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What makes the final scenes of Braveheart so powerful?
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What makes the final scenes of Braveheart so powerful? Film scripts are written in reverse so that everything we see at the end is led up to in the film itself. Braveheart, directed by its star, Mel Gibson, is a splendid example of this process. The last two scenes of the film show the public torture and the execution of William Wallace and the re-emergence of Scottish power as Robert the Bruce finally takes on Wallace's cause and leads the Scots to victory at the battle of Bannockburn. The film is based on historical fact but the truth has been distorted to make a more effective film. The execution sequence opens with a pair of dwarves entertaining the crowd with a mock execution. Mel Gibson included this scene to demonstrate to the audience that executions were a means of entertainment in the past. The crowd found the dwarves entertaining and laughed. The dwarves...
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