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  1. However, even the geography of Robin Hood Times can defy reality: in Prince of Thieves, Robin and Azeem somehow walk along Hadrian’s Wall and pass the Sycamore Gap Tree on their way from Dover to Nottingham. 1 Films set in this imagined era also feature familiar characters.

  2. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is a 1991 American action adventure film based on the English folk tale of Robin Hood and loosely set in the 12th century. Directed by Kevin Reynolds and written by Pen Densham and John Watson , the film stars Kevin Costner as Robin Hood, Morgan Freeman as Azeem, Christian Slater as Will Scarlett , Mary Elizabeth ...

  3. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves: Directed by Kevin Reynolds. With Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater. Robin Hood decides to fight back as an outlaw when faced with the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham.

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    • Action, Adventure, Drama
    • Kevin Reynolds
    • 1991-06-14
    • Jerusalem. Prince of Thieves kicks off with a masterstroke; taking Robin out of Sherwood. We begin with him imprisoned in Jerusalem during one of King Richard the Lionheart’s Crusades – about to get his hand chopped off.
    • Brian Blessed on a horse. Meanwhile, back in Nottingham, Robin’s dad (kudos to the casting director for seeing the resemblance between Costner and Brian Blessed) is taking his last ride.
    • Call off Christmas’ Rickman’s Sheriff is one of the greatest screen villains, an evil git that will make you laugh while he’s slitting your throat.
    • Hadrian’s Wall. Anyone looking for historical accuracy in a Robin Hood story might want to check out the 1973 Disney cartoon version instead. In director Kevin Reynolds’ (I say ‘director’, but he was locked out of the editing room after filming, just as he would be on 1995’s Waterworld, again falling out with his friend Costner) Prince of Thieves, Dover is a few minutes’ walk from Nottingham, which itself is inexplicably located in the north of England near Hadrian’s Wall.
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    After being captured while on crusade Robin of Locksley returns home to England accompanied by someone who has decided to take his life debt to Robin seriously while he himself seeks to keep an oath made to a dying friend to protect that friend's sister.

    Kevin Costner as Robin of Locksley
    Morgan Freemanas Azeem
    Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Maid Marian
    Christian Slater as Will Scarlet

    This version of Will Scarlet is Robin Hood's bastard half-brother rather than some variety of cousin as he is usually. This change was wrought to make Robin the higher born of the two, when in the...

    Lord John, who is often in Robin Hood tales as the villainous Prince John, is not even mentioned in this story despite the hurdle he would prove to the sheriff's plan as the King's younger brother...

    The Celts wouldn't have been pagans by the time of the film, having converted to Christianity long prior to the time of the Crusades.
    Hand held telescopes similar the one Azeem uses did not appear until about 400 years after the film is set.
    Azeem's giant blade has an entirely fantasy based appearance, with no similarities to blades of the era the film is set in or any other.
    The title "Majesty" was not applied to or used by English monarchs until three centuries after the time the film is set in.
  4. Jan 21, 2021 · Starring Kevin Costner, Alan Rickman and Morgan Freeman. Plot. Robin of Locksley, a Crusader imprisoned in Jerusalem, escapes with the help of the Moorish prisoner Azeem. Returning to England, he finds that the Sheriff of Nottingham has branded his father a devil-worshipper and seized his lands.

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  6. The romance between Robin and Maid Marian (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) seems inspired more by necessity than by desire, as if both of them had read the book and knew they were required to fall in love.

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