your like "whoa!!! I love this movie!!". Braveheart is one of those movies in my opinion. Costume drama, historical epic, large-scale action flick, and romance all rolled into one big, green, wet, plaid package-- that's Braveheart, the story of Scottish legend William Wallace, the man who fought off the English to regain Scotland's independence in the 13th century.
Yes, young William, played by Mel Gibson, who also directed the movie (which might I add is one of my favorite actors that played in a couple of great movies like all of the Lethal Weapon movies, Mad Max, Signs, and of course The Expendables), has seen England's tyranny close-up-- he walked into a barn full of locals hanged by the English, the day before his dad and brother were also killed by the English. (The English are bad.) So William travels the world for a while before returning as a grown-up to marry his childhood sweetheart played by the ever so stunning Catherine McCormack.
But in an effort to purge Scotland of its Scots, King Edward of Longshanks has granted his noblemen "first night" privileges, meaning sexual rights to any woman who gets married on her wedding night. When William marries the hottie and an English lord tries to cash his this new found privilege given to him on Williams girl. Then, William gets all "nuh-uh" and kills all the English in the village, but not before they kill his new bride.
With no wife and nothing to lose, and a healthy disgust with the way the English have occupied his country, William decides to keep this butt-kicking thing going and see where it leads.
Overall, this is a good movie, all three hours of it. It won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Makeup, and Best Sound Effects Editing, and it was nominated for five more.
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