Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood Still Seems Confused
This is the new international trailer for Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe’s Robin Hood. It is significantly better than the first trailer in that there’s no generic guitar rock in the background and more than one arrow is fired. But I can’t help but wonder: What the fuck happened to stealing from the rich and giving to the poor? This Robin Hood’s credo seems to be “kill the shit out of the living.” I mean, I guess he could be looting the corpses later and giving the blood-covered coins to the peasants, but that’s a pretty big assumption to make. I still don’t see how this is even the slightest bit more Robin Hood-y than Gladiator or Kingdom of Heaven. (Via /Film)
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