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Post by queengwen on Dec 29, 2009 12:24:35 GMT -5
So... Mathew McFayden (Pride and Prejuice) as the Sheriff.... Russel Crowe as Robin.. (Isn't he like in his 40's or 50's?  kinda old to be playing this part...but oh well) Cate Blanchett as Marian.... set after King Richard dies..as John gets the throne.... should be interesing. May 14 or 17... Anyone gonna go see it? Opinions... |
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Post by sue on Dec 29, 2009 13:33:52 GMT -5
Actually, after King Richard dies, Robin would have been about that old...This is a REAL production? Which Pride and Prejudice? Cause, it's only been done, like, 5 times in the last ten years!
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Post by queengwen on Dec 29, 2009 15:05:33 GMT -5
the last one... he played Darcy... what do you mean about real? It's coming to theatre in May 2010... in USA anyway.... Possibly... although technically NO ONE knows about the 'real' Robin... but according to what I've read... it's supposed to be the beginnings of how he became Robin... and don't most 'versions' have him Robin Hood BEFORE Richard is dead? |
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Post by jeantre16 on Dec 29, 2009 15:36:27 GMT -5
This production sounds historically interesting, playing less on Robin as a hunk and more on how the legend arose. Check it out for yourself: www.imdb.com/title/tt0955308/McFayden acted in the 2005 movie blockbuster of Pride and Prejudice. But I'm more interested in Russel Crowe's role as Robin. He stared in Master and Commander as Captain Jack Aubrey (one of my favorite movies) and Gladiator (which I haven't seen 'cause I'm a wimp when it comes to gore). |
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Post by queengwen on Dec 29, 2009 17:06:02 GMT -5
actually I went to the www.robinhoodthemovie.com and read it there... they seem to be contridicting themselves though.. they say Robin falls in love with the 'widow Lady Marian' and then in the following sentence call her 'Maid Marian' she can't be widow and maid... I wonder which it is. |
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Post by sue on Dec 29, 2009 19:04:18 GMT -5
what do you mean about real? It's coming to theatre in May 2010... in USA anyway.... I meant that I hadn't heard about anything (probably cause this is how I get most of my news these days) coming out...as opposed to something you were coming up with as an imaginary production...some posts have been.... Anyway...yeah. Most versions have him as a young man, before the death of Richard...but that would make Robin, at the age of 40 - 50 ish, after the death of Richard, appropriate. Widow Marian? That's just WRONG! In fact, them meeting at this sort of point in his life is wrong...wouldn't it be more accurate to have them an old, married, couple by now? |
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Post by queengwen on Dec 30, 2009 7:43:36 GMT -5
prob... but as I said... he doesn't become Robin Hood till this point...they are saying..anyways...
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Post by jeantre16 on Dec 30, 2009 14:08:55 GMT -5
According to the legend, RH & M never marry. She dies with a broken heart in some monastery. The whole character is more or less fictitious, so there's a lot of artistic license here.
Whether they meet sooner or later is never addressed here. We can assume there will be some Robin and Marian though.
I'm looking forward to the take.
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Post by queengwen on Dec 30, 2009 14:15:16 GMT -5
According to the legend, RH & M never marry. She dies with a broken heart in some monastery. The whole character is more or less fictitious, so there's a lot of artistic license here. Whether they meet sooner or later is never addressed here. We can assume there will be some Robin and Marian though. I'm looking forward to the take. Actually... if you've seen the History Channel's special on 'Robin Hood' you know that Marian isn't necesarily part of the lengend... there's some question as if she was made up after a while... so technically... that's not right. My concern...is... MOST version have Robin as Robin Hood BEFORE Richard is dead. Making him in is late twenties...early thirties... where in this 'plot' they are making him considerably older starting off as 'Robin Hood.' The whole Marian thing I wasn't concerned about except they call her a 'widow' and a 'maid' which is in THIS time period not happening... if her marriage had been unconsumated, she would not have a 'widow's ' rights. hopefully it'll still be good though. |
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Post by sue on Dec 30, 2009 17:21:11 GMT -5
According to the legend, RH & M never marry. She dies with a broken heart in some monastery. The whole character is more or less fictitious, so there's a lot of artistic license here. Whether they meet sooner or later is never addressed here. We can assume there will be some Robin and Marian though. I'm looking forward to the take. My book has them marry, live together until old age in the greenwood, and then he sends her to live out the remainder of her days in the monestary, where she soon dies of a broken heart, or from loneliness. When Robin goes to visit her, knowing that his own end is near, he finds that she has died, shoots an arrow out her window, and dies, after having Little John promise to bury him where the arrow lands. Obviously, there are many versions. But that, and the fact that Errol Flynn and Olivia DeHavilland marry at the end of the movie...those are the best two versions I know! LOL. |
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Post by queengwen on Dec 30, 2009 17:31:29 GMT -5
According to the legend, RH & M never marry. She dies with a broken heart in some monastery. The whole character is more or less fictitious, so there's a lot of artistic license here. Whether they meet sooner or later is never addressed here. We can assume there will be some Robin and Marian though. I'm looking forward to the take. My book has them marry, live together until old age in the greenwood, and then he sends her to live out the remainder of her days in the monestary, where she soon dies of a broken heart, or from loneliness. When Robin goes to visit her, knowing that his own end is near, he finds that she has died, shoots an arrow out her window, and dies, after having Little John promise to bury him where the arrow lands. Obviously, there are many versions. But that, and the fact that Errol Flynn and Olivia DeHavilland marry at the end of the movie...those are the best two versions I know! LOL. which book is that? I don't think I've read that one. |
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Post by sue on Dec 30, 2009 21:16:30 GMT -5
It's just the tales or Adventures of Robin Hood. There are so many, but I've checked some stuff posted online about the legends, and they said some of the same things that are mentioned above...that there is no real certainty that any one person ever existed, that there are theories that the truth lies in a composite character, that Marian was added later to have a romance aspect, but isn't mentioned in the earliest accounts. Things like that. Still, I go with the old Warner Bros. version...Errol Flynn is, without a doubt, the best ever!  |
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Post by queengwen on Dec 31, 2009 5:38:45 GMT -5
there's a 1922 version... I added it to my blockbuster list... anyone seen that one? I have the Disney version, Errol version *special edition*, Kevin Costner version...
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Post by jeantre16 on Dec 31, 2009 10:03:53 GMT -5
I'm most familiar with the Costner version and the recent BBC TV series.
Admittedly, I've been spoiled by Hollywood's newer sets. (It's even hard for me to watch the Original Star Trek due to bad sets. Though I love Trek!) The older versions of Robin Hood (and almost every older movie) has Southern California terrain. Drives me crazy.
The TV series was a fun treatment of the story, but there were a few modernizations that bugged me. I did not like the whole let's-tie-everything-into-the-Middle-East artistic insert. It "robbed" from the story. And do I need to say anything about how they killed Marian ...? Badly written.
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Post by queengwen on Dec 31, 2009 10:39:02 GMT -5
Amen..
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kinda old to be playing this part...but oh well)
