Your Predictions of the New Robin Hood Movie?
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Lol XD, although "THIS,IS,NOTTINGHAM!" has a bit more of of a ring too it.shadoworc01 said:
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Right. I've watched the movie trailers to refresh my memory, and am i interested in seeing it. I loved gladiator and enjoyed Kingdom of Heaven, but i do notice that Scott is taking a rather un-orthodox take on the legend. Robin Hood has tradionally been portrayed as a "homely" local hero, a sort of lovable rougue sort of character. This film portrays Robin Hood as a revolutionary warrior, which is something rather...different.
Not that there is anything wrong with that- there is no "right" way to tell a legend. Audience expectation aside, the revolutionary Robin Hood is no more or less valid than the loveable rougue. If the Escapist was to make a King Arthur movie, i think many would agree that it was rather silly to have King Arthur conquor most of Northern Europe and defeat a Roman Emperor- but that's what happens in Geoffrey of Monmouth's take on Arthurian legend, and this version of King Arthur was accepted through much of the Middle Ages. Scott has artistic license, he's under no obligation to replicate the legend. What i think he's doing is putting a twist on the tale, if this works though does look a bit doubtful.
Personally, i would like to see more..."authentic" historical films. By this i mean films which arn't all about "pop-history" (WW2, the Tudors, Victorians, WW1, Arthur and Robin Hood) full of over-used historical figures such as Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Richard the Lionheart and King John. Do something orginal. Why do history films always have to be about these great big epic figures in history? Why carn't they be about more ordinary people?
Thomas Holt's Meadowland is a tale told through the eyes of two old Varangian guardsmen whom had took part in the failed attempt to establish a Viking colony in North America. Bernard Cornall's The Burning Land is about a pagan warlord's attempt to make a life for himself in the chaos and the rapidly changing and Christian early England. Books do it right, books tell history how i think it should be told. Histories not all about King's and mighty hero's re-hashing the same old sexual relationships and fighting well rehearsed mightly battles an between the forces of good and evil. In history there are no "good" and "bad" guy's, and it's not all about the Kings and the aristocracy. It's also about, and if not more, the struggles of the ordinary people like us trying to make a life for themselves. On the whole, i feel books do a better job of telling history than the movies do...but it's not hard to see why movies re-make the same old "pop-history" year after year.
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Haha I literally said the exact thing to my friend yesterday. I'm sure it'll be enjoyable but no one can top Alan Rickman in the Costner version so that will always be the better film.
