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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSqL9ygBCck
thoughts? opinions?
well, at least this Robin Hood should have no problem speaking with an English accent.
New Robin Hood movie
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Warbler said:
well, at least this Robin Hood should have no problem speaking with an English accent.
Eh??
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I'm still interested to see, mostly because I do like Russell Crowe. However, I despise these types of previews, where they play several slow-mo actions scenes without effort to elaborate on the story. Granted I know it's Robin Hood and it is a teaser trailer, I just still don't like them kind of trailers.
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I know it may not be the greatest thing in the world, but it's Ridley Scott so I'll be there opening day.
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When I hear Crowe and Ridley Scott say how they want to distance Robin Hood from the feathers in his hat and the green outfits, and the Merry Men, and all of the things that make it Robin Hood, I wonder "why make a Robin Hood movie?"
He's not a historical figure that needs an accurate portrayal. He's a legend.
It's like that King Arthur movie that said "We want to make a King Arthur movie that doesn't have any of the bits of the King Arthur mythos that make it the King Arthur mythos."
I'll see the film, and it will probably be pretty good, but does the world need a grim, gritty, realistic Robin Hood?
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HotRod said:
Warbler said:
well, at least this Robin Hood should have no problem speaking with an English accent.
Eh??
don't you remember the Kevin Costner fiasco?
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I didn't think that film was that bad at all....Quite enjoyable really. Yeah the accents were stupid, and the settings all wrong (Sherwood forest being near a coast line etc) but it was ok for what it was....
This new one just may as well be Gladiators 2
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well shall have to wait and see.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcDeNo6KUs&feature=channel
lookin' good. I was really enjoying that BBC Robin Hood series a while ago though. It was a lot of fun.
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Warbler said:
HotRod said:
Warbler said:
well, at least this Robin Hood should have no problem speaking with an English accent.
Eh??
don't you remember the Kevin Costner fiasco?
Don't think anyone from the UK could forget that Bryan Adams song - it's permanently burnt into our brains after being in the charts for half the year.
But I believe Hot Rod's point was, why would the Antipodean Russell Crowe be any better at an English accent than the American Kevin Costner? Although I did read that Crowe has been taking intensive voice-coaching to attempt to speak with an accurate North-Notts accent (an accent not too far away from my own).
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Moth3r said:
Antipodean
Yay! I learned a new word today!!
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I guess what it really is, is that unlike Costner, Crowe has a foreign accent(foreign for Americans). I think Crowe's accent will be close enough to work for Americans, but perhaps not for the English people.
Moth3r, I had no idea that you were British!
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Moth3r said:
Warbler said:
HotRod said:
Warbler said:
well, at least this Robin Hood should have no problem speaking with an English accent.
Eh??
don't you remember the Kevin Costner fiasco?
But I believe Hot Rod's point was, why would the Antipodean Russell Crowe be any better at an English accent than the American Kevin Costner? Although I did read that Crowe has been taking intensive voice-coaching to attempt to speak with an accurate North-Notts accent (an accent not too far away from my own).
You got that from my eh??
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captainsolo:
I know it may not be the greatest thing in the world, but it's Ridley Scott so I'll be there opening day.
Yes, but this is the age where all the old masters have flipped their lids. Cameron, Lucas, Spielberg... can Scott be too far behind?
Boost:
It's like that King Arthur movie that said "We want to make a King Arthur movie that doesn't have any of the bits of the King Arthur mythos that make it the King Arthur mythos."
Have you seen Kevin Smith do his "Superman" bit in An Evening With Kevin Smith? Basically, the producer (formerly Barbara Streissand's hairdresser) wants to do this Superman movie where:
A. No cape
2. No tights
D. He doesn't want to see the monkeyfighter fly.
Smith's reaction to this is:
"<dramatic pause> I thought the cape, the tights, and the flying were what made Superman, Superman"
hotrod:
This new one just may as well be Gladiators 2
GLADIATORS 2???? HOLY FREAKIN' CRAP! IT'S GOING TO BE AWESOME!
warbler:
Moth3r, I had no idea that you were British!
Really? Check out those teeth!
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Moth3r said:
But I believe Hot Rod's point was, why would the Antipodean Russell Crowe be any better at an English accent than the American Kevin Costner? Although I did read that Crowe has been taking intensive voice-coaching to attempt to speak with an accurate North-Notts accent (an accent not too far away from my own).
I recall reading that Crowe, as "The Spaniard" in Gladiator wanted to do a Spanish accent, and Ridley Scott had to convince him that the only way the audience would know he was playing a Spanish member of the ancient Roman Empire based in Itally was to do a gravelly British accent.
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of course, if you ask me, there is only one Robin Hood: 
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TheBoost said:
I recall reading that Crowe, as "The Spaniard" in Gladiator wanted to do a Spanish accent, and Ridley Scott had to convince him that the only way the audience would know he was playing a Spanish member of the ancient Roman Empire based in Itally was to do a gravelly British accent.
It's like Alfred Molina. In his career: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000547/
He's played:
French
Mexican
English
Russian
German
New Yorker
Ancient Persian
Modern Iranian
Egyptian
Italian
Belgian
Jew
AND
Canadian
Apparently, we in America see him and say, "Well! I don't know where he's from, but he's not from around here!"
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exactly, and you can't say that about Costner.
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xhonzi said:
It's like Alfred Molina. In his career: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000547/
He's played:
French
Mexican
English
Russian
German
New Yorker
Ancient Persian
Modern Iranian
Egyptian
Italian
Belgian
Jew
AND
CanadianApparently, we in America see him and say, "Well! I don't know where he's from, but he's not from around here!"
To be fair people of Alfred Molina's basic complexion do make up a much larger part of the world's population than people of Kevin Costner's complexion.
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But what of Russel Crowe and his gravelly British accent?
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it will be better than Costner's total non-British accent.
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I respect the fact that he didn't even try. Costner with a fake British accent could have been pretty awful. What all didn't you like about the Hood staring Kevin Costner, Warb? I sense venom.
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ME: I am afraid I am not all that great at placing accents. Where in England are you from?
HER: Ay, I am from %(&&%.
ME: Wait, where? I didn't quite make that last bit out.
HER: (yelling) THERE WAS A RICH MAN FROM NOTTINGHAM WHO TRIED TO CROSS THE RIVER! WHAT A DOPE! HE TRIPPED ON A ROPE! NOW LOOK AT HIM SHIVER! Nottingham, I am from Nottingham.
ME: Ah, Nottingham.
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C3PX said:
I respect the fact that he didn't even try. Costner with a fake British accent could have been pretty awful.
I seem to remember he did try for a while and then gave up.
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While making it? Or are you saying in the actual film there are bits where he tries to fake it? Been a very long time since I have seen it.
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It's been a while for me too, but I thought he is trying through the first half of the movie (in the actual film). I know that doesn't make sense (films are not shot chronologically) but that's what I recall.