Wallace Monument Thomas Carlyle, Hugh Miller, Thomas Chalmers, David Livingstone, and W. E. Gladstone. In 2017 it was announced that Mary Slessor and Maggie Keswick Jencks will be the first heroines to be celebrated in the hall. The original Victorian statue of Wallace stands on the corner of the monument and is by the Edinburgh sculptor David Watson Stevenson. In 1996 Tom Church carved a statue of Wallace called "Freedom", which was inspired by the film "Braveheart". It has the face of Mel Gibson, the actor who played William Wallace in the film. Church leased the statue to Stirling Council, who in
Thunderbolt (1995 film) similarities to the later "Fast & Furious" franchise which debuted in 2001, and suggested that "Thunderbolt" may have inspired the "Fast & Furious" franchise. Thunderbolt (1995 film) Thunderbolt () ("Piklik Foh") is a 1995 Hong Kong action film starring Jackie Chan and directed by Gordon Chan. In early North American releases, it was known as "Dead Heat". "Thunderbolt" is set around the world of auto racing. The film is multilingual; characters speak Cantonese, English and Japanese interchangeably. Chan Foh To is a junkyard mechanic and a part-time race car driver who helps the Hong Kong Police Force in their crackdown