Robin Hood. Interesting character, practically britisih folk lore. I think he’s become an integral part of british mythology export.
I was thinking… Which is the best Robin Hood movie?
There have been many.
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But name me a better Robin Hood theme song than the Clannad one.
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I said better
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That isn’t even the best pirate song! Where’s Tim Curry?
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and it doesn’t have Tim Curry.
Neither do I, unfortunately.
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You’ve got cabin fever
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There’s only one Robin Hood adaptation I’m interested in:
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But name me a better Robin Hood theme song than the Clannad one
Beginning to suspect a lot of you don’t know what Robin Rood is…
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Beginning to suspect a lot of you don’t know what Robin Rood is…
Is that the porn parody?
Nah, it’s an episode of Scooby Doo.
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My first exposure to the character was the often-televised Errol Flynn classic The Adventures of Robin Hood, which is also my favorite; the Disney animated version is second.
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I have seen the one where Robin Hood is played by Errol Flynn, the one where he is played by Kevin Costner, the one where he is played by Russel Crowe and the one where he is played by the fox from Zootopia. I think I would enjoy the one with Errol Flynn most today.
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
Would you recommend this to someone who hasn’t seen it?
Definitely. Many people consider it to be Errol Flynn’s best performance/role, and you can’t go wrong with Basil Rathbone as the bad guy.
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Wasn’t Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood one of the main heroic inspirations for Stan Lee?
When Lee was wee, his favourite superhero was Errol Flynn. He loved all his movies and imagined he was him, “he was always smiling and cheerful and rescuing women.”
Fandral is his most apparent version of Errol Flynn.
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Are you referring to the TV series of the eighties that I hadn’t ever heard of until you mentioned it? If so, tell me more. Is it really great or is it more of a “Definitely-Ending Story” type thing where every concievable thing about the movie except for the song is complete garbage unless you watched it at an impressionable age?
I also loved Robin of Sherwood as a kid. It’s probably the first thing I ever saw that does the new-spin-on-a-familiar-character approach, and it impressed me a lot. I loved the Celtic mysticism angle of it (Herne the Hunter!). And I’d join Lorcan’s view on how it’s probably aged.
It did irritate me that the main actor (and the main character) changed at some point of the series. And I just looked up for the first time why that happened. Thank God for the internet!
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So it stopped being about Robin Hood?
The end of series 2 saw the original Robin killed by the Sheriff’s men, and in series 3 another noble with the first name Robin arrives at Sherwood and takes up the mantle.
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Anders, think of it like Bond except Robin Bond.
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Robin of Sherwood is the best I will presently close the threat to prevent any incorrect opinions.
I’m with Lorcan 100% here.
I haven’t really been impressed with any of the film versions to be honest. I did love Rickman hamming it up in the 90s movie but not much else. The mystical Celtic mythology stuff in Robin of Sherwood added an interesting spin (and they were the first to incorporate a Moorish character on screen, copied a few times afterwards).
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I think I have been swayed to give Robin of Sherwood a go, if I can find it somewhere. I’m also going to give Scott/Crowe another go in spite of bad memories. Granted, I don’t remember much if anything about the actual story, but with the low hopes I’m harbouring it won’t likely be a disappointment.
Ridley Scott
but it feels like it forgot to tell a good story at the same time
Must… resist… bringing… up… Alien…. Covenant….
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I think I have been swayed to give Robin of Sherwood a go, if I can find it somewhere
cougheveryepisodeisonyoutubecough
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coughI’msureitcan’tpossiblybepiracyifit’snotfromthepiratebaybecausethatswhereallthepirateshangoutrightcough
Fuck you Lorcan. You’ve damned us all with your covid ways!
edited to add: cough cough wheeze cough
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I think I have been swayed to give Robin of Sherwood a go, if I can find it somewhere. I’m also going to give Scott/Crowe another go in spite of bad memories. Granted, I don’t remember much if anything about the actual story, but with the low hopes I’m harbouring it won’t likely be a disappointment.
Ridley Scott
but it feels like it forgot to tell a good story at the same time
Must… resist… bringing… up… Alien…. Covenant….
Hey, Alien Covenant told a good story!
Well, it told a story, at least.
Well some stuff definitely happened anyway.
Let’s put it like this: the film existed.
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Let’s put it like this: the film existed.
And some people have a serious issue with that.
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It’s massive in the flautist community though.
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It’s massive in the flautist community though.
Don’t forget the robosexuals.
