This is a surprise.
The usual depiction of Robin Hood is the central theme in socialism: steal from the rich and give to the poor
I will wait for other reviews, preferably from Freepers who have seen the movie
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/robin_hood_2010/
A number of reviews mention the tea parties...but yes, we will have to see what Scott has done to the story.
“Snarky” might well describe this review.
The "steal from the rich and give to the poor" meme is actually a misrepresentation of the usual depiction of Robin Hood. Most versions of the Robin Hood story depict him as stealing not from the "rich" but rather from the tyrannical rulers who have through confiscatory taxes plundered the very livelihood from the subjects/citizens.
That is the fraudulent Leftist hijack of the Robin Hood story. Robin Hood robbed the tax-collectors, including the church, and gave it to the poor tax payers
The usual depiction of Robin Hood is the central theme in socialism: steal from the rich and give to the poor
And that was definitely the impression I got from the History Channel last night, a program about the "real" Robin Hood (explanations and theories), the commentary from both Scott and Crowe, not to mention the scene snippets, led me to believe they were portraying it in the socialism mode.
Will have to check it out for myself.
I think this says all we need to know.
“...and Crowe plays only the title character, whose ability to mobilize commoners with empty, anti-government rhetoric equating taxation with slavery is posited as a virtue.”
Translation: This movie trumpets the glaringly obvious truth that taxation IS slavery and government’s tool to suppress the masses...and we CAN’T have that. Therefore I declare that the movie sucks least people begin to realize that mobilizing the conservative masses to oppose our current fascist president IS a virtue.