Robin Hood 2010 (2 Viewers)

[UKReb]

Guys some of us understandably as TS collectors-including myself-seem to get hung up too much on accuracy but come on this is just another Robin Hood movie only this time he has a dodgy accent (Costner anyone?) and sinks a few 12th century French Higgins boats

The Mr Hood character is complete myth & tosh, really just pure invention-in the eight centuries he has figured in mythology Robin Hood has been impossible to pin down either in time, place or purpose. Scholars have certainly tried to track down the "real" Robin in medieval texts and archives but despite the odd namecheck he remains completely elusive. From a pagan fertility figure of the Green Man to Chaucer's account of "haselwode where joly Robyn played" he is most probably an amalgam of dozens of forgotten characters now lost in the mists of time. So searching for accuracy in a movie on this fictitious but legendary character is- lets be fair about it-just tilting at windmills.

Fairbanks and especially Flynn's cinematic version have drilled down into our psyche of the Robin we all love-so what if this new Scott & Crowe version has a hidden agenda in it's story of a resistance fighter struggling against oppression and injustice of a corrupt state-What on earth was Flynn's version then? His 1938 movie tried to reassure a world heading for an inevitable war that a swashbuckling band of thigh slapping merrie men would see off dictators who threatened individual freedoms. Yes the same hidden messages were in those old movies we still admire and compare with as they are in the current batch.

I really enjoyed this movie-maybe it was just me but I saw it as a sequel that follows on from Scott's Kingdom of Heaven with Crowe as Robin Longstride a hard middle-aged archer returning to England from the Crusades after the death of King Richard during the storming of a French castle (the first of brilliantly staged and shot action scenes). I was impressed in how the script ingeniously weaved the Magna Carta-Crowe carrying the sword of a knight Sir Robert Loxley-the thieving orphans who live in Sherwood Forest as possible sources of the legend. And the familiar legend we all still love begins as the film ends. Thoroughly enjoyable.

Reb

 

[aujj65]

Guys some of us understandably as TS collectors-including myself-seem to get hung up too much on accuracy but come on this is just another Robin Hood movie only this time he has a dodgy accent (Costner anyone?) and sinks a few 12th century French Higgins boats

The Mr Hood character is complete myth & tosh, really just pure invention-in the eight centuries he has figured in mythology Robin Hood has been impossible to pin down either in time, place or purpose. Scholars have certainly tried to track down the "real" Robin in medieval texts and archives but despite the odd namecheck he remains completely elusive. From a pagan fertility figure of the Green Man to Chaucer's account of "haselwode where joly Robyn played" he is most probably an amalgam of dozens of forgotten characters now lost in the mists of time. So searching for accuracy in a movie on this fictitious but legendary character is- lets be fair about it-just tilting at windmills.

Fairbanks and especially Flynn's cinematic version have drilled down into our psyche of the Robin we all love-so what if this new Scott & Crowe version has a hidden agenda in it's story of a resistance fighter struggling against oppression and injustice of a corrupt state-What on earth was Flynn's version then? His 1938 movie tried to reassure a world heading for an inevitable war that a swashbuckling band of thigh slapping merrie men would see off dictators who threatened individual freedoms. Yes the same hidden messages were in those old movies we still admire and compare with as they are in the current batch.

I really enjoyed this movie-maybe it was just me but I saw it as a sequel that follows on from Scott's Kingdom of Heaven with Crowe as Robin Longstride a hard middle-aged archer returning to England from the Crusades after the death of King Richard during the storming of a French castle (the first of brilliantly staged and shot action scenes). I was impressed in how the script ingeniously weaved the Magna Carta-Crowe carrying the sword of a knight Sir Robert Loxley-the thieving orphans who live in Sherwood Forest as possible sources of the legend. And the familiar legend we all still love begins as the film ends. Thoroughly enjoyable.

Reb

Thanks Bob! So your saying he wasn't real? What a bombshell for a Sunday morning.........

