What Smith's history film gets right.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Historian Garry Adelman says Will Smith's forgotten movie set during the Civil War, Emancipation, got some battle details right. Smith portrays a slave named Peter in the action thriller film, who fights against the white Americans who had enslaved him. The movie has received mixed reviews for the way it handles real-life events to tell its story.
Starting at 4:38, the historian described how certain aspects of the battle, such as how loaded guns were handled and how soldiers used their muskets, were historically accurate. Check out a transcription of Adelman's full analysis of the scene below: Soldiers were starting to not only realize that if you could put some dirt, just two feet thick, and maybe a few feet tall, that you're going to preserve life.
I love that moment where there's a soldier who is actually using his bayonet against one of the other soldiers. And then he turns around and a soldier in the back hands him a pre-loaded gun. It's all but impossible to load a gun with a bayonet on the end, so that soldier would have already shot his bullet then put the bayonet on there, and confronted by a new enemy that the guy behind him couldn't shoot at, he simply handed that rifle forward.
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