#robin hood

[victusinveritas]

[blumineck]

This isn’t a dig at any creators or educators who use Robin Hood to talk about history or connect to the past, but it bugs me when films or TV use Robin in a bland or uninteresting way when he has such potential!

Robin with a posh accent, or Robin as dispossessed nobility, or Robin as a supporter of a good king against a comically moustache-twirling villain all lack the edge of a folk hero from ballads sung by commoners about a man who stood up to the corrupt church and the law to fight for the poor. And that feels like a Robin that would have some things to say about now.

(I did a longer rant about this with a more context on Patreon if you’d like to hear more of my thoughts)

[elisecairo]

[skronklpus]

Twitter wallet meme

[chewbacca]

Oh, he's so handsome, just like his reward posters.

ROBIN HOOD (1973)

[bfscr]

You are describing a hero BBC, he just wasn't a cartoon saint:

"[Robin Hood] wasn't noble at all, but a yeoman, a rung above a peasant...and while he was perfectly nice to the poor, helping them was not his main purpose. His enemies were the corrupt clergy and the land-owning nobles who took advantage of their underlings."

'He was not a hero': How the dark, violent medieval origins of Robin Hood were erased

Robin Hood began as an oral tradition in the 12th Century before morphing into a heroic, family-friendly stereotype – here's how new takes a

[snowbairdd]

ROBIN HOOD (1973) dir. Wolfgang Reitherman