At the point where father has to think about the family and decide, his son is free from doubts and he is sure of what to do. The brutal past, the responsibility of the family he holds and the tragedy that enters in his life again, altogether makes him a solemn and controlled man. It is complicated for him to go back to the life of a warrior because now he has the responsibility of his family. Later on, in the movie Benjamin Martin is put in decisive situation where he has to look into the consequences and step ahead. Mel Gibson has remarkably played the role of the father in this movie. These colonies were required to pay taxes in the form of sugar, currency and other charges, but they denied paying the taxes because they were not able to do so for this imposition (Emmerich).īenjamin attains the nature of war once again despite of his hatred of warfare. This movie also introduces the war of French and Indians in which the Britain was divided into 12 colonies. The movie also holds the trait of the protagonist as a character of a warrior, who is made a hero of the war by the comrades but he leaves his past behind and moves to South Carolina where he is married to a woman and lives with his 7 children. Benjamin Martin was fearful about his brutal past (Emmerich). He found out that the only way-out for him to save his family is to fight in the honor of family. The reason behind his attainment of arms and the transformation to another character is the risk and danger his family enters when the war broke out. Benjamin Martin holds arms with his young son Gabriel and joins the persistent red coat army. Mel Gibson in this mellow dramatic movie is shown as a man of honor and family. The cast includes Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs, Chris Cooper, Adam Baldwin, Rene Auberjonois, Donal Logue, Tcheky Karyo, and Tom Wilkinson. This movie’s star power is on the shoulder of Mel Gibson (Emmerich). This movie starts off from the scene of independence declaration o South Carolina in 1776. The movie centralized the character of Mel Gibson in different range of roles in the first place he plays a role of a father who becomes a war hero in order to take care of his children and for the future. His wife died during the child birth and lives with his children. He has been portrayed as the protagonist in the movie who loves his family. Mel Gibson in the movie plays the character of Benjamin Martin. But to the extent it’s successful in portraying the history. This movie not even stands out to comparison with Brave heart. The Patriot is a movie that is not larger than life.