Braveheart (Mel Gibson, 1995)

To prepare for my trip to St. Andrews and Scottish especially, I decided to watch Scottish movies. I thought it might be a good idea to start with the one about Scotland's "independence": Braveheart. - Scotland, around 1300. Lots of warriors. - I liked Mel Gibson's Scottish accent, I thought it wasn't bad. Some other people sound quite American, that's funny... but then I remembered how much English itself changed from earlier (Shakespeare let's say, or think of medieval German literature) to now and I realize probably it doesn't matter anyway. For instance William Wallace (Gibson) telling the French princess "I don't know why I tell you this, probably because your looks remind me of my wife whose killing by the English is the whole reason for this combat" made me laugh. - In general I liked the movie, though. Actually this medieval kind of raging and killing I enjoy. Usually I get disgusted by fights, but all this beating, slicing and stabbing I found quite well-done. Maybe modern technologies are just too complicated for me, or it's that I long for the uncivilized life. - Another thing: this freedom babble. How does it work, can you imagine they were all shouting "freedom!" when they rushed into battle? And what did they mean by it? Unfortunately That we don't get to see because after Wallace dies there is only 90 seconds left to the three hour movie, in which the Scots overthrow the English and gain it. Happy-go-lucky toys...-----ok I have a have a problem uploading the pic. Imagine a long-haired dirty guy with a sword walking towards you, and everything behind him burning, but the cool way.