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.
Yes, there were bloody times, and the Middle Ages in England is also appropriately dark, with poor villages and muddy fields and a hungry population, which is powered by the feudal lords, the federal France, squeezed mercilessly. The plausibility, however, sometimes remains on the track: Why Prince John (Oscar Isaac), who swears at first to respect the new rights granted and excited against the French, led by his old friend Godfrey (Mark Strong), the field attracts, in the end nothing more wants to know about the promise of this sudden reversal of the film explains the meaning of the showdown in the intoxication does not occur. It may be that new land and new enemy had to be created for a sequel.
The expense is considerable: as whole villages were rebuilt in the woods and the mood takes you back flared, medieval castles and halls arise in real terms and at the computer, the final battle at the beach, is not only the French fleet, but also the force the whole ocean against him. And plenty of men to storm the roaring into battle, always preceded Russell Crowe, decoratively on horseback, as the leader who sends his arrows accurately. The take over kilometers, with the force of cannon balls, and with them the camera zooms over the beach.
Amazing really, that the bullets do not hit in 3-D on the audience, which is technically already almost killed. But compared with spectacles like "Avatar" is "Robin Hood" in any way from the old school. Traditionally, in terms of the unbroken heroic image and the desire for large equipment and action movies. But above all, in terms of the traditional image of women. After all, it's a woman, Marion Loxley, Robin becomes the counterpart and to provide the necessary romance into bloody spectacle. The widow of a crusader who, to the ruins women of the Second World War, not unlike, desperately trying to defend with their aged, blind father (Max von Sydow) and a handful of limbless person to the local farmyard from the grasp of church and marauding gangs. After the death of her husband, she must fit into a sham marriage with the knight as issuing archers, not to lose the farm.
The long-haired, schrägäugige Cate Blanchett would have to offer in every respect what it takes, the fierce warrior with the soft hearts stand up - as if they could. Although they may threaten the dagger, if the bill husband dares to touch it, it must immediately undress but behind sheer curtains in the candlelight. And as she pulls at the end in full armor into battle, she falls off the horse into the water, and is rescued by her triumphant Robin. Just a reminder: This is the woman who was called "Elizabeth" a whole court with terror, and on horseback Spain to its knees. Cate Blanchett as Lady Marion is just pretty decoration.
What is all the more harder than it was to play against a model. The aging Robin Hood and his childhood sweetheart Marian had been delivered in the form of Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn in Richard Lester's "Robin and Marian" 1976 wonderful sight engagements. When Robin and Marion are now back in the woods, he has finally killed his deer, they must not to sigh, how nice it is still in English forests, this is a relatively bland final punch. And actually, only the transition to the real Robin Hood story, which could now begin. There is life after "Robin Hood".
Starting on Thursday in 25 cinemas in Berlin, SC at the Cinestar Sony Center and the rolling hill, this Wednesday in Berlin previews in various theaters. The Astor Film Lounge transfers from 18.30 clock today the opening of the Cannes Film Festival via satellite.
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