"Braveheart" is ... It's like, how do I keep this "Braveheart" thing going?
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Most Braveheart Crossover To an average American with no knowledge of the intricacies of Scottish medieval history, Outlaw King looks and sounds like Braveheart.
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The rebel William Wallace (Mel Gibson) is the hero of Braveheart.
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Remember when Mel Gibson won an Oscar in 73 for directing Braveheart?
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Fire arrows are in everything from Gladiator to Braveheart to Game of Thrones.
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Braveheart paint by Evie, new rescue horse named Cajun on a sunset ride.
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Maybe not full-on Braveheart, but at least a little more The Purge.
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I&aposll be on a plane watching Braveheart over and over and over again.
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You may wonder: Isn't Outlaw King just a remake of the 1995 movie Braveheart?
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There's only one "Braveheart" in the room, and he's not gonna unite us either.
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While Gibson took home Oscars for producing and directing "Braveheart," a fictional telling of the life of 13th-century Scottish knight William Wallace, aka Braveheart, his performance as Wallace was overlooked, as were his co-stars Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, and Catherine McCormack.
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It is because Hollywood has stopped making "prestige pictures" of the "Titanic" and "Braveheart" variety.
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Like The Passion of the Christ and even Braveheart, Birth is both brutal and ecstatic.
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There's a white car in the back of a famous battle scene in "Braveheart" (1995).
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There's only one Braveheart in this room and he's not going to unite us either, okay?
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Ask Jeff Sessions, who probably considers Mel Gibson's end in "Braveheart" preferable to his endless mortification.
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Please gut me while awake like Braveheart because that has to be more pleasant than this pic.twitter.
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Part of what made Braveheart so mythical in Hollywood canon was the sheer grandeur of the production.
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The next time it happened was in 1996, after the cast of "Braveheart" failed to garner any nominations.
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Outlaw King really wants to be a worthy successor to the ruling champion of the historical epic: Braveheart.
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Another caller in the Netherlands had just watched the movie "Braveheart" and had some questions about the plot.
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A car is also visible in a scene of "Braveheart," the 1995 movie set in 13th-century Scotland.
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Gibson won acclaim after directing box office hits such as Oscar winner "Braveheart" and "The Passion of the Christ".
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Braveheart and her fellow rescued dogs languished for months as her abuser's case wound its way through the courts.
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Suddenly, it was like a scene from Braveheart, where the Scottish and the English just start charging at each other!
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I think in Saving Private Ryan they had 13 on a beach, and on Braveheart they had 18 partial burns.
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Trulia reports the Braveheart star purchased the pad in July 2008 for $11.5 million from David Duchovny and Tea Leoni.
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I think in Saving Private Ryan they had 13 on a beach, and on Braveheart they had 18 partial burns.
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Along with "Braveheart," Mr. Gibson directed "The Passion of the Christ," which sold $612 million in tickets worldwide in 2004.
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"If Tarzan stole a horse and went to battle with Braveheart this would be the soundtrack," wrote Audiobullys to THUMP.
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Mr. Park has essentially remade "Apocalypto" but with soccer instead of human sacrifice, "Braveheart" with a giant stop-motion duck.
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The last time a film nabbed the best-picture Oscar without a SAG ensemble nomination was 1996, when "Braveheart" won.
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It's been 21 years since Gibson, who welcomed his ninth child last week, won Best Picture and Best Director for Braveheart.
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In this sketch, Driver is a performer at New Jersey's Medieval Times restaurant, but he thinks he's William Wallace in Braveheart.
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James Robinson is best known for playing the young version of Mel Gibson's character William Wallace in the iconic 1995 film 'Braveheart.
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We'd suggest Interstellar, Wonder Woman, Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart, Logan, Serenity, Star Trek Beyond, The Matrix, John Wick Chapter 2, or Gladiator.
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The star was last nominated for an Academy Award was in 1996 when he won Best Director and Best Picture for Braveheart.
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The poetic visions we have about Scotland—perpetuated by tartanry and Braveheart—miss out on the global nature of real Scottish food.
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Is the performance of Gibson in "Braveheart" less of an art form because of his anti-Semitic raving at a traffic stop?
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In 2003, he sponsored an exhibit at the Costume Institute of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled 'Braveheart: Men in Skirts.'
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Bill Cohen says 'Mad Dog' is a misnomer, and his nickname should be 'Braveheart' because what really characterizes him is his courage.
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He had prestige: 1995's Braveheart, which he starred in and directed, won him two Oscars, for Best Picture and Best Director.
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However, the contest between former Brasilia dweller Alan "Nuguette" Patrick and Scotland's Stevie "Braveheart" Ray is the one which really catches the eye.
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Hacksaw Ridge nabbed Gibson a nod for best director, his first nomination since he won best director and best picture for Braveheart in 1996.
