Robin Hood (1973)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Robin Hood |
| Original title | Robin Hood |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Reitherman |
| script | Ken Anderson, Larry Clemmons |
| production | Wolfgang Reitherman |
| music |
George Bruns songs: Roger Miller Robert B. Sherman Richard M. Sherman Orchestration: Walter Sheets |
| camera |
François Léonard , Jean Midre |
| cut |
Tom Acosta , Jim Melton |
Robin Hood [ ˌrɒbɪn ˈhʊd ] is the 21st full-length animated film from Walt Disney Studios and was released in 1973 . He refers to the legendary English folk hero Robin Hood and uses anthropomorphic animals. The film was nominated for an Oscar in the category of best film song in 1974 for the song " Love " and in 1976 received the Golden Screen .
action
As thieves of gold and jewels, Robin Hood and his friend Little John repeatedly mess with the royal guard. Although they only narrowly escape each time, they also target the passing treasury, which roams the country together with Prince John, who is only in power because the real ruler, King Richard, is on a crusade. The two crooks dress up as gypsies and want to tell the prince a few things about his future. Despite the concerns of his advisor Sir Hiss, the prince has his future painted in the most beautiful colors and thus robbed down to his shirt.
As usual, Robin and Little John distribute the gold to the poor, but the merciless Sheriff of Nottingham, as tax collector, mercilessly steals the last penny from the people. Even little Skippy is relieved of his birthday present, a penny that the family has painstakingly saved. Robin Hood gives the little one a bow as a consolation and Skippy is overjoyed to try it out with his friends. Full of vigor, he shoots the arrow into the royal garden, where Maid Marian and her maid Lady Kluck play badminton. Determined to defend his only present this time, Skippy sneaks into the garden and befriends Marian.
Meanwhile, Prince John has come up with a plan to put Robin Hood's trade down once and for all. He organizes an archery tournament and thus provokes Robin's ambition. The winner will also receive a kiss from Marian, for whom Robin has always had an affection, and it is now impossible for Robin to miss the tournament. Disguised as a stork, he competes against the sheriff in the final and is finally revealed by the prince after his victory. Prince John orders his immediate execution, but with the help of his friends Robin escapes (proposing to Marian) and celebrates victory with them in his hiding place.
The sheriff collects taxes the next day with the usual success and brings the daily income to the advisor and royal treasurer Sir Hiss. They start a song that has been sung all over the streets since the tournament yesterday, about Prince John being a no-brainer and King Richard about to drive him out. Suddenly the prince is in the door. Beside himself with anger he decides to punish the people for such behavior and doubles and triples taxes.
The population can hardly feed itself under this financial pressure; those who cannot pay their taxes go to jail. Brother Tuck only has to ring the bells in his empty church to cheer up the people. The poor fund of the church is empty and the church mice give their last savings when the sheriff shows up and also collects this last reserve. Brother Tuck beats the sheriff out of his church and is jailed for resisting state violence. At this point, Prince John was once again pondering how to get rid of Robin Hood when the idea occurred to him. He orders an execution for Brother Tuck, who has just been arrested, in order to seduce Robin Hood into a heroic rescue act and then to arrest him. Robin realizes that he doesn't have much time and he decides to free Brother Tuck and the other prisoners from prison the following night.
He circumvents the massive security measures with a lot of sophistication and disguise tricks and climbs up to the royal bedchamber after he has smuggled Little John into the cell wing so that he can free the villagers from their chains in peace. He and Little John set up a cable car between the prince's bedroom and the prison window, transporting money sack for money sack from the bedroom to the prison. Everything is going well until Sir Hiss wakes up at the last sack of money and sounds the alarm. Robin and his friends hurry towards the exit and already think they are safe when the youngest member of the rabbit family goes missing. Robin saves it at the last second, but is now trapped in the castle himself. He escapes to the highest tower, which, ignited by the sheriff, is ablaze. In dire need, Robin jumps into the moat and appears to have been killed. However, he was able to save himself and emerges from the moat.
