Everybody knows the story of Robin Hood: a wiley young fox stealing from king lion and a his servant snake to give to the other creatures of the forest. It’s a good story and what it didn’t need was a dour remake starring Gladiator.
But such a thing does exist. It’s got all the right pieces, good actors, good director, and a good forest to shoot in. But for some reason the pieces don’t come together. It lacks any semblance of fun and replaces much of the action with political speeches.
Thanks, Nathan from Durham for sponsoring this episode and setting us out to solve the mystery “How did this go wrong?”
By coincidence, I just found an article about Disney’s Robin Hood, and how it’s only sort of about Robin Hood.http://io9.com/the-inspirat…
Oh, the tale of Robin Hood is neither written, or even well understood historically. It’s a reference in a poem about about another poem which is lost to history. So any take on Robin Hood, so long as it includes Robin Hood, is gravy.Maid Marion was never mentioned originally, and she as well as most of the other characters were retconned in a 17th century retelling of the story.So Kevin Costner as Robin Hood with an American accent is pretty much just as acceptable as an anthropometric fox, or an anthropomorphical Russell Crowe for that matter.