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The clip of Lancelot running toward the castle, from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" was perfect.
"Hey!"
It actually felt like part of the film😅
"I wonder how much of this is based on real history."
Well it's true England and Scotland existed.
They get the battles and when they happened fairly correct; but none of them went down remotely this way.
Hilariously, the "You're not Wallace, Wallace is 7ft" is probably one of the most accurate things. Wallace really was quite tall for the time period, taller than Gibson
@@JBWinter Yes, the battle of Stirling Bridge actually had a bridge in real life.
Steven is one of my favorite side characters of all time. He simply steals the scenes he is in, and it is fantastic.
Stephen, and i should KI!! you for that.
@@THEvagabond29 Me too! :)
He's the most wanted man on his island . . .
Except,
he's not on his island, of course.
Faugh a Ballagh!
According to history Wallace is a minor person in history that was killed by the and all the credit is given to Bruce who does become the leader of Scotland. But history is written by the victors maybe it happened just this way but history was written by the victorious
One funny thing about the casting is that the Scotsman Hamish is played by an Irish actor and the Irishman Stephen is played by a Scottish actor.
David O'Hara (Stephen) is of Irish descent though.
@@DustinHawke Yes very much an Irish name.
Patrick McGoohan who portrayed Edward I (Longshanks) King of England was an Irish-American actor.
Great job to whoever edits these. That Lancelot edit had me cracking up 😂
Thank you!
Ahhaha me too 🤣🤣🤣
That was hilarious 😂😂
William Wallace failure at Falkirk resulted in him renouncing his guardianship (1298). Robert the Bruce did go on to fight for Scotland's independence at Bannockburn (1314), but it was sixteen years later. The movie gives the impression that is was maybe a few weeks later.
Those sixteen years are fascinating to read about.
Hard, guerrilla warfare
I don’t think a Hollywood movie could ever honestly do sir Williams story, & king Roberts story justice.
(Maybe a netflix series could manage it) 🙂
Dear Mary's editor who edited in Monty Python's Lancelot charge: you are the best.
Glad you are feeling a little better anyways. Always nice to watch movies with Mary. Love to the cats.
another somewhat historically based film with exceptional sound track and great acting is the last of the Mohicans... you should react to that.. love sharing these movies with you
I always recommend the UA-cam channel History Buffs, particularly for this one. He’s a professional historian and he feels very passionately about it lol. Thought you’d find it interesting since you kept asking about the historical accuracy.
This score is one of the greatest ever. RIP James Horner, one of the best to do it
I have been in love with this movie since I saw it in the theater when it came out. I was working at the theater when we got it in and when I got off work I watched its midnight showing. Blew me away then, and still does all these years later.
The fact that you're unable to spell 'Theatre' correctly tells all.
@@stuartcook8823 American spelling is different. Have a nice day.
Hahaha. That Monty Python reference was epic! I live watching your reactions! Your accent, mannerisms, and figure of speech is...in the words of Steven... Excellent!
Thanks for being you
To answer your question....very little was historical.
But the real history was even more compelling, imo.
The Battle or Sterling was at a bridge. The Scottish attacked when just enough had crossed to leave them cut off and surrounded. But that wouldn't make for a good film.
Robert never betrayed Wallace. In fact... they were allies!
Robert was in hiding, lost much of his family, suffered horribly.... but it was HE who regained support and personally led the revolt to win against England. He took out England's best knight in single combat. The Scottish were outnumbered several to one and managed to win after HOURS of brutal fighting. The Pope recognized Robert as Scottish king and their independence and his people had rallied behind him.
Also... there was no Prema-Nocta (sp?)
The scene where he asks murrens father for forgivnes always gets me tearded up
Loved the Lancelot insert from Monty Python. It was the most historically accurate scene in the whole movie. Braveheart does for Scottish history what The Patriot does for the American Revolution, U-571 does for WWII.- should be labelled "Any relation to actual events is strictly coincidental"
holy crap that Python insert was amazing yes.
but is it really that bad historically? Yes i know a bunch of things are complete made up nonsense.
