Essay 2-02a: Group Essay about Robin Hood

We watched the 1991 and the 2010 versions of Robin Hood. We will tell you about our favorite scenes.

I watched the movie of Robin Hood~The Prince of thieves~. It was scteened in 1990, and old movie, but the story is interesting for me to watch.

Yukino’s favorite scene in the movie Robin Hood is the final duel of a movie. Robin Hood storms to the George (Sheriff of Nottingham)'s castle to recover Marian Dubois, who is king Richard's cousin and was carried off, from George. And then He duel with George in front of Marian to help her. I think the scene is the climax!! It keeps me in suspense. In fact, the main character of this story is Robin, but I boost George without notice because he is a scream in this movie. I do not know whether he is funny or not, I think that Alan Rickman's performance as George, sheriff of Nottingham, is briliant! because he received BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role with this movie in 1991, so it is one of the highlight.

I watched the 2010 version of Robin Hood. Eimi’s favorite scene in this movie is scene of war versus French army, because this scene has big impact. Before this scene, northern marquees were angry to new king and tried to revolt to king, because king requests excessive tax. Many northern marquees gathered, Robin Hood was there too instead of marquees son of Nottingham, then the king talks around them with Robin's help. This background makes bigger sensation.

In Eimi’s favorite scene, Robin Hood and northern marquees fight at shore. Behind the shore, there is huge wall. In the battle scene, a lot of arrows fly from there to shore. I like this scene especially, because it’s so beautiful. Robin Hood is so strong, he is an expert archer, and he is very smart. This scene very expressed these his character.

Haruka’s favorite scene of Robin Hood is that Robin went to King's brother to hand his crown. Robin Hood was sincere because he handed it exactly. He was asked King to hand his brother the crown when he is dying. So, he was entrusted a important role. It may have been possible to give up the role, but he achieved it exactly. I thought that he was honest and brave. He also had a important role. It was to hand the sword of Robart to his father. Robart was killed at the war, so the role is also important role. However, he achieved it exactly though he was almost killed by French army. I think that this movie is not only about the fight between England and France, but also about human nature of Robin Hood. After I watched this movie, I was moved because of his human nature.

As stated above, mainly we had big impression at big scale fighting scene and the scene that Robin Hood went to King’s brother to hand his crown. We were drawn to Robin Hood’s brave and honest character. 1991 ver and 2010 ver. has many different points, we recommend to watch both works. It is because you can find different points and it’s some amusement. We hope that new Robin Hood movie will be made in future.

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