for instance, the battle which he won in the film and gets knighted for..... Wallace had already been executed by the time the battle even took place..... and he sure as hell never slept with the princess let alone got her pregnant
The History Buffs channel on YouTube pointed out that the princess at the time was in France and only about 8 years old at the time so Wallace would have had to have been a teleporting pedophile.
It's not just events but everything else that's made up. Some quotes from Wiki:
- In that period no Scots wore belted plaids (let alone kilts of any kind). When Highlanders finally did begin wearing the belted plaid, it was not in the rather bizarre style depicted in the film. She compares the inaccuracy to a film about Colonial America showing the colonial men wearing 20th-century business suits, but with the jackets worn back-to-front instead of the right way around.
- The events aren't accurate, the dates aren't accurate, the characters aren't accurate, the names aren't accurate, the clothes aren't accurate—in short, just about nothing is accurate.
- farcical representation as a wild and hairy highlander painted with woad (1,000 years too late) running amok in a tartan kilt (500 years too early).
- the battle of Stirling Bridge could have done with a bridge."
THANK YOU for the additional info! I hate when people cry about how this or that is totally unreal and the movie doesn't deserve to be titled as "based on a true story". Even if there's just an event that actually happened but all the people are fictional you can use that phrase.
What about the film based on a true story about a cow who went to africa and ate all the grass in the north and central africa to the point it turned the sahara desert
I feel like Amadeus shouldn't really be here? Sure the two main characters really existed but the entire plot of the movie, aka Salieri plotting to murder Mozart, never happened, and was an idea invented by Alexander Pushkin
for instance, the battle which he won in the film and gets knighted for..... Wallace had already been executed by the time the battle even took place..... and he sure as hell never slept with the princess let alone got her pregnant
- In that period no Scots wore belted plaids (let alone kilts of any kind). When Highlanders finally did begin wearing the belted plaid, it was not in the rather bizarre style depicted in the film. She compares the inaccuracy to a film about Colonial America showing the colonial men wearing 20th-century business suits, but with the jackets worn back-to-front instead of the right way around.
- The events aren't accurate, the dates aren't accurate, the characters aren't accurate, the names aren't accurate, the clothes aren't accurate—in short, just about nothing is accurate.
- farcical representation as a wild and hairy highlander painted with woad (1,000 years too late) running amok in a tartan kilt (500 years too early).
- the battle of Stirling Bridge could have done with a bridge."
It's like saying Rise of the Planet of the Apes is based on a true story because drugs have indeed been tested on chimps before.
Adding the backdrop of some factual event to a fictional tale does not in any way make the tale 'based on a true story'