Robin Hood is a beloved fixture of cinema...so why are so many of his movies outright bad?
The Big Picture Everyone knows Robin Hood. He's the man in green tights who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He chills in the forest with his "merry men" and gets into all sorts of action-packed adventures. Robin Hood has also, unfortunately, become infamous for being attached to some crummy movies. In the earliest days of cinematic storytelling, Robin Hood was once attached to prolific adventure titles headlined by the likes of Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn.
Why Is Robin Hood So Ubiquitous? Sometimes, there are endlessly complicated reasons why a certain fictional character has endured as popular over the years. In the case of Robin Hood, it’s fairly simple. It’s a public domain character that the average moviegoer knows immediately. It’s like if Batman or Yoda were in the public domain, free to use whenever.
For certain producers, meanwhile, the Robin Hood character can also be an appealing figure because this guy can be reasonably cheap to realize on the big screen. There's a reason Hammer Films Productions made several Robin Hood films in the 1950s and 1960s, it doesn't cost a lot of money to put a guy in green tights and have him fight villainy.
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