Which film is more historically accurate ?!


Question: Braveheart ... or... Rob Roy ?


Answers: Braveheart ... or... Rob Roy ?

Rob Roy


from Braveheart trivia imdb . com

When asked by a local why the Battle of Stirling Bridge was filmed on an open plain, Gibson answered that "the bridge got in the way". "Aye," the local answered. "That's what the English found."

Randall Wallace had very little historical evidence to work with in regard to William Wallace's life; he has noted that even Churchill's definitive work "A History of the English Speaking Peoples" observed in only a single line that virtually no factual material survives about the Scottish leader. Because of this, Randall Wallace relied heavily on a 15th-century romantic poem by the Scottish writer Henry the Minstrel ("Blind Harry") in constructing his story.

Prince Edward (later King Edward II) was indeed the first English prince to carry the title Prince of Wales, although he did not marry Princess Isabella until 1308, after both Wallace (1305) and Edward I (1307) had died.

Blue body paint for battles had stopped being used around the end of the Roman era - roughly 800 years before the events of the film.

# Kilts were not worn by the Scottish until almost a hundred years after Scotland's independence.

# English soldiers had no uniform during the Scots Wars of Independence.

# Princess Isabella did not set foot in England until 1308, therefore she could not have been in England to warn Wallace about the upcoming Battle of Falkirk.

# There is an in-joke in the film that William Wallace's private time with Isabella led to the conception of Edward III. This could not have been the case, since Edward III was born almost ten years after Wallace died

# Despite the film being set in Scotland, and based on the life of a Scottish folk hero, the primary instrument heard throughout the soundtrack (most notably at William's father's funeral) are the Uilleann pipes, which are a smaller traditionally Irish version of bagpipes rather than the ubiquitous Great Highland Bagpipe.

never watched Rob Roy but loved Braveheart

Braveheart, quite accurate though a little bit cinematic!

braveheart

Braveheart was certainly NOT historically accurate, suggesting than William Wallace slept with the Queen of England! Rob Roy would be slightly more accurate

Braveheart is based on the greatly embellished myth of Wallace, not the reality. In fact, he got almost nothing right except his name. Even the death scene was inaccurate.

Rob Roy is not too historically accurate, but a bit more than Braveheart. At the end of Roy Roy, the hero walks off with wife and kids, when the real Rob Roy was hung, drawn and quartered.

It's hard to tell. When it comes to historical films, filmmakers have a tendency to overdo it and lavish things up "Hollywood-style." My former boss did a lot of research on William Wallace and found major flaws in the film "Braveheart." Same thing goes for "A Beautiful Life" with Russell Crowe. In that movie, they never mentioned that he fathered a child out of wedlock and was a deadbeat dad, etc., because they want the protagonist to be likable. I've never seen Rob Roy, but if you do, compare and contrast what's fact and fiction.

Ironically enough, my former boss also found out that my ancestor may have fought alongside William Wallace. Pretty cool.



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