Braveheart Extra Credit Braveheart begins with a voice overcast giving background of William Wallace and his family. It takes place in 13th Century Scotland feuding with the ruthless English rule. As a boy, his brother and father are murdered in their efforts to free their country. Consequently, our hero, William Wallace, is placed under his learned uncle’s care where the audience does not meet him again until Wallace is a full grown adult returning to his now deteriorating childhood home. Upon his arrival, Wallace reunites with his true love and plans to farm the land he was forced to leave behind many years before. During this time, Wallace is approached by his father’s old fellow comrades and asked to join and fight for the Scot’s freedom. …show more content…
Important characters such as Sir William Wallace, Murran (actually named Marion), Robert the Bruce, Isabella of France, and more were all real people that the basis of Braveheart takes place around. Nonetheless, there were many inaccuracies. For example, it is believed that Wallace was born an aristocrat and had been knighted much earlier than the feature depicted. Marion and the hero did not, in actuality, meet until about the time that Marion aged 18. Robert the Bruce did not take advice from his dying father, but instead was motivated by “omens” such as that of a spider swinging from rafter to rafter. Isabella of France could never of had an affair or warn Wallace of anything due to the fact that at the time Braveheart takes place, Isabella was merely a toddler. Analyzing the events of the film indicate that Wallace did lead the rebellion against English rulers in 1296, win at Stirling Bridge, lose at Falkirk, was captured, tried and executed as depicted. However, there were many details of each place that were changed. For one example, the movie did not even have a bridge at the battle of Stirling Bridge. The setting of Scotland and England were as portrayed, but, as aforementioned, were over-exaggerated for the sole purpose of cinematic appeal. All in all, the historical value of this film is just above absolute trash, but that does not distract from the sheer perfection of this 5 star
In Mel Gibson's Braveheart , the rock throwing contest between William Wallce and Hamish (William's old friend) is the significance of his Friendship and their beliefs of strength. William returns to his town after many years and joins wedding. First scene begins with long shot of all the people of town dancing and and music is playing. As William walks slowly among the crowd, a young muscled man named Hamish interferes and drops the stone in William's way with a medium shot. Music is stopped. Everyone is looking to see how William will handle the challenge. In a reverse angle medium close-up, William tries to move around, but Hamish cuts him off and says, "Call it a test of Solidiery." William nods his head with disagreement and responds,
The movie had some true events like the bombing and the march. The bombing toke place at a church were four girls died and one survived. They five girls had went to do a job for their teacher when they went inside the bomb went off. The kids all were screaming and scared people went inside the church to find the five girls. The movie gave visual of what was happening. The Watson's Go to Birmingham is a good example of the bombing and marching for the 1963. The movie was a good experience to learn about 1963. It is fiction because there were no Watson’s and there were no such thing as a worldpool
England’s had sent home some men trying to save money and having no confidence in Wallace. The morning of the battle the Earl of Surrey commanded his men to cross the bridge, but he received a letter from Wallace and hoping it was a surrender he ordered his men back across. Wallace had been watching the movements of the English all morning and studying the formation that they used, he ordered his men to cut them off from the rest of the army at the bridge. Some enemy soldiers attempted to escape by swimming, but drowned and the rest were slaughtered by the Scots who showed no mercy. “I’m William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them… Scotland is free!” Feeling confident at this point Wallace is not afraid to show his might and boast about himself. After winning so many battles he is ready to start celebrating and riling up his men in order to keep the adrenaline they were feeling. At this point in the war all of Scotland doubted England winning this war and did not tremble in the presence of the enemy anymore. William Wallace led his men to the most significant victory in the war’s history because this served more than defeating the number one military in the world it represented the true character and heart the men
The main character in Braveheart, William Wallace, played by Mel Gibson, starts out life wanting nothing to do with the turmoil that his country was facing. However, has he grew older, and after the murder of his wife, Murron, played by Catherine McCormak, he finds the hero within himself and joins up with his fellow Scotsmen to fight for Scottish freedom. He is extremely successful in battle, and become notorious for showing no mercy to the lives of the English. He slaughters them with casual fray. After he
Readers who have never picked up on the Dashiell Hammett detective novel The Maltese Falcon 1930 or seen the classic 1941 film adaptation, which follows the novel almost verbatim, can feel a strong sense of familiarity, faced for the first time in history. In this book, Hammett invented the hard-boiled private eye genre, introducing many of the elements that readers have come to expect from detective stories: mysterious, attractive woman whose love can be a trap , search for exotic icon that people are willing to kill the detective, who plays both sides of the law, to find the truth , but it is ultimately driven by a strong moral code , and shootings and beatings enough for readers to share the feeling of danger Detective . For decades , countless writers have copied the themes and motifs Hammett may rarely come anywhere near him almost perfect blend of cynicism and excitement.
