there is some action, such as a battle skirmish, it isnt very exciting by todays standards, a few pops from some muskets then its back into the woods. Compare those scenes with movies like Terminator or the Matrix or Die Hard.
I can only think of two such movies, The Patriot with Mel Gibson, and a documentary about George Washington on History Channel, both decent productions, but still kinda boring–and I’m a History buff who should enjoy this sorta thing.
I just think that the 17th century wasnt very exciting to us today, and its difficult to make it seem so
on the big screen.
The story of the Revolution just doesnt translate well into a movie.
It’s difficult to find places in a Revolutionary War movie for gratuitous sex scenes and nipple shots, which causes them to bomb in the box office.
Rabble in Arms was a big hit in the 1950s, along with numerous other RW films, but that was before the public demanded seeing a woman atop a man in the heights of sexual pleasure or a glance at the private anatomy of some superstar female.
Fact is, probably they’ve dragged out plots by that means of not furthering anything the public’s become immune and they’ve seen the same scene, different actress so many times they need some special gore, blood and guts across the ceiling to be a croud pleaser.
There are no compelling stories from the American Revolution. This is do in part to the teaching of the American Revolution in schools. It is usually a short synopsis of the events leading up to the war and a brief summary of the war itself. Remember fiction in the United States dates from the times of Poe and Hawthorne which took place in the mid-18th century.Moby Dick was the first great adventure story and only 50 copies had been sold when the author Herman Melville died. We know of George Washington as the Father of our country, but there is no flamboyance surrounding him. Thomas Jefferson was active as an ambassador to France during the Revolution, not in the colonies. Certainly no personalities like Lincoln and Lee from the Civil War were celebrated in our history. Although Lee’s father was a famous general at the time that fought in the American Revolution. Ben Franklin is a famous person from the American Revolution, but not connected in the minds of today’s average American. It would take a fictionalized story from the time of the Revolution to make the grade as a blockbuster movie, and there are none. The Last of the Mohican’s by James Fenimore Cooper which covered the French and Indian War that started 20 years before the American Revolution won an oscar for Daniel Day-Lewis, and most people can’t even recall a single event in that war because it took place in a very small part of colonial America.
When the world is full of war in real time most people are on guard for their lives, grant them this much. Hollywood has made enough money from tragedy, give it a break. The great stories of the past belong to those who have died for their generation, the stories should rest with the departed , after all, they gave their all for the time they were called into action. If their story had no ending then you would probably be able to finish another chapter, but the story had an ending as most stories do.
probably because the ones that have been accused of tweeking the truth probably did because they were writing it in their eyes and in their perspective, which is fine, but that’s not how the government wants it. that’s what i think is probably the case but i’m not sure…hahaha hope this could help :]