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FADE IN: Scottish highlands; bagpipes.
Backstory: narration.
Meeting the Hero [boy]: Wallace wants to know where they're going.
Interdiction: go home.
Antagonism: the hanged.
Breaking the Interdiction: Wallace doesn't go home.
Developing the Hero: I can fight.
Guided by the Mentor: but it's our wits that make us men.
Meeting Allies: it's up to us Hamish.
Hero's Ordinary World: the farm.
Inciting Incident / Antagonism: William's Father dead; the burial.
Romantic Challenge: Murron gives William the flower.
Meeting the Mentor: Argyle.
Call to Adventure: tomorrow you'll come with me.
Refusal: I don't want to leave.
Overcoming Refusal / Guided by the Mentor: your heart is free, have the courage to follow it.
Foreshadow of the Transformation: first use this [the mind] then I'll teach you to use this [the sword].
Leaving the Ordinary World and the Old Self: looking back at the farm.
Meeting the Romantic Challenge: Isabelle.
Meeting the Antagonist: Longshanks enacts Prima Nocte.
Meeting the Shape Shifter: Bruce.
First Threshold: William returns home as a man.
Meeting the Romantic Challenge: Murron and William catch each other's eye.
Meeting Allies: the rock fight with Hamish.
Developing the Antagonism: A Knight claims his right of Prima Nocte.
Foreshadow of the Physical Separation: the English soldier looks at Murron: her time will come.
Developing the Romantic Challenge: Murron rides with Wallace.
Resisting the Physical Separation: William won't go to the meeting.
Interdiction: the answer is no.
Pushing to the Physical Separation: will you marry me.
Breaking the Interdiction: William and Murron get married.
Unbearable Antagonism: the English kill Murron.
Physical Separation: William et al take revenge; William becomes leader.
Trial 1: William et al take over the town; the husband takes revenge.
Developing the Antagonism: Lonshanks asks his son to deal with Wallace while he's in France.
Trial 2: William et al defeat the English forces sent after them.
Developing the Shape Shifter: Bruce's father advises.
Developing the Romantic Challenge: Isabelle learns about Wallace.
Foreshadow of Trial 3: we'll make spears, twice as long as a man.
Developing Characters and Relationships: volunteers arrive.
Developing Characters and Relationships: the Irishman saves William.
Trial 3: William persuades the men to fight; the English army is defeated.
Reward and Celebration for passing the Trials: William is knighted.
Entering the World of the Sword: William will invade England.
Developing Characters and Relationships: Bruce speaks to William.
Developing the Hero: William sacks York.
Developing the Antagonist: the King returns.
Meeting the Oracle: William meets Isabelle.
Developing the Anatgonist: Isabelle returns to discover that Longshanks set a trap.
Isabelle's assistant tells William of the King's plan.
Developing Characters and Relationships: William and Bruce talk.
Shape Shifter Revealed: the Bruce talks to his father.
Developing the Antagonist: send in the Irish; dead men cost nothing.
Seizing the Sword: William battles the King's armies.
Rebirth through Death: William is hit with an arrow.
Shape Shifter revealed: some Scottish tribes do not attack; Bruce fights for the King.
Rebirth through Death: Hamish's father dies.
Reward: Bruce will not be on the wrong side again.
Reward: Mornay et al are murdered.
Reward: William's legend grows.
Developing the Antagonist: Longshanks sends Isabelle and the assassins.
Reward: William et al burn the assassins.
Reward: William beds Isabelle.
Rescue from Without:: Bruce sends for William and is caught.
Refusal: Hamish et al think it is a trap.
Shape Shifter Developed: Bruce confronts his father.
Atonement with the Father: William faces charges of treason.
Romantic Challenge: Isabelle visits William.
Sacrifice: William refuses the poison form Isabelle.
Final Conflict: Isabelle is pregnant; the King's line is dead.
Develop the Hero: William prays.
Sacrifice: William refuses to pledge allegiance to the king for a quick death.
Master of the Two Worlds: William being tortured; "...mercy…"
Freedom to Live: "…freedom…"
FADE OUT: Bruce leads the Scots.
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