Braveheart

Braveheart (1995)

Timing: 2:58 (178 min)

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Release date

1995-05-24

Country

United States

Production

Icon Entertainment International, Icon Productions, The Ladd Company, B.H. Finance C.V.

Genre

Action, Drama, History, War

Budget

$72 000 000

Revenue

$213 216 216

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Director

Mel Gibson

Actors

Mel Gibson, Catherine McCormack, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen, Brendan Gleeson, James Robinson, James Cosmo, Sean McGinley, Gerda Stevenson
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Scenario

Randall Wallace

Producer

Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey, Alan Ladd Jr., Stephen McEveety

Operator

John Toll

Composer

James Horner

Artist

Anna Rackard, Padraig O'Neill, Brendan Rankin

Audition

Patsy Pollock

Editing

Steven Rosenblum, Ted Morley
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• Several of the main battle scenes in the film had to be reshot because sunglasses and wristwatches were spotted on extras in the frame.
• King Edward I was not a pagan, as claimed in the film. Moreover, he participated in the Eighth Crusade.
• William Wallace’s father and brother were killed in 1291, meaning Wallace was around 21 years old, not 10 as depicted in the film.
• The depiction of the Battle of Stirling Bridge omits the Stirling Bridge itself, which played a crucial role in the Scottish victory.
• The woad blue face paint used by Wallace and his companions was employed by ancient Celtic warriors. It wasn't used in the 13th century, the period in which the film is set.
• King Edward I did not die at the same time as Wallace, but two years later (in 1307).
• At the 45-minute mark, when Marion is tied to the stake, the soldier she bites has a beard, although he was clean-shaven in the previous scene.
• A love affair between Wallace and the English queen (Isabella of France) could not have happened in reality. At the time of the main events of the film (1297-1298), Isabella was about five years old and lived in her homeland – in France, at the court of her father, King Philip IV.
• In the film, Scotsmen universally wear kilts, or rather, the so-called 'great kilt' or 'great plaid'. The film's action takes place in the late 13th and early 14th centuries (the dates of William Wallace's life – 1270-1305). However, the kilt appeared in Scotland only in the 16th century, at the earliest two hundred years later. The earliest description of the great plaid in the Scottish Highlands dates back to 1594. The kilt only became traditional Scottish clothing in the mid-19th century.
• In the film, William Wallace is a peasant. In reality, however, he was a hereditary nobleman. According to the traditional version, he was the younger son of a small Scottish knight, Sir Malcolm Wallace, who was a vassal of Lord James Stewart, from the line of future Scottish kings, the Stuarts. According to another version, William Wallace was the younger son of an important Scottish aristocrat, Allan Wallace.
• The real William Wallace could not have been the father of Edward III, as suggested in the film. Seven years passed between Wallace's execution (1305) and the birth of Edward III (1312).
• Wallace's capture was provoked not by the betrayal of Robert the Bruce's father, as shown in the film, but by the betrayal of the Scottish knight John de Menteith, who was loyal to the English king.
• Filming took place from June 6th to October 28th, 1994.