I assume you do know they were British subjects at the time. There was no sentiment of independency at that time. They were LOYAL British subjects. In 1755, he wasn’t in the least bit close to any kind of “conversion to “American revolutionary ideals”.
That “conversion” would happen many years later after he had become mired in the mercantilistic relation with England, where many Colonial farmers were in hock to British merchants who sold them goods at an unfair exchange rate. If anything, it was probably the Stamp Act that began to drive him inexorably towards a separation, and that was a somewhat exponential rise with a long, gradual slope, then suddenly spiking upwards as they moved past the Boston Massacre in 1773.
They weren’t fighting for “liberty” at that time. That would have been historically inaccurate to the point of absurdity. And, they would have absolutely cheered for “Virgina”. 100% they would have cheered for Virginia.
That is an accurate portrayal of his actions at that time. Horse shot out, bullet holes in his coat and his hat, that is all true.
But the movie wasn’t made to show George Washington as he was in 1775. It was made to show him in 1755, and the various things that turned him into the George Washington history largely knows him as.
Er, the Boston Massacre in 1770, not 1773. But you get the point.
>>>But the movie wasn’t made to show George Washington as he was in 1775. It was made to show him in 1755
Something they didn’t really emphasize in the previews or promotions.
Also, they failed to dig very deep at all into why God protected him so. It wasn’t his “destiny” as much as it was his faith. Of all the books he was portrayed to have read in this film, I don’t think the bible was mentioned once.