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People STILL complaining about inaccuracies?


I don't get why this film is almost always singled out for it's inaccuracies when every single war movie ever made was equally or more so inaccurate.

In fact name me one movie ever which was 100% accurate?

Was William Wallace real? Yes

Did he fight the English? Yes

There seem to be cries of English hating too but well.....just who exactly was he meant to fight? Russians? Aliens? They were the films antagonists and they couldn't exactly be portrayed as misunderstood victims.

Anyone with half a brain knows that this is all for show anyway and not to be taken seriously. It's a hugely entertaining and brilliantly made film, just like other classics like Spartacus or The Great Escape, none of which were 100% accurate. I doubt very much the vintage war films made in the late 1940s were very accurate either.

Seriously, when you mention inaccuracies it sounds like you are spitting the dummy. I could understand if the film did something drastic like had Wallace survive by conquering the country and becoming King at the end but it doesn't.

If you want total accuracy then watch a documentary.

If you want entertainment then watch a movie.

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Only butthurt English people complain. They want to be portrayed like in Dunkirk.

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People probably wouldn't still be going on about the inaccuracies if Gibson hadn't talked about how much research he'd done into William Wallace and the true events during promoting the film because he wanted to get as much historical accuracy as possible.

The truth is, Gibson just wanted to make a western. He saw Dances With Wolves, was impressed with how ambitious Costner's epic scope was for his directorial debut, and wanted to follow suit, and used the war between England and Scotland in order to do that.

Nothing wrong with that but then why not just set a film during the same period about the same conflict with completely fictional characters?

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