That timeline, in fact, was one of the very few concrete details contained in an announcement that was otherwise made up
mostly of history lessons and pronouncements like «Government is not a soap box.
Adapted from a novel by Bodil Steensen - Leth, the script from Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg doesn't overly concern itself with feeding you a
history lesson, but rather gets the necessary information out while building
mostly around that passionate struggle at the heart
of the picture.
Historians would be first to note that the
history lesson in Randall Wallace's (The Man in the Iron Mask, Pearl Harbor) screenplay is barely reminiscent
of the facts (much taken from the Blind Harry poem, which is generally disregarded as romanticized folklore), but taken as a work
of mostly fiction, it is still a rousing and well - executed tale
of the inspirational fight for the right not to live under tyranny that has a universal appeal.