The 41st Best All-time Film
Braveheart (1995)
I don’t tend to like biopics. I dislike the way they change history for the sake of the story. Yet I do not ever think of “Braveheart” (or many other older, mythic, stories) as biopics. It is just a story reinterpreting… or not even reinterpreting history. This is a fiction.
As such, Braveheart is one of the great stories exploring the idea of leadership. The three characters held up as models of what leaders should be or not be: Wallace, Longshanks, and the Bruce, are a powerful study. I wrote about it years ago here. There was a time when it was in my top ten films. It has fallen a bit, but is still here in the top fifty.
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