... characteristics that would be most emotionally appealing to the audience and used them to "create" the historical personalities. The main character Benjamin Martin is played by Mel Gibson. On the DVD the producer Dean Develin says that this character is "based on Thomas Sumter, Andrew Pickens, Francis Marion, and bits and pieces of few others." All three of these historical characters ... ...

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