I'm watching The Adventures of Robin Hood tonight. It's the one from 1938. There's Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, and Olivia de Havilland. An all star cast!
The acting isn't so bad. Errol Flynn's hearty chuckle grows a bit tiresome, but he's still a fun guy. And if you've got to pick bad guys, the bad guys that Robin Hood battles might be the ones you want.
A guard is stopped by having water thrown in his face. Some of the baddies seem to fall down before they're even hurt. The good guys get to climb trees and listen to the minstrel sing. Robin Hood can drop from a rope, his two little feetsies about two meters up off the ground, and get up and go forward as if his knees don't hurt at all. He can ride a horse and the horse knows what he wants! He can get off the horse and tell it to ride somewhere and it will!
And the guards give up so easily. And the major weapon the big baddies have is outrage. So far, anyway. Perhaps they're keeping the big guns for later. I might do that, if I were them, just to keep those Hoodies guessing.
Free association: Robin Hood lives in Sherwood Forest. The Keebler Elves live in a forest. Robin Hood seems to always have enough food in his forest...do you think the Keebler Elves make food for him? Or are the Keebler Elves rich? And if so, does he rob them and give E. L. Fudge cookies to the poor?
Hm?
I must watch closely for the rest of this film. The Elves can surely not stay hidden forever! Mmmm, tasty cookies...
Maybe they just eat the Elves.
Posted by dotty at June 27, 2005 11:53 PM