Jeff

 

[wayne556517]

I haven't seen it yet, but I was wondering why the "Gladiator" is now playing Robin Hood I am a big fan of which actors play which parts (sometimes I get a little snobby about it ) but I would see Crowe as a gladiator, hard to imagine him as Robin Hood, possible role confusion. Also he's Australian, you mean to tell me that there are no English actors talented enough to take on the role of Robin Hood Personally I would've liked to see Liam Neeson as Robin Hood, after his dominance in movie Taken.
But I'll give Crowe a chance, I haven't seen it yet, so I can't make too many judgments, just initial thoughts about Crowe as Hood.

Errol Flynn was Australian to ?

 

[Wraith]

The Mr Hood character is complete myth & tosh, really just pure invention-in the eight centuries he has figured in mythology Robin Hood has been impossible to pin down either in time, place or purpose. Scholars have certainly tried to track down the "real" Robin in medieval texts and archives but despite the odd namecheck he remains completely elusive.


Reb

Thanks Bob! So your saying he wasn't real? What a bombshell for a Sunday morning.........

Jeff

Well, thanks Reb, for shattering my entire belief system.

Besides, there's plenty of evidence that his ancestors are alive and kicking in his own stomping ground. Pop up to Nottingham one day, and I'll show you.
We have Robbin B*stard of St Anns, Nottingham, Robyn Red Breast of Hooters, Nottingham, and Bobby in the Hood in down town West Coast Nottingham.

If that's not absolute proof of his existence, then I'm no historian.

 

[UKReb]

Well, thanks Reb, for shattering my entire belief system.

Besides, there's plenty of evidence that his ancestors are alive and kicking in his own stomping ground. Pop up to Nottingham one day, and I'll show you.
We have Robbin B*stard of St Anns, Nottingham, Robyn Red Breast of Hooters, Nottingham, and Bobby in the Hood in down town West Coast Nottingham.

If that's not absolute proof of his existence, then I'm no historian.

Jeff/Simon

My abject apologies for utterly destroying the myth of your boyhood hero I was going to add that the Tracy Brothers in Thunderbirds Are Go are only string puppets but that would be too much I suppose for you pair on a grey Sunday morning.

Trust me guys I'll avoid posting such tosh in future and just stick to pictures of Johnnie Reb and Billy Yank-they were real you know-honestly they were

Bob

 

[Scott]

Guys some of us understandably as TS collectors-including myself-seem to get hung up too much on accuracy but come on this is just another Robin Hood movie only this time he has a dodgy accent (Costner anyone?) and sinks a few 12th century French Higgins boats .................. And the familiar legend we all still love begins as the film ends. Thoroughly enjoyable.

Reb

Good!!

I actually didn't see anything "wrong" authenticity wise in the arms and clothing including the womens clothing. (no expert though) The movie had the look of old paintings and tapestries.

They did go for the Merry Men theme that Robin's men were a fun bunch that the audience would like to hang out with. As far as the Higgin's boats it might be that shots of them landing and the French casualties underwater smack too closely of SPR for a movie going public that would recognize it. As well as Marion as Eowyn.


Funny the Netflix movie that arrived while we were at the movies was Scott's
Legend from 1986.

 

[Scott]

How about Professor Loveless's Steam powered tank butting in on a Union camp?

 

[wayne556517]

Jeff/Simon

My abject apologies for utterly destroying the myth of your boyhood hero I was going to add that the Tracy Brothers in Thunderbirds Are Go are only string puppets but that would be too much I suppose for you pair on a grey Sunday morning.

Trust me guys I'll avoid posting such tosh in future and just stick to pictures of Johnnie Reb and Billy Yank-they were real you know-honestly they were

Bob

PUPPETS.............................

 

[Scott]

Oops.....I forgot...Marion's corset riding habit.....it's already for sale as a costume. Not really period.

 

[Louis Badolato]

Jeff/Simon

My abject apologies for utterly destroying the myth of your boyhood hero I was going to add that the Tracy Brothers in Thunderbirds Are Go are only string puppets but that would be too much I suppose for you pair on a grey Sunday morning.

