The moment that you can see them lower their lances and begin to scream, I cannot imagine the bravery needed to stand your ground in the face of a moment like that.
@@claytonrainey7531 Depends on how CGI is used. If it replaces EVERYTHING, it's bad (and WAY too many films today do this). But if it's used for stuff like Jurassic Park, well that's amazing.
Mailed knights against Highland rabble. They only failed, cause the goofs weren't paying attention, and charged right at the stakes. Come to think of it, I don't think any Scottish units could place stakes. Bloody cheaters.
And they're suddenly on the ground in front of them before they lift them up. They're not there in previous shots, either because of bad continuity monitoring or because its implied that they secretly slid the pikes up through the ranks while the cavalry was charging. They can't have been meant to be in front all along, because the cavalry would see them and stop the charge. They should have shown them sliding the pikes forward.
@@capnhawkins the camera never goes below the scots waists until 1:09(unless you were commenting about shots outside this video here) and at 1:09 we seen the pikes in front of the men. On a side note, I feel like the short cut that shows the pikes already up is purposeful as it shows the audience what’s coming. Brendan Gleason intensely looks with a side eye as he gets anxious because the horses are getting closer, and the spears being up adds to the intensity for the audience and the eagerness and stress the scots feel as they don’t want the horses to get so close that they can’t raise the pikes in time.
@@justyourlocalwitchhunter9184 It's not miss editing. Editors go through footage with a fine tooth comb, it's very hard for something to go by unnoticed. When something like this is left in, it's usually a conscious choice to sacrifice continuity or crew/equipment in frame because the shot otherwise works in the cut. Not to mention that when this film was made, the fact that normal people would eventually be able to analyse every frame on their computers was not taken into account.
Trained men, plated armor with chainmail underneath, armored horses with some having leather facemasks traveling at over 25 to 30mph with 6 foot lances racing towards you. Yes, that's probably the most terrifying thing
There were only two rows of horses, so how would they expect to kill all the scots? I know that the scots at the front would be killed, but the horses would easily be swarmed after, no?
@@joeessen1059 Cavalry charges like that were meant to break morale. Historically though they would have very rarely charged like that, especially into packed formations.
I remember this scene being played on tv as a trailer to Braveheart. It did'nt show the full scene and I was hooked already. Desperately wanted to see. What an awesome movie
William Wallace yes i like it as historical accurate as possible. I don’t know about my favorite movie, but seen from a historical accurate point of view, I see the HBO Serie Rome and Rome II as my favorite.
@@jasip1000yes it’s very historically inaccurate. William Wallace wasn’t anywhere near as much of a warrior fighting on the front lines as he’s made out to be in this film and like you pointed out about the river and bridge but it’s still an amazing film regardless of the historical inaccuracy.
1:52 is one of the moments where you can tell either there was an editing mistake (unlikely) or the editor and director wanted to extend the tension of the charge but the only footage of the Scots at that distance was of them already with their spears up -- so they inserted that brief cut out of order in the hope that the viewer would just go with it (and by and large they do, it tends to only be noticed on repeat viewings).
Always been fascinated at the creative weaponry designed to club, gouge, rip, slice, etc. For an interesting treatment of such tools of war read Desmond Seward's The Hundred Years War. The Battle of Bannockburn is mentioned although it preceded the war.
Cavalry charges were very successful during that era, because most infantry was made up of peasants drafted by lords to fight battles they knew nothing and cared little about. As a result of being fearful and ill trained, A lance would easily smash through enemy lines. This scene demonstrates just how terrifying it would be to have 100's of horses galloping towards you. However, this battle demonstrates how it can be countered by a front line that can properly brace such a charge.
Mel Gibson is one of the best actors ever and also one of the best directors. This film was a masterpiece. Regardless of the massive historical inaccuracies. William Wallace wasn’t anywhere near as much of a warrior as he’s made out to be in this film for a start.
Not the heroic, semi-mythical freedom fighter historians in this country light to paint him as. His soldiers partook in mass rape, arson, looting and organised butchery of civilians, including women and children and he also gave the order for the thirteenth century terror tactics.
