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Meaning of the tagline "Every man dies. Not every man truly lives".

posted 4 years ago by TheMan18 (13188)
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And how does it apply to this movie and to Gibson's character here?

[–] SweetTooth43 (2182) 4 years ago

How do you not know what that means?

[–] TheMan18 (13188) 4 years ago

Maybe something along the lines of, given the film's period and time setting, that William Wallace lived an extraordinary life under intensely difficult and life challenging circumstances full of danger and even official tragedy and got to know in official terms how precious life TRULY is before getting tragically killed like here, and that not everyone can travel or will travel the route taken by our character here in their lives?

[–] SweetTooth43 (2182) 4 years ago

Yeah something like that. I always thought it meant to live your life to the fullest and make the most of it. Don't just exist, but thrive and take risks. People still don't

[–] TandyMan (11355) 4 years ago

I think it's about NPCs and cancel culture.

[–] TheMan18 (13188) 4 years ago

What's a "cancel culture", and was it even remotely existent in the times when Braveheart was set?

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Don't worry, "cancel culture" is a modern internet thing, and has only existed for some of that time.

Humanity had more sense back in the days of Braveheart.

[–] Naptown317Native (524) 4 years ago

.........freedom

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 4 years ago

Not everyone does something with their life that matters. He felt he was dying so the people of Scotland could have freedom and to him that mattered.

[–] bigbadwolf666 (4707) 4 years ago

This as heavily as they want it to be associated with the movie is not really original.
It is stolen from ancient.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 4 years ago

It's not stolen. The ancient still has it as well. It's copied.