He Could Look Past Robin Having a Posh Accent, But Then...
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They couldn’t have at least gotten the rapper Lil Jon?
You know if you had Mel Brooks directing that would be hilarious
We are a few years into "Nazis were actually good" becoming a major cultural belief.
Mel Brooks wouldn't be able to resist sperging about how Jewish he is and how much he hates Nazis, like he always did in every movie, and it would go extremely poorly for everyone involved.
True. Although springtime for Hitler is catchy. I randomly find myself singing it
Its not that his work was unfunny or even bad, its just that he has a very consistent set of themes/topics he shoehorns in to every thing. And in the current zeitgeist it would come off either very controversial or simply blase because, unlike back when he was making all his big hits, literally everyone is doing it.
A great example of the dynamic for me is from Epic Rap Battles of History. The first time they used Trump in a random Christmas episode, it was funny and interesting with basically no one getting upset about it. The second time they did it went so bad they literally, by their own admission, went into hiding out of the backlash they got because they couldn't fathom anyone didn't hate him like they did. And those who weren't upset about it, found it extremely fucking terrible regardless because literally everyone had already said everything they tried to.
I get it. He has great movies. Blazing saddles and Young Frankenstein are two of my favorites
Blücher!
Sounds of horses
I have a soft nostalgia spot for Men in Tights myself. A buddy and I spent a lot of years ending every list with a slow "...Larry King?"
Men In Tights was oddly what I ended up watching for the first ever date I went on. I was about 9 at the time.
When it comes to humor, on a scientific, visceral level, the Jews are on top of things. Their timing, their use of irony, their use of the unexpected and/or "subverting expectation" is unimpeachable.
It's suffused, just inseperable, from American comedy, which is the best comedy. You can pinpoint when pacing started to get good, and you had sit-coms went from things like Taxi and became more like Cheers, and it gets more Jewy. It gets more and more Jewy from Friends to The Office and then the entire idea of shows sort of falls off a cliff.
But basically all of it owes thanks to Mel and Jewry. He was so successful that we're still trying to climb our way out of the seemingly bottomless pit of irony he buried us into. Funny but fucking evil.
Really?? Where are you seeing evidence of that?
Or Dave Chappelle doing his Lil Jon skits
Chappelle was funny in Men in Tights. Could work
It worked in Blazing Saddles.
Loved that line!
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OKAY!
"I said Hey Blinkin, not Abe Lincoln."
No wonder he nearly died in the river...
Kek. Underrated
Considering "Little" Jon is often done in jest with some massive unit built like a brick shithouse, this version should just be named Snow White or something similarly stupid. Maybe "Little Al" where is short for alabaster.
Wonder what they are going to do with the extra time? You know the part where Robin has to convince Little John to steal, without that here how will they use that time?
"No Little John, just the stealing. We don't do rape..."
"I's muh cultah."
You could run a whole season arc off of that.
I forgot about this post and made it 90% through the first episode of Spartacus: House of Ashur, thinking it was quite decent, until the black girlboss was introduced and I had to drop it. Fortunately I sailed the high seas so they didn't make a cent off me. You can never be too careful these days.
They're still making those?
I remember watching one of the original ones and rewatching just for John Hannah as Batiatus, but they killed him off so the rest wasn't worth it
Considering Robin was a former noble in some of the stories the posh accent isn't even that much of a stretch.
Indeed, this has been a silly obsession since Kevin Costner. A modern British accent is as anachronistic as an American one. Robin hood wouldve sounded more French to us than anything.
Its one of those funny little pieces of culture where people have this idea in their head of how things "should sound" and its completely nonsensical.
Its like people who think God just speaks like "why hast thou cometh hither?" because the KJV influenced him or somehow.
The line from Men in Tights where he mentions that he speaks with a British accent is pretty funny though. Good point
Given the modern British accent developed quite late, societally-speaking, a Louisianian-sounding Robin Hood would actually quite likely be closer to the real sounding one than the blended High British he normally gets. But it's about truthiness, what FEELS right in the story.
I remember watching my older brothers playing the Sierra Robin Hood game and thinking it was amazing. Still wanna play it again. Also I’ve never read the actual Robin Hood book. As for this show I can’t say I’m surprised. Amazon will do what Amazon does. At least they have a massive library of old content. Currently watching Northern Exposure and Dobie Gillis
It's actually a bunch of combined stories from the midlands. Robin Hood and how he became the legend we know is a really fun history to study. There are people who believe there was a real person and those who believe he's entirely made up.
I remember my parents had the book but I only skimmed through as a kid and looked at pictures. I have heard the speculation that he may have been real. Interesting.
Some American had him as a direct ancestor of mine for a little while, so I did quite a bit of research to make sure it was fake. Sort of sad, but that's life.
That would be cool if true. The only slightly interesting thing I have with ancestry is having an ancestor that was on the Mayflower but lots of people have that can say that. What did your research show?
Robin Hood was a common name for criminals. Just means guy with a hood. Most original stories have him as a bit of a drunken low life. He would gain and lose a kingdom at cards and then end up asleep on the curb in the same story.
Then the midlands festivals began to include him. A lot of the great legends came form them. Marion was actually the main character from a previous one, so they had Robin marry her eventually. This was awkward because he had a girlfriend before that.
In fact, many of the characters from the story are actually from those fairs. Friar tuck was one year, and Little Jon was another. The evil Sheriff was a villain to a few of them.
The suit we associate with him is the uniform for archers in that time. The colors represent the actual army he belonged to.
Was he real? The people who believe he was do not think there was a Lord Robin of Locksely. There was a Robin Hood who became the basis of the story. The royal fanfare was placed to make him sound better to the upper class types who funded the faires.
The very original stories were written in patois and middle English because those were the major languages for common folk at the time. So Robyn Hode ded want and fue is a line you might find.
Or in short, "Robin Hood" as a set of two names belonging to a scofflaw definitely existed, a good archer who was nobility definitely existed, a group of bandits living in the woods that occasionally poached the King's wildlife also definitely existed, and loyalists to the King over the Prince definitely existed. But all of them in one entity is more doubtful, but also more convenient for fable-telling.
Pretty much.
Crazy throwback. Sierra made a bunch of my childhood nostalgia games, including Robin Hood.
Yea I definitely plan on downloading and playing some next year for old times sake
Like a drug dealer, they lure you in early then spring a negro on you after you’re hooked.
And it's always blacks.
Lil Jon
So who's the black shaman facing off against Little John? Weird anachronism, but Robin Hood stories get wild sometimes, I can dig it.
It's funny how the shows try to bury the gay race communism until a couple episodes in the hopes you won't notice
He gets high from honey-reefer.