tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678224310668359038.post3629168113405273555..comments2024-01-01T11:10:30.424-08:00Comments on Mosaic Movie Connect Group: Braveheart -- the fight for freedomMartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01635841382544836698noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678224310668359038.post-22135585764600478772009-04-08T13:24:00.000-07:002009-04-08T13:24:00.000-07:00Ryan Blue,The only 'point of Braveheart' was to fi...Ryan Blue,<BR/><BR/>The only 'point of Braveheart' was to fill the coffers and bank accounts of those whose only interest in the film was in financially benefitting themselves.<BR/><BR/>Michael FollonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678224310668359038.post-46187071804910945532009-04-07T21:01:00.000-07:002009-04-07T21:01:00.000-07:00There is a reason that Braveheart is a movie and n...There is a reason that Braveheart is a movie and not a documentary about William Wallace. Movies tell a story and have a message. Braveheart is about contrasting liberty (represented by William Wallace) with tyranny (represented by the King of England). While little is actually known about the real William Wallace, the point of Braveheart is not to paint an accurate picture of the historical William Wallace, but to communicate the message that the compromise of liberty leads to tyranny but dying for liberty leads to freedom (The Moral Premise by Stanley Williams, p. 175).Ryan Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02490459996675241605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678224310668359038.post-88095526817014928022009-04-07T12:58:00.000-07:002009-04-07T12:58:00.000-07:00'Braveheart' - Hollywood strikes again!The followi...'Braveheart' - Hollywood strikes again!<BR/><BR/>The following extract sums up the film 'Braveheart' -<BR/><BR/>'William Wallace has attracted a great deal of attention from interested enthusiasts, but surprisingly little from historians. Of the several biographies readily available at the time of writing, not one has been written by anyone with a background in medieval history generally, let alone with any scholarly understanding of the society in which Wallace lived. The lack of an understanding of the context has led to the easy acceptance of material that is at best questionable and at worst fraudulent. This is most evident in the film 'Braveheart'. Not content with relying on Blind Harry's largely fictitious poem ' The Wallace' as the sole source of material, the writer, Randall Wallace, simply changed the story to suit a script that made no sort of historical sense and has, in fact, deprived Scottish people of part of their history by effectively undermining the factual material. The benefit of the 'Braveheart' phenomenon is of course the extent to which it has heightened interest in medieval Scotland; an important consideration in a country where there is no viable programme of history in schools. Although 'Braveheart' did help to make Scots more aware of their past, the damage done to our perception of Wallace and of the early period of the Wars of Independence is incalculable. If it is true that a picture paints a thousand words, how damaging is it when the picture is a fantasy?'<BR/><BR/>SOURCE: 'WILLIAM WALLACE: The True Story of Braveheart' by Chris Brown, p.125, ISBN 0-7524-3432-2. <BR/><BR/>Michael FollonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com