This 1995 film was to my memory the last one in which they actually showed a cavalry charge with proper lances. Even Ridley Scott seems to have forgotten about them in the Kingdom of Heaven, and had the cavalry charge with simple spears instead. And after that, films such as Outlaw King or The King didn't give a shit about it. The battle of Agincourt without lances... The filmmakers are getting more stupid with time, apparently.
During the timeline of the Kingdom of Heaven (late 12th century) the lances of European knight were indeed still just simple spears. Maybe a bit longer and thicker than normal spears but it hasnt yet acquired the distinctive hourglass shape and the vamplate (handguard) and graper (flange to ease the couching of the lance against the armpit) that so distinguished the archetypical European medieval lance. The vamplate and the graper only started to see use late in the 13th century. For the other movies though yes the knights should carry a more typical medieval 'lance'.
This battle was won because William went to school and tracked Europe. He knew how to beat mounted Calvary. The Greeks. He was fully educated at this fight. He took years of culture from past empires and showed them. How a long sharp stick is still king. Even today
Great Western MGM yup if anything it would make braveheart more iconic. As battle scene on a bridge has never been done before. They essentially just make this look like the battle of bannockburn and subbed in William Wallace instead of Robert the Bruce
Guys, to all those who complain about the movie being inaccurate or not very well edited: When Braveheart hit the cinemas, it was 1995. You know the 90's, most of you have already been arround at that time. It was a time when movies about sharks running amok and a fuckton of different dinosaurs being bred from blood found in preserved mosquitos came out. Hollywood made a huge pile of money with that kind of stuff, cause people enjoyed it. Entertainment was all those movies were about, no one gave a fuck about historical accuracy. In terms of editing, just think about how VHS worked or the quality of TV screens itself. In those short cutscenes, only the most socially isolated basement dwelling movie nerd would have noticed mistakes like that, and even if he did, the internet wasn't that much of a thing back then, so not too much people would've gotten the chance to learn about those observations. Creators were very well aware of their mistakes, but what were they supposed to do? Do the whole scene with at times hundreds of actors again, though due to the low resolution standards of that time nobody was even able to notice flaws like a car flashing up for a second or the Scots holding up their pikes before Wallace gave them the order to? Movies are costly, and no director would've thrown money out of the window just because of being afraid of what people would say in 25 years, when their technique finally allows said basement dwelleing movie nerds to find those flaws and make them public.
Very well said my friend I couldn’t agree with you more. I was in my early 20s when I saw this in the theater and was impressed with it. Modern day keyboard warrior/critics be damned.
I'm sure I watched this as a child. But rewatching it as an adult, I was kinda curious what William Wallace (was that his name?) had in mind in the face of that kind of incoming charge from the English Knights. They just looked like a bunch of skirmishers, maybe berserkers, just some infantrymen, getting charged by top of the line Knights. I can hardly imagine the costs for each horse, from purchase to upkeep to training, and then, the riders with their complex armour and their riding training, the discipline lessons to keep them in line and following orders. Meanwhile, at the last minute, William Wallace gets his men to drop their weapons and pick up some cleverly hidden pikes, literally straight pieces of wood with sharp points at the end, like, really cheap stuff that you can probably make easily 40 or more each day, per man, if you wanted to, if you get a decent supply of wood, and in Scotland, that really shouldn't be a problem. It'll be massively demoralising for the English army to lose such expensive troops to such a cheap counter tactic. But their commander was a bit puffed up and full of himself. He had completely underestimated his opponent and had taken his own victory for granted. I guess it serves him right, but I've got a soft spot for those horses. Lovely creatures. They deserved better. But what can you do? It's war. And they are just doing their jobs.
I saw this scene as a kid and it fucked me up lol. My mouth dropped and my grandma had to keep telling me it was fake but I was just a kid so I didn’t rewatch til I was 18. Now at almost 30 I’m trying to find the behind the scenes for this. Absolutely amazing, how tf did they get the horses to do all that without someone getting actually hurt? And the practical effect wounds… just fucking amazing. A truly legendary movie
To be fair, the approaching cavalry probably had no idea they had spears - well, if you can call pointy sticks that. To them it probably just looked like actual sticks.
