If we can clearly see, from afar, a piece of the fleshy buttocks of Kevin Costner frolicking naked under a waterfall in Robin Hood, prince of thievesknow that these are not really those of the man whose popularity in Hollywood was at the height, after having filmed Dances with Wolves et The Untouchables. No. Even filmed from more than fifty meters away, modesty requires, these are those of his double!
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But the film Kevin Reynoldsreleased in 1991, is far from being limited to that. With its budget exceeding $60 million and the appearance, at the very end, of Sean Connery in the role of Richard the Lionheart ($250,000 for a day of filming), it is a big production and a rereading, if not daring, let’s say original, of Robin Hood. The British screenwriter Penn Densham one day had the idea of modifying the story of the vigilante in tights from Sherwood Forest as we know it from the films, notably the one with Errol Flynn, in 1938, and the Disney cartoon of 1973, to make Robin de Locksley the son of a nobleman, rather a brat, spoiled, who discovers, on his return from the Crusades – after spending five years in the jails of the Moors –, a social conscience and becomes a rebel. Without tights, long hair, a biting, almost ironic tone, wielding a sword and knowing, of course, how to shoot arrows like no other. But this last facet, or rather this particular talent, is almost put aside in the scenario: in fact, not the slightest trace of an archers’ tournament. On the other hand, fights in spades.
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