Holy Zeus - "Robin and Marian" 1976!1 Note to DiCAPRIO and SCORCESE:

[UTUSN]

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*This* (Sean CONNERY, Audrey HEPBURN) and Richard LESTER is how the acting thing and directing thing are done. I just walked in on a scene were old Robin and Marian in a nun's habit (which she doffs) are doing the acting thing so effortlessly that they are either magnificent or just performing the in-love thing for actual real. Effortlessly. Not how Leo and SCORCESE call attention to their own every action in The Wolf of Wall Street. By the bye, I've decided that, after giving Leo much leeway and thinking of him as an underdog in the Awards game, I'm relegating him to the Category of: There Ain't No There There.

As for Richard LESTER, I've never paid attention to him, knew he directed one of my all time favorites, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, but it was a "fun" thing for me, totally fun but not in my Profound category. I remember when Forum came out that the reviews were negative toward LESTER, and I've heard of his Beatle's directing without ever being bothered to look them or any of his other movies up.

So I walk in on this scene and Audrey H. is looking the most beauteous I ever saw her and she and the fellow are MELTING THE SCREEN and the camera melts away while they nest down into a thistled field. OMZ!1

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. "Robin and Marian" was an excellent movie...

I don't remember the details now (1976 was a looooooooooong time ago) but I do remember how much I enjoyed watching these two very accomplished actors act.

They were wonderful.

[mnhtnbb]

2. I just caught the ending of it.

Two of my very favorite actors.

[jakeXT]

3. Ebert said it was ok... save it for a rainy day ?

What prevent the movie from really losing its way, though, are the performances of Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn in the title roles. No matter what the director and the writer may think, Connery and Hepburn seem to have arrived at a tacit understanding between themselves about their characters.

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/robin-and-marian-1976

[CBGLuthier]

4. Lester's Three and Four Musketeers are the definitive versions.

[nolabear]

5. I've always loved that movie. Connery was more sexy to me as he got older.

And it was a great premise. Loved it.

[HarveyDarkey]

6. