Kilt Do's and Don'ts

**smaughazard** · 22nd May 06, 12:38 PM

At least he wasn't sporting a paper sash…

**Pour1Malt** · 23rd May 06, 06:55 AM

Dinnae

perform in a musical version o Braveheart.... :rolleyes:

**Kilted KT** · 23rd May 06, 07:06 AM

Originally Posted by Pour1Malt

Dinnae

perform in a musical version o Braveheart.... :rolleyes:

the only music I heard from braveheart was the clashing of metal and flesh...no dancin around and signin...

**Bob C** · 23rd May 06, 07:15 AM

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Actually, there was some outstanding music in Braveheart. No singing, but some really great instrumental stuff. I'm thinking, particularly, of the sequence where he ran along the mountaintops and the "oulawed tunes, on outlawed pipes" when his father and brother died.

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**Caradoc** · 23rd May 06, 07:23 AM

Originally Posted by Bob C.

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I'm thinking, particularly, of the sequence where he ran along the mountaintops and the "oulawed tunes, on outlawed pipes" when his father and brother died.

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It would have been better had they actually been Scots bagpipes (even the smallpipes, as the GHBs would have been as anachronistic as the Uillean pipes they used for "Braveheart's" music.

**KiltedKnight** · 23rd May 06, 10:52 AM

Originally Posted by Caradoc

It would have been better had they actually been Scots bagpipes (even the smallpipes, as the GHBs would have been as anachronistic as the Uillean pipes they used for "Braveheart's" music.

Well, they took "artistic license" with the kilt and had the actors wearing it about 350 years before it actually existed, right? Why not the Uillean pipes? They didn't exist for about 400 years after Wallace died, or am I wrong?

Chris. :confused:

**Caradoc** · 23rd May 06, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by KiltedKnight

Well, they took "artistic license" with the kilt and had the actors wearing it about 350 years before it actually existed, right? Why not the Uillean pipes? They didn't exist for about 400 years after Wallace died, or am I wrong?

Chris. :confused:

Nope. You're correct. There were a lot of "facts" presented in "Braveheart" that were entirely incorrect.

**Bob C** · 23rd May 06, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by Caradoc

There were a lot of "facts" presented in "Braveheart" that were entirely incorrect.

I heard that "Superman" can't really fly, either! Damned Hollywood!

**Caradoc** · 23rd May 06, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by Bob C.

I heard that "Superman" can't really fly, either! Damned Hollywood!

"Superman" didn't present itself as "history," either.

There's no Metropolis, no Clark Kent, no Lois Lane, et cetera.

If "Braveheart" hadn't used historical names, places, and events, I wouldn't be annoyed at all.

Since they did, they should have at least made an attempt at accuracy.

Perhaps if you were doing living history demos for grade schools and high schools, and dealing with the, "But, in 'Braveheart' they..." arguments at least twice in every demo, you'd be annoyed, too.