The "Braveheart" actor offers an olive branch to the gay muny
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- THE PRCIENT UGLS OF MEL GIBSON’S BRAVEHEART BY NATHAN RAB IN NATHAN RAB VS. THE IMDB TOP 250, NATHAN RAB A RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR TO SELECT ONE OF THE 250 BT FILMS OF ALL TIME AS CHOSEN BY THE POPULAR CEMATIC DATABASE, AND THEN TERM WHETHER THE DIVIDUAL RANKG OF ANY SPECIFIC FILM SEEMS HIGH, LOW, OR JT RIGHT. (NOTE: TO MATA A NSISTENT LIST RANKG, WE ARE G THE LIST AS APPEARED ON SEPTEMBER 15, 2014.) TLE: BRAVEHEART DIRECTOR: MEL GIBSON YEAR OF RELEASE: 1995 IMDB TOP 250 RANKG: 81 CONFSN TIME: I HAVE SOMEHOW MA 20 YEARS, 18 OF WHICH SAW ME WORKG PROFSNALLY AS A FILM CRIC, WHOUT EVER SEEG BRAVEHEART—THE 1995 AMY AWARD-WNER FOR BT PICTURE (AND BT DIRECTOR, WH A FEW MORE WS TO BOOT); THE 81ST BT FILM, ACRDG TO THE ERS OF IMDB; AND, MANY MIGHT ARGUE, A FILM OF SOME NOTE. I HAVE, HOWEVER, SEEN THE MOVIE BOAT TRIP, WHERE CUBA GOODG JR. PLAYS A MAN WHO PRETENDS TO BE GAY ON A GAY CISE TO GET CLOSER TO THE WOMAN OF HIS DREAMS, MORE THAN ONCE. MY REASONS FOR AGGRSIVELY AVOIDG BRAVEHEART HAVE A LOT TO DO WH TASTE, BUT THEY’RE ALSO, TO BE BTALLY HONT, EPLY PERSONAL. HISTORIL EPICS HAVE NEVER BEEN MY FAVORE GENRE, AND I HAVE A B OF AN AVERSN TO THE KD OF TTOSTERONE-POISONED MACHISMO THAT POWERS BRAVEHEART. BUT I WAS ALSO AHEAD OF THE CURVE HATG MEL GIBSON BEFORE WAS POPULAR. EVEN BEFORE HIDN PHONE NVERSATNS AND A DNK-DRIVG ARRT TABLISHED GIBSON AS A POPULAR NDIDATE FOR WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (AND, TO E UNRSTATEMENT, NO IEND OF THE JEWS) AND SEEMGLY LIMED HIS CHOICE OF ACTG ROL TO SANE SUPER-VILLAS, I FOUND GIBSON LOATHSOME FOR HIS HOMOPHOBIA, FAR RIGHT-WG POLICS, AND CREDIBLE ARROGANCE. BUT TODAY, MY SPARKLG 20-YEAR STREAK OF NOT SEEG MANY 1995-ERA MEATHEADS’ ALL-TIME FAVORE MOVIE ME TO AN END, A VICTIM OF PROFSNAL OBLIGATN. AND HAVG NOW SEEN BRAVEHEART, I NOW THK ME OM 1995 TO 2015 WAS RIGHT. THE FIRST OF THE FILM’S CRIM IS FLAGRANT HISTORIL ACCURACY. SCREENWRER RANDALL WALLACE AND DIRECTOR-STAR MEL GIBSON HAVE REWRTEN HISTORY TO MAKE GIBSON’S WILLIAM WALLACE EVEN MORE PREPOSTEROLY HEROIC AND HIS ENEMI EVEN MORE EVIL, ENGLISH, AND GAY. THERE IS A SPECIAL PLACE HELL RERVED FOR FILMMAKERS, LIKE GIBSON HERE AND OLIVER STONE JFK, WHO REWRE HISTORY FOR THE SAKE OF MAKG THE BAD GUYS ALL SCREAMG STEREOTYP OF EFFEMATE HOMOSEXUALS. BRAVEHEART OPENS WH THE ENGLISH FEATG THE STTISH WAYS SIGNED TO NOT JT FEAT, BUT HUIATE AND STROY THEM. EVIL KG LONGSHANKS GIV HIS KNIGHTS