Oh well, Disney’s Robin Hood is an American movie; I guess the rest of the world just has to cope. Hey, if we can make it though British movies and all the biscuits and crisps and loos and bonnets without being too confused, then it shouldn’t be a problem.
I do think it’s kind of funny that the movie has Robin Hood and Marian as foxes, towns people as dogs and rabbits, Friar Tuck as a badger, the king as a lion and his advisor as a talking snake, and the part that people find “bizarre” are the accents.
No, that means that Costner got a boatload of money and a bunch of awards for his first directorial effort, so he had free rein to cast himself in a movie he had no business being in.
I was basing my earlier NAACP statement on what I was told by several black gentlemen that I work with. I should know better than to not research such a statement, but I assumed they knew what they were talking about.
My profound ignorance begs your forgiveness.
Chris W.
PS It still doesn’t give a legitimate explanation for why the film is not in release.
I imagine Disney is also extremely protective about their main characters such as Mickey, Donald, Goofy and a few others. So while they will let Joe Carioca smoke up a storm in The Three Caballeros they will cut out a couple seconds of Goofy smoking in Saludos Amigos. Presumably to keep people like us from snapping screen shots of Goofy lighting up. Except in Japan where they are more permissive about certain things and already have uncut versions of Song of the South and Melody Time and other Disney movies. Woe is me that I didn’t know this earlier because I am extremely jealous. Any of you Japanese dopers know where we can find these things on laserdisc cheap?
I think the British have other more pressing Robin Hood complaints to lodge with Disney.
Ranchoth, your threads seems to have strayed far from it’s origin. Obviously Disney is a thread topic that we have not really had a chance to discuss and bitch about lately. I hope you don’t mind too much and I think we did come to some sort of answer for you. I still think ol’ Wolfie had something to do with it but googling anything useful on him is next to impossible.
I did have another thought on this though. A lot of Disney movies before this time had British elements. Certainly Disney was certainly some sort of Anglophile. This could be some sort of way to bring Disney back to America. And with the much used American setting, the old west, so heavily explored the decade before they went to another one, the Ol’ South. And this movement was very strongly reinforced by the larger southern movement in the US.
You know what’s suprising though? That they went Southern and not into space? Sputnik went up in 1957 and kicked off a huge space phenomenon in the US but Disney’s Full Length Animated Features took another 45 years to make it into space, with our recent friend Stitch. Instead they went South.