But there was still a william wallace, there was still the uprising and the battles. Theres alot of truth to it all.
but yes the made up bits are so butchered that it taints the whole movie.
@@danieljohnson2005 I'm English mate. And we all love this film. We know we have been the baddies way too much much.
But I agree that it's just throwing the baby out with the bathwater to say films like this are just make believe fiction. Especially as you say, about 80 percent of it happened in some way or another.
I'm the furthest thing from a historian . . . what was the problem with U-571? (Also, I don't thing The Patriot was as bad as Braveheart.)
U-571 gives credit to the U.S. for things that the British navy actually did. It’s not accurate at all. Good film though.
The actor who played Lord Bottoms, who claimed Prima Nocta at the festival, is Rupert Vansittart. He also played the leader of the Knights of the Vale, Vohn Royce, in Game of Thrones.
Winner of 5 Oscars including Best Picture.
"They may take our lives, but they'll never take OUR FREEDOM!"
I'm happily surprised that you haven't reacted to this yet. Looking forward to it.
They were not there to rescue him. They were there to be his witness.
One of my favorite movies of all time
This movie is as historical accurate as Star Wars (maybe a little bit harsh 😄) but one of the greatest flicks of all time.
no I agree lol in fact I was going to say the same thing lol
Jus primae noctis, first night, is largely a historical myth. Braveheart's like a great many historical dramas. Loosely ignores more of the actual history in favor of high drama. Gibson's Passion of The Christ is guilty of same (much of THAT taken from the 19th century visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich).
Mary, your editor is a genius. That Holy Grail clip... *chef's kiss*
Seeing Mary say "oh my heart" when William's dad died and im just sitting here waiting on Murron's death lol
The Lancelot insert from “Holy Grail” was funny!
Your best reaction to a movie in my opinion. I was impressed by the number of F bombs. 😂 Happy to hear you are feeling better. This was a fabulous movie. The entire cast was great.
Glad you're feeling better Mary 😊
This movie came out when I was a teenager and had a massive impact on me. For the first few years after it came out, it was just an awesome movie that my friends and I would endlessly quote to each other, but as time went on and I got deeper and deeper into historical nerdery, I realized that a lot of my curiosity about the medieval era started with this movie.
It's got some glaring historical inaccuracies, but you hit the nail on the head about the immersion. Plus it's just such a good movie that even the nitpicky nerd in me shuts up about the too-early kilts or the too-late woad or the fact that Wallace never even met Isabella, I'm too busy belting out the FREEDOM!!! speech to care about all that. But this movie helped send me down a path of hopeless nerdery to where I watch/read anything I can get my hands on from the Middle Ages.
If you wanna see something of a spiritual sequel to this, please review Outlaw King. It wasn't *quite* as riveting (or, well, legendary) as Braveheart, but it's a really good movie and it's also very historically accurate.
Also, somebody's *probably* already mentioned this, but Hamish's dad is played by the all-too-kick-ass James Cosmo... aka the Night's Watch Lord Commander, Jeor Mormont 🐻
Also, Hamish's dad was also Lord Commander Jeor Mormont of the Night's Watch
One of my favorite film soundtracks of all time. It was done by James Horner who did the score for Glory that you reacted to as well. Maybe you could recognize his great ability to create really iconic memorable music themes just as he did for Glory and so many other films.
Braveheart is one of only four film soundtracks I own along with Blade Runner, October Sky, and 28 Days later. All great films you should react to as well if you haven't seen them already.
Thanks for the reaction.
Ah, "Titanic"! .... "Troy"!
Horner's score was absolute gold in 'Star Trek II Wrath of Kahn' as well.
This one of the only film soundtracks I have a physical copy of.
@WatchEuropaTheLastBattle That's great Watch.
There's always at least one like you in the crowd. Congrats on being that guy.
And you could say the same about virtually every artist and person that has ever existed who takes what came before them to rework or improve upon to eventually arrive at their own unique work.
