Braveheart(the movie). Do you know this answer?

[Charade]

I know movies are entertainment, but I stopped watching the Wizard of Oz when I found out there actually is color in Kansas and monkeys don't fly. I'm a bit of a stickler for rules.

 

[islandmum]

I know movies are entertainment, but I stopped watching the Wizard of Oz when I found out there actually is color in Kansas and monkeys don't fly. I'm a bit of a stickler for rules.

as I said - you want history, go read a book. Movies (most) are not historical and are entertainment value. If anyone actually believes they are as it happened they are very naiive - although there are many people who do believe in those movies that come out set in a historical period (e.g wars, battles etc) are truth and fact rather than a very loose fictional story based on facts that occurred somewhere around that time.

I mean even James Bond is actually based on a factual person .... although its doubtful that the films and books truly reflect his work I know a couple of people who work for MI6 - and god it sounds BORING! wouldnt make very good TV or movies.

 

[PaulaSB12]

as I said - you want history, go read a book. Movies (most) are not historical and are entertainment value. If anyone actually believes they are as it happened they are very naiive - although there are many people who do believe in those movies that come out set in a historical period (e.g wars, battles etc) are truth and fact rather than a very loose fictional story based on facts that occurred somewhere around that time.

I mean even James Bond is actually based on a factual person .... although its doubtful that the films and books truly reflect his work I know a couple of people who work for MI6 - and god it sounds BORING! wouldnt make very good TV or movies.

Not to mention James Bond's biggest enemy would have been after him for child support, all these women at least a few would have had the odd accident!

 

[Barb D]

I have nothing to add about the accuracy or lack thereof in the movie. I know it's inaccurate and it's one of my all-time favorite movies anyway.

All I wanted to say is that I'm a direct descendent of Robert the Bruce, and you may henceforth call me Princess Barb.

 

[PaulaSB12]

I have nothing to add about the accuracy or lack thereof in the movie. I know it's inaccurate and it's one of my all-time favorite movies anyway.

All I wanted to say is that I'm a direct descendent of Robert the Bruce, and you may henceforth call me Princess Barb.

Not Princess Barbie?

 

[Imzadi]

You can at least try and get some facts right, Henry VIII had 2 sisters, Wallace coudn't have got the future queen pregnant because she was about 3.

 

[What the Heck]

I know movies are entertainment, but I stopped watching the Wizard of Oz when I found out there actually is color in Kansas and monkeys don't fly. I'm a bit of a stickler for rules.

Monkeys don't fly? Oh the horror.

Next you'll try to tell me there's no Santa Clause or Easter Bunny!

 

[Charade]

Monkeys don't fly? Oh the horror.

Next you'll try to tell me there's no Santa Clause or Easter Bunny!

What the heck????

 

[PaulaSB12]

Monkeys don't fly? Oh the horror.

Next you'll try to tell me there's no Santa Clause or Easter Bunny!

Beware the infidel who denies Santa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[TLSnell1981]

Monkeys don't fly? Oh the horror.

Next you'll try to tell me there's no Santa Clause or Easter Bunny!

I do believe, I do believe, I do believe, I do believe, I do believe, I do believe.......​

 

[Soarin08]

I know movies are entertainment, but I stopped watching the Wizard of Oz when I found out there actually is color in Kansas and monkeys don't fly. I'm a bit of a stickler for rules.

Good one!!!!

 

[Michelle67]

Well, why stop there? You must include your very own William Shakespeare. He certainly changed around his historicals. Only, he didn't really write them did he? Christopher Marlowe did...only Marlowe was actually someone else, too. Gee, who was there for the facts?

There's also a replica of the Globe Theatre in London, only it's not really a replica, as no one knows what the actual Globe Theatre looked like, to make a replica. I've actually been to it. paid the price of the tour too, knowing it wasn't real.

The fact is, no one was around during most of history, to sit there and write verbatim whole, private dialogues of conversations, or even much of the events.

Do we really know what Marc Antony & Cleopatra felt for each other?

What did Henry V really say to his fellow officers the night before the battle at Agincourt?

I don't think Braveheart ever represented itself to be a factual documentary or representation of events any more than Hamlet or Macbeth.

Troy was made into a film too. There's quite debatable evidence that it actually existed.

How do we really know what a Gladiator felt, to make that film?

A lot of films could be attacked for accuracy. I think of films as fiction & entertainment unless told otherwise.

Thumbs up for you...

Not to mention James Bond's biggest enemy would have been after him for child support, all these women at least a few would have had the odd accident!

Crackups for you.

I have nothing to add about the accuracy or lack thereof in the movie. I know it's inaccurate and it's one of my all-time favorite movies anyway.

All I wanted to say is that I'm a direct descendent of Robert the Bruce, and you may henceforth call me Princess Barb.

And for you.... Hail Princess Barb!

 

[scotlass]

All I know is he wasn't Australian !!

 

[TLSnell1981]

All I know is he wasn't Australian !!

Neither is Mel Gibson. He's American-born, Australian-raised. He was born in Peekskill, New York. The family moved to Austrailia, when he was 12, in protest to the Vietnam War. Gibson holds dual citizenship: American and Irish. His mother was born in Ireland.

 

[scotlass]

Well excuse me.....it was his Australian accent that threw me !!

 

[TLSnell1981]

Well excuse me.....it was his Australian accent that threw me !!

Hakuna Matata. I know many think he's from Austrailia. I think he has..kind of..an interesting background.

 

[scotlass]

Hakuna Matata. I know many think he's from Austrailia. I think he has..kind of..an interesting background.

I wasnt being snarky sweetie.

Sorry if you thought that,its just as a Scot i found his accent a wee bit more Aussie than mine !!

 

[TLSnell1981]

I wasnt being snarky sweetie.

Sorry if you thought that,its just as a Scot i found his accent a wee bit more Aussie than mine !!

I thought as much but, on these boards one can never be too sure.

I have a wee bit of Scot and Irish meself!