This film is simply flawless... casting, direction, dialogue...
everything... and it has the greatest sword-fight ever filmed (making a sword-fight look real is apparently very difficult, since most such fights look like the participants are attempting to hit each other's swords rather than each other)... I love Erol Flynn... I love Basil Rathbone.
I cannot express the heights of extacy that watching this film bring me... I love every scene, every piece of dialogue, every set, every costume... it is a complete fantasy and makes absolutely no bones about that fact; however, it never really 'feels' fantastic...
everything has a certain inner-logic and the film plays effectively by its own rules.
Also, and most importantly for those of us with children, it is a very benign film, but not antiseptic... while I do not want my children being over-exposed to violent material, I also want them to gain an appreciation of the aesthetics of screen violence... we can never (even if we wanted to) shield our children from violent films forever, but we can prepare them for it using films like this... I don't think that kids who grew up on Scharzenegger have the same appreciation for such films as kids who grew up on the classic films...
In short, The Adventures of Robin Hood is a film that has transcended its time and become a true classic.
everything... and it has the greatest sword-fight ever filmed (making a sword-fight look real is apparently very difficult, since most such fights look like the participants are attempting to hit each other's swords rather than each other)... I love Erol Flynn... I love Basil Rathbone.
I cannot express the heights of extacy that watching this film bring me... I love every scene, every piece of dialogue, every set, every costume... it is a complete fantasy and makes absolutely no bones about that fact; however, it never really 'feels' fantastic...
everything has a certain inner-logic and the film plays effectively by its own rules.
Also, and most importantly for those of us with children, it is a very benign film, but not antiseptic... while I do not want my children being over-exposed to violent material, I also want them to gain an appreciation of the aesthetics of screen violence... we can never (even if we wanted to) shield our children from violent films forever, but we can prepare them for it using films like this... I don't think that kids who grew up on Scharzenegger have the same appreciation for such films as kids who grew up on the classic films...
In short, The Adventures of Robin Hood is a film that has transcended its time and become a true classic.