And this includes other well-known figures like John Williams who also took from many other composers for some of his most iconic film scores. See "John Williams Borrowing from... " on YT to hear for yourself.
Even Leonardo da Vinci took from other artists as well like Mariano do Jacopa, known as Taccola whom da Vinci himself referenced in his notebooks.
Search Taccola. And look up a documentary entitled " Leonardo, The Man Who Saved Science " which covers the topic extensively. They have some of da Vinci's and Taccola's work side by side. And the similarities are strikingly obvious.
Would you also discredit da Vinci's contributions to civilization because of this?
Then you have more modern artists like Banksy who was clearly inspired by the stencil street artist that came before him named " Blek le Rat "
And watch Daft Punk's numerous sample explainer videos on YT to hear detailed breakdowns of all the songs Daft Punk ripped from to create their music.
Throughout time and for the rest of time, artists will either be heavily inspired by or copy directly from other artists to incorporate into their own work. And whether through unconscious or deliberate acts.
It's what artists do. In varying degrees, they take from other artists to develop upon to create their own works. And over time, become their own unique artists.
It's how every one of every field known to man throughout time learns, grows, and eventually evolves past what came before.
This is exactly what James Horner and so many others did. And none should not be criticized for doing so.
As other great artists have famously said, " Good artists copy; great artists steal. " - Pablo Picasso
“ Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. ” - Salvador Dali
" What moves those of genius, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough." - Eugene Delacroix
And the phrase "standing on the shoulders of giants" is a metaphor meant to express the power of using the knowledge and tools of all those that came before to make intellectual and societal progress. And that no man is an island entire of itself.
So please stop using this to try to disparage or discredit Horner, other great artists, or any others in general who do the same.
It's reductive and short-sided. And in the case of Horner especially disrespectful to his memory and life since he tragically passed in a plane crash in 2015.
I and many others will continue to enjoy, respect, and appreciate the works of James. And will do the same for others who accomplish great things.
And we'll be able to do so by just acknowledging that person for their contributions. Instead of looking for ways to undermine or tear them down for how they may have arrived at the great things they've given us. And will continue to give us well into the future.
@WatchEuropaTheLastBattle That's great Watch.
There's always at least one like you in the crowd. Congrats on being that guy.
And you could say the same about virtually every artist and person that has ever existed who takes what came before them to rework or improve upon to eventually arrive at their own unique work.
And this includes other well-known figures like John Williams who also took from many other composers for some of his most iconic film scores. See "John Williams Borrowing from... " on YT to hear for yourself.
Even Leonardo da Vinci took from other artists as well like Mariano do Jacopa, known as Taccola whom da Vinci himself referenced in his notebooks.
Search Taccola. And look up a documentary entitled " Leonardo, The Man Who Saved Science " which covers the topic extensively. They have some of da Vinci's and Taccola's work side by side. And the similarities are strikingly obvious.
Would you also discredit da Vinci's contributions to civilization because of this?
Then you have more modern artists like Banksy who was clearly inspired by the stencil street artist that came before him named " Blek le Rat "
And watch Daft Punk's numerous sample explainer videos on YT to hear detailed breakdowns of all the songs Daft Punk took from to create their music.
Throughout time and for the rest of time, artists will either be heavily inspired by or copy directly from other artists to incorporate into their own work. And whether through unconscious or deliberate acts.
It's what artists do. In varying degrees, they take from other artists to develop upon to create their own works. And over time, become their own unique artists.
It's how every one of every field known to man throughout time learns, grows, and eventually evolves past what came before.
This is exactly what James Horner and so many others did. And none should not be criticized for doing so.
As other great artists have famously said, " Good artists copy; great artists steal. " - Pablo Picasso
“ Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. ” - Salvador Dali
" What moves those of genius, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough." - Eugene Delacroix
And the phrase "standing on the shoulders of giants" is a metaphor meant to express the power of using the knowledge and tools of all those that came before to make intellectual and societal progress. And that no man is an island entire of itself.
