It’s finally time to review Patton! I have a lot to say about it, as you can tell by the time stamp. Way back when I started the Based on a True Story series, the second episode was a bit about what I considered to be the best ones - and this movie was at the top. I love this film, but for more reasons than most of you could know - so this is going to be a deep dive into the film and it’s subject matter. It’s ambiguous, narrowed in subject, and just a perfect examination of the man. As the New Yorker said during the movie’s release, “[Patton] appears to be deliberately planned as a Rorschach test.” ------------------------------------------------------------ references: Brian Sobel and George S. Patton IV, The Fighting Pattons (Westport: Praeger Publishing, 1997). https://amzn.to/2u2WI57 MacMillan Compendium, America at War (New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 1994), 726-727. https://amzn.to/2m6o4mx John Keegan and Andrew Wheatcroft, Who’s Who in Military History: from 1453 to the Present Day, (London: Routledge, 1996), 231-232. https://amzn.to/2KWv53M Paul Fussell, “Patton,” in Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies, ed. Mark Carnes (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996). https://amzn.to/2J5iGc7 Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen, Based on a True Story: Fact and Fantasy in 100 Favorite Movies, (Chicago: A Cappella Books, 2005), 269-272. https://amzn.to/2m2sSZQ Frank Sanello, Reel v. Real: How Hollywood Turns Fact into Fiction (Lanham: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2003), 177-181. https://amzn.to/2N072BB http://www.historynet.com/patton-film-real-reel.htm https://dailyhistory.org/How_accurate_is_the_movie_Patton%3F http://jbell2ja.umwblogs.org/history-in-film-patton/ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/nov/27/patton-history-secondworldwar-general https://www.moviemistakes.com/film960 Special thanks to my mom, dad, and uncle for making sure this was accurate and providing media for the end bit, especial