Back to “Robin Hood”, and to a little detail that you may have never noticed in the 21st animated classic from Disney Studios.
A silhouette strangely resembling Jock from Lady and the Tramp in the middle of the hyenas from The Lion King, Aladdin’s lamp hidden among the riches of Tamatoa in Moana, the two directors of Hercules animated and disguised as villagers at the start of the film , or even King Triton from The Little Mermaid transformed into a carnival float in The Princess and the Frog…
When you watch a Disney studio classic, we strongly recommend that you keep your eyes open to try to spot the many small details that have been meticulously added by the animators. Much more numerous from the 90s and 2000s, these easter eggs are quite rare in previous productions, but it sometimes happens that at the turn of a scene, even the old Disney ones conceal a little secret.
At 1 hour, 10 minutes and 10 seconds
This is for example the case in Robin Hood, produced in 1973, and in which we recently discovered an element that had never before jumped out at us.
When you have pressed pause at 1 hour, 10 minutes and 10 seconds of the film, in the scene where Robin and Little John steal the keys to the prison to free all their friends, we recommend that you take a quick look at right of your screen.
On this shot where Brother Tuck – supposed to be executed at dawn on the orders of Prince John – is still chained in his cell, we can indeed observe a small inscription on the wall.
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A little sentence is written on the wall
“Forgive them all”, can we read on the stone of the dungeon. A short sentence that can be translated into French as “Forgive them all”and which strongly recalls the last words of Jesus nailed to the Cross in the Gospels: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
If we add to this the fact that just under the inscription, on the straw of the dungeon, there is a large book whose contours are reminiscent of those of a Bible, we can deduce that Brother Tuck (who is a man of the church) prepared himself for his sad fate by praying for the salvation of his enemies. We can nevertheless wonder how – being chained – he managed to engrave the little sentence on the wall.
Fortunately, the cruel sentence that Prince John had reserved for him did not come to fruition, because Petit Jean arrived in the prison a second later to free the monk.
Even if this little detail is not strictly speaking an easter egg, it nevertheless gives us additional information on the character of Brother Tuck, and on his psychology at this moment in the film.
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