Mansfield Fox

Law student. Yankees fan. Massive fraggle. Just living the American dream.

Friday, November 12, 2004

History Geekery and The Patriot

TNT will be showing the Mel Gibson / Roland Emmerich quasi-historical Revolutionary War epic The Patriot this Sunday at 8:00. The Patriot is one of my favorite bad-history history movies. There are many reasons for this, one of which I'll share but one now: the movie is set primarily in the guerilla war in the Carolina back-country, yet only one character speaks with a notable Southern accent: General Nathaniel Greene, Washington's commander in the South from 1780-83, who was, of course, a Rhode Islander.