Quote Originally Posted by Canuck of NI View Post
As Homer once said to his daughter: "But Lisa, everything's bad if you remember it!" Anyway, OK, Bruce was no saint but he had to work in the time and place he found himself in, and he WAS the man who succeeded for Scotland. Gibson had him looking totally black after his movie character emerged from the black-and-white script factory that generated that film.
Again, read Young's books -- In the Footsteps of William Wallace is the other title -- you'll find that the portrayal in the movie wasn't that far from the truth. Don't get me wrong, from a military historian's viewpoint, the Bruce was a talented commander who inspired his armies to victory -- but as a Comyn/Cumming, I can see his dark side as well.

The "John Ford School of History" comes into play again. :mrgreen:

T.