"ROBIN HOOD" MOVIE: Anglo-Saxon debate about the "author’s rights" for liberty and democracy
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Group of documents, which – at a stretch – may be referred to the principal laws of Great Britain, originates from the very Magna Carta. It has nothing revolutionary in it, though. From the legal point of view, the much-talked-about "Yaroslav’s Justice"1, which was in use in Russia for a long time then, was more "advanced" document of its period. English Magna Carta, however, became the sacred myth and the "foundation stone of liberty", whatever that word may mean. "Robin Hood" directed by Ridley Scott is the first – may it be the probing one – attempt to work with that myth.
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There’s a rather small group of directors, capable of making historical movies. And it is Ridley Scott, – who created "Gladiator", "Kingdom, of Heaven" and "Robin Hood" – who leads this group. It is exactly the "Gladiator" that is considered to be the movie that brought the sympathies of the mass audience to the historical movie genre – the one that lost it since the times of "Ben-Hur" and "Cleopatra". Not the least of the factors is that in the 80s Ridley Scott with his "Blade-Runner" and "Alien" quadrilogy also headed the group of directors who were the best at shooting the films about the future. There’s no contradiction here. In order to understand humanity we have to look where we are going to at first, and then – where have we come from.
http://www.win.ru/en/movies/4487.phtml
By Vadim Bulatov
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There’s a rather small group of directors, capable of making historical movies. And it is Ridley Scott, – who created "Gladiator", "Kingdom, of Heaven" and "Robin Hood" – who leads this group. It is exactly the "Gladiator" that is considered to be the movie that brought the sympathies of the mass audience to the historical movie genre – the one that lost it since the times of "Ben-Hur" and "Cleopatra". Not the least of the factors is that in the 80s Ridley Scott with his "Blade-Runner" and "Alien" quadrilogy also headed the group of directors who were the best at shooting the films about the future. There’s no contradiction here. In order to understand humanity we have to look where we are going to at first, and then – where have we come from.
http://www.win.ru/en/movies/4487.phtml
By Vadim Bulatov
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