Braveheart (1995) 35 pages
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Plot
- Plot Summary (Braveheart) — full narrative, every plot fact anchored to a Backbeat
- Plot Structure (Braveheart) — the film mapped through the Two Approaches framework
- Backbeats (Braveheart) — the film in 40 numbered beats
Cast
- Cast and Characters (Braveheart) — full cast and character notes
- Mel Gibson — director and Wallace
- Sophie Marceau — Princess Isabelle
- Patrick McGoohan — Edward I "Longshanks"
- Catherine McCormack — Murron
- Brendan Gleeson — Hamish Campbell
- Angus Macfadyen — Robert the Bruce
- Brian Cox — Argyle Wallace
Production
- Production History (Braveheart) — development through release
- Randall Wallace — screenwriter
- John Toll — cinematographer
- James Horner — composer
- Physical Media Releases (Braveheart) — VHS through 4K UHD
Analysis & Reception
- Themes and Analysis (Braveheart) — short navigator to the depth essays
- Critical Reception and Legacy (Braveheart) — reviews, Oscars, post-2006 re-evaluation
- Five Best Picture and the 1995 Oscars — the awards race in detail
Essays — Signature Scenes
- The Scaffold Climax — beat 39, the "Freedom!" moment
- The Falkirk Visor-Lift — beat 32, the bounded Midpoint
- Bannockburn as Wind-Down — beat 40, the Bruce conversion completed
Essays — Themes & Structure
- Spending the Body Publicly — the post-midpoint approach as political instrument
- Bruce's Two-Father Problem — the leper father vs. Wallace as alternate moral authority
Essays — History & Sources
- Wallace and the Real History — the chronicles, Blind Harry, and the screenplay's source choices
- The Stirling Bridge Without a Bridge — the omission of the bridge and Andrew Moray
- Isabella as Film Fiction — the historical Isabella was nine and in France
- Hesselrig and the Sheriff Question — William de Heselrig of Lanark and the screenplay's name
Essays — Lineage & Era
- The Highlander Rob Roy and Last of the Mohicans Window — the 1990s Celtic-frontier moment
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- Angus Macfadyen
- Backbeats (Braveheart)
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- Bannockburn as Wind-Down
- Braveheart (1995)
- Brendan Gleeson
- Brian Cox
- Bruce's Two-Father Problem
- Cast and Characters (Braveheart)
- Catherine McCormack
- Critical Reception and Legacy (Braveheart)
- Five Best Picture and the 1995 Oscars
- Hesselrig and the Sheriff Question
- Isabella as Film Fiction
- James Horner
- John Toll
- Mel Gibson
- Patrick McGoohan
- Physical Media Releases (Braveheart)
- Plot Structure (Braveheart)
- Plot Summary (Braveheart)
- Production History (Braveheart)
- Randall Wallace
- Sophie Marceau
- Spending the Body Publicly
- The Falkirk Visor-Lift
- The Highlander Rob Roy and Last of the Mohicans Window
- The Scaffold Climax
- The Stirling Bridge Without a Bridge
- Themes and Analysis (Braveheart)
- Wallace and the Real History
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