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But name me a better Robin Hood theme song than the Clannad one.
See, I was actually leaving that line open for someone to reply with that theme (which is clearly in third place), or this version, which is clearly second to Clannad:
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Anders, think of it like Bond except Robin Bond.
It’s more like Batman where Dick Grayson takes over being Batman. The change is explicitly acknowledged in-story, but everybody ignores it because the new guy is just as good and actually a bit friendlier.
It’s handled pretty well in the series, and you (the audience) just accept it because it works.
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See, I was actually leaving that line open for someone to reply with that theme (which is clearly in third place)
I know, I couldn’t believe nobody had beaten me to it. Eeee, kids these days, no respect for the past.
I stand by my pick, with Clannad as #2. And I say that as a pretty big Clannad fan (I’d wager that I own more of their albums than most people here). It’s not only not the best Robin music, it’s also not the best Clannad music
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I’d wager that I own more of their albums than most people here
I’d wager that you own more of their albums than the rest of this forum combined.
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Jason Robin
No no no. You have it mixed up. It’s Jason Todd. And he was Robin. Now He’s the Red Hood.
I think we should, for clarity, refer to him as “Little Red Robin Hood”
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I thought the Ridley Scott/Russell Crowe film was very clever in the way that it synthesised so many different versions of the Robin Hood myth into a single character, but it feels like it forgot to tell a good story at the same time.
I think that’s probably part of the problem with the films. It’s the repeated origin story syndrome, they spend a long time putting together things you already know, even though they find different ways to do it I’m not sure it usually leaves enough left to make a really compelling story.
It’s maybe that thing where (and yes I know there are exceptions) superhero movies tend to have a better second episode.
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I think that’s probably part of the problem with the films. It’s the repeated origin story syndrome, they spend a long time putting together things you already know, even though they find different ways to do it I’m not sure it usually leaves enough left to make a really compelling story.
Disney’s Robin Hood skips this bit and starts in medias res.
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As a child, I loved Disney’s Robin Hood but I haven’t seen it since the 1970s.
We bought the Disney VHS releases for our kids in the ’90s; the Robin Hood tape got played a lot. As did Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, 101 Dalmatians………….
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Beauty and the Beast
Fucking love that movie. I’m so happy I was just the right age for the Disney Renaissance.
Granted, I would probably say that regardless what age I was at the time.
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Hold on. Did you just call Batman a “mundane role”?
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I have really strong memories that the best Robin Hood film I’ve seen starred Burt Lancaster, and spent quite some time trying to find it before realizing it wasn’t about Robin Hood at all
So, ok, the best Robin Hood film that doesn’t feature Robin Hood is The Flame and the Arrow with Burt Lancaster
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I think Errol Flynn was a tights man but I can’t remember.
Yes he was. There is a scene in the film, when Little John knocks him into the river, where I assume those wet tights gave many female viewers a boost in the fanjo. Some male viewers, too.
You were the “male viewers” weren’t you?
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I don’t recall if anymore has mentioned another great Robin Hood film, Richard Lester’s 1976 classic Robin and Marian, which explores what happened to Robin Hood and Maid Marian after King Richard returns to England and retakes the throne. Very bittersweet story, with great performances from Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Richard Shaw and Richard Harris, among other esteemed British actors. Definitely worth a look.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_and_Marian
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I don’t recall if anymore has mentioned another great Robin Hood film, Richard Lester’s 1976 classic Robin and Marian, which explores what happened to Robin Hood and Maid Marian after King Richard returns to England and retakes the throne. Very bittersweet story, with great performances from Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Richard Shaw and Richard Harris, among other esteemed British actors. Definitely worth a look.
and the late Ian Holm had a relatively minor role as King John
That’s something that’s I’d like to see explored more in Robin Hood mythos. King Richard is always built up as the true and just King of England and John a despotic stand-in that needs to be put in his place. Regardless of whether you go with that idea or acknowledge that King Richard was a poor king (more interested in crusading than ruling England) the end result is that John ends up King anyway. So where does that leave Robin Hood and his outlaws, whose cause is always at least partially the restoration of just rule by the rightful king, Richard?
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Stunned to discover that the great Olivia De Havilland, who starred opposite Errol Flynn in The Adventures of Robin Hood, is STILL ALIVE!! She celebrated her 104th birthday on July 1st 2020. God bless her!!
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Yeah, Elton! Prove you’re not a bot and give us some answers!
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Huh. When I saw new posts I thought it’d be about the whole Robin Hood reddit thing.
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