So please stop using this to try to disparage or discredit Horner, other great artists, or any others in general who do the same.
It's reductive and short-sided. And in the case of Horner especially disrespectful to his memory and life since he tragically passed in a plane crash in 2015.
I and many others will continue to enjoy, respect, and appreciate the works of James. And will do the same for others who accomplish great things.
And we'll be able to do so by just acknowledging that person for their contributions. Instead of looking for ways to undermine or tear them down for how they may have arrived at the great things they've given us. And will continue to give us well into the future.
Your editor is gold.
Another great period piece: Master and Commander (if you haven't already watched it).
Fun fact: apparently the real life braveheart turned out to be Robert the Bruce.
Master and Commander is a great period piece and movie!
The books are a great way to get lost for a few hours away from the daily grind.
Rob Roy, 1995, w Liam Neeson = another period piece you will like; similar, but more personal
Where I live we celebrate prima nocta. It's always a great time, but this movie helped me see it from the other side's perspective, so now whenever I celebrate prima nocta I try to do so as respectfully as possible.
A movie I think you would really enjoy with similar themes is “Rob Roy”. Its based on a true story and a real man in the 1700s. Rob Roy was known as Scotland’s Robin-hood, a man that stood up for justice against the abusive Aristocats of that time. Rob is played by Liam Neeson and this movie has one of the greatest choreographed sword fights in film.
You need to check out Outlaw King! It takes place after this and is about Robert the Bruce fighting to earn that freedom.
This movie has so many memorable scenes, performances and quotes. Deserved the Oscar it won. Great film.
Glad you mentioned the soundtrack. It's genuinely one of the greatest film scores ever made. James Horner was a genius.
James Horner is one of the great composer. This soundtrack is one of my favorites. I listen to it without watching the movie.
I'm gonna take a drink everytime Mary says nay lol
33:00 - Cat b like: "Hey, hooman, concentrate! I want mah cuddles!"
The last of the torture, is him being gutted basically. Being opened with that large hook and his intestines being slowly pulled out. Very brutal, even by this period in history's standard's. Mel is a great Director, and actor. Your reaction also great as usual.
As i'm from Scotland, we only tell people that the weather is bad so that we can have the walks and hills to ourselves haha😀
The old man who plays Hamish's father is the guy who plays Jaeor Mormont the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch in Game of Thrones
If you watch "Outlaw King" with Chris Pine it will answer some of your questions about that time in history. Braveheart is loosely based on the history. Outlaw King is a little more accurate. Also it picks up about where this one left off. The Bruce was not the coward this movie made him out to be. He just knew that there was no winning at Falkirk so refused to sacrifice his men.
Honestly, since I started reading about the Scottish War of Independence and about the Great Cause, I started liking this movie less and less. Not only did Bruce fight the English, but he also fought John Comyn and other competitors to the Scottish throne. What's more, he never gave up even though he lost several times and even had to flee to Ireland or the Hebrides. Moreover, the way they portray the Battle of Bannockburn doesn't do it justice (and his fight with Sir Henry de Bohun, legendary!). I wish they would make a movie of his life up until defeating the English at Bannockburn. To me, he is the true hero of Scottish Independence and I am not even Scottish.
It is a great film, but it is far from historically accurate.
@@pedroadiaz Well, that's why the Scots called Robert "Braveheart" not Willy Wallace. Back in the day of thus movie, there were some angry Scots because Hollywood butchered their history.
@Pedro Diaz Absolutely. This is great cinema but goes far astray from the real story. I am half Scottish and my favorite Scotsman in history is James "Black" Douglas. A knight and minor Scottish noble in The Bruce's service. They had lullabies in England to reassure their children at night that The Black Douglas wouldn't get them. That is next level.
@@Blue_Eyed_Chippewa That's cool. I'll have to read up on him too. This is my second or third favorite Scotsman: ua-cam.com/video/UGRcJQ9tMbY/v-deo.html
Great reaction, incredible movie. What could be termed historic fiction. The characters were real, the battles happened. Just not 'quite' like this. Awesome soundtrack and many great performances.
