Well, the class system is a bit different now to then. The Normans as a French speaking ruling caste deliberately kept themselves separate from their serfs. Wallace's fight was the privileged versus the privileged - it had nothing really to do with Scotland or England as nations.
By the way, Robert the Bruce was born in Chelmsford
And that other all-Tartan Scottish superhero Bonnie Prince Charlie was born in Rome and spoke more fluent French than English (and not a word of Scottish Gaelic).
Apocalypto was inaccurate in that it mixed various time periods together for dramatic effect (a bit like Braveheart). At the height of the Maya cities, there would have been no room for jungle tribes as depicted in the film, everyone was co-opted into a feudal-type system within a tangle of shifting alliances. The smaller villages would be beholden to the nearest city, and that city to a larger city, in a web of alliance and intrigue - although the Maya are often described as a rainforest civilization that is not really true, since the forests were cut down, the wood used, and crops planted, the same as with most other civilizations. I haven't seen Apocalypto for a long time but, IIRC, the major Maya city depicted appeared to be of a type from an earlier period than when the Spanish appeared off the coast. There were other inaccuracies, but I haven't seen it for so long that I don't recall.
I still found it to be an excellent film.
The great civilizations of the Americas are very much under-represented in film - it was good to see an ancient Maya city as a living city in the same way that films have depicted the cities of, for example, ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire and ancient Greece.
I reckon the dodgy Scottish accents would add to your agony!this looks rather fabulous! In an agonizingly painful way...
But at least with this you know what you're getting. Soundtrack by Rick Wakeman who has a part in the movie as Thor.
Yes, he walks on, goes to a fireplace and urinates on the fire. Several cans of lager were involved apparently. And multiple takes...Thor????????
Almost as bad as casting a Frenchman as an immortal Scotsman with Sean Connery as his Spanish mentor who is really an ancient egyptian.
Bohemian Rhapsody was almost 100% fiction. With that being said, I have no doubt Freddie would've loved it. There were tons of inaccuracies, but the biggest one for me was that they portrayed the LIveAid performance as a sort of swan song after the AIDS diagnosis. Freddie didn't know he had HIV until years after Live Aid. Hell, I don't think many people knew about AIDS when Live Aid happened. Also remember an absurd side plot where Freddie was being led to leave Queen for a solo career. In reality, Brian, Roger and Freddie planned solo projects during that time.
This piqued my interest a bit. Apparently the loco in this film was a green Black Five, a design that was introduced in 1935 but painted black. (The clue is in the name).
Didn't know that one, I must get hold of a copy. Liked his Flashman novels and "The Steel Bonnets" history of the border reivers
