06-06-2008, 02:29 PM
Yes Jaime I like Ivanhoe as well. The joust is very good and sadly whenever I see any medieval re-enactors performing it just is not the same. No one flies off the horse as they did in that film and lands in a mangled heap! Of course I understand why but that's the magic of the movies! I also like the fact that they look like they are wearing real mail, with an arming cap underneath, which almost obscures the face as in the many effigies. Not many actors would do that, instead they tend to go for the knitted wool balaclava look!
However I am amazed that you have only seen the Flynn Robin Hood for the first time two years ago! Basil Rathbone was brilliant and I also like Robert Douglas in Ivanhoe, he was another Brit who often played the foil against Flynn as well.
If you ever get to see the other Robin Hood with Patrick Bergin, not Kevin Costner, look very carefully and you might spot yours truly! I was an extra playing a Norman knight in the church, which was filmed in Cheshire. I do not think I have ever earned so much for just standing around all day, plus we got three free meals as well! That is not a bad film by the way but sadly it came out at the same time as the Costner version so vanished without trace, a shame it is the better film.
David, I wish I had friends like yours who invite movie stars around for lunch! But I suppose that is one advantage of living with a CA postcode rather than CH!!
However I am amazed that you have only seen the Flynn Robin Hood for the first time two years ago! Basil Rathbone was brilliant and I also like Robert Douglas in Ivanhoe, he was another Brit who often played the foil against Flynn as well.
If you ever get to see the other Robin Hood with Patrick Bergin, not Kevin Costner, look very carefully and you might spot yours truly! I was an extra playing a Norman knight in the church, which was filmed in Cheshire. I do not think I have ever earned so much for just standing around all day, plus we got three free meals as well! That is not a bad film by the way but sadly it came out at the same time as the Costner version so vanished without trace, a shame it is the better film.
David, I wish I had friends like yours who invite movie stars around for lunch! But I suppose that is one advantage of living with a CA postcode rather than CH!!
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