THE EEDOM TO HAVE SEX WH THE WIV OF STTISH NOBLEMEN ON THEIR WEDDG NIGHT, FOR EXAMPLE. THAT’S A DICK MOVE MORE WAYS THAN ONE. WILLIAM WALLACE DON’T WANT AN ENGLISHMAN HAVG SEX WH HIS WIFE ON THEIR WEDDG NIGHT, SO HE AND LOVE MURRON MACCLANNOUGH (CATHERE MCCORMACK) MARRY SECRET, BUT THE ENGLISH MURR HER RETRIBUTN ALL THE SAME. THIS REALLY CHE WALLACE OFF AND GIV HIM AN EXCE TO M THE MOST VIC MANNER OF BTALY. BEE IF YOU ACTIVELY NY THE HUMANY OF THE ENEMY, AS GIBSON DO HERE, THEN ANY LEVEL OF VLENCE MTED AGAST THEM IS JTIFIED. WHEN YOU SHOW THE ENEMY AS RAPISTS WILLG TO MURR THEIR OWN PEOPLE AND HANG CHILDREN AND SET PEOPLE ON FIRE, THEN NO AMOUNT OF FORCE AGAST THEM ULD BE NSIRED EXCSIVE. AS HE HIMSELF NCED, GIBSON IS AT LEAST 10 YEARS TOO OLD TO PLAY WALLACE. HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE A VIBRANT YOUNG BUCK HIS 20S WH A THICK, GLOR MANE OF FAB HAIR, BUT BEE GIBSON ULDN’T GET HIS THREE-HOUR-LONG HISTORIL EPIC WHOUT HIMSELF THE LEAD ROLE, THE LEAD IS NOW CLEARLY A MAN HIS 40S WHO HAS LIVED HARD AND HAS THE SRS TO SHOW . WALLACE LEADS AN SURRECTN AGAST THE ENGLISH, AND TO GIVE GIBSON HIS DUE, HE IS APT AT STAGG LARGE-SLE BATTLE SEQUENC VISCERALLY EXCG WAYS. THOUGH DRAGS TREMENDOLY, BRAVEHEART BENEFS OM AN EPIC SPE, OM THE SENSE THAT WORLDS, NOT JT ARMI AND NATNS, ARE LLIDG, WH EVERYTHG AT STAKE. PLE KAEL FAMOLY PRAISED/NMNED STRAW DOGS AS A FASCIST MASTERPIECE, AND WHILE BRAVEHEART IS NO MASTERPIECE, AT S RED-BLOOD BT, ’S EXCG S BLOODY EXCS WAYS THAT ARE DISFORTG—THE FILM OCCUPI A WORLD OF BLACK AND WH, WH NO SPACE FOR THE GRAYS THAT FE OUR OWN. BRAVEHEART N BE ROG, BUT MORE OFTEN ’S TED, GRATUOLY VLENT, AND FILLED WH DISTRACTG MODIFITNS TO HISTORY, LIKE MAKG LONGSHANKS’ SON A LISPG, EFFEMATE HOMOSEXUAL WHOSE LOVER THE KG OF ENGLAND TOSS OUT THE HIGH WDOW OF A STLE WHAT THE FILM SEEMS TO SEE AS A CROWD-PLEASG MOMENT. THE FILM SOMETIM SUGGTS THE WORLD’S MOST VLENT ROMANCE NOVEL—NOT JT BEE OF GIBSON’S FAB HAIR, BUT BEE OF THE WAY THAT PRCS ISABELLE, AS PLAYED BY SOPHIE MARCE, ALL BUT ASMS JT HEARG ABOUT HOW BRAVELY AND BOLDLY WILLIAM WALLACE WAS WILLG TO FIGHT TO AVENGE HIS SLGHTERED LOVE. BRAVEHEART FEELS CREDIBLY PADD AT THREE HOURS, BUT NEEDS AT LEAST A HALF-HOUR FOR WALLACE TO DIE AN ENDLS, EXTRAVAGANT ATH THAT MAK J’ CCIFIXN SEEM AS BTAL A PUNISHMENT AS A TICKET FOR JAYWALKG. GIBSON’S MARTYR PLEX AND NEED TO SUFFER NOBLY ONSCREEN REQUIR AN AWFUL LOT OF TIME. IN THE END, SEEG BRAVEHEART 20 YEARS ON WAS BOUND TO BE AN ANTICLIMACTIC EXPERIENCE, BOTH BEE I WAS DREADG SO AND BEE THE END, TIME HAS RCED