Braveheart
On Film4 tonight at 9pm
Is there anybody out there who hasn’t seen this 1990s Oscar-winning classic? I wonder how many people actually watched it because they wanted to learn about William Wallace. Hmm, well it doesn’t matter, thanks to Mel Gibson the world now knows the story of the Scottish rebel leader.
There’s a William Wallace memorial in London’s Smithfield Market, where Wallace was hung drawn and quartered in 1305. I often walk past it and I’ve never seen it without some sort of floral tribute attached. How amazing that 703 years after his death Wallace is still receiving flowers. I wonder who puts them there. I’d like to think that it’s a genuine Wallace devotee, but there’s always the thought that it might be a crazed Gibson fan. Nobody would be insane enough, you say, to confuse Mel Gibson with the 13th century hero to this extent? Hmm, so you’d think, but why then has the William Wallace statue in Stirling got Mel Gibson’s face?
Read the What’s On TV review here.