Heroes can be found anywhere on television, real life, and in books, but no heroes have achieved what Sir William Wallace has. The events that led to William Wallace’s heroic deed were rather painful and sad. William Wallace was a poor farm boy who lost both his father and brother to the English.When Sir William grew up, he secretly married a woman, who was later executed by the English for assaulting one of the king's guard, who tried to rape her. The way he fought for the independence for Scotland was the most heroic thing. William Wallace did not have any super powers but fought the English with only a steel sword and strategy, strategies like turning sawed down trees into giant spears to counter the taking down the horses of the English
In British oral tradition, storytelling mainly serves to instill patriotic zeal within citizens. The advent of literacy results in the transcription of these stories, which predominantly take the form of the epic: an origin story in which an epic hero displays heroic acts in a setting with few temporal cues, disconnecting the story from any specific point in history. Beowulf, one such epic, exhibits these properties, with events transpiring without indication of the relative passage of time. One literary device which lends itself to the manifestation of this quality, the frame narrative, muddles the reader’s perspective of time by constantly by jumping between events in the main
I looked at him and said, “Dad there are two minutes left, and we are up by fourteen points. Shouldn't we just take a knee?” My father looked at me, then at the clock. He then decided to embarrass me by reciting the last couple lines of William Wallace's speech. Hearing him raise his voice with such intensity was so unnecessary for the setting of a children's football game. He roared, “just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they many take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!”
In the movie, Wallace is introduced to the audience as a common man with very humble beginnings whose father was a farmer. He was in fact not the son of a common farmer but the son of a low-level. Wallace first acted in anger against the English when he was insulted by the son of an English governor and proceeded to strike him dead and he began his military career. His military dream to free Scotland started in May 1297 after the murder of Marion Braidfoot who is the historical basis for the character Murron in Braveheart. Wallace won the battle of Stirling; he was kind of disappointed when he remembered that he had to fight the English king. The English king brought his army north. The English army had infantry and archers as well as over 3000 cavalry. The Scottish army was only half the size and had almost no cavalry. The Scottish army lost, Wallace however went into hiding. The film Braveheart makes the audience believe that Wallace went around killing his enemies in Scotland, there is however no historical evidence for this belief. Politics were beginning to change due to the manipulations of Edward I and even England’s enemies wouldn’t offer Wallace any help. After traveling to France, germane and Rome he returns to Scotland after almost years abroad to find out he was betrayed to the English by a Scottish noble named Sir John Menteith and was turned over to the English for a trial. He was then taken to for trial and execution. The film Braveheart is
Unforgiven is a western movie but can also be considered as a dark and haunting film which people considered Clint Eastwood's finest hour. This movie was set in the 1880s. After two cowboys scar a prostitute a reward is offered by her fellow whores for the death of the two men. Soon Munny is on the hunt and is later joined by Ned and the young, blind 'Schofield Kid'. The stage is set for what is perhaps the most gritty, realistic and best of Eastwood's westerns.
An iconic film that has shown the generations of Anglo-Saxon culture is called Beowulf, created in 2007 by Robert Zemeckis. Beowulf is the legendary warrior, he and his men set out on a journey to Denmark to fight a battle and conquer a foreign beast. During the specific portion of the film Beowulf, being the noble king that he is, ignored Wiglaf’s word of advice to not fight as it is not a king like thing to do. Secondly, Beowulf stood out in the scene as he removed his armor and stood tall compared to Fin from Frisian, which represents body language. Lastly, the battle took place on the shoreline of Denmark, close to the castle, the cinematography included the ocean with many guards and warriors surrounding the foreign warrior.
In 1296, Scotland was unprepared for war. Occasionally described as prefeudal in nature, Scottish recruitment was based on the idea of ‘free service’ and ‘Scottish service’ . ‘Free service’ referred to the ‘free men’ of Scotland such as Barons, Knights and the lesser nobility or ‘free men’ who were equipped and mounted according to their rank. ‘Scottish service’ was used to indicate able-bodied men from Earldoms north of the Forth who did not hold lands or significant resources. England was much more prepared for war, with their army being recruited under instructions of the Great Seal. This often left the Scottish forces using guerrilla warfare to combat their enemies. It is therefore no surprise that Wallace began his military career with
Braveheart is a historical drama epic film from 1995. The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won five. The film is non-fictional and depicts the events of William Wallace, a Scottish hero who led the Scots during the First War of Scottish Independence against England. However, despite the historical inaccuracies cited by critics, the film was intriguing and successful considering the box office success and award nominations as mentioned earlier. Throughout the film, Wallace inspires his comrades using rhetoric to stand up and fight back against the English. Just
I remember when I first watched this epic trilogy. I was blown away by “The Fellowship of the Ring,” and “The Two Towers” is my favorite book, so I expected only bigger and better things from this film. In my younger years, I liked this movie better than its predecessor simply because of The Battle of Helm’s Deep. Now, however, I see that while “The Two Towers” is still a great movie, though it falls short of “The Fellowship of the Ring.”
The movie is talking about morocco, and colonialism is this area. It’s basically talking about the story of an American woman, who was kidnapped with her children, where she got to live the life of a barbarian and understand the difference between the barbarians, the rulers and the Muslim leader, al-rasoli, who was trying to defend his country. She ended up bonding with him and realizing that he would never harm her or her children and that he was trying prove the wrong of colonialism and the morocco rulers.