In the movie Braveheart starring Mel Gibson where there any inaccurate facts...?!
Question: If so I'd like to know what they where preferably the more improtant ones thanks.
Answers: If so I'd like to know what they where preferably the more improtant ones thanks.
Wallace sleeps with the English Queen, Isabella of France, however, at the time this film is set, Isabella was in her early teens and had not yet arrived in England.
Wallace and Edward I are seen dying at the same time, when in fact, Edward I died 2-3 years after Wallace.
It is a widely accepted historical fact that woad (the blue face-paint Wallace and his men wear during battle scenes) was not used by Scottish warriors during the 13th century, but was in fact used much earlier by ancient Celtic warriors, and was obsolete by Wallace's time.
Several costumes in the movie depict Scottish men wearing tartan and other checkered cloth. Tartan and such checkered cloths of this type did not begin to appear until 16th century, and were not worn in battle until the Battle of Culloden in the 1700s. It would not have been worn in the 13th century.
Also, Murron (wife) was actually named Marian but it was changed because it was thought she'd be confused with Maid Marian.
She was however killed to get Wallace to fight.
And they did quite a bit incorrectly about the Highland pipes. All the pipes we hear are Uillean pipes, also known as small pipes, which are Irish. However, all the shot we see of pipes are Highland or Border pipes.
Hope that helps!
there's quite a bit more on the link, I just gave you the historical inaccuracy
Other than the fact, that most of it is fictional?
Here's one:
Kilts were not worn by the Scottish until almost a hundred years after Scotland's independence.
Well, considering that not much is really known about William Wallace, just about everything in the movie was created by the screenwriters.
http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/...
EDIT : No, kilts were no around then, but leines were - they were the 'skirt' like piece of clothing, with the extra bit of cloth wrapped up and over the shoulder.
His execution was indeed a 'hanging, drawing and quartering' and his body parts sent to various corners of the country, while his head was sent to London Tower.
Check out wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braveheart#...
You mean aside from almost all of them? Robert the Bruce wasn't around William Wallace. The battle of Sterling was won when a bridge collapsed and the English Knights in there heavy armor drowned. He never bagged a Princess (at least not that history records), and there's no record of him having an Irish Lieutenant. There's a bunch of embellishment there.
The one factual error that I noticed was the kilts. Most of the men including William Wallace are wearing them, when they were not yet in existence. Braveheart is not a very accurate portrayal of Scotland in the 13th century, there are MANY factual errors.
he never met the queen, the battle of Stirling was on a bridge not on an open field, and his wife was never mudered( i think the last one)
No, but there was a fair bit of accurate fiction.