The elusive Scottish summer is one weekend sometime in July or August, maybe. 🤣
23:29 "I feel like I recognize this man all the time, but I also have no clue what from." That's James Cosmo. He's been in tons of things -- mostly 1-off TV episodes -- but you're probably recognizing him from Game of Thrones where he portrayed the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, Jeor Mormont.
The aggressive derisive snort at 4:49 kills me! lol. YES the music in this movie is absolutely beautiful.
That Monty python was perfect. Amazing job from your editor
When people ask me what my Genetic Heritage is, I tell them Braveheart..
It's based on a real historical story, but a lot of the details are inaccurate. People complain about it a lot, and there are choices made that I wouldn't have made, but it's still a very powerful and well-made movie.
This was the first ancient-battle movie that had battle scenes that really felt real and impactful (using lots of quick cuts). It was very influential, and now nearly every movie of this type uses a similar directing method for its battle scenes.
5:35 I’m watching this and that IS my home. It was filmed in Glen Nevis where I live. This scenery is so familiar because I see it every day. I love it
Braveheart is a fantastic movie that's very loosely based on history. It's not meant to be a documentary, and should not be judged as one. Great reaction as always, and it's good that you're feeling better.
Splicing in the scene from Monty Python was absolutely brilliant! :)
A man can’t stand in the same river twice, for when he goes back the river has changed and so has he.
You can’t ever go back. The earlier in life one learns that lesson, the more one can live in the moment and always be moving forward without regrets.
Great movie. Another great historical movie that came out the same time but was overshadowed by this movie success is Rob Roy 1995 with Liam Nesson. You should also react to Mel Gibson underrated great action movie Ransom. Also there is the great movie The Count Of Monte Cristo 2002
Great movie! Thank you!
Thankfully, they spared us the gruesomeness of the disemboweling that was occurring at the conclusion of William Wallace's onscreen torture. I can't imagine how painful that must have been, but he bore it well, all the way to the end. Great reaction, Mary, as always.
As that the same time they took the you know whats?
3:21 The song that plays here is called "Gift of a thistle." For some reason remembering that always gets me.
for the short screen time he had, Mel Gibson was really impressed with the acting of the boy that played 10 year old Willaim.
7.45 is such brilliant acting, you can't hear what she says but you don't need to. Lots of great moments like that in this film.
In the end torture scene, Wallace is hung, racked (stretched to break the long bones just below the joints), drawn, beheaded, and quartered.
- "drawn' means that he was cut across the abdomen and his intestines were pulled, or drawn, out (while the executioner is telling him to say "mercy"), then he was castrated.
- after beheading, he was "quartered", which means that he was cut apart (into quarters).
When my sons and I first watched this together as part of our regular "men's club" gathering, after the Sterling battle we rewound the tape and watched the battle again, it was so testorone-filled.
11:53 "While you guys are watching this, do you not feel your heart [...] minutes and minutes and minutes of bursting love?" Absolutely. Unfortunately, you're about to learn why the screenwriter has given you this gift: Murron is about to stand in for John Wick's dog. ☹
"Engrossed" is another viable word for when you fully invest all of your attention in something.
It's generally true, the worst historical error, due to production issues, was that the battle of Stirling was fought on a bridge. In the movie, there is no bridge.
Wallace's army attacked after only a small number of English crossed the bridge, creating a bottleneck, neutralizing their numerical advantage. Strategic planning defeated a superior force.
Music is composed by the late James Horner. He loved the Uilleann Pipes so much, they're included in the music for Titanic.
EDIT: So what's happening to William Wallace is he's being emasculated and then eviscerated, and then all that is set on fire in front of everyone. Standard punishment for high treason.
Since Brendan Gleeson was in this I recommend "In Bruges"... also because you're belgian, but even if you weren't, its just a good movie.
The flower she gave him was a thistle, the national symbol of Scotland.
Although the story isn't accurate, is does depict the ruthlessness of the era pretty good.
