Kilt Do's and Don'ts

[Freelander Sporrano]

EEEK!!!

One thing I think we've all overlooked is

DO Become a member of Xmarks.(Lurkers take note)

All these people in the don't pictures really need our help.

[Pour1Malt]

an a VERY BIG NO NO!

...

William Wallace looked like this...



NO like this...



Dinnae bae a NUMPTY!

Wallace never wore a kilt.....

[ronstew]

Oh dear.

[Caradoc]

Wallace never wore a kilt.....

Somewhere, I've got a list of things: "What 'Braveheart' Got Wrong."

It's fairly extensive, even covering things like "Isabella was still in France and about nine years old when Wallace was strangled by hanging but released near death, emasculated, eviscerated, beheaded, then divided into four parts."

To have impregnated her would have required not just the cooperation of the Almighty, but stage management of the entire episode.

Can we add a "Dinna wear blue face paint? Especially face paint that looks nothing like woad could have, even if the Scots ever wore woad after the Picts died out (which is highly unlikely!)?"

Wikipedia has a lot of comments on accuracy (or lack thereof) as well.

They mention there that...

Some of the "inaccuracies" in Braveheart may have been motivated by artistic reasons. The anachronistic kilts worn by the Scots make the rebels more visually distinctive, the incomplete armor and missing helmets allow viewers to recognize the actors, and changes to characters and names make the story easier to follow.

I don't know about the rest of you, but the idea that real live history needed to be "dressed up" to make the story easier to follow is... repugnant.

[Pour1Malt]

of a' the things he changed...

the wan that really maks Scots angry...

is his idea that Robert the Bruce betrayed Wallace.....

not ainly is it NO true- it is a disgrace to the Bruce....

[Bob C]

Somewhere, I've got a list of things: "What 'Braveheart' Got Wrong."

It's fairly extensive, even covering things like "Isabella was still in France and about nine years old when Wallace was strangled by hanging but released near death, emasculated, eviscerated, beheaded, then divided into four parts."

To have impregnated her would have required not just the cooperation of the Almighty, but stage management of the entire episode.

Can we add a "Dinna wear blue face paint? Especially face paint that looks nothing like woad could have, even if the Scots ever wore woad after the Picts died out (which is highly unlikely!)?"

Wikipedia has a lot of comments on accuracy (or lack thereof) as well.

They mention there that...

Some of the "inaccuracies" in Braveheart may have been motivated by artistic reasons. The anachronistic kilts worn by the Scots make the rebels more visually distinctive, the incomplete armor and missing helmets allow viewers to recognize the actors, and changes to characters and names make the story easier to follow.

I don't know about the rest of you, but the idea that real live history needed to be "dressed up" to make the story easier to follow is... repugnant.

Do you have a list of "what Star Wars got wrong" too? It's a movie, for cryin' out loud. Nobody claimed it was a history lesson.

[Caradoc]

Nobody claimed it was a history lesson.

Except that it uses real names from history, real places from history, and real events from history.

Is it any wonder people think it's "real history?"

[Kilted KT]

of a' the things he changed...

the wan that really maks Scots angry...

is his idea that Robert the Bruce betrayed Wallace.....

not ainly is it NO true- it is a disgrace to the Bruce....

Wow, I dinae know tha...Bruce's must be a wee unhappy!

[Caradoc]

Wow, I dinae know tha...Bruce's must be a wee unhappy!

DON'T believe that Robert the Bruce betrayed William Wallace.

DO read up on the feud between the Bruce, Toom Tabard, and the Comyns.

[bubba]

And where was the damned BRIDGE?