Revolution, 1985, an overview

The American Revolution in the beginning was one that was made by the13 colonies in the promise of independence and freedom of rights for the people of the Patriotic colonies. The colonists wanted their own rights and the prelude had been the imposing of taxation and other heavy laws by the government of Britain, though their parliament. The movie, namely Revolution, also depicts the same American Revolution, except the fact that it portrays the life of Tom Dobbs across the seven years I which the storyline of the film is spanned out. This essay will raise the issues that are brought up in the movie as well as in the readings, in terms of gender, race, etc. and mention if the movie was historically accurate or not.

Firstly, the movie is based on gender and race quite accurately. It shows the existence and work of only men in the field of battle rather than women, who are shown to be more of the home-type gender that are left to look after the injured as well as left to cook and do all the chores that are needed in war, while the men are shown to be fighting and readily trying to kill or injure each other. Even in the decision making and persuading attempts, men are shown to be the forefront leaders within the film. This issue is somewhat right and accurately depicted since much of this remains to be the actual truth in the American Revolution as well.

Furthermore, Race is also show to be an issue in the manner that it looks as if only White Caucasian men were present in the war. In actuality, Black African Americans did fight during the war, as the events’ history proves and shows quite frequently. However, the movie misses this fact completely as mostly White men are shown to be fighting in the major battles and defending the colonies on their own. The entire political framework shows no existence of Black African Americans. In reality, there were Black African Americans surrounding the government in a manner that they did have low level jobs in the government of the unified colonists.  However, the movie fails to show these issues as well.

The issue of brutality is ignored when it comes to the colonial practices during the American Revolution, while the Brutality of Colonials was extremely high in actual history of the American Revolution. Similarly, the British brutality is shown to be condescending and over-important when in reality, British brutality was not necessarily as high as shown within the movie, in relevance to the American Revolution. Furthermore, the importance of the French helping the colonies in defeating the British military during the American Revolution is also not mentioned or given much credit throughout the film. This goes to show that while the film could have been historically accurate, it showed biasedness in its motives of representing the American Revolution way too much in the favor of the Colonists and therefore, a historically accurate resolve is not given within the movie.

When it comes to the question of how Common middling were made to support the American Revolution, the answer is quite simple. The American Revolution gained support through the promise of free land, free rights, and independence from the British Royal aristocracy and monarchy. Hatred was also fueled in the people of the colonies so as to make sure that the colonists were made to fight against the British enemies with more vigor than ever shown before. Furthermore, it was also made adamant that the fortune of such fights would also reside in the hands of the middling, as they were large in numbers yet ready to sacrifice themselves for independence and freedom form their rulers. The middling were also made to support the cause of the American Revolution as they were made promises of more valuables and earnings than they could have earned if they supported the British royalty and the aristocracy that had maintained authority over the colonies for so long.

The promises made to the American middling, who had been trying to fight of taxations and other imposed act laws of the British government through their parliament, were not all provided at the end of the American Revolution. Freedom and independence was give duly, but security, valuables, and everything else was not given as promised. Moreover, countless losses were instead accounted for by the middling and they were left in the middle to hag like their predecessors as they were merely used as pawns, who would be used again in the coming times so as to benefit the Colonist superiors just like the superiors had wanted.

When it comes to the question of whether or not the goals of the upper sort were the same  as the patriotic interests of the common folk, the answer is no. The goals of the upper sort looked upon control of the entire regions, along with unification. However, they did not look to share the entire value with the people of the colonies and in turn, wanted to keep much for themselves. However, the Founding fathers had a different mentality and it can be said that their goals were the same as the patriotic interests of the common folk. This is because the people of the common folk wanted to see a rise in the nation’s living standards, betterment of life within all the colonies, as well as a more secure life for everyone within such colonies.

Therefore, it is discussed as to what the issues were mentioned in both the film as well as the readings. It is also mentioned as to how these issues were spotted and how they are provided through examples from the movie. It is also mentioned as to whether or not the promises were mentioned or not It is also mentioned as to whether the patriotic interests of the common folk and the goals of the upper sort were similar or not. Hence, it can be concluded that while the film and readings may have a lot of issues to resolve, they have still been quite accurate in most of the portrayals that took place within the American Revolution, even if biasedness is present throughout the readings and the film in a way.