Mel Gibson: Braveheart

This is the one that really took Mel Gibson to a another level...The star/director of a film that was huge on any scale of measurement. He hit the ball way out of the park. A classic film! Braveheart. Sort of a Scottish Rocky! Beautiful film from all departments and went on to route the Academy Awards.....Mel deserved all the honors he got....

[@em2911]

Mel is a great talent. He is awesome; he has entertained us for so long and is still full of surprises. Everyone has a dark side, only when his shows up, it's under the spotlight. He says himself he is seriously flawed! I hope his whacky sense of humour keeps him going. Looking forward to more of his films!!

[@mensahcarrelle]

Wether you do or don't like Mel,you have to admit it : BRAVEHEART is a masterpiece !

[@bojana5rusicc]

Mel is the most handsome man in the world! I love him and the way he acting.. My life wish ist to meet him!!!

[@CMPUNKwweCHAMP]

Being Scottish and watching brave heart is the most touching thing ever!

[@tinto278]

to bad Scotland is all woke and LGBAJBSKAJSFT++++

[@renekackline2377]

BEAUTIFUL!!!! Beautiful eyes. Handsome man!!!!!!💕💕💕💕💕💕

[@stevedandy973]

Mel Gibson makes GREAT movies - "Braveheart" and "The Patriot" being two of them.

[@modernviking7355]

Fckn defo i hate it when ppl go whats the patriot im like its english getting beaten need i say anymore?.? Lol

[@jimjones4838]

..passion of the christ, apocalypto, man without a face, braveheart, hacksaw ridge !

[@BigFrogg]

Scottish national hero!! Lol - from a Scotsman ;)

[@marinaaa001]

Mel was soooooooo handsome!!!! His smile, and blue eyes are pretty........, oh :)

[@renekackline2377]

I agree! His voice is heaven too. Love that smile and those eyes.

[@Starr-Child]

😍😍😍😍 Ugh, he was so freakin’ hott.

[@fergalquinn9772]

I would love to be an actor and he is my biggest inspiration.

[@deepin2urheart]

As far as I know Braveheart Won 5 Oscar Awards

[@missisfreddiemercury]

he was soo beautiful

[@martinfrederiksen5630]

Is*

[@missisfreddiemercury]

@@martinfrederiksen5630 he was and still is beautiful :)

[@modernviking7355]

As a Scotsman Im embarrassed to say even though I was 5 when it came out, I never heard of Wallace until braveheart

[@chrisxavier3147]

The most beautiful film

[@poolboyinla]

Mel used to be so cool. Braveheart really is kind of a Scottish Rocky.

[@cheskarina193]

his smile.........

[@deepin2urheart]

Braveheart one of the best Holywood Movies ever. Its a winner of 5 Oscar Awards... and the execution scene of William Wallace at the end of movie and the way in which Mel Gibson Shouted "FREEDOM" really made me feel Proud of such a Valiant Warrior and make me cry. Salute to William Wallace

[@ak3721]

I think one of the best movies ever made (if not the best movies). It's EPIC!!!

[@SmoothANI]

just finished watching it for maybe 20th time, and no better movie will ever be created by human race...

[@deniro999]

braveheart was a phenomenal movie

[@jagodareliga8493]

..Poprostu chcialabym Cie przytulic..i podziekowac za wszystkie role filmow.Jestes Wielki...Dziekuje ¨¨.

[@stene90]

Got to love Mel Gibson, my favorite actor of all!

[@renekackline2377]

I too, am a huge Mel fan. But to be honest I don't think he holds a candle to Jack Nicholson, Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon and many other classic actors. Mel is AMAZING in Hamlet, Ransom, Braveheart and Conspiracy Theory. Best actor out there? No. Beautiful man? YES!!!!!💕💕💕💕💕💕

[@Sophie_kent]

He was handsome

[@susanyana]

best looking man EVER

[@yomnaz1]

Brave heart one of the most greatest movies in the world and Mel Gibson is the same

[@AnimeIntroStyles4]

I'm thoroughly convinced that Mel Gibson's personality is the equivalent of the three stooges into one body. Some times this can be good, sometimes it can be bad, but all the times he's got a lot going on up there and he's always talking to himself more then to the other people in the room.

[@shufeng5]

HES the best one there is! i love all his war movies! they are just epic! :D a very good actor!

