He requests of the younger “Robin” to take his father’s father’s sword back to his father in Nottingham… and Robin is just a nice enough guy to do it. Robin and his merry band (in France) fight off the French – to then rob the corpses of their fellow noble countrymen – only to find an injured right hand man of the now dead King Richard… who is nearly dead. You have a group of scurvy lower class men that happen upon a scene of an ambush, where some English Noblemen were attacked by the French. But instead – Brian Helgeland decided to do a rewrite of A KNIGHT’S TALE if you applied Robin Hood to that story. And had they told the story of Robin Hood with Russell Crowe, I probably would have loved it. I like Russell Crowe – and he is quite good in the film. He’s a filmmaker that generally I have given a lot of respect towards – and if he wanted to break down the Robin Hood legend – and attempt to tell it as some “true story” style thing – with a late 40s Russell Crowe… so be it. I’m just gonna say it was a hard life and men aged faster than they do now – and a 46 year old man was probably the way your typical late twenties man would look in the 12th Century.īy the time the movie started – I decided to just set aside a lot of my problems with this story and just see what it was that Ridley did with it. As I watched the film, it is evident that while Russell Crowe is obviously a man in his 40s – that in this version of the 12th Century – Man commonly lived into their late sixties – as is evidenced by characters throughout the film. For a film that goes through excruciating efforts to get the period right, it totally screws the pooch with the casting & pretense of its main character.īUT – ya know what. So automatically – there’s just something that rings untrue about it all. ![]() ![]() A story that allegedly takes place prior to the key events of the Robin Hood mythology. Of course, he was cast as an aging Robin Hood – having fought in two Crusades… returning to England with nothing left to live for, save maybe his Marion, played by the amazing Audrey Hepburn. And when Sean Connery played Robin Hood, he was 47. That’s already 7 years older than the average life expectancy of a man living in the time of Robin Hood. But he had to miss that shot, for the film to move on with its tale.įirst and foremost – this amazing cast that they put together – is completely and totally wrong for the story they’re attempting to tell with these characters. He misses a shot early in the film, which would’ve pretty much made the film a 25 minute short story – that still would have irked the living shit out of me. Other than the fact that Robin Hood is pretty good with a bow. So… What was Ridley Scott & Brian Helgeland’s favorite thing about Robin Hood?Īpparently – they didn’t like a single thing about the character or his story. There’s a patriotism that has a critical quality to it, that I just love. BUT at its heart, there is love for what their Government SHOULD be. It is a lesson meant to empower a disenfranchised populace to demand more from their government. When the government is unjust, it is the duty of its citizens to set it right, no matter how hard that road may be. ROBIN HOOD, while being distinctly British as a story, is the very essence upon which the dream of America was formed… to me. He used terror to strike fear into the corrupt puppet government that was bleeding the people dry. That sought to protect those that could not protect themselves. What I love about the ROBIN HOOD mythology is the concept that Robin loved his king, so much – that when a plot to dispose of King Richard was hatched by his lesser brother, John… that it was a knight from the wrong side of the tracks – that helped to organize a revolt. ![]() Is it merely his Badassery with a Bow and a sword? Is it his merry band? The quarterstaff fight that happened to introduce him to his best friend Little John? No.įor me – when you boil everything away. I’m also not a die-hard when it comes to the romance of Robin and Marion, though I do love that part of the story. What is it about the story of Robin Hood that keeps us coming back?įor me, it isn’t the stealing from the rich to give to the poor.
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