There is no bridge, yet it's the battle of Sterling Bridge The Scots didn't wear kilts - in reality kilts came centuries later, They would of had clothing & armor similar to their enemy. They didn't have blue face paint Bagpipes also didn't exist in 13th Century Scotland Most of them don't have actual weapons, I see a few farming tools in there. In reality, the Scots where just as well armed as their opponents. Either way, great movie.
During the actual battle of Sterling Bridge there was 10,000 soldiers, 150 Cavalry and 300 welch archers. All of them lost their lives to 2,000 Scottish farmers.
@@Pilum1000 A mistake nonetheless. Surprise or not. That's not how to use cavalry as the first action in a battle. Cavalry are used as flankers or to take on other cavalry. Depending if it's shock or anti-cav. Shock cavalry are used to hit them from the sides or rear flanks when the infantry has engaged each other. To deal with other cavalry. (Like those lances are used for.) Or to chase down fleeing troops. Or go after archers. Or go after siege teams. Charging head on into infantry using lances is a dumb idea. Those weapons aren't meant for fighting infantry, that's why cavalry with swords do that. Because lances can't do much in hand-to-hand range, it's not practical. You might lance someone, but then you got this long weapon that's hard to deal with people who are up close to you.
@@LucidDream learn more war history. In general, i don't understand why you wrote all of this... Because what any more situations did happen de facto in history, and the arguments about cavalry with swords or with spears are just stupid; of course you can attack an infantry (not the phalanx) with spears. This is better. And swords won't help here at all ... Some nonsense...
With ease the cavalry could destroy them, you think its so easy to stand against 500 hundred horses charging at you, you would probably start running leaving your place. You need some balls to stand there even by holding a long heavy pike.
@@LucidDream those are heavy cavalry... And their role is to break the line of the infantry what you are talking about are the light cavalry, heavy and lights have different roles
I've had to (Dad was a horseman) stand in front of a horse running at me. Just one horse. 1:44 brought all fear in that moment right back. HR increased just viewing w/o sound. Btw, it was Dad's Appaloosa, and it was in pasture. He (the horse, not Dad) was a late geld and thought he was a stallion and acted like it. So when 12 yr old me closed the gate Sam Scratch's ears went up and he charged me to defend his mares and fillies. Dad taught me to stand still and raise my arms and show him the harness& lead and he'd stop. He did. I suffered nothing but wet undies.
boy imagine during these fights you got struck where was available. your eyes, fingers, piecees of your arm leg etc...any and everywhere got sliced and diced...
This battle never happened this way, and the one who came with the long spears to face the cavalry was robert the bruce, who was depected as a traitor in braveheart, at the battle of loudoun hill. Moreover, the title braveheart was given to robert the bruce and not to william wallace
I hardly believe that soldiers would've benn able to hold those spears in their hands after horses clashing into them. An average horse weighs around 400 kg, and its speed is around 80 km per hour. Imagine what a powerful hit it would be-horse running into spear. It's impossible to hold that spear in hands, all soldiers holding it would fly up into air after that severe hit.
I think they used the soil for leverage (maybe partly dug in) and combined with the density of the spears (ca. 4 per horse or so) plus the horses decelerating at the last moment due to fear of running into a pointy object makes it somewhat plausible, but I could be wrong.
@@Mitjitsu No, it's quite the contrary. The breeds used for war during the Middle ages in Europe have gone extinct since a long time, but it's generally accepted they were as tall and large as a field hunter. The Frison is arguably what we have closest to the medieval chargers.
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The archers scene just before this
Battle Of Falkirk
The Englishman fineness hour .
how bout the immediate scene after lol
English were using the total war AI
The moment that you can see them lower their lances and begin to scream, I cannot imagine the bravery needed to stand your ground in the face of a moment like that.