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But the last best picture winner to capture the award without a corresponding ensemble nomination from the Screen Actors Guild is 1995's Braveheart.
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Lewandowski saw him as a Braveheart-like hell-raiser tilting against a party elite that had not seen fit to embrace either of them.
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It was an extraordinarily expensive flop and reviled by critics, who didn't cotton to its attempt to Braveheart up the story of the Alamo.
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"Braveheart" also earned Oscars for its sound effects editing, cinematography, and makeup, as well as nominations for original screenplay, score, sound, costume design, and editing.
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It's long (although significantly less so than it was when it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival), a little confusing, and well, isn't Braveheart.
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Starring Mel Gibson in the (extreme Beanie Feldstein in Lady Bird voice) TITULAR role, Braveheart followed William Wallace's struggle to repel the English from Scotland.
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Robert the Bruce only factors into the ending of Braveheart, but he's the focal point of Outlaw King — and considered the father of Scottish independence.
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Oscar-winning producer and entertainment exec Alan Ladd Jr., who's backed films like "Braveheart" and "Chariots of Fire," is ending his nearly 30-year marriage.
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"There's only one Braveheart in this room," he said as the camera to cut to Mel Gibson, who was nominated for Best Director for Hacksaw Ridge.
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Mel Gibson has a long and thorough record of antisemitism, domestic violence, racism, misogyny, and homophobia, which begins before his 1996 Best Director Oscar win for Braveheart.
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There was a time when the likes of "Braveheart", "Titanic" and "Gladiator" could make zillions at the box office, while also scooping up armfuls of golden statuettes.
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After achieving victory at the famous Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, which is depicted at the end of Braveheart, Bruce's kingship was consolidated and his power heightened.
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She then released secretly recorded audio in which the Braveheart filmmaker went on another profanity-laced rant against Grigorieva – using the N-word and other derogatory phrases.
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During his 12-minute address, Ryan quoted a line from the movie "Braveheart," urging conservatives to "unite the clans" to take back the White House this fall.
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The host then added: "There's only one Braveheart in the room, and he's not going to unite us, either," before looking right at the Hacksaw Ridge director.
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The trailer teems with impressive battle scenes, but why is Netflix releasing this "Braveheart"-like epic only in select theaters while streaming it at the same time?
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The battle itself was brutal: mud-spattered, gory, and wincingly intimate, a combination of Braveheart-eque savagery and the frenetic, high-impact filmmaking of the Jason Bourne movies.
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And frankly, more than a few straight historical movies—from Braveheart, to The Patriot, to Gladiator—have fudged the death of their real-life villains for dramatic effect.
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Mr. Parker has noted that his film, which also stars Armie Hammer and Aja Naomi King, bears similarities to "Braveheart," which won the best picture Oscar in 1996.
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Rating Gibson's wheelhouse, in films from Braveheart and Apocalypto to The Passion of the Christ, is the morally upright, initially reluctant hero who fights on the side of honor.
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Since the SAG Awards' inaugural ceremony in 1995, Mel Gibson's Braveheart remains the only film to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture without a SAG ensemble nod.
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This is not exactly new terrain for the man behind Braveheart and Apocalypto, but Gibson's first film in ten years reminds us of his unique talent for unleashing hell.
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"Huffy Howler" (2004) includes sheepskin, fox tails, brick-filled tote bags and a studio shot of Mel Gibson in "Braveheart" attached to the brand-name bike of the title.
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OUTLAW KING David Mackenzie ("Hell or High Water") directs this epic about Robert the Bruce, an outlaw who became the king of Scotland (and was previously seen in "Braveheart").
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And movies like Hacksaw Ridge, Braveheart, and Saving Private Ryan have done well with Christian audiences; their violence is related to patriotism and heroism, unlike, for instance, the Saw films.
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The Hollywood Reporter says that Gibson is in the early stages of developing The Passion of the Christ 2 and has enlisted Braveheart screenwriter Randall Wallace to pen the script.
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Until now, Elliot's destiny has been to replace another miniature horse who quotes William Wallace from "Braveheart" (not the only pop culture reference that seems a bit out of date).
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Photos by Chris Bethell"This is the tale of Murray Sterling…" sings Bob Mortimer in a faux-Scottish accent that's one part Mel Gibson in Braveheart and three parts Groundskeeper Willie.
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The free Roku Channel also has a boatload of free movies — not new releases, but stuff like Brooklyn, The Fighter, Spaceballs, and Braveheart: things you might have previously watched on DVD.
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"This is a bit of a 'Braveheart' election, where everybody's painted their faces blue and they're all running at each other, and there's no quarter taken or given," Mr. Reed said.
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In other words, "Outlaw King" more or less picks up where Mel Gibson's "Braveheart" left off; to that end, Wallace's legend and one of his body parts put in appearances here.