To everyone's surprise, King Richard is finally coming back and putting an end to the hustle and bustle. He orders Prince John, his adviser Hiss and the sheriff to do detention in the quarry; and Robin and Marian can finally get married.
production
In a direct comparison with The Jungle Book , it is noticeable that in Robin Hood scenes from the earlier film were obviously reused: The "dance scene" with Little John (a bear) and Lady Kluck (a fat chicken) is identical in every detail to a scene in The jungle book in which Baloo the bear dances with the monkey King Louie . There are also parallels to Snow White and Aristocats . For example, the dance movements of Robin and Marian are modeled on those of O'Malley and Duchess or Snow White and the hare playing the drums is visually very similar to the Siamese tomcat from the Aristocats making music. In addition, Sir Hiss is strongly reminiscent of the snake Kaa . The speaker (English and German version) of the bear figure is also the same ( Phil Harris or Edgar Ott ).
The film cost about $ 15 million and grossed $ 32 million in the United States.
synchronization
The German dubbing was created in 1974 in the studios of Simoton Film GmbH Berlin . Heinrich Riethmüller was responsible for the dialogue book, lyrics (sung by Reinhard Mey ) and dubbing .
Reviews
The film received mostly positive reviews. For example, film critic Steven D. Greydanus from the Decent Film Guide rated the film as an excellent contribution to the Disney canon. He is better than The Witch and the Wizard or Cap and Capper , but worse than The Jungle Book or The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh .
David Keyes described the film on Cinemaphile.org as more memorable than its predecessor The Jungle Book and Aristocats . The film has a sense of humor, which has often been neglected in previous films, and follows a solidly constructed plot. The German film magazine Blickpunkt: Film summed up Robin Hood as an “amusing Disney cartoon classic” and the Dirk Jasper film lexicon confirmed the film as “a lot of wit, suspense and charm”. The lexicon of the international film spoke of perfect trick technique and "original ideas that are balanced with sweet sentimentality". Noteworthy is "the successful attempt not to omit the misery of the oppressed subjects in the animation". Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz describe the film in their Lexicon Films on TV (1990) as "great fun for young and old, with wit and speed and tolerable acts of violence from the drawn antipodes" and rate it with 2½ out of 4 possible stars as "above average".
On the other hand, there were also discrepancies, e.g. B. by critic Bob Bloom in the Journal and Courier . He writes that the film is not a Disney film of the better kind and is damaging the good reputation of earlier Disney works. Jeffrey Westhoff of the Northwest Herald even described the film as a low point in the history of Disney animation, it was just a shame.
Publications
- movie theater
- After its premiere in 1973, the film came back to American cinemas in 1983. The film opened in Germany on December 13, 1974.
- VHS
- The film was first released on video cassette in America in 1984, with new editions in 1991, 1995 and 1999.
- DVD / Blu-ray
- In America the film was released in the “Gold Classic Collection” in 2000, the German DVD followed in 2002.
On November 28, 2006, a revised version was released in America as the “Most Wanted Edition”, which was probably the last version for the time being an unused scene, an alternative ending and the extras that were already available with the "Gold Classic Collection". The German collector's edition followed in 2007. On September 5, 2013, the evaluation on Blu-ray took place in Germany . This also includes the alternate ending.
literature
- Walt Disney : Robin Hood. Authorized edition for the Walt Disney film. Schneider book: Walt Disney's world successes. German Sabine Reinhart . F. Schneider, Munich / Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-505-07913-8 .
- Elmar Biebl, Dirk Manthey, Jörg Altendorf: The films of Walt Disney. The magical world of animation. 2nd Edition. Milchstraße, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-89324-117-5 .
- Howard Pyle: Robin Hood. Bindlach 2004, ISBN 3-8112-2438-7 .
Web links
- Robin Hood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Robin Hood in the online film database
- Detailed information about the film and the influence of the character animator Don Bluth (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ hemmy.net or ertx.com ( Memento from June 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ IMDb
- ↑ Robin Hood in the Disney Dubbing Archive and Robin Hood in the German dubbing index
- ↑ Steven D. Greydanus from the Decent Films Guide ( Memento from May 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ David Keyes of Cinemaphile.org
- ↑ Robin Hood. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 1, 2017 .
- ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon Films on TV. (Extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 682.
- ↑ Bob Bloom in the Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
- ↑ Jeffrey Westhoff in the Northwest Herald newspaper (Crystal Lake, IL)
