Love Wallace, love Robert even more

Maia 2022-03-21 09:01:03

Did not cry for the civilian hero, but was moved by the noble brave.

When Wallace bravely led Pingming to fight, I was excited. When Wallace encouraged the soldiers to fight, I was excited—but that was just a normal reaction to paying tribute to the director when watching commercial films. Hey, as a civilian hero, isn't Wallace doing all these things normal and normal? Are there few such civilian heroes in ancient and modern times? How is he different? ?

Well, so Wallace is great, but China has gone from Chen Sheng Wu Guang’s rebellion to the modern volunteer army, and we Chinese children’s civilian hero legends. I don’t know how many more legends there are. So when I watched it, I really didn’t feel special. Excited.

But looking at it, there was a green-eyed nobleman, Robert who had an ugly father with a big pimple face, and it did gradually attract my attention.

Compared with Wallace, who fought for freedom, Robert was trapped under his father's yoke from the beginning. Not only is he not free now, but according to his father's instructions, he has to fight for the throne of the more unfree king. In his eyes, there are always those kinds of emotions-helpless and depressed. Not only did he not live for himself, perhaps, he didn't know what he was living for. He only knows that if he wants to be a king, his father wants him to be a king, so he "must" guarantee the interests of the Scottish nobility, "must" form an alliance with the English, "must"...

what can he do? He is a pampered nobleman. If he is set by his father, he can have the right to rule Scotland and have a superior life-even if he is to be humiliated by the English, at least he is still a king, as long as he puts down his boring self-esteem, Only the old people in Scotland will suffer, and he and his family can still live comfortably.

So he betrayed Wallace (he didn't do this in history, Robert has always been a hero), which is actually excusable. The so-called barefoot people are not afraid of wearing shoes. Wallace has no relatives and no reason. He has finally found a daughter-in-law in his thirties. He was killed by an Englishman just one day after he got married (still secretly). This made him angry and made him. Rebellion, let him become a brave man-to say something, the scene in the beginning of the film where the bride and husband who was taken captive by the nobles to enjoy the right of the first night separated from her husband is so sad. Didn't the loss of his vital interests really offend his nerves? If he hadn't had his wife killed, had nothing, and really hurt, would he really have the courage to stand up and resist? Will you really become a hero?

Look at Wallace holding that little flower handkerchief all the time! It's because his wife keeps looking at him! Is he for freedom or for his wife? (Obviously the moving part, but there is a French princess inserted in, disgusting! French princess likes heroes, yes, they didn't give you a hug, at most they gave you some autumn spinach, what do you do? Why go to XXX, isn't this being unfaithful to your wife!)

It's a long way off, anyway, can Robert and Wallace be the same! He has a bond! Although he didn't play his wife and children, but it certainly depends on his age, right? And they have territory, wealth, and family. You go to war with nothing. Killing one is enough to kill two and earn one. Robert can't think about what he has now, and what you might get if you really mix with this. , What is the result if the mixing is good, what is the result if the mixing is not good, what is the result? Be responsible, dear! Wallace used his personal charm to infect the public to follow him and support him to fight for his beliefs, but Robert used his own power and his life to gamble. If he loses the bet, I am sorry for his soldiers and his family. And it will be eaten by other nobles!

Dear friends, they worked out an account together. One who picked up the tatters and picked up two dollars, he said to a millionaire: Dear, let’s go buy lottery tickets together, all of my property has been sold out, and you have all of your property. , If we win, you will become a 5 millionaire.

If you are that rich man, don't you think about it?


So we saw Robert’s hesitation and his betrayal in the film. He collapsed when he saw Wallace discovering his betrayal, and then his self-blame and awakening——

At this moment, a hero awakened. He gradually broke through the fence that he never dared to climb. He looked up to bravery. He pursued freedom and decided to drive the English out of his homeland!

Hey, okay, I know that there are actually a lot of this kind of characters in various movies-attracted by heroes, hesitated, and finally put down all the cannon fodder dedicated to justice-but Robert in this movie is not cannon fodder, he It’s natural to deal with the change of emotions. This role is very full. We see his blood but also his cowardice. We see his submission and also see his resistance. At the last moment, he led the Scottish people to the battlefield. At that time, I finally shed tears for him and also for Wallace. The existence of a hero is not only his own power, but also a guiding force. Because of the hero's legend, the cowardly people become brave. I think Robert is the classic of this film. A film with heroes everywhere is far away from us; a film in which a group unconsciously chases heroes blindly makes us feel very ridiculous, but a film that allows us to see that there is so much in one person. People who are caught in, how to be infected by heroes, how to rise up, we seem to have become Roberts one by one, we all discovered that maybe, even if we are Robert, if we want, we can also become a hero.

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Braveheart quotes

  • Longshanks: Not the archers. My scouts tell me their archers are miles away and no threat to us. Arrows cost money. Use up the Irish. The dead cost nothing.

  • Murron: You're going to teach me to read, then?

    William Wallace: Aye, if you'd like.

    Murron: Aye!

    William Wallace: In what language?

    Murron: Ah, you're showing off now.

    William Wallace: That's right. Are you impressed yet?

    Murron: No. Why? Should I be?

    William Wallace: Oui. Parce que chaque jour j'ai pensé à toi.

    [Yes. Because every single day I've thought about you]

    Murron: [hesitates, impressed despite herself, then smiles] Do that standing on your head and I'll be impressed.

    William Wallace: Well, my kilt will fly up, but I'll try.