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Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on May 21, 2010, 12:20:37 am ---
You mean like the sprezzatura you exhibited in the way you dropped the word into your post?
I had to look it up, it's new to me.
:)
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Serendipity! I learned the word just in time. http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,462.msg572850.html#msg572850
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on May 21, 2010, 12:20:37 am ---You mean like the sprezzatura you exhibited in the way you dropped the word into your post?
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Wish I could take credit, but initially it was the movie critic who dropped it into her review.
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on May 21, 2010, 12:43:34 am ---Serendipity! I learned the word just in time. http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,462.msg572850.html#msg572850
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Looks like you're exhibiting some sprezzatura yourself!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Kerry on May 26, 2010, 02:36:02 am ---Saw "Robin Hood" yesterday and loved it.
Not that we'll ever know, but it sure does have a ring (whiff?) of authenticity about it. Another one of those movies that is so realistic, you can practically smell it!
Gladiator in Lincoln Green!
Wonderful escapist fantasy.
9/10 :D
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I saw it on Sunday and liked it. My biggest gripe is that I often had a hard time understanding what was going on. So many bad guys in the movie -- pretty much everybody in the film is a bad guy except for Robin, Marion, the dad and the Merry Men. Oh, and William Hurt. The bad guys include: the new king, the old king, the French king, the traitorous scheming Mark Strong, the Sheriff of Nottingham, even for a while the feral forest children. They were all against Robin (except the forest kids), but often they were against each other, too. I found it hard to keep straight which bad guy was in league with or plotting against which other bad guy.
I still wish somebody would do a really realistic movie about the Middle Ages. I think this movie made some headway, but it was still somewhat glamorized. I think life in that period really was nasty, brutish and short, but movies tend to make it look pretty much like our life except with old-fashioned clothes. For one thing, in real life back then there'd be far fewer teeth.
I did really like the relationship between Robin and Marion, though. And Marion is a good, strong character. I can see why they picked Russell Crowe rather than someone with more sprezzatura -- they're going for a more noble, wise, mature Robin than, say, Robert Downey Jr. or Johnny Depp would have created. Next to them, Cate Blanchett's Marion might have looked too stern and stodgy; instead, she was a good match for Robin.
Meryl:
I saw "Robin Hood" the other day and agree with Kerry and Katherine - great entertainment, and very nice depiction of the Middle Ages, though somewhat cleaned up. ;D
It was reminiscent of two of my favorite films: "Gladiator" and "LOTR: Return of the King." The opening was just like "Gladiator" what with the armies of the king on campaign in a foreign land, and the successor to the doomed Richard was just as self-centered and sneering as Joaquin Phoenix's nasty little Commodus. The manor in Nottingham reminded me of Maximus's home that he so longed to return to, and its pillaging did the same. The end was pure LOTR, though, with the giant horse emblem on the hillside, the Rohirrim Brits mustering and riding to battle with the orcs French, Cate's Eowyn Maid Marian tagging along in battle garb, right down to the hobbits feral boys on ponies. Loved the unsubtle Hollywood one-liners and dispatching of the bald bad guy, too. Oh, and the gratuitous chest-baring scene? Icing on the cake. ;D
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--- Quote from: Meryl on May 26, 2010, 11:17:37 am ---It was reminiscent of two of my favorite films: "Gladiator" and "LOTR: Return of the King."
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It reminded me of my favorite LOTR, "The Two Towers," particularly the battle scenes. I loved that movie expressly because it felt like a pretty accurate depiction of what warfare in the Middle Ages would have been like, sans Hobbit feet and Elvin ears.
My very favorite moment in the entire 11-hour LOTR trilogy is when Orlando Bloom rides a shield or something down a huge castle staircase like a kid on a skateboard. If only Orlando had exhibited that kind of sprezzatura in any of his other roles!
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