The Disney Version is Still the Best

[rekall]

Anyone remember that Robin Hood movie from the spring staring Russell Crowe? I watched it tonight. It was okay*, but what struck me the most was that it's nothing like the Robin Hood story. It's basically a Robin Hood AU as the only resemblance are the names of some of the characters.

It made me laugh though because you have professionals (usually published authors) whine and cry about how horrible fanfiction is, yet here is fanfiction that got made into a movie by a famous director. I guess fanfiction doesn't kill souls if the source is really old.

*It would have been a lot better if they kept the Robin Hood characters out of it and used original characters instead because the Robin Hood characters made the story really hard to get into.

Comments

[nan]

The Disney version is undoubtedly the best, although I really like Robin Hood: Men in Tights, too. XD

[rekall]

Men in Tights would be my second favourite. I love that version. xD

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

I read an article when that film came out which said that the version of Robin Hood we all know and love, the stealing from the rich to give to the poor and all that, is an invention of the swashbukling Errol Flynn days. And apparently the whole link with King Richard was tacked on at some other point in history. I'm no expert on the matter though. It seems RH was one of the characters that were probably cobbled together from a load of separate outlaws, who may have been noble but most likely weren't. I've even heard people saying the origin of the character is a pagan God of the Woods.