[Sca-cooks] Re: Mel Gibson and indigo.

Ruth Frey ruthf at uidaho.edu
Mon Oct 8 12:31:21 PDT 2001


	Bear wrote:
> While Braveheart may be a fun movie, it plays fast and loose with the
> history and I suspect the woad war paint, especially for Wallace, was a
> fanciful touch.

	Not to mention that movie-woad seems to wash off
much more easily than I've heard real-world woad
does.  I remember seeing the movie in the theater with
some friends; one of the comments passed around after a
battle scene was, "Shouldn't he still be blue?"

	-- Ruth




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