{"id":402,"date":"2026-06-21T04:05:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=402"},"modified":"2026-06-21T04:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:05:58","slug":"the-death-of-robin-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Death of Robin Hood\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><span>\u2b50<\/span><span>\u2b50<\/span><span>\u2b50<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span><span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span><span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span><span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span><br \/>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span>Rating: 3 out of 4.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Revisionism is a powerful dispeller of myth. Consider how Oliver Stone, Francis Ford Coppola, and Stanley Kubrick reframed the public understanding of the Vietnam War. Or how Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah, and Clint Eastwood cut the morally righteous reins on the American Western.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=400\">At the Middle East, singing for his mental health<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What about Robin Hood, the legend who stole from the rich and gave to the poor? A regular champion of the poor, like Mother Teresa, and a candidate for a Nobel prize? Not so much in Michael Sarnoski\u2018s dark reckoning, where Mr. Hood is looking for atonement before his book closes on his not-so-noble reputation. He\u2019s played by<\/p>\n<p>Hugh Jackman with world-weary gravitas, conveying sadness in his eyes and the simmer of rage in his heart.<\/p>\n<p>The film is gorgeously shot by Paul Scola, who worked with Sarnoski previously on \u201cPig\u201d (2021) \u2014 then again, the bare north mountains of Ireland do a lot of this movie\u2019s heavy lifting. We learn early on that this is not Errol Flynn\u2019s swashbuckling Robin Hood. Our Robin has been enmeshed in the cycle of violence all his life, hunted by the kin of those he killed. He\u2019s adroit at bloodshed. There\u2019s no flashback to show us whether the younger Robin\u2019s deeds were derring-do or thuggish savagery.<\/p>\n<p>Somoski keeps us in the moment as the reticent Robin gives fireside space and food to a starving fellow wanderer. The traveler mentions Robin Hood and his lore \u2014 throughout much of the movie, Robin obfuscates his identity \u2014 and Robin solemnly retorts that the legend is \u201clies upon lies.\u201d The traveler, like Robin, is elusive, and the scene sets the tone for how Jackman and Sarnoski have decided to deconstruct the outlaw.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=398\">Trinity\u2019s Touch salon celebrating 20 years<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The legend of Robin Hood has been rewritten over the centuries. In early medieval ballads, he was a mercurial bandit and cautionary tale; later, during the Peasants\u2019 Revolt of 1381, he became the bawdy bardish bad boy with his band of merry men who brought laughter and goodness to all \u2014 except the serf overlords they stole from. Of his eventual companions \u2014 Little John, Maid Marian, and Friar Tuck \u2014 only John makes it into this redux. Played by Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd (\u201cBarbarian,\u201d and Pennywise in \u201cIt\u201d), he goes by his real name, Edward. He\u2019s now married with a family and a farm compound, but after he\u2019s outed as John, and a band of those formerly wronged seize the farm and hold his family hostage, John appeals to Robin to break out the bow and cold steel to help free his family. The siege is a long, bloody, and muddy affair akin to the signature grit and gore of Robert Eggers\u2019s \u201cThe Northman\u201d (2022).<\/p>\n<p>It feels like the movie crests too early, but that\u2019s by design. The film shifts gears as the gravely wounded Robin wakes up in the care of Sister Brigid (Jodie Comer, \u201cThe Bikeriders\u201d) at a priory situated on a small island. It\u2019s here, as Robin heals and helps supply the priory\u2019s flock of orphans with trapped game, he becomes deeply reflective and self-critical \u2014 Sarnoski is more interested in truth and atonement than redemption. Sister Brigid augments Robin\u2019s recovery with good, old-fashioned bloodletting, while a nameless leper (Murray Bartlett) tends to his spiritual wounds. Instantly recognizing Robin\u2019s true identity, the leper forms a bond with the aging outlaw and becomes an unlikely source of enlightenment.<\/p>\n<p>Sarnoski\u2019s film is not the first to imagine an older, darker Robin Hood. In 1976, Sean Connery took up the mantle in \u201cRobin and Marian,\u201d opposite an impressive slate of co-stars that included Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw, and Richard Harris. Ironically, that film was originally going to be called \u201cThe Death of Robin Hood,\u201d but the studio thought the title too grim. Not Sarnoski, whose film teems with grimness.<\/p>\n<p>Cinematically, both flavors of Robin can coexist. Consider it a Robin-verse. Next up, I\u2019d love to see a modern-day, Errol Flynn-amped Robin and his merry band of AI-replaced unemployed take on Elon Musk and the tranche of trillionaires.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=396\">Cambridge lacrosse wins championship<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Playing at Apple Cinemas Cambridge and AMC Assembly Row 12<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50 Rating: 3 out of 4. Revisionism is a powerful dispeller of myth. Consider how Oliver Stone, Francis Ford Coppola, and Stanley Kubrick reframed the public understanding of the Vietnam War. Or how Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah, and Clint Eastwood cut the morally righteous reins on the American Western. 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