[@chiquititag]

Love you Mel, you are so cute.

[@Gehennathedestroyer]

One thing I didn't like is how invisible the line was from wanting to settle down and have a family to suddenly becoming the hero of Scotland. It's like you forget the circumstances that made him go that path. Firstly it was for Murron and then after getting revenge he says to some of the scots to go home, they say half a sentence and he's on board with the rebellion. And then at the end when he's in the tower he makes it feel like the rebellion was his plan all along. But great movie no doubt.

[@shazzqsong]

Braveheart is one of the best films of the 90s. Mel Gibson is a genius. Also, as it turns out, a real goof on set. Some of the outtakes are hilarious.

[@11nytram11]

You said (and I quote) "Braveheart was spot on, read any book about 12-14th century UK and you will see this is factual" and that was what that part of my reply was addressing. I addressed Gallipoli as well, but not in detail. In that campaign the Aussies had around 8709 KIA and 19441 WIA, the NZ's had around 2721 KIA and 4752 WIA, the Indians had around 1358 KIA and 3421 WIA The UK had around 21225 KIA and 52230 WIA. Easy passage to Turkey indeed....

[@nhatnamnguyen7941]

I love you so much

[@followthesun2115]

The interviewer is a bit chatty, but this was enjoyable none the less.

[@11nytram11]

For Braveheart Mel Gibson sacrificed actual history just so he could produce an action film. He made a great action film - one that's gone down in history as one of the greatest action films ever made - but that does not discount it's historical inaccuracies or its deliberate distortion of people, places and facts.

[@casperwallace9685]

I would have liked to have heard Mel more than Jimmy - he did more talking than Mel. To hold that story in your head and pull it off as much as you did, it was a good job Mel. Good job. At least you tried to do the Scottish accent. Plus this film was written for a USA audience.

[@RazrHack]

Does he always speak with an American accent or has he sort of just naturally obtained it because of all the work he's done with it?

[@AslansMane88]

Let Mel answer the questions!

[@Lagerfeld2008]

he is acting all the time , even in Interviews coz he is an Actor, and Actor is an curse word in that context

[@11nytram11]

The one real incident that Longshanks could be accuse of being overly brutal and a wr criminal in doign was the massacre at Berwik-upon-tweed but this happened before Wallace's rise. Braveheart was an action film. A bloody brilliany action film but still one that barely skimmed the surface of the actual history of the event. I suggest reading Scottish Author Colin MacArthur's book "Brigadoon, Braveheart and the Scots: Distortions of Scotland in Hollywood cinema" for more info.

[@11nytram11]

@phr34kyy Actually, technically speaking, it was a Scottish Queen who created the United Kingdom. Queen Anne was the last Stewart monarch of Britain and the first to reign over the United Kingdom of England and Scotland - before her they were Kings or Queens of both an independent Scotland and an independent England. After her we had the Hanovarians and King George III was the first British monarch to reign over the United Kingdom of England, Scotland and Ireland.

[@MrSephihroth]

I hate that Mel Gibson even listens to these 'journalists' who uses words like "nervous wreck", "nuts" and doubts his skills. Mel is an artist and the only problem he got, is these zealots around him.

[@11nytram11]

I got off topic a bit with Gallipoli. The Bruce was portrayed as the only noble concerned with Scotland instead of his own personal interests, as being coerced into working with the English by his leaper Father. There was a scene in the film where the honorable and well meaning Robert the Bruce turns on his scheming and greedy father after being forced to betray Wallace. Which is totally out of character. Despite this we can all agree that it was a great film.

[@norwegian68]

He was born here. Then his father moved them to Australia.

[@kalemboyle7930]

Only no2 to Clint in the entire movie making business period!

[@ASwordAndAKey]

I am not sure what Gallipoli has to do with anything, but we all fought a common enemy. I don't agree with what you said about Bruce being portrayed as honorable, he was portrayed as a coward accepting the English Kings bribes. But I agree Braveheart was romanticized to such a degree that very little truth or fact remained. The movie was great and gave many Scots a sense of identity or revived that feeling. Top film.

