I’ve always wondered wouldn’t a native born Englishman’s pride be a bit disturbed by the way Brits are portrayed in otherwise one of the most emotionally powerful movies ever made?
I’m not particularly bothered about the portrayal of the English in ‘Braveheart’.
The movie depicts - with a certain degree of artistic licence - events which took place around 700 years ago during the rule of an English king who was well documented as a cruel and ruthless man. What is shown may not be pleasant, but it’s behaviour which would have happened during medieval warfare and conquest.
In any case, we may have lost 1-0 to the Scots at Bannockburn, but we beat them 3-0 at Culloden and there hasn’t been a re-match since.
There have been movies where particular national or ethnic groups have been shown in a much more negative light, and in relation to much more recent events.
When ‘Black Hawk Down’ came out in 2001, there were complaints that the portrayal of the Somalis was racist, showing them as brutal and ignorant savages.The Malaysians and Pakistanis were also unhappy because their troops had been shown as mere ‘bus drivers’ evacuating the Rangers from Mogadishu when in reality several of their units were involved in firefights with the Somali militiamen.
I downloaded:
Percy Jackson
The whole lord of the rings trilogy
Boondock Saints 1 and 2
Law Abiding citizen
The Other Guys
Ispy
Rush Hour
Pineapple Express
Troy
Alexander
Braveheart
Avatar
Apocalypto
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
downloaded all for free off the internet
I plan on downloading more
LOL NOOB
Nunyo- When Mel Gibson was getting castrated, I felt a little pain down there.
Not at all.
I really liked the songs in Braveheart, and I got the soundtrack but I can’t seem to find any more good songs.
What’s the difference between a bagpipe and a lawnmower?
Answer: You can tune a lawnmower.
Sorry, couldn’t resist. First of all, the music from "Braveheart" was written by movie soundtrack composer James Horner, who also wrote the soundtrack music for "Titantic", "The Mask of Zorro", and "Avatar"–among others. You might check those out.
For real tradtional Scottish music, you can go here–it’ll link to several different sites where you can listen and download various folk songs:
http://www.rampantscotland.com/songs/blsongs_index.htm
You can also locate a wide range of Scottish bagpipe music–including modern–here:
http://www.heartoscotland.com/Products/music.htm
Amazon.com also carries some of the same recordings.
And here:
http://www.caber-records.com/music/
http://www.emusic.com/album/Michael-Hamilton-The-Pipes-Are-Calling-Traditional-Bagpipe-Rebel-MP3-Download/11379596.html
There are even modern rock bands (from Scotland and elsewhere) that use bagpipes, but this is the classical section. If anything this kind of falls under "other".