Braveheart (1995) Is An *EXCELLENT* Epic MOVIE REACTION!!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!!
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- Cameron and Isaiah sit down and watch Braveheart (1995) on Max for the very first time! if you enjoyed this reaction video please leave a like, share, and subscribe! Comment down below your favorite moment from the movie "Braveheart"!
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Sorry for your loss, and thank you for the kind words, glad you enjoy!
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@@camandzay im mostly Scottish sadly that wasn't the last of suffering and pain we went through after there were many massacres and after culludeon there was massacre where there were entire clans wiped out and genocide and a wipe out of scottish culture followed so many people escaped to the north england
One last bit, because a lot of folk miss this. So Wallace's father-in-law, Murrin's dad, is actually the clan chief, or "chieftain". In the old way he'd be called simply "The MacClannough". So at the start when Wallace's father is killed, you actually see The MacClannough with a guilty look on his face, as if he feels responsible for getting Wallace's father killed. I think this is why, despite how distraught he is at his daughter's death, he still gives Wallace his blessing at the funeral.
Excellent point. This film is rich with character development, and a perfectly interwoven story, and everything ties together. To me, its one of the top 20, maybe even 10 movies of all time.
Yeah..though he would give him blessings because he knew his daughter loved him..maybe the only one who made her happy so much..so the dad respected that
Yeah but murrons father was trying to talk williams dad out of that battle. It was williams fathers idea to fight in the first place, hardly the cheiftans fault he died
I always thought he gave his blessing because A he proved himself in battle and B he didn't half avenge his daughters death.
greetings from Scotland. I’m a Scottish lass and Braveheart is amazing. The real William Wallace was hung drawn and quartered by the english and his body scattered all over the UK. In Stirling there is a tower called the Wallace Monument it was built to hold part of his body and his sword sits in it. The Claymore sword was 5ft tall. I stay not far from Stirling and Bannockburn. Despite not being histrionically accurate it’s still an amazing movie. I loved your reaction to it. Take care 😘 🏴🇺🇸
I loved visiting that tower. The sword is impressive.
The producer of the film is actually a guy called Randall Wallace himself. He was on holiday in Scotland when he saw the monument in Stirling - on learning who William was it became his inspiration to work with Mel.
@@jaykay3784 the sword is 5ft tall that’s only 7inches shorter than what i am now. take care
14:59 Not sure if y’all caught it or not (maybe in the full Patreon reaction), but the flower the little girl gives him at the funeral at the beginning and he gives her before the marriage is a Thistle. The thistle is a traditional symbol of Scotland.
I know that it's damp and moist in Scotland but " i think", the thistle flower should have been kind of dried up by the time he was grown..
This, to me, is one of the most perfect movies to exist. The cinematography, the story, the writing, the actors, music (especially the music), everything. I'm so glad you guys get to experience this. One of the most important lessons ANYONE can learn from this film is, "get your mind right THEN learn the rest." Get morals, values, teach yourself your purpose, learn how to fight for them, then fight until the unknown day of your life ends.
"You bled with Wallace. Now bleed with me."
Like Hobie said, "Just don't enlist until you know what war you're fighting in."
You need both your head and your heart to survive.
They fought like warrior/poets. They fought like Scotsman
"Freedom...."!!!
❤ I'm telling you now .. I hope you don't have to but I pray you never have to fight a scotsman 😂
@@paddybrown41The Vikings and Normans learned the hard way😂
This and Gladiator are two of the most epically shot movies ever.
I am Scottish with Irish blood, & I was laughing when you thought the Irish would fight against the Scot’s…. never, we are Celts 😁
The scotti were literally an Irish tribe that displaced the native Picts of Scotland .
They did fight for the English in that battle, in the production the Irish extras refused to portray that so they changed the script.
You’ve obviously never watched a Rangers v Celtic Old firm game.
Facts
@jackcatlow3716 . So what does " Scotch Irish " mean exactly ? Just wondering because on one side of family it's " Scotch Irish "..not just Irish..not just Scotch..but " Scotch/Irish ".
41:45 🇮🇪🤝🏴 ultimate "we got you bro" moment 😂
I'm of Scots/Irish descent, and although it may not be completely accurate historically, I absolutely adore this film....My Scots/Irish heart soars every time I watch it!
It's not accurate in the slightest; it's a complete pile of pish
So you’re American.
