YES. The nitpickers don't seem to understand that, unless it's a documentary, a movie is never about facts and historical accuracy. It's about Story, Legend, and Myth -- about underlying Truths. Movies aren't historians' lectures; they're tales told around a campfire.

"Isn't entirely accurate" is a nice way of saying "complete load of bollocks."

I went to Willam Wallace monument when visiting Scotland in 2019. Scotland is such a beautiful country. Actually had great sunny weather and could see the highlands as far as the eye could see.

@@andrewcharles459 So why are you here then?

@@andrewcharles459 AND OF COURSE YOU WERE THERE AND KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED , OH WAIT YOU CAN READ BOOKS AND ATTEND LECTURES SO OF COURSE YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED, ACCORDING TO SOME ONE ELSE DELIVERING " A COMPLETE LOOAD OF BOLLOCKS " SELF APPOINTED SCHOLARS AND HISTORIANS MAKE ME SICK

... it also rallies other people to the cause.

Shame you live in a country that elected communists that hate England and want freedom...so they can join the EU where they can have more power. With now having 25 percent of parlament and then having...so few the other countries forget you exist. :D But don't worry, I'm from Slovenia so, we also have very little representation so we can be brethren.

@@Butmunch666 He's American lol, he says so in his comment

@@Butmunch666 Well I am a communist. Although I'm not a Scottish citizen, so I was unaware all their members of parliament were reds. I do hate what the English did in the past, and I am a fan of freedom though, so you got me there.

@@Butmunch666 If you're talking about Scotland, I can assure you there's no Communists here, and we don't hate England. Whoever's been feeding you that crap is lying. Sincerely, ~ someone who actually lives in Scotland.

As an Asian of zero Scottish ancestry, gets me emotional too.

Not to mention that the Bannockburn battlefield has been maintained as it was when they fought

@@darraghtalorgan1905 In the good sense.

As a Russian, i respect your will of freedom, long live to Scotland and its people!

@@Tw1ce_born I´ve never been a strong defender of my own personal freedom, sadly, but I appreciate the sentiment, and hope your country´s leader sees sense soon, for everyone´s sake.

@@ToniMcGinty Dude, trust me, this is all about USA right now, they are spreading their influence across the EU and we dont wanna be a part of their "slave programm". I dont blame you, cose your see only the one side of problem. We will hanlde it just like always

I thought 'myth' but folk hero makes sense :)

ok antisemite

OK Albaphobe.

The Last Samurai is not very historically accurate.

@@vorpalblades Neither is Braveheart

She gets a lot more of he little details than most reactors. Like when she noticed that Wallace was in pain from the arrow but even more from being betrayed.

Inaccuracies,? I see no Inaccuracies.

yeah history destroys my view of a lot of movies this, gladiator, 300, troy the list literally goes on and on

you mean the torture of william wallace?, because it WAS WORSE.

It’s a movies first duty is to be entertaining and it’s a great movie. The inaccuracies made reading about the actual history all the more interesting and surprising

I agree. The sheer entertainment value is worth the inaccuracies. 💯%

i did not know that Andyeql..........have you any more information ?

The line is actually anything Steven says :) Particularly "I didn't like him anyways he wasnt right in the head"

he might be a crazy racist but god damn, he knows how to structure a movie and tell a story

@@asdfasdf7199 Mel Gibson is not a racist.

Mel Gibson also once said “You should just smile and blow me.” And that is why is a personal hero.

@@0mnicide I mean, who cant stand behind that statement lol.

Bet MG had never heard of William Wallace until some guy mentioned his name, just like half of Scotland too!@@asdfasdf7199

Historically tar was not used. It was more common to use boiling water.

@@jeffburnham6611 or sand I believe.

That was pine tar ... not the same thing used for roads the stuff they use on roads is called asphalt a type of semi solid.

