Braveheart: Violence

Not only can special effects and barrels of fake blood effect the violence in any scene in a movie but the camera and different angles can as well. Braveheart is a very bloody and violent film which depicts war, treason, assassination, beheading, etc.. Most of the violence in the film is very explicit. Filling the whole shot with gore. However there is also implicit violence. For instance the ending scene when William Wallace is sentenced to a painful death for treason. The scene shows mostly his face and other parts of his body that isn't the area where his innards are becoming his outards, or whatever is going on; you can let your imagination run wild. There are hints as to what's happening such as William Wallace's expressions, close up shots of his face, the reactions of the crowd, wide shots of the people watching, his friends, and mid shots of those few friends watching from the crowd. When they decide to behead him you don't see his face but his hand clutching onto the wedding band his dead wife made. Then you see the axe begin to fall, you then hear the sound of the axe hitting something and William Wallace's hand going limp and the band fall from it. This is a good example of the versatility of a crafty camera man's imagination.