Edward The 1st Was So Ruthless in Braveheart... One of the Best Movie Villains

In rewatching Braveheart and this one hell of a film! He is such a monster to his own people, and his disregard of human life and emotion is evident until his last breath at the climax of the film. Mel Gibson created his Magnum Opus in the mid 90s, and to be honest there aren't many sweeping epics that compare to the visceral emotion one feels when witnessing the more than 3 hours of celluloid this work takes up.

Everyone who has seen Gladiator or Braveheart knows that a hero is only a hero due to a brilliant and apathetic villain. The nature of Longshanks in this film is very dark, and the willingness to kill his own people for the greater good of his own sociopathic notions make the audience want him dead.. and they want him to be misereable. The things with Longshanks is that the worst death he could have had was the most inglorious and demeaning passing possible.. and instead of taking an arrow on the battlefield, he dies with the children that hated him and nobody caring he would be gone.

What a brilliant film this truly is, I just had to post on how enamored I am with a good film.. and I truly haven't seen one in awhile. Braveheart is timeless.

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