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What's your favorite Robin Hood media?

Related to this post in c/Chapotraphouse In interested to hear folks' opinions on Robin Hood adaptations.

I love that Robin Hood isn't really owned by anyone, and is more or less just a template that people have riffed on for centuries, with popular additions becoming the Peoples' Canon while other ideas are left alone.

My ranking of the ones I've seen:

  1. Disney's.Maybe just love it because it was my introduction, but the fox and Baloo have incredible chemistry as Robin and Little John, who both feel like right-and-proper criminals. Prince John's antics with the snake are a bit much, but the sherriff's being played straight makes up for that.
  2. Ridley Scott's Robin HoodProbably a controversial choice for this one, but every list needs a hot take. Crowe is too dour to feel like a "merry" man, but he is fitting for Scott's gritty style, and he does embody the part of a hero of the people well, first by stealing valor, then by negotiating broader rights for his people. Ridley Scott still has a knack for good fight choreo too.
  3. The Adventures of Robin HoodErrlol Flynn's stuntwork and swordplay are top-notch and the big action pieces still hit despite the hokey old-timey overacting. On the other hand, this version of Hood gives him a noble background and leans hard into it, and not hard enough on the "stealing from the rich" angle.
  4. Robin Hood, Men in TightsThe humor is dated, but if you give Carey Elwes a sword, that's bound to make for a couple good scenes.
  5. Robin Hood, Prince of ThievesThis movie fucking blows. It tries to be a comedy, a romance, and a swashbuckling romp, but the jokes are bad, the chemistry's flat, and the action's corny. Also the accents are terrible and why the hell did they cast Morgan Freeman as Azeem? Easily Morgan Freeman's worst role

Hon. Mention: Jan De Lichte (AKA Thieves in the Wood). Not actually a Robin Hood movie but it plays as one anyway. Jan de Lichte is an actual historical dude and I have no idea whether this movie is accurate to his story or if he was a decent guy in real life, but in this movie, he felt like a believable outlaw hero. A brutal cutthtroat with a heart of gold up against a bastard cop who cares more about power and career than justice. Perfectly captures what Robin Hood is about.

Haven't seen much beyond these, but I'll take Ny sugfestion. Movies, lit, fanfic (all Robin Hood is fanfic -- That's the best part!), whatever

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