May not be completely accurate? It’s not accurate at all lol. Even Scotland denounced the movie. It’s wonderful fiction though. Too bad many people see it as historically accurate.
I just love how they Scottish people running around in rags when they were actually pretty sophisticated in during that era.
One small thing that annoyed me in the film was the "bagpipes", they didn't actually use the bagpipes most of the time, they used uillean pipes from ireland
@redcardinalist shut yer gub....its an amazing film 🏴🏴 you must be fun at parties....Did you know the shark in jaws was fake aswell.. and the lightsabers in starwars weren't real either....Clown boy alway one with the historical facts
The old guy, Hamish's dad, we called him "Old Dude" lol he kept getting attacked and hurt, and just kept on coming! Scotland!
He was one of the Trojan Generals in "Troy"!
About the burial scene: the girl is actually giving him a Thistle - which is a national flower of Scotland.
I will never tire of saying the first 10 minutes of this movie is the best in filmmaking.
Historian here. I would just take this film with a grain of salt. It's historic fiction, but it's very impressive filmmaking.
Exactly. Wallace wasn't a peasant and was very much an educated man. A lot of liberties were taken with this; sadly, a lot of people believe this is historically accurate, which is troubling.
@@JonInCanada1 Lots of liberties were taken I agree. But didn't William in the film go live with an uncle who then helped him receive an education? Maybe not how he became educated in real life but he was very much portrayed as an educated man.
It's like how kilts didn't start being worn for until a few hundred years later, while the blue face paint was from a thousand years earlier. Those are little nitpicks, but I love history and I think the closer they stick to history the better the story- Hollywood writers can't beat the real thing!
Same goes for all the ww2 movies
There really was a Braveheart, an Edward I and a Robert the Bruce. The battles of Stirling Bridge and Falkirk are real. Almost everything else???
Historically inaccurate but gloriously epic.
Btw the Outlaw King takes place right after this and is a far better depiction of Bruce’s campaign against Longshanks
Outlaw King is a great movie!
Outlaw King is great example of why historical accuracy shouldn't be even in top 3 on our priority list.
Also "Robert the Bruce" is a lovely little movie
A couple of other epic period pieces you guys ought to check out are Last of the Mohicans and Rob Roy. Since you guys vibed with Braveheart, I can pretty much guarantee you'll love those as well. Great reaction!
Both great movies!!
When they are torturing him and you guys asked what they were doing: they cut him and they were taking out his intestines. It’s incredibly painful and you don’t die from it immediately. Pure torture.
You can also imagine they took his pork and beans as well.
@@arifeannor9573 I think they did; which makes it worse. 😩
yeah they hung him to the point of nearly dying, tied him down to be castrated and disembowelled and finished by quartering him and burying each part of his body in different areas of Britain before dipping his head in tar and impaling it on a pike on London bridge @@alissageorge5679
Everyone saying this movie is complete fiction is over stating it.
There was a William Wallace who fought the British and was hung drawn and quartered by the English king.
There was a Robert the Bruce who led his country to freedom in a famous battle.
Most of the movie is true.
You crow bar one french princess into a story and suddenly all the history teachers get very upset lol.
Yes it's got made up stuff.
But most of the main story is real.
You should also try Rob Roy, another Scottish Highlander hero story with Liam Neeson
What battle scenes in films look liked before CGI.
Another totally amazing film directed by Mel Gibson that you guys just have to see is "Apocalypto" (2006). It deals with the ancient Mayan empire. This movie is insanely good!
They fought like warrior poets that line gives me
me chills every time….
Naaah, it's a wee bit little sissy like. What's a warrior poet? Someone that cuts your head off then recites a little poem over your corpse?. :)
If you want historical drama, you should watch "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World".
This is one of my favorite movies. 🧡 Can’t go wrong with Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany. They are great in that film.
Disembowelment and castration were most likely what was going on during the torture scene. It’s not an accurate representation of the story, but great film.
The Birdcage w/ Robin Williams. Nathen Lane and Jean Hackman, a comedy you guys would enjoy...I also agree w/ Overboard w/ Goldie and Kurt, its a great movie
Movies for you guys to watch....
-Ransom with Mel Gibson
-Breakdown with Kurt Russell
-Face Off with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage
-Dragonheart with Dennis Quaid
Face Off is terrible
Savior with Dennis Quaid - hard to watch
If you watch the dwarves before the torture you see one pulling sausages out of the stomach of the other. Wallace is having his intestines pulled out.