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What has changed since is that Hollywood has abandoned the kind of commercial, middlebrow epic that once dominated the Oscars—the likes of "Braveheart", "Titanic" and "Gladiator"—in favour of superhero blockbusters.
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On the other hand, Outlaw King is the kind of movie that, were it not a Netflix release, I would wholeheartedly rewatch every single time it was on TV. It's not Braveheart.
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Believe me, it's no surprise that this super-gory film hails from the director of Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto, and I'm not just talking about its religious overtones.
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In 2011, a seagull at the Cannes Grand Hyatt knocked a glass of wine over the French actress Sophie Marceau, just minutes before the Braveheart star was to walk the red carpet.
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In one calculated move, the "Hacksaw Ridge" spot proudly states it shares an "Academy Award-winning director" with "Braveheart" — yet opts not to mention that director, the controversial Mel Gibson, by name.
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And if you're thinking, "Didn't we already have a movie about that?" the answer is kind of — 1995's Braveheart, starring Mel Gibson, acts a prequel of sorts to the action depicted here.
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" Conservative commentator Stephen Miller said: "Trump's rallies are ridiculous & I wish he didn't make the country a part of his personal blowing off steam, but Acosta's Braveheart act is just as equally ridiculous.
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Yet it was not nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for best ensemble; and no film has won best picture without previously landing at least the actors' nomination since "Braveheart," in 1996.
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But this year, the 260th anniversary, there will be a Burns brunch, complete with bagpipes, a haggis ceremony, Scotch eggs, poetry, plenty of whisky and Andrew Weir of the movie "Braveheart" on hand.
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Not quite, although Outlaw King and Braveheart do focus on the same sliver of history: Scotland's fight for liberation from Edward I of England's tyrannical rule, also known as the Wars for Scottish Independence.
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Like having a car in the shot of a Braveheart battle sequence or having a camera man inside Hogwarts in Harry Potter or seeing a human arm pat down a velociraptor in Jurassic Park.
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At its core, The Birth of a Nation is a Braveheart-like martyr narrative with a slightly bland hero facing off against some generically horrible racists—most notably, Jackie Earle Haley's drawling, repugnant enforcer.
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As debate raged among Scottish politicians last week over plans for a second referendum on the country's independence, the mood among the excited nationalists gathered outside the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood turned a bit Braveheart.
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Still, maybe if Riley had picked up the phone and texted his Braveheart speech to Wade himself at some point along the process, they could have worked something out that made sense for both parties.
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Once one of Hollywood's biggest stars — he won two Oscars for "Braveheart" — he became a movie industry pariah in 2006, when he was charged with drunken driving and went on an obscenity-laced, anti-Semitic tirade.
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The project evolved spiritually as a kind of outcropping from the clotted battlefields of Bungie's 1997 tactical game Myth, trading a Braveheart aesthetic for more of a Starship Troopers vibe, and then rendering everything in anthill 3D.
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The couple is in attendance to support Hacksaw Ridge, which is nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Gibson — both accolades of which the Hollywood veteran took home in 1996 for Braveheart.
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It could be worse, but when TV freaking Guide calls your movie out for "rather disturbing racial implications [that] go entirely unacknowledged" in a review otherwise rife with dated Braveheart jokes, you might have to check yourself.
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Known in the world of movies for betraying Mel Gibson's William Wallace in "Braveheart," the 14th-century Scottish king Robert the Bruce led his country during the First War of Scottish Independence, eventually winning autonomy from England.
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"Shape" was not nominated for best ensemble performance at the Screen Actors Guild Awards and, as forecasters invariably note, no film since "Braveheart" (1995) has won the best picture Oscar without previously landing a SAG ensemble nomination.
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Left-wing journalists Owen Jones of the Guardian and Paul Mason both tweeted about the rumored visit, while another user took inspiration from a scene from Braveheart: Donald Trump is planning to sneak into Britain to avoid protests.
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After an early clash, Mel Gibson was 'easy to work with' The former exec worked closely with the then-novice director Mel Gibson on his breakout film Braveheart and got to experience a different side of the actor.
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For example, the 1995 movie Braveheart accidentally showed a modern van during a big battle scene, the 2000 film Gladiator included a gas cylinder on one of its chariots, and the 1959 movie Ben Hur included a modern wristwatch.
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Explosive negotiations with Mel Gibson Mel Gibson was still a newcomer to the directing game when he signed on to direct, produce and star in the smash hit Braveheart — and he was not shy about his passion for it.
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Then there are the accidental anachronisms, like seeing a white car in the distance during an otherwise car-free 13th-century Braveheart battle, or the infamous Starbucks cup that appeared during a final-season episode of Game of Thrones.
