Ridley Scott's latest action-adventure ride Robin Hood starring Russel Crowe and Cate Blanchett has number of amazing aspects to it. Technically all the pieces are there, it is well made, well put together, and amazing action sequences.
The film began development in 2007 when Universal Studios acquired a script entitled Nottingham, depicting a heroic Sheriff of Nottingham to be played by Crowe. Scott's dissatisfaction with the script led him to delay filming, and during 2008 it was rewritten into a story about Robin Hood becoming an outlaw, with the position of being Sheriff as part of the story. Scott dropped the latter notion and Nottingham was re-titled to reflect the more traditional angle.
Robin Hood chronicles the life of an expert archer, previously interested only in self-preservation, from his service in King Richards army against the French. Upon Richards death, Robin travels to Nottingham, a town suffering from the corruption of a despotic sheriff and crippling taxation, where he falls for the spirited widow Lady Marian (Oscar winner Cate Blanchett), a woman skeptical of the identity and motivations of this crusader from the forest.
Hoping to earn the hand of Maid Marian and salvage the village, Robin assembles a gang whose lethal mercenary skills are matched only by its appetite for life. Together, they begin preying on the indulgent upper class to correct injustices under the sheriff.
With their country weakened from decades of war, embattled from the ineffective rule of the new king and vulnerable to insurgencies from within and threats from afar, Robin and his men heed a call to ever greater adventure.
This unlikeliest of heroes and his allies set off to protect their country from slipping into bloody civil war and return glory to England once more.
"Robin Hood" looks great and often benefits from sparking dialogue by screenwriter Brian Helgeland (among many others who put their hands to it).
Early in the production, there were rumors that suggested his version of the legendary English archer would be a new spin on the familiar tale. Instead of Robin Hood rising to defend the poor against the evil rich and their law-enforcement lackey the Sheriff of Nottingham, it would instead be the Sheriff who is actually the hero, and Robin Hood an outlaw with less than noble motives
The film began development in 2007 when Universal Studios acquired a script entitled Nottingham, depicting a heroic Sheriff of Nottingham to be played by Crowe. Scott's dissatisfaction with the script led him to delay filming, and during 2008 it was rewritten into a story about Robin Hood becoming an outlaw, with the position of being Sheriff as part of the story. Scott dropped the latter notion and Nottingham was re-titled to reflect the more traditional angle.
Robin Hood chronicles the life of an expert archer, previously interested only in self-preservation, from his service in King Richards army against the French. Upon Richards death, Robin travels to Nottingham, a town suffering from the corruption of a despotic sheriff and crippling taxation, where he falls for the spirited widow Lady Marian (Oscar winner Cate Blanchett), a woman skeptical of the identity and motivations of this crusader from the forest.
Hoping to earn the hand of Maid Marian and salvage the village, Robin assembles a gang whose lethal mercenary skills are matched only by its appetite for life. Together, they begin preying on the indulgent upper class to correct injustices under the sheriff.
With their country weakened from decades of war, embattled from the ineffective rule of the new king and vulnerable to insurgencies from within and threats from afar, Robin and his men heed a call to ever greater adventure.
This unlikeliest of heroes and his allies set off to protect their country from slipping into bloody civil war and return glory to England once more.
"Robin Hood" looks great and often benefits from sparking dialogue by screenwriter Brian Helgeland (among many others who put their hands to it).
Early in the production, there were rumors that suggested his version of the legendary English archer would be a new spin on the familiar tale. Instead of Robin Hood rising to defend the poor against the evil rich and their law-enforcement lackey the Sheriff of Nottingham, it would instead be the Sheriff who is actually the hero, and Robin Hood an outlaw with less than noble motives
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