Highlander

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This paper examines this movie telling the story of William Wallace as a nationalist and freedom fighter for Scotish rights. Despite its grandeur, the writer shows that this movie had historical inaccuracies and portrays a very simple view of the world. A brief description of the historical story of William Wallace is presented followed by a comparison of the way this story is portrayed in "Highlander".

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"The film Braveheart, a tale of a Scottish nationalist hero, follows Mel Gibson's William Wallace through and love through war, stopping periodically to comment on the very nature of love and war. A narrative in which love conquers all, the movie, while and emotionally manipulative, reinforces extremely pedestrian and normative social ideas. Furthermore, many of the fundamental tensions that drive the film, the distinction, for example, between the brute strength and the intellect are contradicted by the narrative imperative itself. Braveheart is a movie that cannot bear the burden of its own epic status, fundamentally reducing broad historical themes to unsophisticated Star Wars-esque banalities."

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