Braveheart | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

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William Wallace : Every man dies, not every man really lives.

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Wallace is then urged to beg for mercy to bring his torture to an end and hasten his inevitable death. But Wallace will not. “Freedom!” he shouts, defiant to the end. The crowd looks stunned and the great axe descends, the movie's stirring soundtrack swells to a climax.

Wallace and Soldiers: Alba gu bra! (Scotland forever!)

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In the 1995 film Braveheart, Scottish knight William Wallace (portrayed by Mel Gibson) shouts "Alba gu bràth" as he gallops across the front of his assembled Scottish troops just prior to their decisive victory at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

Wallace will eventually be apprehended and executed. At his execution, the English demand that he cry mercy. He instead wails "Freedoooooom!" as he dies. The final line of "Braveheart" is Wallace taking us a few years forward in time when the Scottish "fought like warrior poets" and finally "won their freedom."

The Wallace clan motto is "Pro libertate" (For Liberty) and the clan crest is a raised arm holding a sword.