Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Third Season of Robin Hood


"Robin Hood": Super RTL also shows the third season
Marian Robin

The series is launched in February Super RTL was initially announced only the first two seasons. Meanwhile, the family channel has decided the third season of "Robin Hood" broadcast.

The 13 other sequences with which the BBC adventure series is then completed, as of 15 August shown on Wednesdays at 20.15 clock. Thus, "Robin Hood" at the end of the second season at the previous time slot seamlessly continue - which will save the fans, the long wait for the resolution of a dramatic Cliffhangers.

In the footsteps of Robin Hood

Jochen Stoll coin devotes his free time with the construction of the long bow. On Thursday, 12 July, he has 15 to 16 a clock on its secured facility at Mondhof (opposite ski lift station) interested parties of 6 to 18 years in the archery art, has been with the Robin Hood made ​​his opponents stubborn resistance.

Other dates are each on 12 July, 2 and 23 August and on 6 and 27 September.

Robin Hood Four arrows for a hallelujah

Arrow or ax. Robin (Russell Crowe) always hits, whether on horseback or on foot.
The Cannes Film Festival opens today with Ridley Scott's "Robin Hood". From tomorrow the movie in the cinemas.

There is life outside the forest. As the trail leads through battles and mud, through bad luck and a lot of blood and flames. It is in France at the siege. King Richard the Lionheart, which is mutated to an aging rabbit heart pillage his way back to England, after an unsuccessful crusade to the Holy Land. Also in the entourage are a few desert archers, pocket Tricksters, Saufgesellen that their buddy-like openness to the weary king must expiate on the block soon. However, not long: Richard falls in the field, the deserter boys go back with royal crown, royal king mold and ship on its way to England.

Banal were never created new knights.

It is a completely different Robin Hood image that draws Ridley Scott's film spectacle now. No longer the noble Story of Jesse James is at the center, the nobleman who leads a free, lawless lives with his flock in the woods near Nottingham, as it recently celebrated Kevin Costner 1991st Instead, it is Robin, before he was Robin Hood. A Robin Longstride, Robin longbow mercenary in King Richard's services, which has stood for over ten years in the field, and often like to hold back and always strong and know first of all to save his own skin. The higher ideals come later, when the advocates in England knighted ascended archer in all public liberties and civil rights as they are a little later in the Magna Carta to be reflected. From the outlaw has become a statesman, with Obama-like eloquence.

The warrior who becomes a freedom fighter. The story is not entirely unknown. Even in "The Gladiator", Ridley Scott's smash hit of 2001, there was a similar constellation, even then, even with superstar Russell Crowe in the starring role. "Robin Hood" now, today opened the evening, the Cannes Film Festival, going on not much different, just seems that setting and costumes from Scott's failed crusade movie "Kingdom of Heaven" taken from 2005.

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Robin Hood Hero or villain?

He took the rich and gave to the poor. Or not? From a history book
from 1460 includes an art historian Robin Hood was not as popular as
the legend makes believe.

The legendary rebel Robin Hood has apparently lived later than
previously thought, and was also not so popular, make believe how
popular tradition.
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 He also played once the robber: Sean Connery as Robin Hood.

The art historian Julian Luxford of St Andrews University of Scotland
based this hypothesis on a side note in a history book, which is said
to have written a British monk in 1460 in Latin.

It could be a case of the oldest source, which refers to Robin Hood.

"In this time, driven by popular opinion, a certain outlaw named Robin
Hood along with his accomplices in Sherwood and other law-abiding
areas of England with continuous robberies to mischief," Luxford
translated in the original 23-word text. This he discovered by
accident when he was researching in the library of the elite Eton
school.

The notes show found a uniquely negative attitude to the outlaws and
deliver hardly any indication of a positive attitude to Robin Hood,
said the historian. "Instead of traditionally depict him as the
popular hero, the passage suggests that Robin Hood and his men were
not loved by the good guys."

Likely to have Robin Hood image of subsequent revisions to the legend
profits. When the note is Luxford, according to the only historical
record, which was found in England. Thus Robin Hood did in the time of
King Edwardi. (1239-1307) lived. All other indications that it was
actually Robin Hood came from Scotland.

