Feudal Japan with samurais and ninjas, medieval castles in England from the Braveheart era.
Historical epics were still favoured by the Academy, Mel Gibson's Braveheart won best film and best director in 1996.
Even in the early '90s, the academy picked box-office hits like The Silence of the Lambs and Braveheart for its top award.
This will not make the House GOP rank-and-file the Braveheart Caucus very happy.
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People have called her Braveheart, Fearless and India's Daughter, among other things, and sent up a billion prayers for a speedy recovery.
Mr Cox starred in the Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremacy films as well as Braveheart, and was the first person to play Hannibal Lecter in the film Manhunter.
Even though Gibson is a high-profile actor and Oscar winning director of films such as "Braveheart, " "Passion of Christ" could not find a major motion picture studio that would distribute it due to the controversy.
Cox's career did not take off immediately, but by the early 1990s he was appearing in more Hollywood blockbusters: he played Argyle Wallace in Mel Gibson's swords-and-kilts epic Braveheart, as well as Liam Neeson's Rob Roy the same year.
Recognising this problem, the SNP now markets a sort of independence lite or 2.0, designed to sound reassuringly innocuous, in which Scotland keeps the queen, the pound and its military bases (a gradualism that suits Mr Salmond more than his party's Braveheart wing).
So there's no doubt that the economy, and perceptions of how it could be affected by independent nationhood, is going to play big in the next two years of campaigning - at least as big as questions of identity and calls on Braveheart patriotism.
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