The executioners were opening Wallace's abdomen and pulling out his intestines. The beheading was the final mercy to end his pain.
I believe he was castrated also.
Brian Cox, as 'Uncle Argyle', only has 5 minutes in this movie, but his charisma is enough for the entire movie, IMHO!!
I'm Scottish in descent, and this story obviously means quite a lot to me. Your guys' reaction was awesome, especially to some of the more touchy stuff like Prima Nocta. Thanks for the shout out at the end to Scottish people, it shows you really understood the impact!
This film has little to do with the Scottish people. Prima Nocta didn't exist, Wallace wasn't some peasant, the Scots didn't wear plaid (what most people call kilts, which is a modern invention and plaid wasn't worn until 300 years after Wallace died). Almost all of this is fiction. It would be entirely fictional except they got the name's right.
Not much historical accuracy but a great film all the same. The no CGI battles were amazing (although watching some of the extras "fighting" at the back of the crowd scenes are hilarious)
My friend and his dad did historical re-enactments and we're actually extras in this movie. And in Rob Roy. We always made fun of him because of how bad the extras were. He never lived it down.
Were 🙄ffs
@@tgram2307 That's funny.
Rob Roy is a great film too. Haven't seen it in years. Don't think I've seen any reactions to it either.
Not a crushed flower:That's a pressed flower,a common thing into the 20th Century (usually using a book to press,once books became more midspread)🎩
At the end they took his intestines and inners out ,then they cut him in pieces!
They are disemboweling him. Basically taking out his intestines and his stomach while he’s living.
As they're bringing in Wallace, you can see some dwarves playing on the stage, and at one point one of them pulls a rope from the belly of another, which is a harbinger of what comes later with Wallace. What you don't see them doing to him, but you see his reaction to it, is his emasculation and his intestines being slowly removed from his body while he was alive. They then set them on fire and quartered his body like described later in the movie near the end. Torture! It's faaaaaantastic!
Bagpiper here. It is a shame that the highland pipes are never used in a movie. Almost a crime to not have them. Using Irish and Uilleann pipes. Such a crime to not feature thr highland pipes played in Scotland.
Saying you got "educated" from this movie is like saying you got educated from Star Wars. lol
Love this react! You guys would also LOVE the Patriot with Mel, and please guys…you gotta watch Tombstone! Best Western ever. Val Kilmer kills it as Doc Holiday!
While not historically accurate it's still a beautiful and well made movie. Mel Gibson is a lot of things but he's a fantastic filmmaker.
Hi guys great review!! Just shocked you haven't seen it til now, such a classic movie. It is historical dramatization, so they did play with the history to a degree. The writer's last name is Wallace and he conceived the film while touring Scotland. He saw how much William Wallace was a hero of Scottish history and yet he never heard of the man. Stirling the first battle, was actually at a bridge. The Scotts attacked as half the English army had crossed and the calvary tried to recross the bridge and it was a disaster as the trampled their own troops and most of the heavy horse knights were killed as well. If I recall correctly York was sacked pretty well, but Wallace couldn't go further as he lacked supplies. Falkirk was fairly accurate I think, but not sure on the oil before the battle. Also, I don't think the Bruce betrayed Wallace, I think he was further away from the field trying to get there. It has been years since I read up on Wallace. The princess there is truth behind the story there. She didn't have a kid with Wallace as she was 9 when this happened. But, the kings son was weak politically and she took over and ran the country with her lover Lord Mortemore, it was quite the scandal at the time. May I suggest that somethings to watch in the future from around this time. Kenneth Braunghs Henry V it is Shakespeare but that movie will turn you into a fan of Shakespeare. Also, Anonymous is a brilliant yet flawed history of Shakespeare. I think you guys will get into those films though. Looking forward to more movies!
>so they did play with the history to a degree
about 90% of the movie is completely fictional. The way Wallace is portrayed is completely made up. In realtity he was a Knight and his wife wasn't murdered by the English.
I think it’s awesome that this reaction is out on the same day as the soccer match between England and Scotland haha
A real Scotsman here, I almost didn’t watch your reaction (I thought oh god a couple of kids) but I was wrong, great reaction, actually one of the best for this movie, although this movie is peppered with inaccuracies, doesn’t make it any less of a masterpiece of film making! Love this movie! Keep up the good work lads! 🏴. I went to the Wallace Monument is Stirling, Wallace’s sword is there and it’s absolutely gigantic!
