Robi Hood (was Agent Mitzi DelBra)

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley" 
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> Iggy wrote:
> 
> > "Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves" was a decent enough movie, but 
I 
> agree with
> > the joke in "Men in Tights" where Elwes says that "Unlike 
*other* 
> Robin
> > Hoods, I can speak with an English accent."  (Who knew Baron 
Robin 
> of Loxley
> > was actually from the American Midwest??)  It's the only movie 
of 
> his I'll
> > re-watch occasionally.
> 
> To be fair, modern Nottinghamshire English is probably no closer 
to 
> the English of the thirteenth century than Costner's accent.  If 
> Robin Hood could hear a modern Englishman and a modern American 
> speaking, he'd probably think they were both speaking the same 
> foreign language - and he'd probably be right.
> 
> If RH existed, he almost certainly wasn't baron of anything.
> 
> David, who thinks the best Robin Hood was 'Maid Marian and her 
Merry 
> Men', BBC Children's TV

Firstly - I agree - that was a brilliant, witty and intelligent kids 
programme which even put across a feminist pov in a non-patronising 
way. 

Secondly, the programme took the piss out of the Robin Hood Prince 
of Thieves rather well.  Best laugh was the fact that one of the 
Merry Men was a Rastafarian.

I assumed that it sent up the fact that Morgan Freeman played an 
unlikely part in RHPOT - yes I know he was supposed to be a "Moor" 
but for my part that bit of plot creaked loudly, and I assumed it 
was just the film trying to be PC.  No disrespect to Morgan Freeman -
 who acted Costner off the screen, along with another well known 
British actor who shall remain nameless.  Come to think of it, it 
isn't really hard to act Costner off the screen is it?

June