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🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Mel Gibson shouts his way to a bigger budget, no one cares about historical accuracy, and somehow the most Scottish movie ever was filmed… in Ireland. Join Lizzie and Chris for a wild journey through Mad Mel’s sophomore directorial effort: 1995’s ‘Braveheart’.
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0:00.0 | Hello, dear listeners, and and action. |
0:23.5 | Hello, dear listeners, |
0:24.7 | and welcome back to another episode of What Went Wrong, |
0:27.5 | your favorite podcast, Full Stop, |
0:29.0 | that just so happens to be about movies, |
0:31.3 | and how it is nearly impossible to make them, |
0:33.5 | let alone a good one, |
0:35.2 | let alone the rousing |
0:37.0 | of Scotland's greatest warrior |
0:41.0 | that can take our lives, but they'll never take a freedom. |
0:46.1 | Oh boy. |
0:47.7 | I am excited for this just relentlessly specific, attentive to historical detail, |
0:55.5 | dad movie, dad movie. |
1:00.1 | Lizzie, as always, I am Chris Winterbauer, joined by my co-host Lizzie Vasett. |
1:02.4 | Lizzie, what do you have in store for us today? |
1:05.2 | Braveheart, Chris. |
1:06.6 | Braveheart! |
1:07.5 | Oh, boy. |
1:10.5 | Yeah, Braveheart. This year marked the 30th anniversary of our dear Braveheart. Of course, the story of William Wallace, or is it? We'll find out. And I don't know if you had this experience. I saw this movie so many times as a kid. And I got a very specific idea of what it was like in my |
1:29.4 | head, and boy, was I surprised upon rewatching it. So we'll get to that in the minute. But, |
1:34.0 | Chris, what was your initial experience with Braveheart? And what was it again upon watching it |
1:39.6 | for the podcast? Yeah, so I also saw Braveheart a number of times. I was born in 89. This movie came out when I was six, so I did not see it initially. But I think I saw it by the time I was 10 or 11. |
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