Ep. #26 - Braveheart with Burton Brown, David Johnson, DMD, Roseanne Caputi & Alex Robertson
Fabulous Film & Friends
English - February 10, 2022 16:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsVisual Arts Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Returning to the panel once again, my good pal, IT Specialist and Hamish to my William Wallace, Burton Brown.
And the son of a dairy farmer/biology teacher and baseball coach who I’m sure scoff mightily at the notion of Mel Gibson’s laughable throwing arm knocking anything out but a month old chicken, David Johnson, DMD
Back as always to cry foul on my patriarchal guy-guy film loving ways, the St. Joan of podcast film criticism, Roseanne Caputi.
And once more unto the breech with a man who has worn more kilts on stage than the entire Boston Bagpipe Jamboree, Gordon Alex Robertson!
Before we bloody the mud and turf, the synopsis:
Extremely loosely based on the facts, so much so that it barely qualifies as a “based on a true story,” Braveheart tells the tale of William Wallace, a Scottish Commoner who goes ballistic on the armies of the English, led by its cruel pagan King, Sir Edward The Longshanks, after Wallace’s wife is brutally attacked and murdered by an English garrison. It’s Wallace’s bravery, battle savvy and obsessive crusade for Scotland’s freedom that inspires the country’s future king, Robert The Bruce to reject an alliance with England and deliver independence to Scotland at the Battle of Bannockburn.
Does Braveheart hold up?
Find out!