In Reply to: Re: The Patriot posted by Tom §. on July 5, 2000 at 18:25:53:
I had no idea that his character was supposed to be fashioned after a real person!A southerner who had colored liberated servants in thev 18th century? He would've been hanged! I thought this was pure PC stuff that Hollywood made to invent a character to make his brutality indearing rather than repulse a modern day audience.
I guess the telling of the "secret" was as close to expose his notorious history in a more tolerable way.
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- Re: The Patriot - Mart 21:31:46 07/06/00 (2)
- Re: The Patriot - Tom §. 06:29:54 07/07/00 (1)
- thanks - Mart 07:26:29 07/07/00 (0)