Re: TV version of Braveheart?
Originally Posted by
Ryan Ross
. . .the Che Guevara/hicks part is especially apt, though a shame.
Well, Bruce's BFF "the Good Sir James" Douglas seems to have fit well with the Che comparison, as he seems to have been a superb guerrilla fighter. Actually, I recall one historian referring to him in print as "a pathological little terrorist".
I get the idea that in his time the appellation "the Good" was used to refer to him in the same way that the often capricious and dangerous Sidhe were referred to aloud (lest they perhaps be invisibly listening) as "the Good Folk".
A few examples, such as the "Douglas Larder":
http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/hist...glaslarder.htm
"It's all the same to me, war or peace,
I'm killed in the war or hung during peace."
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