Within popular culture as well as true life events, humans look for a person to root for in hard times or difficult events. William Wallace within the movie Braveheart captures that idea completely while trying to tell the story of how a group set out to overthrow foreign rule as well as shake up the feudal system. This piece sets out to take a historical event and turn it into a blockbuster hit through love, battles, and a martyr to root for. Although as many know that movies rarely hold up to actual events, Braveheart leaves room to find and dissect the true meaning of Hollywood as an entertainment driven place as well as a piece of learning in a time in history to overall achieve a blockbuster that creates a hero out of little fact. The
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One strength of the piece is the fact that what sparked Wallace’s original uprising was the death of his wife because of an English overseer, although with that the main reasoning for the uproar alone was the fact that King John Bailliol had been overthrown by Edward I and Wallace was unhappy about a foreign country ruling the land of Scotland. Also, while although Wallace did fight in battles with a group of others that were fed up, people in the movie such as Hamish were never listed as being real and most likely was put there to add a theatrical part to the story in terms of character development. Speaking in terms of fighting, the film holds the accuracy of the gore involved in a battle during that time, but Wallace himself did not hold battle speeches beforehand and it was states that “Wallace was anxious to avoid battle if possible” (Fisher 2005, 34). The film did in fact showcase Wallace’s knack for battle and that it was a born skill, the film did not showcase the fact that he was not in fact the only start up in terms of battle with “Andrew Murray leading the rebels in a series of attacks on centres of English power” (Fisher 2005, 32). One of the largest weaknesses of the piece comes from what happened after the battle at Falkirk. While it is shown in the movie that he participates in a guerrilla style of warfare as well as Bruce becoming a traitor to him that cost his men the loss, little truth holds within that. It is only stated within historical sources that “Wallace went to Rome, to continue his efforts on behalf of Scotland” after Falkirk and no mention of Bruce undermining him was ever stated (Fisher 2005, 34). Wallace was indeed killed by England, but overall when referring to the final scene within Braveheart, Bruce never continued the fight in Wallace’s name and instead
One strength of the piece is the fact that what sparked Wallace’s original uprising was the death of his wife because of an English overseer, although with that the main reasoning for the uproar alone was the fact that King John Bailliol had been overthrown by Edward I and Wallace was unhappy about a foreign country ruling the land of Scotland. Also, while although Wallace did fight in battles with a group of others that were fed up, people in the movie such as Hamish were never listed as being real and most likely was put there to add a theatrical part to the story in terms of character development. Speaking in terms of fighting, the film holds the accuracy of the gore involved in a battle during that time, but Wallace himself did not hold battle speeches beforehand and it was states that “Wallace was anxious to avoid battle if possible” (Fisher 2005, 34). The film did in fact showcase Wallace’s knack for battle and that it was a born skill, the film did not showcase the fact that he was not in fact the only start up in terms of battle with “Andrew Murray leading the rebels in a series of attacks on centres of English power” (Fisher 2005, 32). One of the largest weaknesses of the piece comes from what happened after the battle at Falkirk. While it is shown in the movie that he participates in a guerrilla style of warfare as well as Bruce becoming a traitor to him that cost his men the loss, little truth holds within that. It is only stated within historical sources that “Wallace went to Rome, to continue his efforts on behalf of Scotland” after Falkirk and no mention of Bruce undermining him was ever stated (Fisher 2005, 34). Wallace was indeed killed by England, but overall when referring to the final scene within Braveheart, Bruce never continued the fight in Wallace’s name and instead