Robin Hood-the story behind the legend
Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 12:26 pm
A novelisation by David Coe based upon the screenplay by Brian Helgeland.
This is the book of the film, the one with Russel "knock a man down with a phone" Crowe.
Strangley all the naffness that I allowed to ride over my head while atching the movie annoyed the Hell out of me while reading the book.
Mostly because the writing is crap.
It was not so much the historical inaccuracies but the sheer inanity of some of the description. For instance no-one draws a sword, they all draw their "war swords", no-one uses a spear they all use "battle spears".
Presumably these are different to the soft tickly swords and spears that got used at other times. Whatever, it got on my goat. As did the mystic pagan stuff. I know that stories like those of Robin Hood and King Arthur get re-told to meet the desires of each generation but where does all the stuff about Robin and Marion (and even Friar Tuck!) being symapathtic or actively promoting worship of the old Saxon or Celtic gods come from?
Watch the movie, burn the book.
This is the book of the film, the one with Russel "knock a man down with a phone" Crowe.
Strangley all the naffness that I allowed to ride over my head while atching the movie annoyed the Hell out of me while reading the book.
Mostly because the writing is crap.
It was not so much the historical inaccuracies but the sheer inanity of some of the description. For instance no-one draws a sword, they all draw their "war swords", no-one uses a spear they all use "battle spears".
Presumably these are different to the soft tickly swords and spears that got used at other times. Whatever, it got on my goat. As did the mystic pagan stuff. I know that stories like those of Robin Hood and King Arthur get re-told to meet the desires of each generation but where does all the stuff about Robin and Marion (and even Friar Tuck!) being symapathtic or actively promoting worship of the old Saxon or Celtic gods come from?
Watch the movie, burn the book.