The "hot dirt" is called pitch, and it is crude oil based. It would be purified by bringing the crude oil to a boiling temperature causing the the oil to become refined and the impurities to either be boiled off or settle to the bottom of the boiling pot. Having been purified it would have become very flammable but it was not common for castles to set boiling oil alight as it could be used against their gates just as the movie demonstrates. Instead, they would simply pour it onto enemy troops, again as the movie correctly depicts. Even then, oil was often not used because once poured, there was still the chance the enemy could light it and use the resulting smoke as a screen to advance or to burn the castles gates if it had wood. So boiling water was the preferred choice. Sand was never used. It was found and used from naturally occurring sources as oil would seep up from the ground in swamps or other areas. Pitch was not used in shipbuilding but was, through another process and combined with tar, usually pine or other high sap yielding tree, used to water proof ships for many years.

So many experts with better info than my "layman's knowledge." Thanks, all!

Yeah in the fictional movie. Not the real version of events!

R.I.P James Horner.

This is one I want to see her do as well.

Or maybe the German movie „Stalingrad“. It’s a hidden masterpiece.

Odds are she grew up on Russian war movies, she doesn’t need to watch one as historically inaccurate as Enemy at The Gates (even though it’s a great movie).

Enemy at the gates is banned in Russia,Soviet veterans from ww2 found the film to be insulting and demeaning.

@@jokester3076 I didn't know that. I just looked it up and the problem was historical inaccuracies. I'm guessing it was the opening sequence. My recommendation was based on Dasha's asking for movies with Russian characters. Hollywood movies with Russian protagonists are rare.

Very few movies are totally real as obviously they dont have accurate records from those times but Wallace and the Bruce were totally real people and that is what matters

If memory serves me he actually only wanted to direct it, but the studio wanted him to also star in it.

Yeah the studio refused to finance it if he didn't take the lead role.

Yea we all have flaws brother.

And you are a man of few flaws yes? Judge not, lest ye be judged...

He told the truth about Hollywood. Theres nothing wrong with that. It could be considered courageous

Agreed, and we'll said. I have found this to be quite common among movie reactors.

Fight for god, fight for your country, fight for your honour, fight for your family I do not care SO AS LONG AS YOU FIGHT!!!!

Oh I see!

I could see "Are you serious???!!!" on a t-shirt. 😆

@@CelebritySpandexHD She has one, actually. Check out her Back to the Future 2 reaction.

Ok... Are you Serious?

One thing I like about The Patriot is they made better use of weaving fictional characters into historical narrative. All the main characters in The Patriot were inspired by real people without writing fiction about real people (General Cornwallis’ presence in the film notwithstanding). It’s reasonably speculative historical fiction set in real events, which is less likely to draw criticisms from purists than changing actual history for the sake of pacing and dramatic effect (which typically divides audiences along the “letter of the history” vs “spirit of the narrative” lines).

another racist Anglophobic made up bullshit 'historical' movie

tbh this is a word most native speakers can't manage to pronounce correct. Most end up saying 'calvary' instead of cavalry.

and a few more...

To be fair, the English have a lot of nerves that can easily be touched. Comes with a centuries long history of conquest/oppression/tyranny. While a dramatization, I'd like to imagine it was more about capturing the spirit of the Scots and boy does it do just that.

It touched a nerve in Scotland too, where many people (like myself) despise it as an embarrassing turd of a movie.

@@redcardinalist As it should. William Wallace is a celebrated hero in Scotland, but he was no peasant farmer's son. I can see taking creative license with a character to make them more interesting but this movie does so much injustice to the Scots as a people.

Go to Scotland, they will also tell you its inaccurate as well lol, because that just a simple fact. It was written as historical fantasy.

@Dank Waifu If it hadn't touched a nerve, then every person I talked to wouldn't have just brought it up out of the blue for no reason except to complain about a 15 year old movie and how they think the US did them dirty with it.

Yes Hollywood bashing the English in that one too lol

"Daisy, Daisy..."

There are a few other good movies that I hope that she watches soon. Do you have a particular favourite in mind that she soon watches?

I agree Scots are among the toughest people on the planet

Yes, the bright blue dye of the woad flower was used to scare opponents, as it lent them an otherworldly monstrous appearance.

