i mean what part of Braveheart does the Scottish (also British) say lets kick British ass ? . i have been reading about Braveheart of yahoo. and many Americans say British time and time Again. are you guys really that thick did u even listen to the movie ????
Your question is a little confusing. It sounds like you are complaining that Americans are calling the English "Brits" on a discussion board about the movie Braveheart. Not having seen the discussion, it is impossible to see what the context was, but I imagine it was a casual conversation going on. Of course, all of the countries of the UK were not united then, so there would have been no Great Britain yet, but in a casual conversation I can see how people might revert to what is familiar to them and there is some basis for them doing so. My brother-in-law is from England and calls himself a Brit. Of course, the Britons actually pre-date the Angles (from which the name England was eventually created). Some Britons were absorbed by the Gaelic tribes on the northern part of the island and eventually became Scots. Others left the island and formed Brittany in France. The Romans called the island Britannia and their occupation was over a thousand years before William Wallace. The term Britain did not just come from thin air. There is a very long history associated with it or its derivative.
I applaud your effort to educate others that those people living on the southern part of the island would have referred to themselves as English at the time, but almost every country’s people call themselves multiple names. Who knows, maybe a few Saxons whose ancestors survived William the Conqueror still referred to themselves that way two hundred years later. Some might have even referred to themselves as Brits. I am from the southern United States and throughout our history we have been referred to as confederates, southerners, rebels, grays and the region as Dixie. I have seen many references to the land of Dixie for a time period when the term had yet to be used. That doesn’t upset me. It is an easily recognized term to describe a certain area of the United States.
Maybe you should be upset with the Aussie who directed the film about the gross historical inaccuracies concerning the revolutionary Scot. ;0)
I really want to watch Braveheart, I heard it’s awesome. But I’m extremely sensitive to gore and violence and Braveheart I’m sure has plenty of it.
I can watch movies like LOTR and The Patriot, but that is the farthest extent of violence and blood that I can tolerate.
So how gorey is it? Is it at the same level as The Patriot? If so, I’ll watch it.
Thanks and God Bless you all!
Violence & Gore: 10
-Around 10-15 bodies hang from nooses in an old barn/outhouse. Shots of their dead, pale faces.
- A recently deceased man with a gaping chest wound lies dead on a stone table, being washed. This man is shortly after seen in a dream sequence.
- A brief fist fight and struggle breaks out between English soldiers and Scots villagers, a knife is held to a man’s throat.
- A young woman is cornered by soldiers, and slaps the aggressor in defense. She is thrown to the ground forcibly and sexually molested by a soldier. She bites his cheek drawing blood, and is smacked in the face. A rescuer comes to her aid, hurling a sizable rock into a soldier’s head and throwing another head first into the side of a stone hut.
- A woman on horseback is struck in the face with a long stick, knocking her semi-unconscious
- A soldier slits a woman’s throat with a knife, the actual knife attack is off screen, only her face is shown
- A soldier is struck hard in the face with a pair of nun-chuks, he is knocked out cold, another soldier has a short hook plunged into his neck, with a close-up of the bloody wound. A soldier has his leg cut off at the knee with a long sword; a shot of the bloody wound. Another soldier is hit in the chest by a flying sword and is keels back in shock before dying.
-Villager’s attack soldiers; a large stone is slammed into a soldier’s head, a soldier is hit with a long ‘gardening tool’, a soldier is knocked down and has a large hammer swung into the side of his head, a spear is hurled into a soldier’s chest. A soldier is headbutted, lifted up and thrown onto a wooden spike, impaling him graphically. A dead soldier is used as a meat shield as arrows hit his body.
- A soldier has his throat slit with a knife, as before, the actual knife attack is very brief
- A man is slain with a long handled axe, although only the swinging axe is shown and no blood or gore is seen.
- A man is killed by a flying sword, after trying to assassinate a figure of importance
- A huge shower of arrows rain upon a small army on a battlefield, arrows hitting legs, torso’s, buttock’s; quite abit of blood is seen.
- A cavalry charge is stopped by a row of sharpened wooden spears; multiple shots of spears plunging into horse’s bodies causing bloody wounds. The mounted troops are dragged off and mercilessly slain with swords and axes, a soldier is struck with an axe through the top of the head, causing a spray of blood.
- 2 armies clash in battle, bloody and graphic depictions of; a leg being hacked off at the knee, a knife plunged into a man’s nose, an impalement with full length of sword, a beheading, an arm crushed with an axe, a head caved in with an overhead sword swing, a stab to the groin, a soldier is struck with a sword, then trampled under horse charge.
- A scene showing the aftermath of the bloody battle; dead or dying bodies litter the battlefield, many covered in blood.
- Boiling oil is poured down onto troops trying to raid a castle by the castle’s defenders, causing the wounded to writhe in agony on the ground. The oil is then lit, as men are seen staggering around engulfed in flames.
- A severed head is pulled out of a box, a brief close-up of the sagging, decaying face. Very shortly after this a young man is hurled from a window and falls to his death many feet below.
- Flaming arrows are fired onto a patch of land soaked with flammable liquids, causing the soldiers occupying the land to become engulfed in flames and flail around in shock.
- Several men are hit in the torso with arrow’s during a battle scene, mostly fatal wounding, a man is stabbed repeatedly.
- A man’s face is crushed instantly upon being hit with a ball on chain swung with great force.
- A recently slain man is dropped from a balcony onto a table as men sit for a meal, a close-up of a bloody gaping neck wound.
- A small unit of soldiers are forced into a stone hut, doused in oil through the straw roof and burned alive. The sound of screaming can be heard throughout the scene.
- A man is set upon by a unit of soldiers and beaten with sticks until unconscious and bloodied.
- A man is stretched by his hands and ankles as part of a public torture, his face contorting in pain. The torture continues with a brutal throttling by way of a noose. The man, gasping and struggling to stand, is placed and tied to a horizontal wooden cross where he is then gutted and finally beheaded with a long axe. Only the man’s face is shown during the gutting, and the actual beheading is off screen.
- Overall, the violence in this film is practically non-stop. This movie contains probably some of the most graphic violence ever put on screen.
- On a high-low scale of blood and gore for extended battle sequences, Braveheart is probably second only to Saving Private Ryan. Unless the kids in question are very mature, I would not recommend showing this film to any kid under the age of 1
I am especially stuck at the very beginning. Grateful for any replies 
It’s been a LONG time since I saw the movie but I’m guessing that there were maybe bagpipes, harps, tin whistles, flutes, a Bodhrán (a one-sided drum) and/or a tambourine …if the soundtrack director wanted to replicate authentic music of the period.
Im looking for some more music thats along of the Soundtracks of LotR and Braveheart.
And also something that sounds like the begining of Strength of the World by Avenged Sevenfold. Perhaps something stronger in Violin and such, not really looking for the oldschool classical composers, but something newer.
Anything that has the fantasy feeling to it, dosnt matter if it has words or not, more or less looking for the instrumental side of it but both is good too.
Any suggestions?
Anything really by Hans Zimmer, especially his stuff with movies like King Arthur and The Last Samurai. Hope this helps