Yogi's Movie Consumption Blog

Robin shoots arrows, wears tights, defies the evil Prince John and has horrible table manners. And he has a fling with Maid Marian, who likes to dress up in some sort of medieval burkas. The colors are stunning. Never have I seen a meadow so green (they painted it), costumes so lush, cheeks so glowingly red, and teeth so refreshingly unbleached. It's quite amazing how this film is visually gripping just by this explosion of chroma. It would be nice to see a film like this again these days - although animation seems to have taken on the adventure of exploring color space. The script seems quite disjoint - but when I was a kid, it impressed me for weeks. There seems to be a different mechanic at work underneath, which my gut feeling tells me has a bit to do with Vogler's heroes, but there's also something else. Maybe it's the way that Flynn gets represented as a hero who never loses faith in himself. The "all is lost" point where he is captured ...

A traveling woman is doubting her perception when the elderly lady disappears from her compartment.  The film was highly entertaining - even when it went a little crazy in the end, being somewhat unrealistic. But I didn't mind as I bought into all of the action. Some of the set-ups were just a tiny bit too obvious, such as the writing on the window. But then again, maybe it was exactly what Hitchcock intended - let me make the highly informed guess and let her take forever to remember that the writing was there. Although the "showdown" doesn't hold up with the notion of these days on what is meant by spectacular it's still worked well on me - powerful stuff I would say. The humor is quite nice, I really loved the completely idiotic attempt to kill somebody by letting a flower pot fall from the window. There are a lot of good examples of keeping up the tension in there.