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PurpleAmerica's avatar

No, you are overthinking it. Those are just obvious examples. Everyone knows they shouldn't be taken literally as history. IT's all tongue in cheek. That's fine.

But then you get into problems with situations like in Braveheart, and the manner they treat Robert the Bruce-- that is wildly inaccurate, borderline fraudulent and shouldn't be considered history. Its a great movie, it adds the drama, but is so wildly wrong to be galling.

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E2's avatar

OK, we agree. Braveheart is a great example of being terrible specifically because it's got the production to come across as a serious historical epic, but it's nearly all wrong.

This is millions of people's primary image of Scottish history now.

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