A imagem icônica de William Wallace com o rosto pintado para a batalha no filme Braveheart (1995) :
Esse design tem algum significado especial? Há outros com pintura facial e alguns lembram símbolos:
Sempre me perguntei se isso tinha um significado especial, mas mais especificamente o da face de Wallace.
Resposta curta: Não.
Um dos filmes historicamente mais imprecisos de todos os tempos.
Estes eram simplesmente decorativos para o filme. A maioria das imagens pode ser tirada com enormes grãos de sal.
Confira este fantástico colapso do youtube guy do History Buffs:
Aqui está também uma lista de Erros em Coração Valente, mas os rostos azuis pintados não são totalmente imprecisos, é apenas que não foi usado para batalha e fora de prática na época de Wallace, pois a idéia dele pode vir de Pict Tradition. .
Error #4: The Scots didn’t paint their faces for battle
At least they no longer did by the time of Wallace. What Gibson was obviously alluding to is the Scottish Picts’ tradition of painting their faces blue to scare off those pansies, the Romans, from their lands. Of course, Emperor Adrian would have nothing of it and built a wall to keep those evil buggers from sacking the rest of Britain while the sandal-folk still ruled the scene.
The blue face-paint is so iconic, though, you couldn’t imagine BraveHeart without it. These days of course the tradition is to paint the flag of Scotland (a white X across with blue sides) for sporting events.
Q: Why do they wear blue or blue and white makeup?
If you didn’t know, these are the Scottish colors. You can see them on Scotland’s flag.
Q: What is that paint?
It’s called woad. It’s a plant and the blue dye is produced from the leaves.
Q: Did Braveheart really wear that paint into battle?
Probably not. Most historians think the paint was an earlier phenomenon (Wikipedia has a lengthy section on historical inaccuracies in the film). We also like the nit-picking produced on this blog’s Braveheart tag.
História dos pictos link
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