LOVE, COURAGE AND DEATH

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"William Wallace was truly interested in liberty and loved his country and really wanted to be free and wanted freedom for his fellows. But at the same time he was kind of a savage. At the battle of Stirling, he skinned the commander officer on the other side and turned him into a belt."




"I hope that they´re so moved and so inspired by it, that´s all. That they´ve watched this great story and they´ve found something in themselves."


CURIOUS THINGS

  • Gibson took to walking about the sets with a book in his hands: "A Beginner´s Guide to Directing the Epic".
  • The film was budgeted in $55.5 million. Gibson took a fraction of his then $15-million-pre-picture superstar´s salary to get the film made.
  • Shooting began in August 2004 and concluded at the end of October.
  • Sets incorporated genuine medieval buildings such as Trim Castle in Ireland.
  • Many warrior extras , who earned just $300 a week for 14-hour days, were injured by the violently realistic battle scenes.
  • The famous costume designer Charles Knode and his department supplied more than 6,000 costumes to the flm.
  • Production Designer Tom Sanders and his team had to build the village of Lanark and the thirteenth-century town of Edinburgh .
  • Twelve mechanical horses were created by the mechanical and make-up special effects departments to perform a number of thankless or hazardaous tasks. There also were 150 real horses.
  • Film: 379,000 meters





"I didn´t really know how gory the film was until I showed it to an audience and they were going for the vomit bags and getting up and walking out. You don´t want that; you want people to stay with it."


LEGENDARY HERO

    WILLIAM WALLACE (c.1278-1305)
    Scottish hero who frustrated the first attempt of Edward I to overrun Scotland. His great victory was at Stirling Bridge in 1297. He then briefly administered Scotland on behalf of John de Baliol (a prisoner in the Towe of London), becoming known at this point as Sir William Wallace - though it is not clear by whom he had been knighted. Edward himself moved north to Scotland in 1298 and defeated Wallace near Falkirk in July, after which Wallace´s power gradually waned . He was eventually captured, in 1305, he owed no allegiance to the English king, but he was declared a traitor and was hanged, drawn and quartered in London. His four fragments were displayed in northern strongholds held by the English- Newcastle, Berwick, Stirling and Perth. But the resistance which he had inaugurated was continued by Robert The Bruce.


"The weather was appalling, the accommodation was pretty awful but throughout the shoot cast and crew worked together, ate together and socialized together"




"I wanted to see the kind of territory that´s been covered and then go further with it and really get the feeling of what it must be like to be in the middle of a thirteenth-century battle."


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"...and now that I´m a bona fide director with a golden boy, I, well, like most directors, I suppose what I really want to do is act."




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