After those last two films, it was beginning to seem that Foster had become incapable of playing anything other than a Single Mother protecting a Helpless Child from Bad Men-a suspicion that her off-key performance as a Manhattan fixer in Inside Man did little to challenge.īut now Foster has followed her psychological arc to its predictable conclusion, from victim to protector to avenger, and the result is not pretty.
The theme of victimhood, and specifically predation on women and children, has been a staple of her oeuvre, first in upscale genre films such as The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs and, more recently, in glossy dreck like Panic Room and Flightplan. In Braveheart, she threatens to do this with her and Wallace's child.What in the world is wrong with Jodie Foster? For years, arguably decades, her career has seemed haunted by her turn as Iris Steensma in Taxi Driver, as if the fictional experience of playing a pubescent prostitute had left real-life psychic scars. While an affair with Wallace never existed, Isabelle did have an extramarital relationship with an English baron named Roger Mortimer, who helped her depose King Edward II and place her son, Edward III, on the throne (via History Extra). Of course, Moray isn't in the film, and neither is the bridge.Īs for Wallace and Princess Isabelle, they never interacted in reality, but Braveheart does capture the princess' strong, rebellious nature. According to War History Online, Wallace was then named one of two Guardians of the Kingdom of Scotland, alongside Andrew Moray.
The Scots trapped the English soldiers on a small bridge they didn't know how to maneuver, allowing the Scottish rebels to pick them off as they crossed. The main battle led by Wallace in the film, the Battle of Stirling Bridge, did happen, and it was just as triumphant. Firstly, English did invade and occupy Scotland during Edward I's reign, with the Scots launching a rebellion shortly after the arrival of the English.
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