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To: qlangley
Braveheart and The Patriot are totally politically correct. The principal purpose of political correctness is to portray all Americans since WWII and all English people, ever, as bad guys. The Patriot, therefore gets a free pass on having American heroes, because it was set prior to WWII and bonus PC points for having English villains. Braveheart is much better by PC standards, because it has English villains and the 'heroes' are neither English nor American.

Any movie that has this line in it CAN NOT by definition be PC:

"Sons of Scotland! I am William Wallace - and I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny. You've come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight? Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you'll live. At least awhile. And, dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!"
--Mel Gibson as William Wallace, speaking to the Scots - outnumbered three to one - on the battlefield at Stirling Bridge, A.D. 1297. (Braveheart, 1995)

124 posted on 07/11/2006 10:39:33 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: 2banana

Sorry, have to disagree. PC activists often use the word 'freedom' - it does not have the same meaning to them as it does to denizens of FreeRepublic. The movie was totally ahistorical. It introduced notions of the nation state centuries before they were invented. In fact, like the Wars of the Roses and the Hundred Years War - this was really just one group of people wanting to depose others so they could be in power. It was not about freedom in any sensible understanding of the word, that propaganda was introduced by Hollywood to make the English the bad guys.

The only sense in which Wallace was fighting for 'freedom' was in the PC sense of 'freedom' = being against the English / Americans.


163 posted on 07/11/2006 10:52:31 AM PDT by qlangley
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