TO JT A FILM—HOMOPHOBIC, RCTIVE, OVERREACHG, BUT EXCG AT TIM AND ARTFUL S BTALY—AND A MIGHTY FLAWED FILM AT THAT. HISTORY HAS PLACED BOTH S STRENGTHS AND S WEAKNS SHARPER NTEXT. IT DID NOT NEED GIBSON’S FALL OM GRACE TO SEEM CREEPY AND VAGUELY FASCISTIC. THE UGLS THAT WOULD POUR OUT OF GIBSON’S MOUTH AND BE RERD FOR POSTERY WAS ALREADY THERE, EMBRYONIC FORM, THE FILM’S NCEPTN OF A WORLD DIVID SOLELY BETWEEN HERO AND VILLAS, MANLY MEN WHOSE BLOOD RAG WH RIGHTEO NATNALIST PRI AND RAPISTS AND HOMOSEXUALS WHO WOULD KILL THEIR OWN PEOPLE FOR THE SAKE OF MATAG POWER. TOO HIGH OR TOO LOW? TOO HIGH NATHAN’S REVISED IMDB TOP 250 RATG (BASED ON FILMS VERED FOR THIS SERI SO FAR) 1. THE BT YEARS OF OUR LIV 2. SOME LIKE IT HOT 3. BLA RUNNER 4. NORTH BY NORTHWT 5. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE 6. NETWORK 7. HER 8. DJANGO UNCHAED 9. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 10. ROMAN HOLIDAY 11. ALL ABOUT EVE 12. BATMAN BEGS 13. CASO 14. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID 15. STAND BY ME 16. THE LIV OF OTHERS 17. REQUIEM FOR A DREAM 18. HOTEL RWANDA 19. INCENDI 20. PIRAT OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL 21. THE TMAN SHOW 22. BLOOD DIAMOND 23. BRAVEHEART 24. SLUMDOG MILLNAIRE TAGS: BRAVEHEART NATHAN RAB VS. THE IMDB TOP 250 MOST RECENT NEWS
- KEV HART GAY SON JOKE RURFAC AFTER HE’S NAMED OSR HOST: WATCH
THE PRCIENT UGLS OF MEL GIBSON’S BRAVEHEART BY NATHAN RAB IN NATHAN RAB VS. THE IMDB TOP 250, NATHAN RAB A RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR TO SELECT ONE OF THE 250 BT FILMS OF ALL TIME AS CHOSEN BY THE POPULAR CEMATIC DATABASE, AND THEN TERM WHETHER THE DIVIDUAL RANKG OF ANY SPECIFIC FILM SEEMS HIGH, LOW, OR JT RIGHT. (NOTE: TO MATA A NSISTENT LIST RANKG, WE ARE G THE LIST AS APPEARED ON SEPTEMBER 15, 2014.) TLE: BRAVEHEART DIRECTOR: MEL GIBSON YEAR OF RELEASE: 1995 IMDB TOP 250 RANKG: 81 CONFSN TIME: I HAVE SOMEHOW MA 20 YEARS, 18 OF WHICH SAW ME WORKG PROFSNALLY AS A FILM CRIC, WHOUT EVER SEEG BRAVEHEART—THE 1995 AMY AWARD-WNER FOR BT PICTURE (AND BT DIRECTOR, WH A FEW MORE WS TO BOOT); THE 81ST BT FILM, ACRDG TO THE ERS OF IMDB; AND, MANY MIGHT ARGUE, A FILM OF SOME NOTE. I HAVE, HOWEVER, SEEN THE MOVIE BOAT TRIP, WHERE CUBA GOODG JR. PLAYS A MAN WHO PRETENDS TO BE GAY ON A GAY CISE TO GET CLOSER TO THE WOMAN OF HIS DREAMS, MORE THAN ONCE. MY REASONS FOR AGGRSIVELY AVOIDG BRAVEHEART HAVE A LOT TO DO WH TASTE, BUT THEY’RE ALSO, TO BE BTALLY HONT, EPLY PERSONAL. HISTORIL EPICS HAVE NEVER BEEN MY FAVORE GENRE, AND I HAVE A B OF AN AVERSN