Essay # 1
Humanities 105
Comp ared Films: Gandhi & The Patriot
Non-violence is the greatest force of mankind; it is mightier than the mightiest mechanism of destruction devised by the ingenuity of men. - Mahatma Gandhi.
This war will be fought, not on the frontier or on well-nigh distant battlefield, but amongst us, among our homes. Our children will learn of it with their own eyes. And the unreserved will die with the rest of us. - Benjamin Martin.
The British are coming ! To a theatre near you...
An Essay By Henning Thiel
The British have often been depicted as oppressors in feature films. In 1980 Richard Attenborough take Gandhi and more recently, in 2000, Roland Emmerich filmed The Patriot. Both movies can be analyzed in regards to the oppressors, the oppressed and the tactics of resolving the conflicts. While Gandhi tries to stay admittedly to historical events, The Patriot uses history as a back-story to a fictional Hollywood tale of revenge. Because of this difference, the individual characters and the British empire are portrayed differently, though there are similarities as well.
The films neither glorify nor demonize the British Forces as a whole, unless both movies have a specific British character that stands out.
In Gandhi the antagonist is the entire British force, however they use habitual Dyer as an extremist, when he shoots 1516 Indians with 1650 bullets at the Amritsar massacre. General Dyer is shown remorseful in the following court martial scene, eon Colonel Tavington from The Patriot is demonized beyond redemption when he kills Benjamin Martins male child Thomas. Both films redeem some British characters by having them experience with the oppressed. In Gandhi, a judge clearly doesnt agree with a sentence he has to put upon Mahatma and in The Patriot there are several scenes...
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