The top mistakes in The Patriot http://www.moviemistakes.com/film958 en Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:55:07 +0000 5692 The beginning starts in 1776. The film ends in the year 1783, a seven year period. The children in the film do not age in that seven years, except the youngest and that is after what I judged a six month period. 5715 In the final battle scene where Benjamin is fighting Tavington one-on-one, the camera angle widens and shows the whole battle scene. In the bottom right corner, you can see another camera filming the action. 57725 In the shot were Benjamin is riding his horse to the top of the hill, the camera pans from left to right and in the distance is the British army. But if you look to the left the trees are way too huge (a bad scale). If Benjamin had ten militamen cut one down, it would have wiped out 1/4 of the British army shown. 5708 When John Billings, a member of the militia, finds his wife and child murdered and his house burned by Tavington's Green Dragoons, he promptly shoots himself in the head. But later in the movie, at the ending battle of Cowpens, you can see him standing in the ranks, getting shot if you look closely. 5742 In the scene after Gabriel dies, the camera pans down from the top and you see the U.S. flag with all fifty stars, but when Benjamin leaves the tent it has only thirteen on it.