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Earlier this month APG announced that it had teamed with Skydance to produce a film about the Flying Tigers, the WWII squadron in which U.S. and Chinese airmen flew on the same side, with Randall Wallace ("Braveheart") supplying the screenplay.
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The responses to Ellenbogen's email run the gamut from weirdo Braveheart–like appeals to fortitude—"we have to stay the course" and "very invigorating as we battle this"—to straight-up absurd, like this from Mitchel Berger, a literal brain surgeon.
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OUTLAW KING A long way from the Texas of "Hell or High Water," the director David Mackenzie returns to Scotland for an epic about Robert the Bruce, an outlaw who became the king of Scotland (and was previously seen in "Braveheart").
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CineFix explains how it combined the best of the battle scenes from Braveheart (the choreography) with the best of the battle scenes from Lord of the Rings (the CGI) with the best of the battle scenes from Akira Kurosawa's Ran (the scale).
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The Brazilians give a tough time to any foreigners taking on their countrymen as it is, but this is an opponent for Ray who once hailed from the city and has been on the receiving end of some harsh words from Braveheart.
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The historical epic Outlaw King, for example, chronicles the brutal struggle of medieval Scottish royal Robert the Bruce (Chris Pine) to unite his country and repel English rule — a rebellion first ignited by William Wallace, the hero of the 1995 Best Picture winner Braveheart.
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Screenwriter Randall Wallace — who wrote Gibson's directorial debut, the Oscar Best Picture winner Braveheart — recently told The Hollywood Reporter that he's begun work on a sequel to the film, which depicted in graphic, bloody detail the last 12 hours of the life of Jesus.
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The speech Whitmore orates in the original film, before flying off for the final battle against the invading aliens, has become a pop culture fixture over the past 20 years, joining similar scenes from Braveheart and Hoosiers in the pantheon of cinematic inspirational speeches.
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Many outsiders come to wonder at the wild of the Highlands or to seek the clichéd Caledonia of the screen—"Braveheart", "Outlander" and the Hogwarts Express ploughing across the Glenfinnan Viaduct—but spend time and money in pubs, restaurants and hotels, where music sets the mood.
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But when Robert receives word that the nationalist rebel William Wallace has been killed — this film overlaps with the time frame of Braveheart, in which Mel Gibson played Wallace — Robert decides he cannot stand by any longer and launches a war against the English for Scottish independence.
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We imagine that "medieval" means rampant and indiscriminate sexual violence like that on display on Game of Thrones (which is set in a fantasy world, but one with clear roots in European history), peasant women being raped by their feudal overlords in a "first night" ritual, as in Braveheart.
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So I mean there's a reason that the president likes to call them Mad Dog Mattis, I call him Braveheart Mattis and the reason he was called Mad Dog was because he was on the front lines, he wasn't in the rear of the tent and he was out in the front line with a soldier.
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While 12 Years was about endurance and eventual release, Birth slowly burns until Turner hits a tipping point late in the film, followed by an action-packed 15 minutes that had the Eccles crowd whooping and clapping as the carnage, complete with crushed and severed heads, hatchets to the chest and more Braveheart-level violence, ramped up to a feverish, bloody pitch.
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To pick a representative year from my adolescence, in 1996 the academy nominated five movies for Best Picture — a classic-novel adaptation and romantic comedy in "Sense and Sensibility"; a historical epic-war movie in "Braveheart"; a work of can-do Americana in "Apollo 13"; and then an ingenious children's movie in "Babe" and a foreign film in "The Postman" ("Il Postino").
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" Which brings us back to the particular tartan Mr. Steyer chose for his debate tie, which also seems to be his preferred tartan: not that of his own clan, Murray, which he told The Post was too ugly (it's green, red and blue, and doesn't seem that bad), but rather that of clan Wallace, as in William Wallace, as in "Braveheart.
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Since sweeping period movies about 14th-century Scottish heroes remain quite rare, director David Mackenzie worked hard to make sure Outlaw King stood apart from Braveheart: The camerawork is gritty and chaotic, the mud and gore are plentiful, the politics are more fraught, and the costumes and production design look (rare for a historical epic) brand new, as if the castles had been built decades earlier, instead of nearly a millennia ago.
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Here are the IMDB top 250 movies that were available to stream on Netflix as of September, according to Streaming Observer: Pulp Fiction Forrest Gump The Usual Suspects Saving Private Ryan Back to the Future Gladiator Sunset Boulevard Cinema Paradiso Django Unchained The Shining American Beauty Reservoir Dogs Braveheart Amélie To Kill a Mockingbird Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Amadeus The Hunt Good Will Hunting V for Vendetta Trainspotting No Country for Old Men Into the Wild There Will Be Blood Spotlight The Princess Bride Zootopia The Truman Show Jaws Ip Man Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Netflix declined to comment.
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