TO THE KD OF TTOSTERONE-POISONED MACHISMO THAT POWERS BRAVEHEART. BUT I WAS ALSO AHEAD OF THE CURVE HATG MEL GIBSON BEFORE WAS POPULAR. EVEN BEFORE HIDN PHONE NVERSATNS AND A DNK-DRIVG ARRT TABLISHED GIBSON AS A POPULAR NDIDATE FOR WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (AND, TO E UNRSTATEMENT, NO IEND OF THE JEWS) AND SEEMGLY LIMED HIS CHOICE OF ACTG ROL TO SANE SUPER-VILLAS, I FOUND GIBSON LOATHSOME FOR HIS HOMOPHOBIA, FAR RIGHT-WG POLICS, AND CREDIBLE ARROGANCE. BUT TODAY, MY SPARKLG 20-YEAR STREAK OF NOT SEEG MANY 1995-ERA MEATHEADS’ ALL-TIME FAVORE MOVIE ME TO AN END, A VICTIM OF PROFSNAL OBLIGATN. AND HAVG NOW SEEN BRAVEHEART, I NOW THK ME OM 1995 TO 2015 WAS RIGHT. THE FIRST OF THE FILM’S CRIM IS FLAGRANT HISTORIL ACCURACY. SCREENWRER RANDALL WALLACE AND DIRECTOR-STAR MEL GIBSON HAVE REWRTEN HISTORY TO MAKE GIBSON’S WILLIAM WALLACE EVEN MORE PREPOSTEROLY HEROIC AND HIS ENEMI EVEN MORE EVIL, ENGLISH, AND GAY. THERE IS A SPECIAL PLACE HELL RERVED FOR FILMMAKERS, LIKE GIBSON HERE AND OLIVER STONE JFK, WHO REWRE HISTORY FOR THE SAKE OF MAKG THE BAD GUYS ALL SCREAMG STEREOTYP OF EFFEMATE HOMOSEXUALS. BRAVEHEART OPENS WH THE ENGLISH FEATG THE STTISH WAYS SIGNED TO NOT JT FEAT, BUT HUIATE AND STROY THEM. EVIL KG LONGSHANKS GIV HIS KNIGHTS THE EEDOM TO HAVE SEX WH THE WIV OF STTISH NOBLEMEN ON THEIR WEDDG NIGHT, FOR EXAMPLE. THAT’S A DICK MOVE MORE WAYS THAN ONE. WILLIAM WALLACE DON’T WANT AN ENGLISHMAN HAVG SEX WH HIS WIFE ON THEIR WEDDG NIGHT, SO HE AND LOVE MURRON MACCLANNOUGH (CATHERE MCCORMACK) MARRY SECRET, BUT THE ENGLISH MURR HER RETRIBUTN ALL THE SAME. THIS REALLY CHE WALLACE OFF AND GIV HIM AN EXCE TO M THE MOST VIC MANNER OF BTALY. BEE IF YOU ACTIVELY NY THE HUMANY OF THE ENEMY, AS GIBSON DO HERE, THEN ANY LEVEL OF VLENCE MTED AGAST THEM IS JTIFIED. WHEN YOU SHOW THE ENEMY AS RAPISTS WILLG TO MURR THEIR OWN PEOPLE AND HANG CHILDREN AND SET PEOPLE ON FIRE, THEN NO AMOUNT OF FORCE AGAST THEM ULD BE NSIRED EXCSIVE. AS HE HIMSELF NCED, GIBSON IS AT LEAST 10 YEARS TOO OLD TO PLAY WALLACE. HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE A VIBRANT YOUNG BUCK HIS 20S WH A THICK, GLOR MANE OF FAB HAIR, BUT BEE GIBSON ULDN’T GET HIS THREE-HOUR-LONG HISTORIL EPIC WHOUT HIMSELF THE LEAD ROLE, THE LEAD IS NOW CLEARLY A MAN HIS 40S WHO HAS LIVED HARD AND HAS THE SRS TO SHOW . WALLACE LEADS AN SURRECTN AGAST THE ENGLISH, AND TO GIVE GIBSON HIS DUE, HE IS APT AT STAGG LARGE-SLE BATTLE SEQUENC VISCERALLY EXCG WAYS. THOUGH DRAGS TREMENDOLY, BRAVEHEART BENEFS OM AN EPIC SPE, OM THE SENSE THAT WORLDS, NOT JT