A lot of reactors 'can't believe' how bad some of these characters act.. some of this was business as usual in those days.
Might made right. It didn't matter what your moral inclinations pretend. those rules don't apply when might makes right.
They can do whatever they want when they have power and there's nothing you can do about it.
Wee bit of trivia
The actor who played 'Stephen' the Irishman is actually Scottish in real life and the actor who played 'Hamish' is actually Irish irl.
You're awesome! Thanks for the videos.
This is my favorite movie of all time, and by god I can safely say that this was the best reaction I've ever seen, extremely funny and emotional, thanks for sharing.
There's no evidence that prima nocte was an actual codified legal right, or that it was some sort of custom, however it was not uncommon for nobles to take advantage of the peasant girls on their lands.
Also, Isabella, aka the She-Wolf of France, was like 11 when Wallace was fighting his rebellion, they never met. She was married to Edward II young, and it wasn't until after Longshanks' passing that she started taking care of business. Her husband was widely suspected of having relations with Piers Gaveston (whom the character Philip is based off of) and started a war with his own barons after they captured and executed Gaveston. He lost ground in Scotland, and was widely regarded as a very weak king, especially when he sent Isabella to France to broker a peace treaty and she abandoned him, joining together with the exiled Roger Lord Mortimer to lead a mercenary army back to England and dethrone him in favor of her son, Edward III, whom she stood as regent for. She swiftly put an end to the hostilities in Scotland with a truce and did a lot of other decisive things that made the men very uneasy :P
Needless to say the film is very loosely based on real history, and William and Isabella never met, let alone got it on, Edward III was definitely of the royal line.
It’s about 90% accurate, captures the Scottish and English nature perfectly. He done a great job coming from a Scottish person 🏴💙 we haven’t got our freedom yet because of corrupt politicians.
14:52 "Daymn this man"
This man was Lord Commander Mormont of the Night's Watch btw
I wondered about whether the uploads were current or an emptying of the queue. I'm glad that you took the time to get over your illness. Welcome back.
“No man holds his own flesh & blood in hatred, and i am no exception.
I must go now and join my own people, the nation in which I was born.
Choose whether you will join me, or depart”
King robert the Bruce❤
also, this is the movie that really made the "BATTLEFIELD SPEECH" a thing in movies. so many movies - whether it's INDEPENDENCE DAY to GLADIATOR owe their big speech moments to this movie.
When I was in the military, we were closing down bases in England. I was the last person left on the base for almost 2 weeks. THAT was the eeriest feeling in the whole of my life. They were disembowling him
Mel regretted not shaving his knuckles for this movie.
It is REALLY not historically accurate, in ways that are rarely surpass even today. 😂😂 But it is still a very good movie!
Ya it's a movie genius.
This movie is based on a true story, however, it is not accurate. Let's start with the kilt, kilts were not worn until the 1800's. The princess married the prince three years after the death of Wallace, so she never would have met him. The first battle took place at a bridge. The Scotts waited to attack until after only a small portion of the English had crossed the bridge. During this time, all nobles spoke French, in fact few nobles understood English.
This movie is both loathed by Scots for its historical inaccuracies but also adored for being a truly epic movie.
in real life "Braveheart" actually refers to the heart of Robert the Bruce which following his death was removed from his body and taken by his close friend James Douglass to fight the Moors in Spain in a Holy War. Douglass is said to have lifted/ thrown an urn containing the Heart into the sky before a battle and yelled "Lead on brave heart and we shall follow"... Tragically that's exactly what happened as Douglass died in battle mere hours later.
19:49 Amazing edit 😂 Kudos to the editor 👍🏻
Yes horses can swim, and can do so quite well. They are very buoyant so its easy for them to keep their head above the surface.
Hey Mary! One of the best movies ever IMHO!
- The actor you recognize is James Cosmo. He plays Hamish's father, but you recognize him from 'Game of Thrones'...he was Night's Watch Lord Commander Jeor Mormont.