Especially in WW1, just machine gun flying everywhere. You could die any second...
@KEKWTF i think Poland continued cavalry untill WW2.
@ミスティドラゴン id say up to the Napoleónic wars
@ミスティドラゴン you are wrong
@@Walker-ow7vj ww1?
who doesnt love movies without CGI?
Amen brother!! CGI has ruined cinema. Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan - no CGI - immensely emotionally gripping
@@claytonrainey7531 Depends on how CGI is used. If it replaces EVERYTHING, it's bad (and WAY too many films today do this). But if it's used for stuff like Jurassic Park, well that's amazing.
@@thunderbird1921 no cgi = more fun with the extras.
me
I think films like Lord of the Rings have the perfect balance between props and cgi, later it all went downhill
"Send in the cavalry. Full attack." every first time total war player when they bring knights.
True story 😂
Lmao
Send the infantry exhausted the lines and then send the heavy shock cavalry 🥸
Most of the time thats enough to kill the enemy
To prawda! 😅
Not a phone in sight, just a bunch warriors savoring every moments.
The soundtrack is fantastic here
Yes
I concur.
Clearly the english have never played total war or they'd have know cavalry are used for flanking, not for charging headlong into an armies frontline.
Mailed knights against Highland rabble. They only failed, cause the goofs weren't paying attention, and charged right at the stakes. Come to think of it, I don't think any Scottish units could place stakes. Bloody cheaters.
Clearly ur stupid enough to think this film is historically accurate
@@philhead1951 clearly you're stupid enough to not understand I was making a joke at the silliness of the movie.
sir, you are wrong. Heavy cav is for breaking the lines.
@Hoàng Nguyên OR flanking
They already have the pikes up and ready at 1:51. ^^
The battle is an editing mess.
And they're suddenly on the ground in front of them before they lift them up. They're not there in previous shots, either because of bad continuity monitoring or because its implied that they secretly slid the pikes up through the ranks while the cavalry was charging. They can't have been meant to be in front all along, because the cavalry would see them and stop the charge. They should have shown them sliding the pikes forward.
@@capnhawkins the camera never goes below the scots waists until 1:09(unless you were commenting about shots outside this video here) and at 1:09 we seen the pikes in front of the men. On a side note, I feel like the short cut that shows the pikes already up is purposeful as it shows the audience what’s coming. Brendan Gleason intensely looks with a side eye as he gets anxious because the horses are getting closer, and the spears being up adds to the intensity for the audience and the eagerness and stress the scots feel as they don’t want the horses to get so close that they can’t raise the pikes in time.
@@vhufeosqap nah pobably just miss editing they even forget to move car at 1:54 in the left corner
@@justyourlocalwitchhunter9184 It's not miss editing. Editors go through footage with a fine tooth comb, it's very hard for something to go by unnoticed. When something like this is left in, it's usually a conscious choice to sacrifice continuity or crew/equipment in frame because the shot otherwise works in the cut. Not to mention that when this film was made, the fact that normal people would eventually be able to analyse every frame on their computers was not taken into account.
It must be absolutely terrifying facing down a Calvary charge.....plan or not.....
It is indeed.
Trained men, plated armor with chainmail underneath, armored horses with some having leather facemasks traveling at over 25 to 30mph with 6 foot lances racing towards you. Yes, that's probably the most terrifying thing
If ye go to a horse race even with 10 or 20 horses racing it sounds terrifying so just imagine a couple hundred or so charging directly at ye
There were only two rows of horses, so how would they expect to kill all the scots? I know that the scots at the front would be killed, but the horses would easily be swarmed after, no?
@@joeessen1059 Cavalry charges like that were meant to break morale. Historically though they would have very rarely charged like that, especially into packed formations.
1:06 his terrified face acting so realistic
RIP all warrior horses
I think that you mean dummy horses.
It's 2023 and still loves knighthood
I remember this scene being played on tv as a trailer to Braveheart. It did'nt show the full scene and I was hooked already. Desperately wanted to see. What an awesome movie
It’s a total shit movie that doesn’t respect what actually took place.