Greetings from U.S. ..I was wondering if you might know what the term " Scotch/Irish " means..got family who are " Scoth/Irish ".
@@creaturecaldwell9858 Scottish and Irish are ethnically the same, so rather than separating them like for example Italian Americans compared to Polish Americans, they just grouped them together.
also Northern Ireland is mostly made up of Scottish immigrants, which is ironic cause the Scottish originate from Ireland
@@mahkimahkila6396. Ah.. Thanks for your answer.👍
"You just killed John Wick's puppy" LMAO *Dead*
At the end when they don't show you and you wondered what they were doing. They were cutting open his stomach and throwing out his intestines and cutting off his manhood.
My husband and I went to see Apollo 13 but it was sold out so we went to Braveheart without knowing much about it. I loved it. Truth mixed with fiction but I loved it. Mel makes a good movie. See Apocalypto and Hacksaw Ridge (true story). Both are excellent movies too that Mel directed. Good reactions boys.
Well, historically the film is not very accurate, or to put it another way, at least the broad direction is right, Scots versus English, the characters shown existed, Wallace was executed, the Bruce became king 10 years later after Bannockburn. But that's about it in the grand scheme of things. An important thing to know is actually that there were no nation states back then. The common peasant didn't really care which nobleman was oppressing and exploiting him and where he came from. It was more important to survive and work the land.
But still the film itself is just epic. What makes it iconic is that, to my mind, it was the first film that didn't hesitate to show blood, chopped off limbs, etc. All the other better known films of the 70s, 80s and 90s before with epic battles only ever hinted at it or even earlier there was nothing at all.
An absolute classic and a film more relevant now than when it was released.
How?
@@betsyduane3461 Its theme of sacrifice in the name of liberty is more relevant in a world in which soft authoritarianism is growing rapidly.
@@PerfectHandProductions LOL It's a work of fiction.
@@betsyduane3461What's your point? Fiction has been used to convey meaningful lessons since the dawn of civilization. Art is mankind's key tool for conveying meaning and beauty.
@@betsyduane3461made an arse of yourself there 😂
Movies for October:
"Fallen" (1998) w/ Denzel Washington
"Vampires" (1998) Directed by John Carpenter
"The Prophecy" (1995) w/ Christopher Walken & Viggo Mortensen
"From Dusk Till Dawn" (1996) all-star ensemble cast. Written by Quentin Tarantino, Directed by Robert Rodriguez. Avoid thumbnails, posters, and summaries because of serious spoilers.
"The Ghost and The Darkness" (1996) w/ Val Kilmer & Michael Douglas. Based on real events at Tsavo, Kenya in 1898
"Underworld" (2003) w/ Kate Beckinsale
"Underworld Evolution" (2006) w/ Kate Beckinsale
"Resident Evil" (2002) w/ Mila Jovovich. Based on the video game
I’ve only seen the ‘But they’ll never take our FREEDOM!!!’ scene so this will be awesome to watch along with your commentary.
You really need to watch the whole movie
@@dedo7326 I will. Just wanted to help Cam & Zay with the RUclips algorithm by watching this edited video first.
The whole hes gonna throw him out the window… best laugh I’ve had in ages
So before they started chanting "Wallace" they were chanting "MacClannough" which is the name of their clan & also sounds nothing like it is written :D
Shoutout from Scotland. Live in Falkirk (where the first battle too place) and work in Stirling (where the second battle took place).
It was really well done but the tear from William after his father's funeral is CGI. Also, Uncle Argyll is played by Brian Cox (actor, not the physicist) and Hamish is Mad Eye Moody from Harry Potter.
The flower is significant because she gave that to him as a child. He treasured something so extremely delicate and kept it whole after all those years of traveling and pilgrimage.
Trivia: The only good thing about Longshanks is that he invented the tradition of hiding eggs for Easter
This is truly one of my favorite movies also!
When I was in highschool, a kid in my History class asked our teacher why we hadn't learned about the Vietnam war. The teacher said because it was too new.
A few years later, the Oscar winning movie Platoon came out, and it spoke volumes to those of us who didn't get it.
That would be a great movie for you to react to if you haven't already. I think you guys would really like it a lot!!!
Great job on Braveheart though! Such an amazing movie!!!
Everyone will tell you that this film is not historically accurate, and it isn’t. But still…a great film.
