Mel Gibson's kilt goes under hammer

[Arlen]

Some of you may want to stone me for saying this BUT . . .

It SHOULD have been donated to a national museum in Edinburgh. It is the kilt that won Scotland parliament.
WHY?
Without that movie, WARTS and ALL, can ANYONE tell me that the Scottish parliament would have come into being in the 1990s????
It belongs in a museum, not in some rich collector's closet, book case, or ANYTHING of the like.

Even if it looks NOTHING like ANYTHING William Wallace would have actually worn.

I agree to quite an extent. This should definately have been put in a good place, or at least charity auctioned.

[ccga3359]

I'm sure there were several kilts made for filming. If it goes to the hands of a private collector so be it. It is not public property either to a Scot or the restof the world. I don't even see it a symbolic, it was worn by a US born Australian actor and not Wallace himself. Enjoyable movie but it ends there, even if it did get people to start dialog.

[McClef]

I have infinitely more respect for the Edinburgh Braveheart than I have for Mel Gibson.



He's doing something for Scotland every day.

It's bad enough we have a Mel Gibson lookalike statue at Stirling's Wallace Monument without one of his movie props too. There are much better ways of commemorating Wallace than spending a small fortune on an item of movie clothing.