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Yessssssssssssss
This, I reckon, will be my favourite film of 2010. I'm so easy, really. But still... this features one of my favourite directors, and favourite actors, and actresses, and now with added Mark Strong (fast becoming a favourite character actor - he was the baddy in Stardust and Sherlock Holmes) coupled with period setting, horses and armour? Yeah. Bring it!
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The Robin Hood hood story is the legend, or the story has become legend. If you are telling the story of Robin Hood before his battles with the Sheriff of Nottingham it's not really the Robin Hood story.
Saying the story behind the legend is just another way of pretending that this story is actually true and real. Robin Hood might have been a real character in history but we can't know his story outside of the stories so we shouldn't pretend like we do.
It's like that completely crappy King Arthur from way back.
I actually like Kingdom of Heaven until the siege where the film lost me because the battle had no story. Still it was pretty enjoyable overall.
But the Robin Hood story isn't Kingdom of Heaven. I think you can reinterpret it in awesome ways like Robin of Sherwood.
The film could be something else, but I'm not sure I want a Russell Crowe dirty gritty Robin Hood film.
It's really the story and what they do with it that is important though, and I can't get a sense of that from this trailer other than the text inserts, which, as you can probably tell, fill me with much fear. :D
I do agree that I generally like Ridley Scott's work. Gladiator didn't get me the first time but the second watching a year or so later was much better.
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I saw Gladiator about 6 times in the theater. Granted, part of the reason was that I was unemployed and living in New Mexico and it was a zillion degrees and the theater had air conditioning. :D
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