The use of woad as warpaint is a myth derived from a mistranslation of Roman sources. The real stuff is a caustic substance and literally burns you if you try to tattoo it. And it doesn't work as body paint, either. It dries and flakes off, or simply streaks. And even then, that practice ended CENTURIES (if not a millennium) before the Scottish Rebellion of the 13th and 14th Century, and would not have been seen on Wallace's forces.

@@Ambaryerno The more you know...

vikings vs mongols vs spartans (vs whoever/anyone else?), who're the ultimate male/warriors, not comparing them as a group/army, but as individuals, in a 1v1 match, who would win?

Best sword movie sword fight ever.

I think Rob Roy is probably a better movie.

@@AZURAKAZ Except for Princess Bride!

I was heavily dismayed with the Liam Neeson's lightsaber choreography on The Phantom Menace precisely because I was already a fan of Rob Roy, George Lucas went downhill there.

The top best sword choreographies and still unsurpassed today are from the Disney '50s Zorro.

YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!

So many great and powerful movies. So many great and powerful performances

Agree.

My favorite also, along with the great performance in delivering those lines, backed up with the perfect score! Too bad we missed her reaction to it!

“There’s a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom, and I go to make sure that they have it.”

"they are playing outlaw tunes, on outlaw pipes."

That always confused me.

Dang these fingers....MacAulish, "Son of Wallace" Honoring both his father and himself. A martyr is someone whose sacrificial death inspires others. "I will not martyr him." I will not allow his sacrifice to inspire others. Well done gorgeous girl. Maybe I should get a larger keyboard so my fat fingers aren't as likely to screw things up, "as often".

He only died once

@@logann7942 hahaha

@@logann7942 I was waiting for that. Moron lol.

Second this! Chris Pine and Florence Pugh are awesome in that.

17 minutes for you to get this comment here. Why this one movie, every time? Do you do this for Schindler's List? Band of Brothers? Just this one movie gets this treatment. Very interesting. Any other movies you want to warn us about?

@@justinatest9456 The French princess was still a toddler and living in France by the time William Wallace died so to quote a historically focused KZfaqr unless Willam Wallace was a teleporting pedophile it didn't happen. Schindler's list paid homage to the history it was telling this move wipes it's backend with it. It's one of the least accurate 'historical' films ever made.

@@seanpfbooks9918 The story of the princess is really inconsequential to the full story, and painting this movie as fiction over that is more than unfair. The same arguments can be made to declare Chernobyl and Band of Brothers works of fiction as well. And I'm certain the same can be done for Schindler's List. And I'd be as equally suspicious of people who targeted that movie the way this movie is, everytime it's posted.

The ending isn't inaccurate tho. It's actually historically accurate.... And some of the Battles are accurate as well.

@@justinatest9456 Who peed in your Wheaties? Or is it your time of the month?

Edward: "Only one king can challenge another!" "I say he's king for today" "Yep, its Monday, thats our king" "The king? Oh that's Wallace over there with his face painted and the big fuck off sword. It is Monday after all.. So go ahead" Edward: "well.. I mean.. I would.. but.. I think It might rain.. Maybe tomorrow?"

Edward also lived for several years after Wallace's execution. Isabella of France was a child, (IIRC, she was SEVEN) and never actually met Wallace. There's no evidence that droit seigneur was ever actually implemented ANYWHERE, much less by the English against the Scots. There was this guy called the POPE who would have issued a very stern warning had they tried. The kilt wasn't developed until the 16th Century, and Wallace's sword is of a type dating to the 16th and 17th Centuries. "Braveheart" was a not a reference to Wallace. In fact, it was a name given to the Bruce. Schiltrons (pike formations) were not used at Stirling (though they were at Falkirk). In fact the entire battle centered around Stirling BRIDGE, and the inability of the English to take it and force a crossing. Nor did Wallace have the capability to sack York (he did tear up the countryside of northern England). In fact the depiction of Medieval combat in general is pretty bad.

Same actor who played Robt the Bruce made independent film ROBERTH THE BRUCE (2019). Epic film with historical truth; the Bruce actually ruled Scotland from 1314-1333. It is a better film w/out the hollywood rubbish. MUST SEE!!!!!

