1973 Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman
With King Richard off to the Crusades, Prince John and his slithering minion, Sir Hiss, set about taxing Nottingham's citizens with support from the corrupt sheriff - and staunch opposition by the wily Robin Hood and his band of merry men.
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It's no "YTP: Friar's Rubbing Wood - Fall Of Nottingham" but it ain't half bad
Pretty much no story, no main character. All about the vibe and different riffs and tangents. A movie you just want to relax inside. This is the Disney movie equivalent of jazz.
A few thoughts on this bad boy:
1- Making this a low-stakes, episodic Western is a move that makes close to no sense on paper, but ultimately works really well. It's a strong argument for the Disney style of reworking movies long into the animation process.
2- This was originally the story of Reynard the Fox, but Disney scrapped that movie because he thought Reyard was inappropriate or something. That's why everybody in this is an animal. Of course, history tells us that this movie became patient zero for furries, I've decided. We can never know the outcome of our actions. Disney was worried Reynard the fox was inappropriate and in doing so he created a generation of furries he…
Eyes widened.
Mouth slightly agape.
'Robin is dead!'
Soft gasp, quick glance that screams: 'Tell me he's ok daddy!'
Huge sigh of relief followed by a gigantic smile.
That right there defines Timeless Classic.
this movie said tax the rich and fuck the king - or, alternatively, be gay do crime - and I respect it for that
I can’t explain this but I feel like Wes Anderson owes Robin Hood *endless* royalties. And how a story about taxes was actually also fun and about love? Truly incredible.
Felt a bit down. This helped a lot <3
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Ooo-de-lally
the spareness of the animation (simple outdoor backgrounds, recycled sequences) kind of feels like a quotidian detail, hinting (probably inadvertently, but) at the actual stakes of the poverty the characters find themselves in, and yet there's a really sincere, almost triumphant sense of community and trust among this ethnically diverse, mutually oppressed underclass. funny now to see a truly virtuous hero that's an anti-tax outlaw and utopian socialist in favor of forced redistribution of wealth.
and what about Prince John's implied ("I've got a dirty thumb.") psychosexual trauma? also, Maid Marian's a fox and her uncle King Richard is a lion, so how does that work?
Robin Hood holds up as one of my favorite Disney classics.
🎵 Robin Hood and Little John, walking through the forest
Laughing back and forth at what the other one has to say
Reminiscing this and that and having such a good time
Oo-de-lally, oo-de-lally, golly, what a day. 🎵
The pacing of this film is so energetic and combines perfectly with its excellent score to draw in young viewers and fill their imaginations with the legends of Sherwood Forest. My youngest son had not seen this one before so it was a treat to snuggle up, and share one of my childhood favs with him.
"Well folks, that's the way it really happened."
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