Mel Gibson's Braveheart, originally released in 1995, tells the story of how William Wallace led the people of Scotland in a struggle against the British and then sacrificed. It's a great movie, but there are some details in the movie that don't fit the record.
The Braveheart team felt that if this was a film about Scots, it had to deal with Scottish skirts, and they didn't seem to be worried that the dress would actually appear three centuries later.
In addition, applying blue oil paint to the face was only practiced 1,000 years ago.
In addition, William Wallace was not a poor villager, but a little knight who owned the land. So he was born into nobility. Wallace ordered his peasant soldiers to fight for him by conscription, and those who refused to do so were hanged.
Wallace's sworn enemy, the English monarch Edward I", "long legs", is not what the film depicts, and all the records show that he was very generous and donated a lot of money like a serious religious person. He was very fond of his wife, Eleanor of Castile. And, as we've heard, he also loves poetry and harp music. Sounds like a literary youth.
Wallace presented Bruce with an aspirational "I Have a Dream" model of his vision of scottish independence and freedom in the future. "We can have something like never before — a country of our own," he said. In fact, before the death of Alexander III, Scotland had already established its own kingdom (Alexander III (4 September 1241 – 19 March 1286), King of Scotland (reigned 1249 – 1286)], and England had actually only invaded the previous year.
For those who doubted Braveheart, the creative team replied:
"Some say we messed up history when we told stories. I don't mind because what I give you is a cinematic experience where I think cinema is first for entertainment, then teaching, then inspiration. “
"In some of the profiles I've read about him, he's not as good as he was in the movies. We romanticized it a little bit, but that's the language of cinema – you have to make it cinematically acceptable. ”