According to legend, the legendary bandit has robbed the rich and
distributed the booty among the poor. Hollywood has filmed the story
of this cult figure several times, including with Errol Flynn, Sean
Connery and Kevin Costner. Forward should be the local politicians
from the region of Sherwood Forest in the central English county of
Nottinghamshire, which benefits from the myth. The note could be a
hint that Robin Hood really lived there.

Excavation nourishes doubts about the Robin Hood legend

Castle ruins. The narration by Robin Hood lived in Sherwood Forest near Nottingham. Discovered at a Sheffield family castle keep researchers, however, for the real home of the avenger of the poor. In Nottingham we now fears a failure of Robin Hood tourist.

Have had if true, what archaeologists believe the Sheffield University, then Robin Hood have a very long way to work - too long for the 11th time Century. According to legend, he was on the Sherwood Forest near Nottingham city of rich and relieved her of valuables, which he then distributed among the poor.

Legendary hero Robin Hood (with bow and arrow): "Reduce monument in front of the castle?"
An old family castle now discovered, the scientists for the home of the nation's heroes hold, but 90 miles from Sherwood Forest. Robin Hood for that distance would have required two days' ride. This is much too far, say the researchers from Sheffield, the legend could therefore hardly reflect reality.

The castle ruins of the small castle in the village were discovered, scientists Bolsterstone on the outskirts of Sheffield, as reported by British media. Steve Moxon, a member team of archaeologists, is sure that the recently excavated foundations are the remains of the seat of that noble family, the Robin Hood came from. Right here and not in Nottingham, where thousands of tourists to pursue his footsteps, to the legendary archer lived.

Moxon and his colleagues believe that a gentleman named Waltheof was the first owner of the castle in Bolsterstone, his character Earl of Huntingdon. Historians reported about him, he was one of the bravest fighters against the Norman conquerors.

Waltheof had two rebellion fomented against the Normans. After the second, he was executed in 1076 aged just 30 years. The Earl is said to have left behind a grieving widow and next to a son named Robert Fitzwalter, an outstanding archer, who later would become known as Robin Hood.

"Of course, Robin Hood, especially a character out of mythology," admitted Moxon. "But now once Waltheof was the inspiration for the ballad about the death of the man named Hood and the later in the 15th century prose that build upon." The ruins of Bolsterstone are in any event "of enormous historical significance."

The city fathers of Nottingham follow the excavation at Sheffield with a certain uneasiness. "Does that mean we should now dismantle the Robin Hood statue in front of the castle?" Said a lady in the Nottingham City Council. It would examine the matter and develop an informed opinion.

Nottingham is about a lot of money - money that could run the Robin Hood tourists will have two days' ride away from Nottingham in the area of ​​Sheffield.

Robin Hood: chain mail instead of tights

Ridley Scott's "Robin Hood" shows the avenger of the poor before he moves into Sherwood Forest - as cracked archer in the royal service. Director Ridley Scott is one in front of the famous saga, presenting a rebellious man who wants more than a bow and arrow riding through the woods.

63rd Film Festival in Cannes

With "Robin Hood" will be tonight at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival opens. This delightful rendezvous of world cinema this year, feels the crisis caused by protracted strikes in the film business naturally delayed. It was a difficult year, renowned director Thierry Frémaux at the presentation of his selection, seems, at least nominally, not quite as overwhelming as busy in recent years.

After all: Among the 19 works in competition for the Palme d'Or, there are new films by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu ("Babel") and Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and with increases in the short term, a second British veteran in the race. These are the names of a number of auteur cinema coming across the western world, by Abbas Kiarostami and Takeshi Kitano, who returns to the yakuza environment. Out of competition, the Croisette, adorned with new films by Stephen Frears and Woody Allen, who would arrive with his stars Naomi Watts and Antonio Banderas. Not to mention Michael Douglas, Oliver Stone in the movie sequel to "Wall Street" again playing Gordon Gekko, the prophets of greed.

