History Buffs: Braveheart
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Braveheart is a 1995 historical drama epic film directed by and starring Mel Gibson. Gibson portrays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England. The story is based on Blind Harry's epic poem The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace and was adapted for the screen by Randall Wallace.
The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards at the 68th Academy Awards and won five: Best Picture, Best Makeup, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing, and Best Director.
Randall Wallace, who wrote the screenplay, has acknowledged Blind Harry's 15th century epic poem The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie as a major inspiration for the film.[26] In defending his script, Randall Wallace has said, "Is Blind Harry true? I don't know. I know that it spoke to my heart and that's what matters to me, that it spoke to my heart."[26] Blind Harry's poem is now not regarded as historically accurate, and although some incidents in the film which are not historically accurate are taken from Blind Harry (e.g. the hanging of Scottish nobles at the start), [27] there are large parts which are based neither on history nor Blind Harry (e.g. Wallace's affair with Princess Isabelle).
Elizabeth Ewan describes Braveheart as a film which "almost totally sacrifices historical accuracy for epic adventure".[28] The "brave heart" refers in Scottish history to that of Robert the Bruce, and an attribution by William Edmondstoune Aytoun, in his poem Heart of Bruce, to Sir James the Good Douglas: "Pass thee first, thou dauntless heart, As thou wert wont of yore!", prior to Douglas' demise at the Battle of Teba in Andalusia.[29] It has been described as one of the most historically inaccurate modern films.[30]
Sharon Krossa notes that the film contains numerous historical errors, beginning with the wearing of belted plaid by Wallace and his men. In that period "no Scots ... wore belted plaids (let alone kilts of any kind)." Moreover, when Highlanders finally did begin wearing the belted plaid, it was not "in the rather bizarre style depicted in the film". She compares the inaccuracy to "a film about Colonial America showing the colonial men wearing 20th century business suits, but with the jackets worn back-to-front instead of the right way around."[31] "The events aren't accurate, the dates aren't accurate, the characters aren't accurate, the names aren't accurate, the clothes aren't accurate—in short, just about nothing is accurate."[32] The belted plaid (feileadh mór léine) was not introduced until the 16th century.[33] Peter Traquair has referred to Wallace's "farcical representation as a wild and hairy highlander painted with woad (1,000 years too late) running amok in a tartan kilt (500 years too early)." [34]
In 2009, the film was second on a list of "most historically inaccurate movies" in The Times.[30] In the humorous non-fictional historiography An Utterly Impartial History of Britain (2007), author John O'Farrell notes that Braveheart could not have been more historically inaccurate, even if a "Plasticine dog" had been inserted in the film and the title changed to William Wallace and Gromit.
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All serious historians know the true story of William Wallace. He was 7 ft. tall, shot fireballs from his eyes, and lightning bolts from his arse. The End
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The scene where Princess Isabella and her friend are speaking French in order to avoid being understood forgets that the English royal household' daily language was French-- as they were Norman.
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"I'm a man of peace, I'm done killin', I wanna raise a family!" "That's just it Tim, they've got your family!" "NOOOO!!!!!"
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“Historians from England will say I am a liar” Historians from Scotland and pretty much everywhere else say the same thing.
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Apparently someone asked Gibson why he shot the Battle of "Stirling" in a field. He told them the bridge got in the way. They replied "That's what the English found."
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Braveheart is one of those movies that is damn near perfect as a piece of fiction but total hogwash as non-fiction.
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So you’re telling me basically the only true thing in the movie is that William Wallace was Scottish correct? LOL
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you should do Troy next, I know it can't be accurate, Sean Bean didn't even die in that movie.
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William Wallace is actually a T1000 and is a time travelling Scottish cyborg android killing machine. “Haggis la vista baby”
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It kills me when King Edward orders his longbowmen to fire upon the English soldiers. The real Edward Longshanks might have been a cruel man but he wasn't stupid. It just seemed like the film wanted to portray Edward as some cartoon villain instead of a real person.
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The whole trope of a man wanting to live a quiet life on a farm, only for it to be destroyed by imperialists, so the man takes up arms and joins a rebellion makes me think of Star Wars.
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When we where studying the first war of Scottish independence, and the teacher couldn't be bothered teaching he put on this and told us to count the inaccuracies
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The actual battle of Stirling Bridge sounds 100x more badass than some generic open field fight. How did they not go with that???
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“Unless William Wallace was a teleporting pedophile-“ You can’t confirm he wasn’t especially not in this movie.
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A friend of mine told me, that Braveheart and The Patriot are an angry Australians jab towards English nobility. Good way to sum it up.
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"Ah, if only the Native Americans believed in freedom, then maybe they would've won" That line gets me every time
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Someone named Blind Harry probably isn't a good source of historical reference.
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The most inaccurate thing about this movie is that Mel Gibson is in it. I’m 100% sure Mel Gibson wasn’t born in the Middle Ages
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I swear right at the start you said "insanely accurate". Didn't you mean to say "inaccurate"?
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Can we agree that James Horner did an amazing job with the score.
