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勇敢的心英文读后感( 二 )


【勇敢的心英文读后感】Also, this movie is a red-blooded battle epic. Not much is known about Wallace, known as Braveheart, except that according to an old epic poem, he unified the clans of Scotland and won famous battles against the English before being captured, tortured and executed as a traitor.
Wallace cried, as his body was stretched on the rack. That isn’t exactly based on fact （the concept of personal freedom was a concept not much celebrated in 1300）， but it doesn’t stop Gibson from making it his dying cry. It fits in with the whole glorious sweep of Braveheart, which is an action epic with the spirit of the Hollywood swordplay classics and the grungy ferocity of “The Road Warrior” 。What people are going to remember from the film are the battle scenes, which are frequent, bloody and violent. Just from a technical point of view, Braveheart does a brilliant job of massing men and horses for large-scale warfare on film. Gibson deploys what look like thousands of men on horseback, as well as foot soldiers, archers and dirty tricks specialists, and yet his battle sequences don’t turn into confusing crowd scenes: We understand the strategy, and we enjoy the tactics even while we doubt some of them.
Gibson is not filming history here, but myth. William Wallace may have been a real person, but Braveheart owes more to Prince Valiant, Rob Roy and Mad Max. Once we understand that this is not a solemn historical reconstruction （and that happens pretty fast）， we accept dialogue that might otherwise have an uncannily modern tone, as when Braveheart issues his victory ultimatum to the English. In the film, Wallace's chief antagonist is King Edward I, played by Patrick McGoohan with sly cunning; he is constantly giving his real political interpretation of events, and that's all the more amusing since he’s usually guessing in a wrong way.
Edward’s son, the Prince of Wales, is a very weak role who marries a French woman only for political reasons and he’s a gay himself. Even his father doesn’t like him. “I may have to conceive the child myself!” the king says, and indeed, under the medieval concept, or “first night,” nobles were allowed a first chance to sleep with the wives of Scottish men. The Princess, played by the French actress Sophie Marceau, does not much admire her husband, who spends most of his time hanging about moon-eyed with his best friend （until the king, in a fit of impatience, hurls the friend out the castle window） 。
Edward, smarting from defeats, dispatches the Princess to offer his terms to Braveheart, but soon she’s spilling all the state secrets, “because of the way you look at me.” The Princess is the second love in Wallace’s life; the first, his childhood sweetheart Murron （Catherine McCormack）， marries him in secret. The two spend their wedding night outdoors, and the backlit shot as they embrace gains something, I think, from the frost on their breaths.

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