Adventures of Robin Hood!
Added 2024-04-25 12:12:13 +0000 UTCPlease be advised I finished this about ten minutes ago and have not done a final check of it, BUT here it is, seventeen minutes and forty-five seconds of me talking about overhead cuts. The detail level may have been a touch excessive, I'm going to be honest, but here we are :D
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/1UP57OVb44Q
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I said this on the Youtube-uploaded version of this, but I would love it if you could look at a fight or three from the 80s UK TV series Robin of Sherwood, which I think is possibly the best interpretation of the legend. I don't know if you know it, but I'd love to see your take on the fights.
Vaughan
2024-05-09 09:40:03 +0000 UTCJust a little background flavor. In the early 1970s (yes, I'm that old), my cousin was an actor on the soap opera Secret Storm and lived in the same building as Basil Rathbone's widow, Ouida Bergère, in New York. According to her, Basil was NOT a fan of Errol Flynn and his antics, but apparently his biggest complaint was the fact that he had to "work so damned hard to make Flynn look good". She never said anything about Tyrone Power.
Ed DeBruyn
2024-04-26 12:50:02 +0000 UTC"The Adventures of Robin Hood" has always been one of my favorites, and I enjoyed your analysis, as I always do. I'm looking forward to "Captain Blood", but I'm still holding out hope to see you do the 1948 version of "The Three Musketeers."
JCfromNC
2024-04-26 04:04:18 +0000 UTCYour fight analyses are the video equivalent of comfort food
Jim Sanderson
2024-04-26 00:43:42 +0000 UTCOddly enough, I'm watching clips of Errol Flynn's The Adventures of Robin Hood, thinking of the similar scenes from Robin Hood, Men in Tights! Flynn carrying a deer/ Elwes carrying a boar, the shadows of fencing men/ the hand shadow battle... *sorry, Men in Tights is one of my absolute favorite movies!*
Ann Brookens
2024-04-25 18:21:53 +0000 UTCStage combat has a different numbering system to fencing :)
Jill Bearup
2024-04-25 16:07:09 +0000 UTCAm I mis-remembering fencing? I thought a parry of a top-down split-the-head-type chop attack was a "parry 3". Or perhaps it's changed over time?
Craig P Steffen
2024-04-25 15:20:55 +0000 UTCNow imagine how bloody boring that fight would have been in an RPG. P1: I attack (rolls) P2: I parry (rolls) P1: I attack again! (rolls) P2: I parry again! (rolls)
Anders
2024-04-25 15:08:30 +0000 UTCAs a good Treckie, you recognise that the Goatee beard is a sign of evil from the parallel universe.
Ekij
2024-04-25 12:40:26 +0000 UTCOh, memories of sitting on my Grandparents’ sitting room floor as a child watching old Errol Flynn movies. Those clips of fights with Little John and Friar Tuck took me right back there…
Liz C
2024-04-25 12:37:44 +0000 UTC
