"He always smelled of smoke, he was always burning people's villages down. Promoting a Blu-Ray release of Braveheart in Edinburgh, Gibson said: "Wallace wasn't as nice as the character we saw up there, we romanticised him a bit.
It has been accused of racism and homophobia by some critics, and even the kilts the characters wear were invented 300 years after Wallace’s death. It creates a love affair between Gibson's hero and Queen Isabella, who was in fact two at the time. Its rabble-rousing sentiment and jingoistic portrayal of the English as cowardly and effeminate quickly made it a focus for nationalist sentiment, while its historical inaccuracies and simplistic morality led many to dismiss it as Hollywood schmaltz.īraveheart doesn't mention that Wallace was a member of the ruling elite, a privileged landowner. The stirring film seems to have been loathed and adored by Scots in equal measure since it was released in 1995. Gibson, who directed and starred in the historical romp, told reporters in Edinburgh that the Scottish folk hero was really a "monster" and a "berserker". Fifteen years after he painted his face blue-and-white and wore a kilt for Braveheart, Mel Gibson has admitted his movie depicted a highly romanticised version of William Wallace.
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