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I was with you ther Jeff, right up to the point you used Braveheart as an example.
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Braveheart certainly takes a few liberties here and there but isn't as all-out awful as Bruckheimer. Yes, twenty years of history get crunched into a thirty second bagpipe montage as Gibson runs across a mountaintop. The prince's gay advisor guy didn't get killed until much later on, IIRC. But it's isn't reprehensibly innacurate.
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I'm trying to remember, but off the top of my head:
The face paint which became one of the films visual logos had gone out of fashion centuries earlier.
No way was Wallace the father. He and rich English girl were never in the country at the same time. Likewise her being at his execution.
The Irish didn't turn on the English.
Other stuff I can't remember.
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My pet peeve with braveheart-The first battle- Stirling was not portrayed realistically at all. It was actually the battle of Stirly BRIDGE, where wallace attacked the british as half the army was still crossing over the river allowing for an easy rout. odd how they don't even include a bridge in the movie. the the resulting bloodbath was amusing nonetheless.
Psyliam-What "rich english girl" are you reffering to btw?
other than that. I still enjoyed the movie on a purely visceral level. mmm. battle scenes are cool.
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Erm... If I remember the movie correctly, Gibson only banged one "rich English girl". The French princess.
Yes, I know that doesn't make sense. But, she was a girl. I'm sure she was rich. And, since she was married into the English royal family, you could call her "English", I suppose.
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Still, if you are going to the movies to learn your history...well, don't
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A few months ago I dug up a Braveheart script online for a paper that I ultimately didn't write. But I did read the entire thing, which turned out to be a very late draft that was still different from the shooting script. One thing that did stick out was the fact that the Stirling fight scene did indeed feature a battle on a bridge. Looks like it got rewritten to the historical innacurate final version later on...
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I meant to type "French". I was thinking French. I was getting to that part. And then I just typed "English". Maybe something was happening on the news.
But yeah. Same thing. Not in the coutry at the same time. Yadayadayada.
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