Adventures Of Robin Hood(1938) - Classic Swashbuckler: Reaction & Commentary
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
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Outro by Julia Roshambo
A couple of black guys named Noob & Awesome watch the classic film The Adventures of Robin Hood. Holds up well for 1938. This is a first time blind reaction. We have never seen this before.
That polomino horse Maid Marian is riding was a popular mount and was named Golden Cloud. A certain western actor, Roy Rogers, liked it so much he bought it and changed it's name to Trigger.
This is one of my favorite adaptations of Robin Hood besides the Disney animated version. The music is a great highlight and in fact won an Oscar for this amazing score.
Also the woman who played Maid Marian (Olivia DeHavilland) lived to the age of 104 dying in July 2020 after her birthday.
The man who plays Prince John (Claude Rains) is Louis Renault in Casablanca.
One of the directors on this film Michael Curtiz also directed Casablanca.
The sword fight choreographers would decades later work on Princess Bride.
"The sword fight choreographers would decades later work on Princess Bride."
I'm afraid not. Bob Anderson, who choreographed *The Princess Bride,* didn't start his Hollywood career until the 1950s. This film was choreographed by Fred Cavens, who was Hollywood's top swordmaster for decades before Anderson became his heir apparent.
@@reidmason2551 Cary Elwes wouldn't make it up. I read it in his book As You Wish. Which is behind the scenes stories about the making of Princess Bride.
Also after a search I found listed in the info for a documentary called Reclaiming the Blade it lists Bob Anderson and says "fencing instructor to Errol Flynn, Antonio Banderas, Mortensen, Urban, and Johnny Depp among others".
Your movie selections are top notch
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Three Kennedy Center Honor shows from 2011, 12, and 13,
Clash of the Titans (1981),
The Verdict,
Making ofs for Snow White and Pinocchio,
Corman's World (A documentary on Roger Corman),
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Machete Maidens Unleashed,
These Amazing Shadows The Movies That Make America,
Lilies of the Field,
Chuck Jones Extremes and Inbetweens,
Fiddler A Miracle of Miracles and
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Lincoln Green...they used a specific form of berries that they boiled down to make dye and then colored the garments with it. One kind of berries, most green dyed garments were very close in color.
This is one of my favorite adaptations of Robin Hood; right alongside the Disney version, Mr. Magoo's Robin Hood and Tom & Jerry: Robin Hood and his Merry Mouse.
Side note: It wasn't really King Richard who was persecuting everyone; if you remember, he was being held prisoner overseas. Meanwhile, Prince John (his brother) abused the power of the throne and the people of Briton
Errol Flynn and Olivia D'Havilland were THE romantic couple in the early 40's. They made eight movies together. Flynn died of a heart attack at 51. Olivia lived to 104 and died in Paris just a few years ago.
They knew how to make swashbucklers back then, and this was Errol Flynn at his peak. This and his first big movie, “Captain Blood,” are among my favorite old action movies. (That movie also had Olivia de Haviland as the love interest and Basil Rathbone as one of the villains. It was also directed by Michael Curtiz, who directed this film and many more, including “Casablanca.”)
With all those comments about “seasoning”…why do you think they started the British Empire? Just about every spice you can think of comes from Asia, except for chili pepper, which comes from America. The only good food the British ever invented was tea-time snacks…and of course to do that, they had to go to China to get the tea.
You have to be a history nerd to catch one of the insults at the end of the movie. When the Bishop is asking John by what right does he claim the throne, he calls him “John Lackland.” John was the youngest of four brothers, and by the time they’d given out the counties and dukedoms to his brothers, there was nothing left for him, so he was called “Lackland.”
Tablecloth's were normally used in place of napkins...they didnt even use forks.
Now you should also watch The Court Jester from 1955, which is kind of a parody of this, but with its own well-written story, no less spectacular, and really funny.
Basil Rathbone, the Sheriff was the best fencer in Hollywood at the time. He usually played villians...went up against Flynn in this movie and Captain Blood, a pirate movie. Fought Tyrone Power in The Mark of Zorro. During WWI Rathbone was the fencing champion of the British Army. Later played in some horror movies and even a parody of this movie called The Black Fox with Danny Kaye as a cowardly Robin Hood type.
If you are a fan of Gilligan's Island, Alan Hale Jr. that played the Skipper's father is Little John. Of course you will see in the credits Alan Hale. It is uncanny how father and son look like twins and have the same personality.
Basil Rathbone, The Sheriff of Nottingham, was a master swordsman from his years in the military. He helped create the fencing scenes in all Errol Flynn films. If you guys saw The Princess Bride, the sword fight in that scene was them going back to watch Errol Flynn films to create it.
I love old movies
This is one of the first Technicolor movies ever made...Technicolor was the CGI of the 1930's.
Something a lot of people arent actually aware of is that colour movies exited as far back as the 20s but the technicolor company purged their vaults in the late 40s causing their copies of lots of classic movies to become lost to time. The copies that we now see remasters of would've been in the posession of other people/corporations :)
Norman's not Mormons.
Great reaction ! If you like this type of movie I would highly recommend Ivanhoe (1952). The action sequences are top-notch
Super Racist? The film is sat in midevil England, like in the thirteen hundreds. There weren't any black slaves anywhere except in Africa. But one of the great movie made in Hollywood's Golden Age is racist because ...
Dude we were joking relax
@@TwoScoopsXD Racism is nothing to joke about. Grow up.
@@smg85051 I guess comedy doesn’t exist in your world.