Braveheart — Index

The wiki for Mel Gibson's Braveheart (1995). Hub: Braveheart (1995).

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