All I can say is the chemestry and personalities of you two make this one of my favorite channels on ALL of RUclips. I have been creating contect for a decade plus, and I would absolutely love to have you guys in one of my videos. Hats off to yous!
Winner of 5 Oscars including Best Picture.
Key things for you guys if you didn’t know. This movie changed the way battles were shot. Wars and epic battles had never been so visceral in cinema before. Now, it’s commonplace. This film is why.
Mel Gibson is a good actor….. but in terms of directing, because he directed this movie also, he is a GENIUS….. he is SO good at composing a film; another one many people don’t watch for almost obvious reasons is Passion of the Christ, which he also directed with his perfection. This movie earned Mel his very well deserved best director Oscar……
As someone who lives in a country that has been under brutal occupation for the past 70+ years, I can understand the will to go through torture and give up your life if you knew wholeheartedly that it would lead to your country's freedom. Witnessing your entire country suffer all your life, and seeing all the freedom that you've been deprived of, is something that really dominates your consciousness in every aspect of your life, and it's agonizing.
Great reaction video. William Wallace is a the epitome of a ' hero' here in Scotland. Braveheart is fictional with small amount of fact thrown in. What William did was start a movement that freed a nation long after his death. ' the bruce' in fact is as much of a hero although things that both did to win were beyond brutal in today's standard. That being said. I fucking love being Scottish 😁😁😁 onward the brave
Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart , Gladiator.....the reason I love movies so much.....I don't know if I can choose between them, but if I was forced...
1-Braveheart
2-SPR
3-Gladiator
Idgaf about historical security for some reason 😂
Accuracy*
👍🏼
If you want to see a more historical accurate about the fight for the independence of Scotland and Robert the Bruce, checkout, Outlaw King. Chris Pine plays Robert the Bruce and Florence Pugh plays his wife in the film. Stephen Dillane plays the King of Britain. Directed by David Makenzie (director of Hell or High Water). Great film on Netflix.
I sconed this. Big thumbs up for "Outlaw King"; also "Robert the Bruce" which is a reatively low budget Scottish movie and is my favourite.
Scottish viewer here 🙌 Cam & Zay you are our adopted Scots 🏴
People talk about Wallace's speech and the battles but I believe that the best scene is when you see Wallace's legend spreading, like Moses through the read sea lol
The battle of Stirling actually took place at a bridge, where Wallace caught a superior english army mid-crossing and defeated it. Something similar to the spear wall you see in the movie actually happened at Bannockburn, the battle referenced in the final scene. There, Robert the Bruce used formations of massed pikemen (an innovation at that time), first to withstand repeated charges from the english knights and then offensively, to push the whole english army into a river with massive casualties. Bruce was badass at that battle, taking down an english knight in epic single combat. Yeah, the movie is full of historical inaccuracies, but I still love it because it encapsulates perfectly the general spirit of those struggles, which I think is more important than being 100% factual. Though one must keep in mind that in this conflict the line between 'good' and 'evil' was much more blurry than presented in the movie. Both sides did some nasty atrocities to each other...
Wallace and his commanders were strategically brilliant. Highly recommend the "kings and generals" channel for the actual battles. Besides the guerrela tactics they utilized rough terrain and longspears to counter cavalry and structured formations of fast moving skirmishers thar were hard for English longbow men to hit, negating the stronger powers two primary advantages.
There once was a man in Scotland named William Wallace. He was hung, drawn, and quartered.
There ends the historical connection to this film.
True, this would make horrible documentary but oh, so good and entertaining film though. Cinematography. music, acting. This rises patriotic scottsman even people who have no relation's to the Scotland what so ever. Not too many films can do that.
Dude no body gives a fuck lmao, it's an amazing film. There's always one little bitch Englishman on these reaction vids claiming how it's not entirely historically accurate. I'll tell you what is accurate, the Scots beat your arses for millenia and you never once conqured them despite a larger population. Haha, loooosers.
It is a beautiful film. Won the Oscar for Best Director and picture
You guys gotta do Apocalypto next!!! Another Mel Gibson movie that rules!
Hi guys!!! You guys are hilarious! Another one I wouldn’t watch by myself. Lol.
I have watched “GLADIATOR” when you’re in the mood for another one of these types of movies. It’s awesome!
