The fishing rights story, especially when murder is involved, is so much more serious and so much more important and so much more real that the football signals story seems to be a bizarre and pointless detour. The new setting and details have to be carefully considered to avoid coming off as flippant.Īnd that’s what’s wrong with Braveheart. It’s suddenly not so cute to see the hero burning through a bag of flour every two days. Blackouts, rationing and the draft all come into the plot and cannot be ignored. For example, if you make a movie about a guy who is trying to bake the perfect cake and works days and night to accomplish his dream (using tons of flour and butter and eggs in the process) but then choose to add the little detail like “Oh yeah, this takes place during the London Blitz!” you have totally unbalanced your story. You see, when adding a plot element to a story, you need to consider how it will reweight and potentially unbalance that story. In fact, there was a legal decision upholding the treaty as recently as 2019.) (Yakama fishing rights have been regularly contested down to this day, by the way. Further, he emerges the legal victor and we don’t have to endure another one of those infuriating “vanishing American” endings. The film does directly call out racism and even states plainly that Braveheart was expelled entirely because it was the word of a non-white guy against a white guy. All that being said, I have to give credit where credit is due. (Say what you will about Tempest but John Barrymore certainly reacted to being framed, stripped of his rank and jailed!)Īs you can see, this plot is not exactly coherent. A few scenes of our hero coming to terms with his expulsion from the two most important places in his life would have been nice and in keeping with similar films of the period. He still prevails in court and he is immediately and unquestioningly accepted back into his tribe once he knocks Ki-Yote’s teeth in. Twelve hours of football, six seconds of courtroom drama.īraveheart’s expulsion from school and the tribe, not to mention his branding, do not actually affect the plot or his behavior in any way.
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