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The Adventures of Robin Hood

Michael Curtiz & William Keighley · 1938 CE · Film · Modern / American · Modernist

With Richard held for ransom abroad, a Saxon knight walks into Prince John's banquet with a poached deer on his shoulders, then takes to Sherwood with archers, a friar and a miller's son, robbing the tax convoys crossing his forest. Curtiz stages the archery tournament and the stair duel in three-strip Technicolor over Korngold's score. Warner's costliest production to that date, and the measure for swashbucklers ever since.

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Genre
AdventureHistoricalRomance
Theme
Justice & RevengeLoyaltyLegitimacy
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Rebel / OutlawKnight-ErrantVillain / Tyrant
Plot structure
Exile and ReturnTrial
Symbol / motif
The ForestThe SwordThe Crown
Conflict
vs Societyvs Person
Mode / tone
AdventureRomantic
Culture / tradition
Modern / American

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