For instance, where is the river and the bridge in this battle of Stirling ?
William Wallace yes i like it as historical accurate as possible.
I don’t know about my favorite movie, but seen from a historical accurate point of view, I see the HBO Serie Rome and Rome II as my favorite.
@@jasip1000yes it’s very historically inaccurate. William Wallace wasn’t anywhere near as much of a warrior fighting on the front lines as he’s made out to be in this film and like you pointed out about the river and bridge but it’s still an amazing film regardless of the historical inaccuracy.
What an utterly SHIT movie - another collection of deliberate lies from Mel Gibson
@@jasip1000This particular scene was shot on the Curragh plains in Ireland.
Sterling bridge is in Scotland.
1:52 is one of the moments where you can tell either there was an editing mistake (unlikely) or the editor and director wanted to extend the tension of the charge but the only footage of the Scots at that distance was of them already with their spears up -- so they inserted that brief cut out of order in the hope that the viewer would just go with it (and by and large they do, it tends to only be noticed on repeat viewings).
it's both
1:54 The white car on left. Ok, it's not me who discovered that. I saw screenshot in google.
Lol. How do people find this stuff? I would have never noticed it.
that is by design. It is to show the great longevity of the british car manufacturing industry.
because in deleted scenes, next wave is cars
what the hell
British were cheaters, clearly, they were figuring out how do they turn that off
They may not have a bridge but at least they have a car in the background
1:54, bottom left
@@hannahguin5428holy shit, nice catch!
When this movie was shown in Scotland 🏴 1995 ,some guy stood up end of the movie in the cinema and shouted “FREEDOM”
And then when there was a vote, they decided to stay British. Shame.
@@Grubnar Bribed by handouts like nobles where in 1707.
@@Grubnar haaaa that vote was rigged from the word go . Ya TIT !
yes it caused a lot of anti English hate no better than a Nazi propoganda film
Always been fascinated at the creative weaponry designed to club, gouge, rip, slice, etc. For an interesting treatment of such tools of war read Desmond Seward's The Hundred Years War. The Battle of Bannockburn is mentioned although it preceded the war.
Those spears were brilliant. Pure genius.
This scene back when the movie first came out, was so damned amazing. Everything about it was just plain epic.
When I'm playing empire total war and charge skirmishers with cavalry, and don't see they've put up stakes until its too late 😔
One the best films ever made.
In action yes, but historically one of the worst movies ever made
@@UserOfAnEraI don't disagree with you on the historical side, but unfortunately very little was known about William Wallace.
Courage at its finest, and all you can do is quote a videogame...
Cavalry charges were very successful during that era, because most infantry was made up of peasants drafted by lords to fight battles they knew nothing and cared little about. As a result of being fearful and ill trained, A lance would easily smash through enemy lines. This scene demonstrates just how terrifying it would be to have 100's of horses galloping towards you. However, this battle demonstrates how it can be countered by a front line that can properly brace such a charge.
yep. heavy cavalry routs the opposition. no guarantee but they can inflict a ton of damage and (most importantly) terror if not appropriately checked.
Unbelievable Cinematography by John Toll!
This movie 🎥 was epic film! Made it even more realistic without CGI.
Even tho it's unrealistic af
Mel Gibson is one of the best actors ever and also one of the best directors. This film was a masterpiece. Regardless of the massive historical inaccuracies. William Wallace wasn’t anywhere near as much of a warrior as he’s made out to be in this film for a start.
Not the heroic, semi-mythical freedom fighter historians in this country light to paint him as. His soldiers partook in mass rape, arson, looting and organised butchery of civilians, including women and children and he also gave the order for the thirteenth century terror tactics.
Love this horse scene 🐴
This 1995 film was to my memory the last one in which they actually showed a cavalry charge with proper lances. Even Ridley Scott seems to have forgotten about them in the Kingdom of Heaven, and had the cavalry charge with simple spears instead. And after that, films such as Outlaw King or The King didn't give a shit about it. The battle of Agincourt without lances... The filmmakers are getting more stupid with time, apparently.
