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Greg Laurie: A New Beginning

From “Braveheart” to “The Passion…” Sequel: An Interview with Screenwriter Randall Wallace

Greg Laurie: A New Beginning

Greg Laurie

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

How do the scenes of our favorite movies come to be? Randall Wallace, screenwriter of "Braveheart" and the upcoming "The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection," gives us a peek into the world of film making in this sit-down with Pastor Greg Laurie. They share a captivating discussion on art and faith. It’s not to be missed!

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0:00.0

Hey I'm here with a very special individual Randall Wallace. I know you've seen his movies even if you're not aware of who he is yet. You will be after we talk a little bit, but one of my favorite films of all time it's in my

0:14.4

top 10 is Braveheart here's how I know a movie is one of my favorites if I'm

0:20.2

flipping the channels on a TV and that movie comes on, even though I've seen it, maybe though I've even downloaded it, I'll watch it because I like it so much.

0:29.5

Brave Heart is clearly one of those movies.

0:32.0

When it came out, it won 10. is clearly one of those movies.

0:33.0

When it came out, it won 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, that

0:40.3

was Mel Gibson directing it and Bess screenwriting and that's where Randall

0:45.8

Wallace comes in you're the screenwriter of Braveheart and more than that really

0:49.7

it was your it was your vision and your dream from the very beginning wasn't it?

0:54.0

Yes it was, yeah.

0:56.0

I was trying to find my family history and my wife was pregnant with our first son and she has ancestors who were Latter-day

1:09.1

Saint Mormons and so she knew all of her family genealogy and I didn't know any of mine.

1:15.4

And we went to Scotland and walked into Edinburgh Castle and there on one side of the entrance was a statue of William Wallace.

1:26.2

On the other side was Robert to Bruce.

1:27.8

Did you know about William Wallace?

1:29.4

I'm not going.

1:30.4

I don't think a lot of people knew about him until this film came out honestly.

1:35.0

It was bizarre to me that I'm an American just deeply fascinated by history named, and I'd never heard of this man.

1:45.8

I said to one of the guards there, who's this Wallace?

1:49.2

And he said, our greatest hero.

1:52.1

And I was elbowing the pregnant wife,

1:54.0

greatest hero, honey.

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