- Speaking of Hamish...actor Brendan Gleeson is nominated for an Oscar this year, and played Alastair "Mad-Eye" Moody in 'Harry Potter'.
- Steven the Irishman is my favorite character played by David O' Hara, who was also in 'Harry Potter'...in fact he played Harry in 'Deathly Hallows, Part 1' as he was Albert Runcorn, who Harry became in the Ministry of Magic sequence thanks to polyjuice potion.
- A wonderful but almost forgotten romantic movie with actress Catherine McCormick (Murron) is 'Dangerous Beauty' with Rufus Sewell. It tells the true story of Veronica Franco, a poet, and courtesan in Renaissance Venice.
Speaking English, French (or Old English and Old French at least), and Latin at the time would have been fairly common among those who were a bit educated. This is just about 200 years after the Norman Conquest, Edward's mother tongue would still have been French, might not have even known English. And if you learned how to write you would have learned Latin, as that was the language for writing in. William would have probably known at least 4 languages, those three and Scots.
From Wikipedia:" Following the trial, on 23 August 1305, Wallace was taken from the hall to the Tower of London, then stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to the Elms at Smithfield.[51] He was hanged, drawn and quartered-strangled by hanging, but released while he was still alive, emasculated, eviscerated (with his bowels burned before him), beheaded, then cut into four parts.[52] Wallace's head was dipped in tar and placed on a spike atop London Bridge. His preserved head was later joined by the heads of his brother John and his compatriots Simon Fraser and John of Strathbogie.[2] Wallace's limbs were displayed, separately, in Newcastle, Berwick, Stirling and Perth."
Props to your editor, that was great.
Horses can swim and Braveheart used an insane amount of animatronic horses, so nothing to worry about!
Yes, in braveheart nothing is much and nothing is less ❤ it's perfect
Horses have a natural instinct to start swimming when their hooves can't reach the bottom, and their gigantic lung capacity makes them especially buoyant---so they actually swim quite well.
My ancestors are Scottish.. my mom did a whole family tree. One of my ancestors went to the battle where Robert the Bruce died.. took his heart back to Scotland. Also my ancestors are from the Isle of Sky.. such a gorgeous countryside
mhm, yeah , of course ... XD
I always love your reactions, seem to match mine emotionally, that makes it that much more enjoyable knowing someone else gets the same kind of thing out of it that I do. You should also check out " The Patriot" if you haven't already.
Rob Roy is a good Scottish movie you might want to react to. I think it came out the same year as Braveheart.
I have interesting feeling about this film ever since I learned that some of my ancestors fought with Wallace, while Edward Longshanks was my 26th great grandfather.
Modern English is about one-third Latin, one-third French, and one-third Anglo-Saxon. The most common words in English (the ones used most often) are the Anglo-Saxon (Old English) ones.
5:30 There's an American saying for that feeling, specifically for where you grew up: You can't go home again.
I must have seen this movie a dozen times over the years, and even though I know exactly what happens it is still so watchable. Glad you're feeling a bit better.
Glad you are better. I recommend some haggis and a dram of Drambuie next time you are under the weather ;-) French princesses are so cute ;-) ... but this one was much younger in history, just 2 years old and still in France when the first big battle happened. King Edward I was a remarkably powerful king who hated all the Celts. The Bruce family was of divided loyalty as were all the Scottish nobles, but the death of Wallace will inspire young Robert to be a great king.
The first battle (Stirling) was loosely based on the battle of Stirling Bridge, the Scots won that one through tactics and the advantage of a narrow crossing. And Wallace wasn't the only 'hero' of that day - the other was Andrew Moray, who played a key part in the victory, but received wounds in the battle which would eventually be the cause of his death. Interesting times - Scots were most definitely not united against England during the Scottish wars of independence, many of the nobles had ties and loyalty to Edward I the Longshanks, depending on their family history and allegiances - including Robert The Bruce's family.
And the Scots most probably didn't wear kilts - at least not in battle - they were likely kitted out in mail and leather, like the English troops are protrayed in the film. This is an entertaining movie but not all that accurate.