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Robin Hood

Rook said:
The ~historicial inaccuracy~ critique @ anything relating to Robin Hood, as far as I can tell, is basically on par with leveling it at King Arthur? Which is to say it's literally a non-issue as it's always been wildly, deliberately anachronistic. It's been a while since I've gone over the stories/their origin but it's just like... why even.
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I'm not sure if the legend of Robin Hood is that anachronistic, though I could be mistaken since I know of it but haven't really read it.

I can say that Arthurian legend is anachronistic because most of the stories transport concepts from the High Middle Ages (chivalry, knighthood, feudalism, plate armors, stone castles, Saracens, Africans worshipping Jupiter, etc) into what should be early medieval Britain of the 5th/6th centuries. Likewise, the Trojan War takes place in Mycenæan-Era Greece of the Bronze Age, but The Iliad contains a wild mixture of elements from the Archaic and Classical periods (the pantheon of gods themselves, funeral pyres, iron tools) with a few Mycenæan leftovers thrown in for good measure (like boar's tusk helmets).

By contrast, the legend of Robin Hood claims to take place in the late 12th century/early 13th century during the reigns of Richard Lionheart and John Lackland and as far as I know doesn't seem to have anachronistic elements, presumably because, unlike the examples above, it was written down closer to the period the story takes place.

I might be mistaken.
 
This is the pure, unalloyed essence of everything I hate about modern fantasy. This is Robin Hood as imagined by an over-caffeinated 16 year-old who has played far too much Assassin's Creed.
 
It looks cool, and Taron has yet to disappoint me.

It honestly looks like a Dumb Fun movie, which is amazing considering how much grimderp GoT has oozed into the genre.
 
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Reveen said:
You talking' about this?



Honestly it a little annoys me that hey hey Jamie Foxx AKA Django here but their choice for the bowslinger here is Mr. Pippip Cheerio Remember Kingsman: the Golden Circle? Of course you don't but I'm a random british guy so I get higher billing than the black actor who played in a Tarantino film and a good number of high profile movies since then.
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The fuck does this man thing Ancient Archers where? Medieval SEALs?
 
all fictions said:
I'm not sure if the legend of Robin Hood is that anachronistic, though I could be mistaken since I know of it but haven't really read it.

I can say that Arthurian legend is anachronistic because most of the stories transport concepts from the High Middle Ages (chivalry, knighthood, feudalism, plate armors, stone castles, Saracens, Africans worshipping Jupiter, etc) into what should be early medieval Britain of the 5th/6th centuries. Likewise, the Trojan War takes place in Mycenæan-Era Greece of the Bronze Age, but The Iliad contains a wild mixture of elements from the Archaic and Classical periods (the pantheon of gods themselves, funeral pyres, iron tools) with a few Mycenæan leftovers thrown in for good measure (like boar's tusk helmets).

By contrast, the legend of Robin Hood claims to take place in the late 12th century/early 13th century during the reigns of Richard Lionheart and John Lackland and as far as I know doesn't seem to have anachronistic elements, presumably because, unlike the examples above, it was written down closer to the period the story takes place.

I might be mistaken.
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Robin Hood is anachronistic, it's just period anachronistic.

The myth is based on pre-existing bits and pieces, but it really gels in the late 1400s, early 1500s, being very much about the contemporary ascent of the middle-class merchants, artisans and yeomanry "Saxons" against the "Norman" nobility in that time period, with the tale affirming their loyalty to the monarch alongside their disdain for the aristocracy and those oppressing them with unjust taxation. Robin himself was very firmly a yeoman in the early versions, the idea of him being a dispossessed nobleman gaining sympathy for the lower orders coming later.
 
So the last Robin Hood movie tried to do a medieval D-Day landing and now this one wants to do a medieval anarchist riot? I know no Hollywood movie is going to be completely historically accurate but would it kill them to put in a tiny bit of effort and stop putting in modern values and technology?
 
Corp said:
So the last Robin Hood movie tried to do a medieval D-Day landing
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Fucking- god why would you remind me of that fuck.

See, that's an anachronism you can bitch about because Ridley Hood was trying really hard to be super duper cereal historical because it told the REAL STORY about how Robin Hood was just a COMMON MAN and an OUTLAAAAAAAAAAW and the Magna Carta was actually about DEMOCRACY and then it had lady eowyn marian leading a tribe of the fucking lost boys to save the day during english d-day complete with lcvps made of fucking wood and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
 
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To me this is a case of cool concept, bleh aesthetic. I think fantasy worlds with wild mix and max anachronism and schizo tech is a cool idea. But this doesn't make it look interesting.
 
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