“She said I was the only one they knew who was crazy enough to take it on.”Īt the time, Bordo - whose career included serving as executive director of interactive marketing at Paramount Pictures and vice president of digital marketing at MGM Studios - was busy as co-founder and CEO of NowLive, a company that produced and directed live entertainment events in Hollywood.
Three years later, Bordo got a call from a friend asking for help hosting the first TEDWomen’s event in Austin. Historical facts for its own ends and ludicrously modern sounding dialogue far too annoying for my liking.Audience Award, 2014 South by Southwest Film Festival Audience Award, Newport Beach Film Festival BFF Spirit Award, Bentonville Film Festival Audience Award, Illuminate Film Festival Best Documentary, Justice Film Festival Audience Award, New York’s Lower East Side Film Festival Audience Award, Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival Audience Award and Humanitarian Award, Rhode Island International Film Festival This is in fact totally fictionalĪs well, but Gibson stuck it in anyway just to ram it down our throats how bad us nasty old English are anyway.īottom line is that this film is entertaining, but I found its one-sided, emotionally manipulative, habitual twisting of Nocta', allowing English overlords to sleep with Scottish women on their wedding nights. Not forgetting director Gibson having Longshanks issuing of a piece of English legislation, referred to as the 'Prima An example of this would be the totally fabricated andĭownright absurd affair between Wallace and Princess Isobelle the implication being that Wallace fathered the future In a bid to create melodrama, the English areīad in an over the top way and the Scots are too good to be realistic.Īdd to this, the fact that considerable historical liberties are frequently taken to further an ageing Mel Gibson's film career and the Scottish cause at the expense of the English. Ludicrously modern format for American audiences to be entertained by.
Mel Gibson shamelessly hijacks a 700-year-old Anglo/Scottish war and interprets it into a
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