During the timeline of the Kingdom of Heaven (late 12th century) the lances of European knight were indeed still just simple spears. Maybe a bit longer and thicker than normal spears but it hasnt yet acquired the distinctive hourglass shape and the vamplate (handguard) and graper (flange to ease the couching of the lance against the armpit) that so distinguished the archetypical European medieval lance. The vamplate and the graper only started to see use late in the 13th century.
For the other movies though yes the knights should carry a more typical medieval 'lance'.
@@HaNsWiDjAjA Great! Many thanks for the clarification!
@@ifikrates My pleasure
The lances may be the only thing accurate in the whole movie bruh
This battle was won because William went to school and tracked Europe. He knew how to beat mounted Calvary. The Greeks. He was fully educated at this fight. He took years of culture from past empires and showed them. How a long sharp stick is still king. Even today
Where's the bridge?
yes........wheres is the bridge go......?
Bridge wasn’t dramatic enough.
A few hundred feet from the battlefield lol
According to Mel Gibson in the DVD audio commentary it wasn't as "cinematically compelling" to have Stirling Bridge which is total bullshit
Great Western MGM yup if anything it would make braveheart more iconic. As battle scene on a bridge has never been done before. They essentially just make this look like the battle of bannockburn and subbed in William Wallace instead of Robert the Bruce
"See, every Scot with a horse is fleeing, our cavalry will ride them down like grass, send the horse, full attack"
HONOR Y GLORIA por siempre a los verdaderos soldados ESCOCESES.. pelearon hambrientos y superados en numero.. y ganaron su libertad ❤
That speech was used during the battle of Bannock Burren.
Great scene although not one for the horse lovers.
I love the music the horses 🐎🐎🐎
Charging towards the scotts, very dramatic.
Guys, to all those who complain about the movie being inaccurate or not very well edited:
When Braveheart hit the cinemas, it was 1995. You know the 90's, most of you have already been arround at that time. It was a time when movies about sharks running amok and a fuckton of different dinosaurs being bred from blood found in preserved mosquitos came out. Hollywood made a huge pile of money with that kind of stuff, cause people enjoyed it. Entertainment was all those movies were about, no one gave a fuck about historical accuracy.
In terms of editing, just think about how VHS worked or the quality of TV screens itself. In those short cutscenes, only the most socially isolated basement dwelling movie nerd would have noticed mistakes like that, and even if he did, the internet wasn't that much of a thing back then, so not too much people would've gotten the chance to learn about those observations.
Creators were very well aware of their mistakes, but what were they supposed to do? Do the whole scene with at times hundreds of actors again, though due to the low resolution standards of that time nobody was even able to notice flaws like a car flashing up for a second or the Scots holding up their pikes before Wallace gave them the order to? Movies are costly, and no director would've thrown money out of the window just because of being afraid of what people would say in 25 years, when their technique finally allows said basement dwelleing movie nerds to find those flaws and make them public.
This movie 🎥 was epic film! Made it even more realistic without CGI.
Very well said my friend I couldn’t agree with you more. I was in my early 20s when I saw this in the theater and was impressed with it. Modern day keyboard warrior/critics be damned.
I'm sure I watched this as a child. But rewatching it as an adult, I was kinda curious what William Wallace (was that his name?) had in mind in the face of that kind of incoming charge from the English Knights.
They just looked like a bunch of skirmishers, maybe berserkers, just some infantrymen, getting charged by top of the line Knights. I can hardly imagine the costs for each horse, from purchase to upkeep to training, and then, the riders with their complex armour and their riding training, the discipline lessons to keep them in line and following orders.
Meanwhile, at the last minute, William Wallace gets his men to drop their weapons and pick up some cleverly hidden pikes, literally straight pieces of wood with sharp points at the end, like, really cheap stuff that you can probably make easily 40 or more each day, per man, if you wanted to, if you get a decent supply of wood, and in Scotland, that really shouldn't be a problem. It'll be massively demoralising for the English army to lose such expensive troops to such a cheap counter tactic.
