While Braveheart was taken up by legitimate Scottish nationalists its
anglophobia also fuelled racist violence in Scotland-  as much against
Asians as English. The British press was perhaps too self consious to take
up its racist undetones but a discussion group I saw on Irish TV was
unanimous in their critique of it.

paul courtney
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pam Asbury-Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: Braveheart


> James Brothers wrote:
>
> "Unfortunately Hollywood has a tendency to rewrite history. Some like
> Brave Heart, while making historians and Scots cringe, probably don't
> really have any lasting effect on the general public. Movies purporting
> to accurately depict more recent events, or written specifically as
> propaganda are not so innocuous."
>
> Strangely, the Scots erected a statue of Mel Gibson as Braveheart!!  That
> has already convinced a lot of tourists that the movie was (gasp!)
> historically accurate!  I've even met a couple of  men at Highalnd
festivals
> with the surname of  Wallace who claim to be direct descendants of
> Braveheart.  Yeah, they wish!
>
> Pam Asbury-Smith
> SRI, Tucson
>