Anglophobia and Homophobia

Rating: 3/10 (23 October 2018)

Sad to say that Mel Gibson got a very big budget to make a very big epic about
the English-Scottish wars of the 14th century. Sad because he got to indulge two
of his biggest prejudices Anglophobia and Homophobia.
The film is technically most impressive and Mel Gibson makes one virile heterosexual martyr who gets to bed the Queen of England and the big joke
Gibson is playing on us father English royal dynasty down to today.
Gibson directs himself and acts as William Wallace who was the peasant leader
of the Scots who resisted England's invasion of their country. The King of England at the time was Edward I who was nicknamed Longshanks. Patrick
McGoohan plays Edward.
No one ever accused old Longshanks of being a nice guy. Among other things
he did was expel the Jews from England and they did not come back until
Oliver Cromwell let them back in. And no doubt he was disappointed in his
son the Crown Prince who was as gay as green shoes as an English friend of
mine used that expression.
He did not however throw Edward's boyfriend Piers Gaveston off a tower battlement. Gaveston came to a far more grisly end when the Crown Prince
became king. That is a fiction of Mr. Gibson's prejudices.
As for Sophie Marceau she's gone down in English history as Isabella the She
Wolf. No doubt she was a woman with needs, but as history has it Edward II
did his kingly duty and did begat an heir who became Edward III. Edward II
reigned from 1307 to 1327 and the royal prince was born considerably after
William Wallace met his grisly end described accurately here. A product of
Gibson's stated homophobia.
As impressive a cinematic achievement as Braveheart is I won't give it a good
review. God knows there have been historical films done quite inaccurately
for the sake of drama and done well. But an appeal to bigotry I will not
endorse. I would suggest a reading or a viewing of Christopher Marlowe's play
Edward II for a more accurate telling of that tragic tale.
I see very little difference between Braveheart and Jew Suss produced by Joe
Goebbels to stoke Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany.
Shame on you Mel Gibson for your lies and distortions.