![]() ![]() A proper classic like they don’t, or can’t, make any more. If you can sit through this film without a smile on your face you are doing cinema wrong. It’s (very) easy to mock Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves but at nearly two and a half hours I enjoyed it as much as any other film I have seen this year and not just for nostalgia’s sake. The action sequences are genuinely exciting too and it is also satisfying to see Morgan Freeman portraying an actual positive Muslim character, something else that you would never ever see now. Kevin Costner was one of the world’s most sought after leading men in 1991 and he delivers a compelling and likeable performance. ![]() Friar Tuck never once looked like breaking the laws of quantum physics in that film.Īside from the fact that its erraticism makes it so enjoyable, there is a lot to admire generally about Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. This film could never be made now, just look at Ridley Scott’s dour delivery of Robin Hood back in 2010. Cinema was much more fun and weird and glorious back in the ’80s and ’90s. Just read that back to yourself for a moment and imagine anything like that ever happening now. Just when you think that Sean Connery’s tartan cameo is the bizarre cherry atop the cake of ludicrousness, Friar Tuck just straight up breaks the fourth wall and addresses the audience. It’s all a load of wonderful, wonderful nonsense. This results in a gloriously over the top villain who is always sticking his sword into some family member or other whilst shouting at random birds and threatening to cut out Robin Hood’s heart with a spoon. By all accounts Rickman essentially wrote most of his own dialogue and only agreed to appear at all if he could have complete carte blanche over the character. Elsewhere, Morgan Freeman mostly keeps up his middle Eastern pastiche but he never seems too far away from calling the Sheriff of Nottingham a goddamn jive turkey and Alan Rickman doesn’t have to affect an accent as he is pretty much just being Alan Rickman. Unlike Christian Slater who rocks up speaking in a thousand voices in his portrayal of Will Scarlett. Obviously, all American hero Kevin Costner is, on the surface, an odd choice to play England’s most famous mythical son but to his credit he doesn’t even bother to attempt to sound like an Englishman. It’s difficult to begin anywhere else other than the accents. From Kevin Costner’s bearded visage nearly losing his hand to Sean Connery showing up as the most Scottish king of England ever, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is definitely never boring. Well… what a rip-roaring, maiden-kissing, thrill ride that was. including the innocent little flip there.“There are no perfect men in the world only perfect intentions…’ I like the way Harry's expression turned out. I was done with it in two hours, but I was working on class and every now and then I had to pretend to pay attention to what was going on. I'm not sure how much real time I spent on it, though. This took me around two hours, one for the actual drawing and one for the inking. Sachynn (me, no da): XD That'd be priceless! Ouu, I have the urge to make a comic of it. ![]() Snape: "I'm going to cut your heart out with a SPOON, Potter!" 22 days to go - watch Alan Rickman accept his first ever BAFTA for his performance as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves See the ful. Alan Rickman, the wonderful actor who portrays everyone's favourite potions master, also played the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Theives. Discussion about the actors in Harry Potter at the forums on Gaia spawned this.
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