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Silly!
Well, well, once again the hacks in Hollywood turn out tripe and try to pass it off as an accurate portrayal of some event or events in history. Are there inaccuracies in this movie? The answer is "YES"! Its full of them. So full of them in fact, that for anyone who actually bothers to look at historic FACT, this movie becomes an absurdity. Here are a few examples of what I mean; First, neither Wallace ( nor anyone else in Scotland at the time this movie depicts ) went around with blue paint smeared over their faces. In FACT, the pagan tribes of Pictish Celts were the last people in the area to paint their faces with blue dye AND THIS WAS IN THE EARLY 4TH CENTURY AD when the Romans occupied the place! Wallace lived at a time almost ten centuries AFTERWARD! If William Wallace (or anyone else of the day) had gone around Scotland with blue paint on their faces, they would have either been run out of the country ( since it was no longer pagan and instead staunchly Christian ) or they would have been executed in some manner as pagans, witches, or as insane and bedeviled by demons. Also, Wallace was NEVER interested in freedom from English rule for Scotland, he was interested in Scottish rule for Wallace and was a rabble-rouser who had too much ambition and far too few brains to combine with it. The result being that Wallace managed to get a lot of Scottish people killed in senseless war with superior armies.
Even more importantly is the gross absurdity of the battle sequences in which we see Wallace and co. become superhuman fighters with boundless energy and lots of bravado. The historic FACTS surrounding battles of this period in history center around the LACK of vital energy the people of the day had due to poor dietary habits and the horror the combatants had of being wounded during actual fighting. You see, the diet in Scotland at the time of Wallace was one that consisted of heavy, starchy breads, oat cereal, and lots of alcoholic beverages, as well as plenty of fatty meats and sausages (Haggus being one hideous item in this category). Even as far back as the Roman occupation it was common knowledge that northern European people ( those in Scotland included ) ate so poorly that they had very little stamina and when in battle, would tire and easily fall prey to the Romans, who understood the importance of diet and warfare and subsided on fruit, lean meat, and dried baked bread. Now, in Wallace's day, the diet of the Scots hadn't changed and the battles of the time certainly were NOT action-packed affairs with people looking like human versions of electric food processors - arms flailing and chopping endlessly. Added to this poor physical condition in the combatants, there was the absolute dread they all had of being wounded by the weapons of the day, which inflicted horrible damage to the body and caused hours of agony before death came. Both the English and the Scots would have approached actual combat with worry and would NOT charge at each other and chop away. Instead, they would have conducted their battles in the standard manner of the day which was to line up facing each other and poke and thrust with their weapons until tired, whereupon they would pull back and rest. Battles in Wallace's time were cumbersome, slow, and time-consuming events. Some on both sides would be killed or wounded, and the side that withdrew first was considered the loser. Again, there was NO wild heroics and endless high-impact, high-energy combat in the day of Wallace.
But hey, who cares about historic FACT when watching movies about historic events????? The average person in the street knows nothing about history at all, nevermind specialized information connected to specific periods of history. That's why Hollywood can get away with such gross distortion as can be found in "Brave Heart", "Dances With Wolves", "Geronimo, An American Legend", "Band of Brothers", and a host of other grotesque productions focusing on everything from World War Two back to the French Revolution, and on and one. As for Mel's performance and Alan Ladd jr.'s colaboration, well this nonsense goes to show you how interested they are in Scottish history. If they can make a buck off it, these two wouldn't have cared if they had Wallace flitting around Scotland in a UFO! Furthermore, they knew they could get away with anything simply because

Loved it - so funny
Absolutetly hilarious - the only thing missing were those nasty english scum, wearing nazi uniforms and goose-stepping over the huddled, scottish masses. Extremely funny, loved it :0).

Well Done
The best picture of 1995 (or something) Braveheart is also the film that won
Mel Gibson his first Oscar for best director. This movie (although it was made before the other ones) is simalar to movies such as "Troy" or
"Alexander" or "The Lord of the Rings" except it's better. Gibson plays
William Wallace, a Scottish man who's wife is killed and then forms an army and begins to kill off the people responsible for her death and the people responsible for the corruption of Scotland. I don't really have a lot of things to say about the movie except for the fact that it's really good, Gibson is spectacular in the film and I think anyone who likes movies should see it.
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