The Patriot

The Patriot (2000)

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Other mistake: When Martin and his younger sons attack the soldiers Gabriel sent to their camp, the body count totals 20. That includes the private who gets up and tries to run that Martin hacks to death. Later when Tavington is questioning the wounded private the Cherokee scouts brought in, he indicates he was in the fight. But Tavington states 20 soldiers were killed and the ambush shows 20 being killed. Where did the private come from?

kaevanoff

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Suggested correction: There are 21 soldiers in the group. Samuel kills one with a rifle. Nathan kills six with a rifle. Benjamin kills four with his rifles, one with a pistol, six with his knife and tomahawk, two with redcoat rifles, and shoots the injured man into the stream.

LorgSkyegon

Continuity mistake: In the final confrontation between Benjamin and Tavington, when Tavington is charging and Benjamin is running at him with the flag, during the closeups of Benjamin, he's charging at Tavington, but when the focus shifts to Tavington, Benjamin can be seen in the foreground already kneeling, with the shaft of the flag planted in the ground. This back and forth occurs 2 or 3 times and each time Benjamin's position is different, until he flips Tavington's horse.

kaevanoff

Continuity mistake: In the final battle (Cowpens) when the milita are lined up, and Ben says "Take aim!" the first time, watch the guy behind Ben. The camera will show Ben and Jean(French guy). It will then show the line of milita aiming. Then the camera goes back to Ben and Jean. There is a different guy behind them. (02:32:35)

kinf2

Continuity mistake: In the scene where the boys go down to the river and see the bodies floating, Benjamin tells his daughter to go bring them back. As she is running through the field you see her trip into the grass right before they switch camera shots. where she is standing with her brothers like nothing happened. (00:24:45)

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Benjamin Martin: Before this war is over, I'm going to kill you.
Colonel William Tavington: Why wait?

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Trivia: By the time Heath Ledger won this role, he was flat broke. He recalled, 'It came to the point where I had like, no money.' He was practically living on Ramen noodles by that time. This was because he 'got nothing offers to do these teen movies and television sitcoms', and he refused to do them due to the 'very little depth' of the scripts. By the time he was accepted for The Patriot, he said later, 'I guess I put myself in a situation where I didn't belong. But saying no turned out to be more valuable than saying yes.'

Allister Cooper, 2011

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Question: Whats the name of the theme when the trailer shows the tagline 'before they were soldiers, they were family'?

Answer: I think the one you want is 'Unseen' - By Craig Armstrong which is track 2 on the Plunkett and Macleane soundtrack.

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