The corrective to this is called Jean-Luc Godard, who shows his "Film Socialisme," and another Swiss makes of high finance the process: As part of the Directors shows Jean-Stéphane Bron ("corn in Bundeshuus"), his new documentary about the social consequences the subprime crisis in the U.S. Cleveland. (Flo)

The film

Robin Hood (USA / GB 2010). 140 minutes. Directed by Ridley Scott. With Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Max von Sydow, William Hurt Others

Robin Hood or Robin of Loxley now looks like Russell Crowe, and why not? The man in the cinema has changed so often face, figure, and tights, and his legend has already for centuries, the eternal romantic life. In general we can confidently be called on a physiognomic truth. Perhaps the real Robin Hood was made so as to be a little gnome-like monument in front of the castle in Nottingham, he probably had bad teeth, but most likely is that a real Hood never existed at all, but only a collective dream of the same name.

And as for Crowe in "Robin Hood" by Ridley Scott, he is doing very well with his in battles acquired scars and fine wrinkles, which he dug out of the war in the face and the guilt of having been present when the King Lionheart massacre of 2700 prisoners left in Acre (3rd Crusade). He embodies the artistic standards, the realism of the story with the romance of history combine to effect. Because the means and the goal and ambition of Scott's film is, he wants a "truth" from which the legend then first place. The problem - if we want to have one of cinema entertainment - just that the romance too much realism is not always tolerate well (and vice versa, by the way) is.

Lazy monk knew more

A little life lived, a historical precedent, is behind Robin Hood probably, you know not only that. The notes onto 12th and 13 Century are strong. The first written evidence that long-circulating already drinking songs to an appropriate Robin finds himself in an English poem of 1377, where a lazy monk tells the following: "I know my father and our barely sings not like the priest. / But I know him verses of Robin Hood and Randolf Earl of Chester. "It is of, who knows, could have acted in the said earl to those Norman Earl of Chester (1172-1232), with the dispossessed of Robert Earl of Huntington Fitzooth (1160-1247) in the dispute over the county of Huntington was, which in turn had been a born Fitzooth Baron of Loxley and thus a suitable candidate to an Anglo-Saxon Nationalheldentum.

And that would now only a historical minimum of eight ways in which fragments of the legend. However, there are five of the other potential predators to Hood's yeomen, considered patriotic and poetic even harder. Only three candidates are from the literature seems better Loxley House of Huntington.

Once he has bathed, he likes the Lady

To some extent, as pathos of truth have Ridley Scott and his screenwriter Brian Helgeland ("A Knight's Tale") cooked in her film its own historically mythological soup, almost from down home middle age and a little fairy spirit of the old Hood, who indeed remain but must be what he always was: simply a right on the page. He is now called Robin Longstride, there is already a bit morose archer in the royal service, and everything starts with him on 25 Hoodsche March 1199 before the walls of the French Châlus castle where King Richard the Lionheart a really deadly shot a bolt through the neck. The thought is dramatically effective (though of course even break away the part of the legend in which a good king, the right marriage blessing).

It sets in motion all sorts: that it falls to the Longstride, England's crown, which also the French are behind her, to bring to London and the Sword of Loxley to Nottingham. That he himself is there to Sir Robert Loxley, instead of a fallen son and with will and blessing of the old Baron (Max Von Sydow), who has his nostalgic and social reasons. That he, of course, the Lady Marion Loxley (Cate Blanchett) and he likes her even when he has bathed. That it inevitably verschlägt him to side with the rebellious barons of the north, first against the tax-hungry King John, then with John against the French. And item: All this is evidence of quite differentiated, faktengenährtem sense of possibility and, it pointed looks from chain mail to the arrowhead extremely fitted correctly, a couple of times a dental hygienist and economic concessions aside.

Not beaten battles

Why not, as I said? Such a film would be fantasy and legend, if you already casts the romantic, social history, at least put on foundations. Would not quite clear as to material facts of the story and loose is driven: with battles that were not beaten, with an invasion by the French, who did not take place, with the "Magna Carta", the tore of King John (Kevin Durand) is, even though he has proven it signed in 1215. That may be nitpicking, but it's not funny. It turns Korrektheitsgetue in Ridley Scott's intellectual bluff.

At least they helped the poor Robin even a traumatic memory of his executed, freedom visionary father. If this is not the laziest trick is to smuggle the romance back to the Middle Ages. And just around the hood then get to it along with his men and his lady in the forest of Sherwood, where they take in the suggested continuation of the rich and give to the poor and reap neither sow nor, and the heavenly Father feedeth them. What is actually the whole detour?

Friday, 11 November 2011