Analysis Of The Film Cold Mountain

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There are a great deal of outstanding movies about historical events. While watching these movies, people don’t usually think about the historical accuracy of the film. They are just drawn into the action, plot, and how well the actors play their roles. The truth behind these movies is somewhat accurate, but writers tend to add in a lot of fiction to capture the audience’s attention. The same goes for the award winning film Cold Mountain. This film starts out showing the Union soldiers placing bombs under near the Confederate lines. While the Union soldiers continue to lay down explosives, the scene redirects the focus on the main character, William P. Inman, who is looking a picture of a girl. Once the Union soldiers detonate the bombs causing mass chaos on the Confederate defense, they charged into the crater caused by the bombs. At this point the scene cuts, and we are shown the first time Inman meets Ada, the girl in the photo. Soon after …show more content…

Inman was in fact a real person. Although his story is quite different from the one portrayed in the film. He lived in a Mountain town called, Waynesville, North Carolina. He and his five brothers enlisted the army. Two of his brothers, Joshua and Lewis, ended up in the same Company as William. While enrolled in the army for several years he would leave and come back, each time given a pardon (Peuser, and Plante). In about 1862-1863 he married Margret Henson, and in 1864 they had a daughter. Soon after she was born was when Inman was shot in the “Battle of the Crater”, and that was when he left the Confederate Army for good (The Real Story of Cold Mountain). It is thought that his brother Lewis was the one who made the journey home with him (Peuser, and Plante). After leaving the army he joined up with Samuel Massey, who worked as a recruiter for the union army out of Knoxville, Tn. One day he was sent to break out prisoners, but was chased into the mountain where he was killed (The Real Story of Cold

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