ARMI AND NATNS, ARE LLIDG, WH EVERYTHG AT STAKE. PLE KAEL FAMOLY PRAISED/NMNED STRAW DOGS AS A FASCIST MASTERPIECE, AND WHILE BRAVEHEART IS NO MASTERPIECE, AT S RED-BLOOD BT, ’S EXCG S BLOODY EXCS WAYS THAT ARE DISFORTG—THE FILM OCCUPI A WORLD OF BLACK AND WH, WH NO SPACE FOR THE GRAYS THAT FE OUR OWN. BRAVEHEART N BE ROG, BUT MORE OFTEN ’S TED, GRATUOLY VLENT, AND FILLED WH DISTRACTG MODIFITNS TO HISTORY, LIKE MAKG LONGSHANKS’ SON A LISPG, EFFEMATE HOMOSEXUAL WHOSE LOVER THE KG OF ENGLAND TOSS OUT THE HIGH WDOW OF A STLE WHAT THE FILM SEEMS TO SEE AS A CROWD-PLEASG MOMENT. THE FILM SOMETIM SUGGTS THE WORLD’S MOST VLENT ROMANCE NOVEL—NOT JT BEE OF GIBSON’S FAB HAIR, BUT BEE OF THE WAY THAT PRCS ISABELLE, AS PLAYED BY SOPHIE MARCE, ALL BUT ASMS JT HEARG ABOUT HOW BRAVELY AND BOLDLY WILLIAM WALLACE WAS WILLG TO FIGHT TO AVENGE HIS SLGHTERED LOVE. BRAVEHEART FEELS CREDIBLY PADD AT THREE HOURS, BUT NEEDS AT LEAST A HALF-HOUR FOR WALLACE TO DIE AN ENDLS, EXTRAVAGANT ATH THAT MAK J’ CCIFIXN SEEM AS BTAL A PUNISHMENT AS A TICKET FOR JAYWALKG. GIBSON’S MARTYR PLEX AND NEED TO SUFFER NOBLY ONSCREEN REQUIR AN AWFUL LOT OF TIME. IN THE END, SEEG BRAVEHEART 20 YEARS ON WAS BOUND TO BE AN ANTICLIMACTIC EXPERIENCE, BOTH BEE I WAS DREADG SO AND BEE THE END, TIME HAS RCED TO JT A FILM—HOMOPHOBIC, RCTIVE, OVERREACHG, BUT EXCG AT TIM AND ARTFUL S BTALY—AND A MIGHTY FLAWED FILM AT THAT. HISTORY HAS PLACED BOTH S STRENGTHS AND S WEAKNS SHARPER NTEXT. IT DID NOT NEED GIBSON’S FALL OM GRACE TO SEEM CREEPY AND VAGUELY FASCISTIC. THE UGLS THAT WOULD POUR OUT OF GIBSON’S MOUTH AND BE RERD FOR POSTERY WAS ALREADY THERE, EMBRYONIC FORM, THE FILM’S NCEPTN OF A WORLD DIVID SOLELY BETWEEN HERO AND VILLAS, MANLY MEN WHOSE BLOOD RAG WH RIGHTEO NATNALIST PRI AND RAPISTS AND HOMOSEXUALS WHO WOULD KILL THEIR OWN PEOPLE FOR THE SAKE OF MATAG POWER. TOO HIGH OR TOO LOW? TOO HIGH NATHAN’S REVISED IMDB TOP 250 RATG (BASED ON FILMS VERED FOR THIS SERI SO FAR) 1. THE BT YEARS OF OUR LIV 2. SOME LIKE IT HOT 3. BLA RUNNER 4. NORTH BY NORTHWT 5. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE 6. NETWORK 7. HER 8. DJANGO UNCHAED 9. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 10. ROMAN HOLIDAY 11. ALL ABOUT EVE 12. BATMAN BEGS 13. CASO 14. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID 15. STAND BY ME 16. THE LIV OF OTHERS 17. REQUIEM FOR A DREAM 18. HOTEL RWANDA 19. INCENDI 20. PIRAT OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL 21. THE TMAN SHOW 22. BLOOD DIAMOND 23. BRAVEHEART 24. SLUMDOG MILLNAIRE TAGS: BRAVEHEART NATHAN RAB VS. THE IMDB TOP 250 MOST RECENT NEWS