Trust me guys I'll avoid posting such tosh in future and just stick to pictures of Johnnie Reb and Billy Yank-they were real you know-honestly they were

Bob

Now that's funny . . . I don't care who you are!

 

[Scott]

Now I feel awful...

 

[Rob]

Havn't seen this yet but sounds like a fun bit of escapism.I hear Mr Crowe walked out of an interview after someone asked him why he did the character in an Irish accent!

Rob

 

[aujj65]

Jeff/Simon

My abject apologies for utterly destroying the myth of your boyhood hero I was going to add that the Tracy Brothers in Thunderbirds Are Go are only string puppets but that would be too much I suppose for you pair on a grey Sunday morning.

Trust me guys I'll avoid posting such tosh in future and just stick to pictures of Johnnie Reb and Billy Yank-they were real you know-honestly they were

Bob

You cruel person………..I think poor old Simon and me deserve a consoling drink at the June show.

Jeff

 

[Spitfrnd]

Havn't seen this yet but sounds like a fun bit of escapism.I hear Mr Crowe walked out of an interview after someone asked him why he did the character in an Irish accent!

Rob

Sometimes it is good to be careful about what you repeat; if you watch the video of that so called interview, you will see the Russel exercised great restraint against a complete a**. Frankly I think he would have been justified in popping the bloke.

 

[Scott]

Flynn was a Tasmanian.

 

[Scott]

audio...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr-6ZjlGuBU&feature=player_embedded#!

 

[Ragnar]

Who knows what the real/myth Robin Hood sounded like anyway.
atleast Crowe gave it a go.

 

[Scott]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37bbj8HbM5I

 

[MCKENNA77]

Guys some of us understandably as TS collectors-including myself-seem to get hung up too much on accuracy but come on this is just another Robin Hood movie only this time he has a dodgy accent (Costner anyone?) and sinks a few 12th century French Higgins boats

The Mr Hood character is complete myth & tosh, really just pure invention-in the eight centuries he has figured in mythology Robin Hood has been impossible to pin down either in time, place or purpose. Scholars have certainly tried to track down the "real" Robin in medieval texts and archives but despite the odd namecheck he remains completely elusive. From a pagan fertility figure of the Green Man to Chaucer's account of "haselwode where joly Robyn played" he is most probably an amalgam of dozens of forgotten characters now lost in the mists of time. So searching for accuracy in a movie on this fictitious but legendary character is- lets be fair about it-just tilting at windmills.

Fairbanks and especially Flynn's cinematic version have drilled down into our psyche of the Robin we all love-so what if this new Scott & Crowe version has a hidden agenda in it's story of a resistance fighter struggling against oppression and injustice of a corrupt state-What on earth was Flynn's version then? His 1938 movie tried to reassure a world heading for an inevitable war that a swashbuckling band of thigh slapping merrie men would see off dictators who threatened individual freedoms. Yes the same hidden messages were in those old movies we still admire and compare with as they are in the current batch.

I really enjoyed this movie-maybe it was just me but I saw it as a sequel that follows on from Scott's Kingdom of Heaven with Crowe as Robin Longstride a hard middle-aged archer returning to England from the Crusades after the death of King Richard during the storming of a French castle (the first of brilliantly staged and shot action scenes). I was impressed in how the script ingeniously weaved the Magna Carta-Crowe carrying the sword of a knight Sir Robert Loxley-the thieving orphans who live in Sherwood Forest as possible sources of the legend. And the familiar legend we all still love begins as the film ends. Thoroughly enjoyable.

Reb

Green Man? I haven't seen a Green Man since the last time I went to the Lincoln cathedral.

Keep it silly.

 

[UKReb]

You cruel person………..I think poor old Simon and me deserve a consoling drink at the June show.

Jeff

"May I obey all your commands with equal pleasure Sire!"

with all due apologies to Flynn's The Adventures of Robin Hood

Robin Reb