Can’t wait to watch this one with y’all. 😊let’s go
The Princess of Wales was only 6 years old at the time. She did not have Wallace’s baby. This is a very good film but typical Hollywood inaccurate. They dont understand our true history . Edward the longshanks was a brilliant statatician. The actor who played him was one of our finest Shakespearian actors. Rest in peace. The Scottish nobles let their own people down by taking longshanks bribes.
The date of the movie is not accurate and William Wallace also was not poor either and the Scott's never wore blue paint either which is false as well and the queen was a lot younger as well in the movie she is around William Wallice age which is not accurate either. This movie is not even accurate at all the beginning of the movie it says the date which is not accurate.
And yet it still a good movie overall.
@@Tge97 I don't find it to be a great movie for all the inaccurate things in the movie I find it to be a crappy movie I like Mel Gibson but this movie is crap maybe to you it's a great movie to me it's not a great movie
Academy Award for best picture and Director Mel Gibson.
Totally bad history, great romantic fiction
The Princess of Wales when finally betrothed was incredibly ruthless. Read the history
This was based on the real story. Mel Gibson, when he was researching for this role went to Scotland and stayed with the Wallace clan and learned all he could about the history. Robert Bruce believed hat his father was a leper, and believed that he would become one, so he went to the crusades where he died. His dying wish was to have his heart removed and returned to Scotland where it is buried in his grave. Both of these men were heroes of Scotland. Statues of them were placed on either side of the gate at Edinburgh Castle.
Cam asked if they were carving his junk. I saw this at a theater in 1995 and didn't understand what they were doing at that moment. I later found out that they were disembowling him.
His uncle was played by Brian Cox, who was the original Hannibal Lechter in Manhunter. He was offered to play him again in Silence Of The Lambs but had committed to doing King Lear in London and was replaced by Anthony Hopkins, who was offered the role in Manhunter but was committed to doing King Lear in London.
There is no evidence that Edward I ever allowed Prima Nocta in Scotland.
The Battle of Sterling was actually the Battle of Sterling Bridge which was fought on an actual bridge and not in an open field.
Robert the Bruce switched sides numerous sides.
Isabelle the She Wolf of France (the Princess of Wales in this movie) never met Wallace let alone sleep with him, as she was only 12 at this time and was still in France.
There is debate about whether or not Edward II was actually gay or bisexual. He did have men who were his "favorites" and got preferential treatment leading to rumors about that possibility of him being gay or bisexual but no real evidence that he was. While he was a weak king, he likely wasn't as feminine as he was depicted in the movie.
Edward I didn't die on the day Wallace was executed, his death came after when he was marching to Scotland to engage Robert the Bruce, which led many to believe that is why Bruce won as he was fighting Edward II who wasn't as good as a general as his father was.
She was 10 when Wallace died.
Watch ''Outlaw King'', it's like an unofficial sequel, the story picks up where ''Braveheart'' ends....
JAMES HORNER'S score is amazing!
At the torture scene you can tell what they do to Wallace through the joking around with the little person at the beginning of the scene.. It looks like they took out his intestines.
Yes. From what I understand, they actually filmed some horrendous shit for his execution. It was just too much, way too much. They cut all of that out. I mean, less is more
This movie is FAR from a documentary but it's a DAMN fine film!
There's a saying in Scotland. "If it's in Scotland, it's wrong."
Braveheart was the nickname given to Robert the Bruce, not Wallace.
Wallace was a lowlander who wouldn't have been seen dead in a kilt or plaid. He was educated, could read and write in several languages (some of his letters exist).
Woad was abandoned as warpaint several hundred years before Wallace existed.
There was actually a bridge in the Battle of Stirling Bridge, but the film makers seem to have forgotten it.
The French princess was actually a child in France at the time of Wallace's death.
They're the main points, but there are quite a few others. I don't mind history being twisted a bit in movies, but I prefer to have a little bit of history, or just come straight out and say it's fantasy.
My husband is a Stewart, descended from the same Stewart line that was married to Marjorie de Bruce, the daughter of Robert the Bruce (validated by DNA testing). This movie's historical accuracy is severely lacking but it's portrayal of the Scottish people is very on point. They were, and still are, very proud of their land, its people, and their heritage.
The torture scene, supposedly, Mel Gibson did go through it to the point where he actually passed out. You guys should get the actual DVD as Mel Gibson did do a great commentary on the movie. Hence, why streaming really sucks.
13:36 That actor is named Tommy Flanagan. He was in Gladiator too.. He got that scar on his face in a bar fight back home in Scotland, when I believe he got slashed with a bottle.