But their commander was a bit puffed up and full of himself. He had completely underestimated his opponent and had taken his own victory for granted. I guess it serves him right, but I've got a soft spot for those horses. Lovely creatures. They deserved better. But what can you do? It's war. And they are just doing their jobs.
This scene gives a new definition to the meaning "hammered".
Idc if I'm the thousand guy to say this. Check at 1:54 for a white car in the medieval times.
I saw this scene as a kid and it fucked me up lol. My mouth dropped and my grandma had to keep telling me it was fake but I was just a kid so I didn’t rewatch til I was 18. Now at almost 30 I’m trying to find the behind the scenes for this. Absolutely amazing, how tf did they get the horses to do all that without someone getting actually hurt? And the practical effect wounds… just fucking amazing. A truly legendary movie
I believe after watching this movie every Scottish man and every Scottish woman was damn proud of their nationality!
Who cares if it's not historical accuracy it's a good movie
Ashmed, actually, because it's sooooo bad
To be fair, the approaching cavalry probably had no idea they had spears - well, if you can call pointy sticks that. To them it probably just looked like actual sticks.
2:26, my favorite kill in the history of cinema, man it’s awesome and brutal.
The Best film history 👍
A Master Piece!!
Approved by Vlad The Impaler!
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You gotta admit. The charge of the English cavalry was intimidating.
Scotland-England,post-brexit discussion.
1:48 who left the car in the back round....
There is no bridge, yet it's the battle of Sterling Bridge
The Scots didn't wear kilts - in reality kilts came centuries later, They would of had clothing & armor similar to their enemy.
They didn't have blue face paint
Bagpipes also didn't exist in 13th Century Scotland
Most of them don't have actual weapons, I see a few farming tools in there. In reality, the Scots where just as well armed as their opponents.
Either way, great movie.
So it's a fucking movie not historical documentary
Best war scene bar none
So Dothraki took this idea
THE HORSES DEATH BROKE MY HEART
During the actual battle of Sterling Bridge there was 10,000 soldiers, 150 Cavalry and 300 welch archers.
All of them lost their lives to 2,000 Scottish farmers.
Say what you want about the English, but their ability to charge in slow motion for nearly a full minute is next level.
Its Great!!!
Awesome movie
Estás sí son batallas lo demás son tonterías...
Favorite movie ❤
great movie
No horse was hurt during this video
Noob, cavalry charge without infantry support.
Imrovised scottish pikemens - it's was suprise.
@@Pilum1000 A mistake nonetheless. Surprise or not. That's not how to use cavalry as the first action in a battle. Cavalry are used as flankers or to take on other cavalry. Depending if it's shock or anti-cav. Shock cavalry are used to hit them from the sides or rear flanks when the infantry has engaged each other. To deal with other cavalry. (Like those lances are used for.) Or to chase down fleeing troops. Or go after archers. Or go after siege teams. Charging head on into infantry using lances is a dumb idea. Those weapons aren't meant for fighting infantry, that's why cavalry with swords do that. Because lances can't do much in hand-to-hand range, it's not practical. You might lance someone, but then you got this long weapon that's hard to deal with people who are up close to you.
@@LucidDream learn more war history. In general, i don't understand why you wrote all of this... Because what any more situations did happen de facto in history, and the arguments about cavalry with swords or with spears are just stupid; of course you can attack an infantry (not the phalanx) with spears. This is better. And swords won't help here at all ... Some nonsense...
With ease the cavalry could destroy them, you think its so easy to stand against 500 hundred horses charging at you, you would probably start running leaving your place. You need some balls to stand there even by holding a long heavy pike.
@@LucidDream those are heavy cavalry... And their role is to break the line of the infantry what you are talking about are the light cavalry, heavy and lights have different roles
POV: you came looking for the car
I've played Civilization IV, I'm somewhat of an emperor myself
0:52 Quand on parle de directeur de la photographie au cinéma...
Ce film et “Dances With Wolves” ont été les deux derniers d'une très grande époque.
