#MorningMovieTrivia Today is the day! A historic vote is happening in the world today and to commemorate we are looking back at a little of that country’s history in film. • Released in 1995 • Starring: Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack and Mel Gibbson (who also directed) • Mel Gibson has said he would give five dollars to anyone who could spot the fake horses in the final film. Reportedly he has not had to make good on the wager. • The battle of Stirling took six weeks to film; roughly half a million feet of film (90+ hours) were shot for the sequence. • Its Oscar win was the only award it won for Best Picture • Although Mel Gibson was nearly 40, his character was supposed to be in his twenties. • The rough cut of the film initially contained much more violence than the final product. Fearing an NC-17 from the MPAA after negative test reaction, Mel Gibson went back and personally edited some of the films most graphic scenes to show the brutality more off-screen, rather than on. • Blue body paint (Woad) for battles had stopped being used around the end of the Roman era - roughly 800 years before the events of the film. • A majority of the actors and extras in this film were actually Irish - members of the Irish Army - although they are supposed to be Scottish or English. As many as 1600 were used on a given day. Can you guess this historically inaccurate yet currently relevant film? -SPC Matt Fleischman
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:04:46 +0000