* braveheart gay son *
Plays a man who pretends to be gay on a gay cise to get closer to the woman of his dreams, more than once. Even before hidn phone nversatns and a dnk-drivg arrt tablished Gibson as a popular ndidate for Worst Person In The World (and, to e unrstatement, no iend of the Jews) and seemgly limed his choice of actg rol to sane super-villas, I found Gibson loathsome for his homophobia, far right-wg polics, and credible arrogance. Screenwrer Randall Wallace and director-star Mel Gibson have rewrten history to make Gibson’s William Wallace even more preposteroly heroic and his enemi even more evil, English, and gay.
There is a special place hell rerved for filmmakers, like Gibson here and Oliver Stone JFK, who rewre history for the sake of makg the bad guys all screamg stereotyp of effemate homosexuals.
KEV HART GAY SON JOKE RURFAC AFTER HE’S NAMED OSR HOST: WATCH
Braveheart n be rog, but more often ’s ted, gratuoly vlent, and filled wh distractg modifitns to history, like makg Longshanks’ son a lispg, effemate homosexual whose lover the Kg Of England toss out the high wdow of a stle what the film seems to see as a crowd-pleasg moment. In the end, seeg Braveheart 20 years on was bound to be an anticlimactic experience, both bee I was dreadg so and bee the end, time has rced to jt a film—homophobic, rctive, overreachg, but excg at tim and artful s btaly—and a mighty flawed film at that. The ugls that would pour out of Gibson’s mouth and be rerd for postery was already there, embryonic form, the film’s nceptn of a world divid solely between hero and villas, manly men whose blood rag wh righteo natnalist pri and rapists and homosexuals who would kill their own people for the sake of matag power.
The ma villa is the Kg of England, who is a sneerg bastard wh an petent gay son. Edward I's son Edward II (Peter Hanly) is a pampered homosexual who so annoys Longshanks that the kg throws his son's boyiend out of a wdow. Historilly, there is no doubt that was Edward II, spe his alleged homosexualy.
So Longshanks’ son, Prce Edward, as played by Peter Hanly, is tablished as gay sometime between five and 20 sends after his first appearance onscreen, durg his marriage to Isabella of France, which he mostly spends lookg back at his tsted nfidant, English Jim Morrison. What I n tell you is that as poorly as Braveheart handl this, Game of Thron do not pict, say, Loras Tyrell’s homosexualy wh much more licy — jt more nudy. There is no over-the-top actg here: Longshanks sually ph his son's homosexual.