Revolutionary War Commercial Analysis

Starting this assignment, I did a quick google search of “commercials about the Revolutionary War”, there was only one commercial that stood out, as it was the most popular one, a Dodge Revolutionary War commercial.The commercial starts out with the “red coats” aiming their weapons at an open field, preparing for battle. We get an image of General George Washington, leading his army while driving a Dodge that also has an American flag hanging from it, and the “red coats” running in the opposite direction. As the British are running away, we hear the narrator say “here’s a couple of things America got right, cars and freedom.” The commercial is to persuade someone to buy a Dodge Challenger. You see someone who is widely known for his greatness
The commercial starts off with soldiers in a tent talking about the men they had lost during battle. 2 men find a wandering dog and bring him to General Washington, they believe that this is the dog of General Howe. They decide to give the dog back and issue a truce. The commercial states that “General Howe called the return of his dog the honorable act of a fine gentleman”, then the commercial states that Washington’s letter that he had attached to the dog still exists in the Library if Congress. The commercial proceeds to say that dogs bring out the good in us. Obviously, this was not how the war ended, and I am not sure that this commercial was a good depiction of the war. The colonies and the British very much hated each other, therefore calling a truce over a dog would be unrealistic. The main goal of the commercial was to persuade people to own a dog because owning a dog will bring out the good in you, and when you own your dog you must feed it Pedigree
This commercial had to do with Turbotax, as they were advertising their free tax filing. In the commercial we saw colonists (not dressed as Native Americans as we know is what actually happened) dumping crates of tea into the harbor, while a man is chanting “No taxation without representation”, which is an anti-British slogan that started before the American Revolution. A small British boat then interrupts them and tells them about the free tax filing incentive. Since the colonists have their taxes done for free they stop fighting. I felt that this was a good depiction of the war, although the Boston Tea Party did not happen like that at all. But as for the taxing, if the British would have stopped the taxing of the colonists then the war may not have ever happened. The commercial is to persuade someone to file their taxes with TurboTax because of their free incentive, they decided to use the American Revolution as the basis of the commercial because the war was fought over taxes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXqmMZ2JbRI)
While researching for this assignment, I found a great website called Journals of the American Revolution (https://allthingsliberty.com/). What I have found about this website is that it is basically an overview of the latest research and scholarship in American Revolution studies, they have writers who write short journals about the people and things associated with the American Revolution