[@11nytram11]

The was no one specific battle of Gallipoli, Gallipoli WAS the whole Campaign. It was made up of 14 different land battles involving the UK, France the ANZACs, the Indians & the Turks. The battles of the Gallipoli Campaign were ANZAC Cove, Helles, 1st Krithia, 2nd Krithia, 3rd Krithia, Gully Ravine, Sari Bair, Krithia Vineyard, Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, The Nek, Chunuk Bair, Scimitar Hill and Hill 60. ANZAC Cove and Helles started on the same day, the first battle involved ANZAC's the other the UK

[@Cybopath]

How the hell are those films in any way similar? I mean an epic war film about a historical Freedom fighter is like a film about an underdog debt collector who gets a chance to fight the heavy weight champ?

[@SkorpBX]

Gibson = the best there is .... the truth

[@Brady2k10]

@alimamma121 hes been accused of being against anglos or english in an interview but he went on to say "nah i love the english"

[@samanthhhax]

braveheart and mel deserved every award it got (L)!

[@11nytram11]

Gallipolli - Mel Gibsons Film - has Englishmen drinking tea and swiming as English officers send Aussies to die in their place only for some benevolent Asutralian Officer to call everthing off. Gallipoli - the reality - was that the Aussie were sent to the Nek to support the New Zealanders only to encounter stiff opposition and faulter. Australian officers on the scene continued to order the attack despite evrything going wrong and two British companies were sent to the Aussies in support.

[@duelinglectrics]

i like the move pay back he did finominal in that one

[@glasgow1234]

HE IS SCOTTISH !!!!!!

[@ak3721]

Mel Gibson is great!!!!!!

[@11nytram11]

@phr34kyy The Stewart Kings had been overthrown twice during their reign over Britian. Oliver Cromwell did it in the early-to-mid 1600's and the Glorious Revolution did it again in the late 1600's under William of Orange. The Stewart line was restore under the protestant Queen Anne but when she died without producing an heir Parliament went to the Hanoverians for their next monarch. During the Jacobite uprising of 1715 George I reigned and during the Jacobite uprising of 1745 George II reigned.

[@ASwordAndAKey]

When I say Scots, the history aware scots are the minority compared with those who are not historically aware and the people who claim to be Scots worldwide, Americans, Aussies, Kiwi's, South Africans, Canadians etc, those who think of themselves as of Scottish decent, but not born in Scotland per-se. I don't think the impact of that movie can be underestimated, so many talk of it with pride. I am against the SNP fanatic fools also, but identity is important, Scots have perhaps more than most.

[@11nytram11]

Braveheart also goes out of it's way to ignore the political and social upheavel in Scotland itself. It ignore the personal squabbles of the nobles, only briefly touching this subject when it comes to the Battle of Falkirk and the aftermath of it according to Gibson. It portrays the Bruce as some noble and honorable man rather than the power hungry murderous usurper that he actually was. It ignores key figures & events in Scotland just so it can be an action film rather than a historical one.

[@juliatk9100]

Aaa God why this guy isn't my boyfriend?

[@followyourideas]

This guy is hyperactive isn't he, he moves all the time, his hands, mouth , head, hehe. BRILLIANT ACTOR THOUGH

[@penhdog2207]

Stop cutting him off dude!!!!!!

[@zipper2k8]

Know it did not give Scots a sense of feeling, it gives 13 year olds a sense of "coolness" So they start shouting SNP and other crap. Apart from them the rest/most of us think its an ok movie that is fun to watch every now and then.

[@missdarkangelxxx]

Mel Gibson wasn't english in braveheart he was Scottish!

[@scotsguy77]

@bananahaa Yes it was quite good his Scottish accent..

[@granizrandom]

the interviewer stoppes Mel al the time..

[@Brady2k10]

although i think it was alfred of wessex who defeated the vikings, could be the possible hero for gibsons next film the vikings took most of england out but they couldnt take down king alfred of wessex "king of the anglo saxons"

[@Brady2k10]

great actor and director i heard rumors he may do something with the vikings... but being english myself well, if you know the history yet again it will be english is the shit! or english being the heroes, the vikings raided england so much back in the day.., they raided this school in england once, killed the monks and drowned them and took any treasures they could find

[@knuckls4red]

i think he was very nervous at the begining before this guys ask him

[@skatefarmerftw]

@concussedcarneous It is largely accurate. it is well known that English tyranny was present in that time period.

