Robin Hood, But Make it ⚔️ICONIC⚔️

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) is a classic, and I am hopefully unlikely to get in copyright trouble if I use huge chunks of it. So prepare for an exhaustive (or possibly exhausting) fight breakdown, and a few minor comments about Errol Flynn and parrying.

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[JillBearup]

Welcome to a video that is twice as long as usual because my gosh we are going to call out every move in this fight like it’s…
…
…Yu-Gi-Oh? Is that where they call out their attacks? IDK. Anyway, let me know what you think 😁
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[CruelDwarf]

Imagine a movie about medieval Europe that is not filmed in a grey-brown pallette with everyone wearing black leather biker gear. It is probably illegal nowadays.

[Valdagast]

_Robin Hood and little John_
_Walkin' through the forest_
_Laughin' back and forth_
_At what the other'ne has to say_
_Reminiscin', this-'n'-thattin'_
_Havin' such a good time_
_Oo-de-lally, oo-de-lally golly, what a day_

[koeryn]

Having only seen Prince of Thieves and Men in Tights, it's impressive how closely Mel Brooks matched the Adventures of Robin Hood visually. I kind of want to see you breakdown the sword fights in Men in Tights now...

[jackwriter]

Lady Marian decides to stay in the castle instead staying in the forest so she can act as a spy... sure, sure... yeah, I would do that too, I would totally sacrifice myself to become a spy in a warm castle with good food... 😂

[kiplingslastcat]

My sister went on vacation to England last week and my little niece kept asking if they could go and visit the "stab me" lady. Lol!

[brockmckelvey]

"You're going to be watching this in the Cinema one time. You're not going to be slowing it down to look for flaws."
I will be using this quote from now on.

[WalterWild-uutd]

Little trivia (there's a LOT of trivia about this film.) That palomino horse that Lady Marion is riding when Robin captures her and the Sheriff in the forest? It was a well known horse used quite often because it was so nice that was named Golden Cloud. (Good name.) A certain young up and coming Western cowboy star saw that horse and decided he really liked it. So he bought it, changed its name and rode it til it died. After it died he had the animal stuffed and put up in his own museum. That Singing Cowboy star (who partly got hired because he had diabetes and couldn't be drafted away from the studio in WWII when all the other cowboys were going off to war) was Roy Rogers and the palomino's name became Trigger...and the two of them appeared in dozens of B Westerns and had their own television series during the 1950's...which I watched because all little boys growing up in the 1950's did. Sold a ton of merch. I had the lunchbox!

[jeromedavies]

I've gained a whole new respect for Basil Rathbone watching this, Zorro and The Court Jester

[ejd]

Just a little background flavor. In the early 1970s (yes, I'm that old), my cousin was an actor on the soap opera Secret Storm and lived in the same building as Basil Rathbone's widow, Ouida Bergère, in New York. According to her, Basil was NOT a fan of Errol Flynn and his antics, but apparently his biggest complaint was the fact that he had to "work so damned hard to make Flynn look good". She never said anything about Tyrone Power.

[alanlawson]

Sword fights are all very well, but the best bit of TAORH for me is - the music! Korngold won an Oscar for it, and well deserved it was. It fits perfectly into every scene, and to every part of the fight.

An aside - on being told that Korngold's music "sounds like Hollywood", Andre Previn replaied: "No, Hollywood sounds like Korngold".

[RavnVidarson]

"Buy my book!"

But I already have it, Jill (It is a lot of fun!)

[mysteriouscolours]

9:49 this is the exact point that they would kiss in a flirty fight

[TeslaRangerNY]

Fun fact: In Prince of Persia (1989), the sword fighting animations were rotoscoped from Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone's duel in The Adventures of Robin Hood.

[Mitharan]

I love how bent Robin's sword was after hitting a candle. Stayed bent in a couple other of the camera angles too until Robin stands back up.

[veleriphon]

Errol Flynn was a disturbingly interesting man. In so much that he trafficked weapons for fun on occasion.

[crithon]

this stresses again why I love Mel Brook's Robin Hood. NOT Because it's mocking it, but the attention to detail even to this.... it's STUNNING! Just helps having Cary Elwes saying "Unlike other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an english accent."

[TheMaryWriter]

Jill calling out the numbers of the fight reminds me of my dentist taking gum measurements and calling out the numbers for the assistant to write down. (Though analyzing fight scenes is far more enjoyable than the dentist.)😆

[Craftidore]

Wait wait wait, we're getting a "to be continued"? I can't wait to hear about the Captain Blood swordfight

[tzeca]

the grin on my face when you said Captain Blood was next up