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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
More of a general comment; most movies are historically inaccurate. Braveheart especially touches a lot of nerves with people, for reasons that are perfectly legitimate.
But it’s just so damn good, so high quality, that all the arguments against it cause people to miss out on one of the best movies ever made, and that’s really a shame.
They don’t need to be able to describe that finale sequence beat for beat like I can, but they should see it at least once.
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I've seen the movie many times. When I was a teenager I thought it was one of the best movies ever made. As I get older, some of the plot points get harder to take. A lot of 90s era stuff going on there, that's really hard to take these days.
The constant bashing over your head about how evil the English are gets to be a bit much. Many parts of the movie are just a set up to make the enemy seem inhumane. That goes hand in hand, with a then 40 year old Gibson, playing a man just coming back from his education (he'd be in his early 20s), who can do no wrong and gets to dispatch of all his enemies in the most brutal ways possible while still seeming righteous. A large part of the movie is revenge porn disguised in a historical biopic.
Also, how do we make the English seem really weak and deceitful....let's make their heir super effeminate....then throw his partner out a window like he deserves it. That also sets up the perfect ending of....Gibson boning the English queen and siring their heir.
I am also influenced by Gibson's later actions when viewing this film now, unfortunately. The film strokes his ego so badly, that it's hard not to be. So watching a movie filled with bigotry (although most directed at the English....so for some reason people think that's not as bad), it's hard not to look at it and ignore Gibson's actual bigotry. The tone is just too consistent with his actual real life bigotry.