GENIUS!
1:54 the car be like you cant see me
Here we have a perfect example of how not to use cavalry. They were mostly used to flank or get the enemy from behind
I've had to (Dad was a horseman) stand in front of a horse running at me. Just one horse. 1:44 brought all fear in that moment right back. HR increased just viewing w/o sound.
Btw, it was Dad's Appaloosa, and it was in pasture. He (the horse, not Dad) was a late geld and thought he was a stallion and acted like it. So when 12 yr old me closed the gate Sam Scratch's ears went up and he charged me to defend his mares and fillies. Dad taught me to stand still and raise my arms and show him the harness& lead and he'd stop. He did. I suffered nothing but wet undies.
Super
1:54 you guys see that car in the bottom left hand corner 😂
1:54 theres a car lower left of screen
Nice catch! I never saw that before lol 😄
GME army... you know where its at!!!
Maybe I should give that movie another chance. I remember walking out after 20minutes or so in the theatre because I thought it was so boring.
It's slow. But it's epic.
boy imagine during these fights you got struck where was available. your eyes, fingers, piecees of your arm leg etc...any and everywhere got sliced and diced...
This particular battle scene has a different fanbase...
Who came up with those funny flappy armour suits 😵
This battle never happened this way, and the one who came with the long spears to face the cavalry was robert the bruce, who was depected as a traitor in braveheart, at the battle of loudoun hill. Moreover, the title braveheart was given to robert the bruce and not to william wallace
1:52 WTF he said Hold but damn these guys already lifted them up
And? It showed the audience what was coming, don't think it was a mistake.
The Battle of Sterling bridge seems to be missing something. hmmmm
No horses were harmed in the making of this scene.
Except Steve. Steve was harmed.
You send you knights charging on enemy swordsmen.
Enemy swordsmen become pikemen at the last second.
I hardly believe that soldiers would've benn able to hold those spears in their hands after horses clashing into them. An average horse weighs around 400 kg, and its speed is around 80 km per hour. Imagine what a powerful hit it would be-horse running into spear. It's impossible to hold that spear in hands, all soldiers holding it would fly up into air after that severe hit.
I think in real life they would let go once they stabbed the horse or would drop it on impact.
I think they used the soil for leverage (maybe partly dug in) and combined with the density of the spears (ca. 4 per horse or so) plus the horses decelerating at the last moment due to fear of running into a pointy object makes it somewhat plausible, but I could be wrong.
Horses were much smaller back in medieval times and so was the average man. A modern lance would never work today due to how big horses are nowadays.
@@Mitjitsu No, it's quite the contrary. The breeds used for war during the Middle ages in Europe have gone extinct since a long time, but it's generally accepted they were as tall and large as a field hunter. The Frison is arguably what we have closest to the medieval chargers.
Those long wooden spikes weren't there before the last moment
The convenience fairy is convenient like that.
Those horsemen holding the lance above the guard... xD
History records this as the “Battle of Stirling Bridge “. Where’s the bridge?
"Send the cavalry, full attack. And send the Infantry behind them." Would have won.
My favorite part
1:55 you can see a silver four doors pickup truck on the lower left side of the frame.
This movie has little to do with history in general, but it is a great movie non the less. This scene too, among quite a few others.
Hard to say, since kings wrote the history.
Such an inacurate film
Fuck off nerd
They made the English general look like an Arab lmao 😂😂
where is Stirling bridge?
Not historical accurate it's well known but it's awesome movie
1:54 - 1:55 (at extreme left) didn't knew cars existed back then 😅
The Scot’s had the same clothing as the English btw
Where is the bridge?😮
Current situation in Ottawa Canada!
At 1:55 at the bottom left you can see a car that accidentally made it into the final cut of the film
They should have CGI it out by now
Pike's or not, every calvary commander knows not to attach infantry except from the flanks
0:47 Imagine the scenes with Two steps from hell Never Back Down
Nothing will better James Horner.
They are saying... "Dude, please, don't"
No CGI here