Posted on 05/12/2010 7:51:45 AM PDT by roses of sharon
Is it an accident that Ridley Scott's Robin Hood plays like a rousing love letter to the Tea Party movement? It's certainly something of a surprise. When the movie was announced in 2007 with the title Nottingham, reports suggested that it would sympathize with the normally vilified Sheriff of Nottingham as a man torn between two extremes: the corrupt tax-happy monarchy, and Robin Hood himself, who in this version would be a self-serving rabble-rouser who'd play on the emotions of the struggling public to incite anarchy. Russell Crowe was at first cast as the sheriff; a year later, Scott told MTV News that his frequent leading man would play both the famed outlaw and his lawman rival, to better reveal the affinities between the two.
The film Scott ended up making is called Robin Hood, the sheriff's role is minimal, and Crowe plays only the title character, whose ability to mobilize commoners with empty, anti-government rhetoric equating taxation with slavery is posited as a virtue.
(Excerpt) Read more at villagevoice.com ...
Heard the same trash when these idiots reviewed Iron Man2.
“A love letter to Ronald Reagan” and assorted tripe. Heard that the character Tony Stark drove the Monticello race while drunk ... I don’t know what movie they went to; but it was obviously not the movie I saw.
I wonder if these clowns even bother to see the movie they ‘review’. More often than not, I’d wager that they simply make things up from watching a trailer.
Now, the Magna Carta was basically a case of the nobility asserting their own rights against the King's, and is not precisely a "We The People" moment -- but it was a start. It basically put a stake in the ground and said "There are limits to what government should be allowed to do."
Hurrah!
“Ridley Scott’s inventive and sumptuous retelling of the legend of Robin Hood will have you drooling for more.”
The reviewer rips the movie at the end and adds a dig at Palin for good measure.
The "steal from the rich and give to the poor" meme is actually a misrepresentation of the usual depiction of Robin Hood. Most versions of the Robin Hood story depict him as stealing not from the "rich" but rather from the tyrannical rulers who have through confiscatory taxes plundered the very livelihood from the subjects/citizens.
Good list! Love those Toy Story movies.
He acknowledges that its bravura film making, but can't untwist his panties over the anti-tax, pro-liberty message. Maybe he would have liked it more if somebody in the theater rested their feet on his neck while he watched.
Serfer dudes can't even stand the stench of freedom, but he sold me on the film.
That is the fraudulent Leftist hijack of the Robin Hood story. Robin Hood robbed the tax-collectors, including the church, and gave it to the poor tax payers
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Riding through the land
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Without a merry band
He steals from the poor
And gives to the rich
Stupid bitch
Wait a minute. Blimey, this redistribution of wealth is quite tricky.
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It appears the Village Voice finally figured out what that skit was about.
Gad....I love that film. It makes my blood boil every time I see it.
He’s great in Master and Commander too!
Robin Hood is a story about restoring liberty and undermining oppressive GOVERNMENT. It is the very antithesis of some socialist paradigm story.
At the end of most versions of the Robin Hood tale, benevolent, non-abusive government returns in the person of King Richard. Had Robin's goals been socialist in nature, that wouldn't have been the end of the story, would it?
Unfortunately, we have traded one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away.
He is indeed.
Interesting.
Robin Hood as a right-wing militia leader and violent tax protester. I can see how that would make their heads explode.
Niiiiiice tagline.
I heard there was a long speech in which Robin beats himself up for killing those dear Muslims fighting to take over the Holy Land. That doesn’t sound too Tea Party-ish to me; sounds pretty PC.
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