I studied this in history class in high school. The battles and warfare tactics used were all pretty accurate. Wallace was successful because of the guerrilla warfare tactics he used, as the Scottish had to be resourceful due to lack of modern weapons.
But there was no mention of any love interests (hus wife/the queen of france) i think that just made up to add layers to the story
They usually disembowelled them and burnt their entrails in front of them
Do yourselves a favor and read up on the real history. This movie takes a lot of liberties with the truth and timelines but William Wallace was indeed a real person. And is still a celebrated hero in Scotland today.
the first 4-6 times I watched this we had to get up halfway through to change the VHS tape..
Ok here we go:
So the whole "dead wife" plot is utter fiction. Virtually nothing is known of the real Wallace till he appears in the histories, burning an English garrison & killing it's commander. The reason he decided to do that is simply forever lost to time. What we do know of Wallace is this; he was a knight & a landowner, not some common farmer. He was in joint command of the Scottish army that routed the English at Stirling Bridge & he commanded sorties into English territory, though he did NOT sack York like in the movie (he actually sacked a town called Cockermouth, wonder why they changed that ?). Additionally the plot with the French princess is absolute fantasy. The real princess was like, 12 & still in France during the time period covered in the movie. There is also an issue with Edward II, that's the old king's son. So in the film they hint that he's gay & certainly if you are my age you definitely remember the history of Edward II. See legend has it that Edward II was actually assassinated by having a red hot poker inserted into his anus, as a symbol of his "immoral" homosexuality. This is almost certainly not true & neither was Edward II actually gay. These are both rumours circulated after his death to discredit him. Apart from that (and the fact Robert the Bruce didn't fight for the English at Falkirk) the film is a decent retelling of the story. It's based on an 18th century novel about Wallace, that was itself based on a 15th century heroic poem by a chap called Blind Harry. It's not historical fact but it is in no way complete fiction either. We did defeat a vastly superior English army, we did win our freedom & when James VI of Scotland accepted the offer from England to take the vacant English throne in 1606, Scotland completed the greatest comeback of all-time & (technically) conquered England.
The name Cameron is a Scottish name, in our highland Gaelic language (pronounced Galik) is pronounced & spelt Camshron in our ancient language, meaning crooked nose.Irrespective of this Hollywood film, William Wallace is & always will be Scotland's true patriot, he is in our heart & soul. Alba gu bràth (Scotland forever)
Speaking of revolutionary war Mel Gibson made a movie about that called The Patriot
Glad you guys covered one of my all time favorite movies
I mean, if you’re the princess and married to that ‘not very kingly’ dude who doesn’t give two craps about you, wouldn’t you fall head over heels pretty quickly with the manly, commanding, powerful and passionate William Wallace?? 😁
It's a movie to capture the feeling of real scotts of how much we love our country.
I remember being in middle school. I live in Vegas, it was the end of the day and the bus was taking us home. we were stuck behind a police cruiser that had a body next to it covered in a white tarp. just 30 yards or so away you could see a homeless persons makeshift shelter of in the desert. the poor guy died from heat exposure is my guess. seeing that stuck with me, to see what William saw at the beginning of this is uncanny. love this movie.
I first watched this movie as a kid and back then it left a big emotional mark on me. When revisiting it later on in life the more educated details such as the thistle being the national flower of Scotland made me just enjoy the sympolism even more in this movie. Historicle accurate or not.
Great reaction, from what I've read, and watched, this is the most historically inaccurate movie ever, but, who cares. EPIC movie!! William Wallace was a real freedom fighter for Scotland. There's your accuracy. Fleshed out characters, action, drama, soundtrack, that's why this movie holds up. You guys are hilarious, thank you.
They used locals for the parts, which makes their performances all the more fantastic. You guys totally missed at rhe wedding that the Prince wasnt interested in his new bride, but rather the fellow in the front row. The big guy was his best friend when they were kids. The old man playing both sides was the King of Scotland. He was dying of leprosy. They were gutting Wallace, but they burned his junk in front of him first. His body was quartered and sent to different places as stated. There was a William Wallace, but as the exact details of his actions, they are pretty fuzzy at this point. He was onenof rhe main people in olved in yhe first war of Scottish Liberation.The actual story was written by a descendant, if I remember correctly
This is the most historically accurate movie ever made.....lol. I mean it isn't but its still a great movie.