Wrong Robin Hood. I’m referring to the 2010 version with Russell Crowe. Prince of Cheese is worth watching for Rickman, yes.
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There’s a Robin Hood with Russel Crowe?! 
I must have totally missed that one. My favourite “modern” version is the Patrick Bergin/Uma Thurman one from 1991… thirty… two… years… ago… 
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Yes! The Patrick Bergin film is good.
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Everybody was hoodin’ it up in the early 90s, with varied success.
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i didn’t have any desire to see this movie before i watched that trailer, so job well done there. is anyone else totally bugged by the “TRAILER…STARTS…NOW!” nonsense at the beginning of trailers now? we know, we know – get on with it already!!
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But Josephine will be played by a 21 year old.
We really need a biopic on Emperor Elagabalus. Long overdue.
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You know it won’t be an accurate bio unless even mention of its existence is banned in Texas and Florida.
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Came here for this. I suppose Napoleon is far enough in the past that people can idolize him, but an accurate bio would show him as the brutal megalomaniac he was, a 19th century Hitler or Putin who caused untold suffering across Europe, not excluding his own country.
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Not quite, Jodie Comer is 30.
ETA: confusing cast info from Google, but apparently actually Vanessa Kirby (age 35)?
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I wouldn’t be surprised if Spielberg has been given access to Kubrick’s massive treasure of research material.
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Nah… think about that narrative, of how he “saved” France from the revolution, and got it back on the “right” track by setting up a imperial throne and then conquering France…
Indeed! But people still treat him, Hitler, and Putin as some sort of geniuses, though. It’s a real problem how people will happily glorify people they perceive as “good at war” even if they are also criticizing them too… oh, he was awful, but SO GOOD AT WARS!!!
I don’t cover much about wars in my classes, and when I do prefer to focus on aspects of war like how awful they were, the death tolls, how it reshaped landscapes, and how it shaped social movements before, during and after… none of this sitting around analyzing troop movements, and fawning over killing machines in my classes. Ghoulish.
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And reinstated chattel slavery that was previously banned!
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Just bloody awful.
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On the upside a key to his success was recognizing and nurturing talented subordinates. His was one of the earliest militaries in Europe where officer promotion was earned on merit rather purchased.
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Hm. Am I wrong in thinking that this sort of “progress” is not necessarily a great thing? Sounds great on the surface, but it’s really a means of getting soldiers to be more dedicated to killing the enemy, isn’t it?
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Like the battle of the pyramids? (historian note: the battle was 9 miles away)
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Usually promotion to and within officer ranks usually reduces your chance of being killed. So if anything it opened up the middle class to avoid being cannon fodder. A privilege formerly exclusive to nobles.
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But to get there, they still have to go through the soldiering part, which includes killing and maiming others. The nobles didn’t stop getting that preference, they just allowed a path for some to eventually join. Did not thing to curb the violence of wars, of course, as that still continues today.
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