@@pmcclaren1 King Robert was crowned in 1306 was he was 31 years old. I liked 'Outlaw King' except they compressed the timeline a bit too much, made Robert look way older than he really was and made Douglas look like an insane maniac. The Douglases weren't crazy, there was no need to make him Stephen of Ireland 2.0.

@@Ambaryerno Some of that is true, some of that is half-true. Did Wallace besiege York? Yes. Did he have the means to take it? No. In real life the town surrendered but it wasn't stormed. But the people in York were like, "fuck King Edward, we don't want to die for that guy. Why don't we hang out?" Northern English are quite different from Southern English. Was the kilt developed in the 16th century? The MODERN kilt was, yes. But there was another type before that. How do I know? Because bearded red-haired Pharaohs were discovered in Egypt, the "Hyksos" (foreigner, outsider, strangers) wearing drum roll please...kilts with tartans. This is going back thousands of years. Of course you don't normally hear about that, but that's why I'm here. Because I will tell you about it, and furthermore I'll prove it. Not right now, but I'll get there eventually. Schiltrons were not used at Stirling, they were hiding across the Abbey Craig. The English crossed Stirling bridge not realising two things: there was a carpenter hiding under it waiting to pull the pin (as it were) and Wallace and his army were waiting for them hiding in the woods. How do I know? Common bloody sense. The English were not stupid enough to politely cross a bridge knowing there was a Scottish army just standing there. I mean for fuck sake, obviously... Wallace's sword was based on the Charteris sword, aka Thomas de Longueville. this was a real sword that actually exists and was taken from a vault and studied in the 19th century. So yes, they did have two-handed longswords in the 1200s. Historians can say it wasn't invented until the 17th century, blah blah blah but how the fuck do they know? Were they there? They took a real sword from a real body in a real church from the time of Wallace, but some book somewhere says otherwise so...let's just ignore that. Sweep, sweep, sweep. Braveheart was really Robert the Bruce? Correct. In fact it was Robert the Bruce who knighted Wallace. It's also true that he murdered John Comyn for dissing Wallace in real life. Triggered. The Greeks have their own versions of the kilt and the bagpipe. Considering the husband of Queen Scota (who the Scots are named after) was a Greek Prince this should come as no surprise. Who came up with it first, the Scots or the Greeks? Who knows. Chicken or Egg? The fact is the two cultures parallel each other. Even their flags have the same colours. The lands even look sorta the same if you flip a map upside down. Winston Churchill even compared the Scots to the Ancient Greeks. Edinburgh is known as the Athens of the North, etc. King Edward died in 1307 On his way north to deal with King Robert. You'd think he'd give up on Scotland at some point, but...no. this was largely because Wallace butchered half his family members. In real life King Edward made magnanimous offers to Wallace, he might have even made him King of Scots (under him of course) but Wallace was having bloody none of it. He beheaded his nephew before the Battle of Bigger and told his emissaries to chuck it at the King's feet as the ultimate "fuck you" to the English king. I guess it worked if King Edward was still so pissed off he was still trying to conquer Scotland two years after Wallace was executed. How do I know Biggar was a real battle? Well for one thing there's physical evidence of armour at the site where the battle was said to have happened and also the Treaty of Rutherglen. Under what circumstances do you make a peace treaty? If you remove Biggar the sequence of events makes no sense. Rutherglen lead to the Carlisle plot, which led to the Barns at Ayr, which resulted in the Battle o the Brae in Glasgow, etc etc. Remove one crucial event from the timeline and it soon makes no sense. You have to factor in motivation: not only what people are doing, but why? Prima Nocta was complete bullshit, you are absolutely correct. The Pope would have instantly excommunicated the whole of England for something that heinous and the king too. They would've been the lepors of Europe. Everyone would've turned on England and helped the Scots out of sympathy.

I Second this. Great movie, Outlaw King, a little more historically authentic and it features great roles with Chris Pine and Florence Pugh.

Like the ones where they were sent to kill their own people. So brave.