[@ASwordAndAKey]

(...) The movie does deceive with numerous romantic inventions during the movie and it slanders Bruce chronically. But it go across a message to the world about Scotland and its people. Imagine the impact on tourism and the economy due to that film also.

[@iluvlmf]

True, True, SO TRUE

[@DAreturner]

Jimmy Carter had his finger on Mel's temper/outbursts back here. Is it mostly in the genes or mostly in the upbringing in Mel's case I wonder..... He seems to be passive aggressive and then he snaps if pushed.

[@whiteo333]

Who does???? lol

[@andyged]

fuckin best film ever cmon scotland wooop

[@freyrsmith6365]

I'm the most handsome man in the world.

[@b68scotland]

some of the crimes that Edward befalled on scotland were horrendous don't dare defend their actions Edward massacred women and children in towns you really should read about some of his actions edwards worst actions were actually kept out of Braveheart

[@ThomasWilliams89]

it was probably English extras who were pelting him with potatoes and cabbages :)

[@swarbs13]

he has a funny mix of american and australian accent here

[@MJPICKify]

@MI6TommyEnglish Yeh but the Scots did win at stirling and at Bannockburn (the end scene) The Scots were ruthless back then, but then got their asses kicked by the English about 500 years later forever.

[@11nytram11]

I didn't say that. Longshanks sacking of Berwick-upon-tweed was truley horific and for that alone he should be considered a brutal tyrant without mention of his other conquests in Scotland but Braveheart magnifies his flaws as a person to a ridiculas degree and make him an over the top, cartoonish character. I can understand that making Longshanks a more evil chacter than his traditional brutal tyrant persona made it a better film but it was still wrong and historically inaccurate.

[@saltdiet7922]

clifford

[@eliottiradord]

Excellent movie, not the best Mel Gibson's performance though

[@saltdiet7922]

IM still alive ...the odorless, tasteless , pesticide didn't work Lucy

[@11nytram11]

The Scot didn't come close to the conquest of England until 1745. The furthest the Bruce got was some raids into Yorkshire and Lancashire. The Scots won at Bannockburn but were destroyed at the Battle of Halidon Hill 19 year later by Edward III. I'm not living in the past I just dont like it when my countrys history is taken so far out of context. I agree that its a great film and the English were brutal in the 1300's but Gibson's film was almost pure fiction and your claims here are farcical.

[@clarkclifford2927]

Why? It's almost 100% fiction.

[@11nytram11]

The Australians fought as bravely at Gallipoli as any men in history have ever fought but the film Gallipoli (1981) is a piece of Anglophobic propaganda produce by two hardcore pro-independecne Australians and staring an very anti-English actor to portray the brave Aussies being scarificed in place of the British. Aussie historian and author Les Carlyon said that the film unfairly portrays the British as cowardly layabouts as those two companies that were sent in support suffered heavilly.

[@phr34kyy]

@MJPICKify Again pseudo-history, no languages where banned and the rebelion almost won single handedly because it was a UK uprising, their where English and Irish Jacobites as well, just when the calling to arms came into being, only the Scottish Highland jacobites showed up for the fight, their northern English counterparts pussied out like they always do, and thats why they marched to derby with lil to no resistance, cause the north turned a blind eye to them in support.

[@salmonbandi4665]

PUPILS....WIDE

[@dittyobrien]

Checkout any Braveheart video and youll find at least one British Troll,but thats okay they are just demonstrating to the world their own ignorance

[@chancergordy]

Eh! what?

[@11nytram11]

The version of history that Mel Gibson associates with is black an white. It has heroes and villians and nothing inbetween. It touches no political, economical or sociological elements of the time period he is trying to portray. While being great action films and undeniably great cinema his version of history has no depth and no base in reality save for the characters he uses (which isn't true for Galipolli) or the battles that took place (which isn't true for Braveheart or the Patriot).

[@flensoest]

Mel Gibson is from Australia, not USA.

[@renekackline2377]

No, he was born in New York January 3rd, 1956 and when he was around 12 years old, his Father moved the entire family to Australia. *Mel fan*

[@jackisdacrac]

wtf people this guy defines the word window licker enough said

[@alimamma121]

Both in "Braveheart" and "the patriot" he kills english. He must not like english very mush.

[@PinkPolo206]

dude keeps interrupting him lmao