![]() ![]() This was accomplished with a fake retractable knife. In another scene a horse appears to be stabbed. The ride across the field was done on a real horse, but the horse that took the fall was, here again, a fake horse on tracks. On his way, the King’s protector attacks William and his horse somersaults forward throwing William over his head. He stops fighting, jumps on his horse and rides across the field to attack the King. This was also how a very dramatic scene was accomplished when William is hit by an arrow. When they got to the end of the tracks they merely somersaulted throwing their stuntriders forward. Three of the horses fell head first into the fighters. In one scene there were several horses lined up and then charged into a group of warriors. Then by adding some cutting and splicing of the film in post production, the scenes appeared very violent with horses in the middle of all the fighting. By using a long lens, it pulled the groups of people and animals together for the scenes. The ground had been dug up and filled with sand for the horse falls. The battle scenes were all shot with pockets of people fighting in different areas, with the horses having their own area. ![]() Horses were used throughout, both as a means of transportation and in the battle scenes. However, William Wallace's name will live on forever as the legendary force who freed Scotland. In the end, William is captured, tortured and then, executed. Years later at the Battle of Stirling, the outnumbered Scots defeat Northern England, then they successfully siege York and Falkirk. He and the ragtag Scots continue to fight for their freedom. However, this is by no means the end of William's wrath. William slits the soldier's throat in the same manner as the soldier did Murron's. William has hidden a knife behind his back, so when the soldier rides up, William grabs the man with such force that not only does the soldier fall to the ground, but also his horse. The man who killed his wife sits on horseback nearby. At one point, William walks into enemy quarters with his hands behind his neck to show that he is unarmed and wishes to talk. He heads up Scotland's ragtag army and plots his revenge for the death of his beloved Murron. William declares his own personal war against England. ![]() As William rides up, the soldier slits Murron's throat and she dies. The contemptible nobleman finds her and, along with the other soldiers, ties her to a tree. ![]() William sends Murron away while he fights the other soldiers. However, William catches him and attacks the soldier. Murron runs but one of the king's soldiers captures and beats her in an attempt to rape her. Seeing the way William and Murron look at each other in adoration, the despicable nobleman sends for Murron while William is away. At the time, one of Longshank's noblemen had decreed that he has the right to deflower any woman on her wedding night. William and Murron fall in love, and secretly marry. As an adult, he returns to the village and gives her back the same rose. In the meantime, William has met Murron, a woman from his past, who gave him a rose as he was leaving to live with his Uncle Argyle after the tragic death of his father and brother. Although they have been after him for awhile to join Scotland's still brewing battle to save their beloved country, William still opposes the war and refuses to go. Years later, William is grown up and well respected by his friends and countrymen. He watches as his father and brother are brought back to the farm in a wagon, both of them killed during the bloody battle to take over Scotland. His courage and valor become legendary and even after his death and martyrdom, the words "Wallace" and "Freedom" become the battle cries that spur the Scots to victory. After losing his father, brother and wife to the slaughtering English, William rallies the ragtag Scots and fights the British for the freedom of Scotland. England was under the rule of the unscrupulous King Edward, I, nicknamed Longshanks, who craved more and more power as the battles to take control of Scotland continued. Braveheart is the story of William Wallace, a famous Scots freedom fighter late in the thirteenth century. ![]()
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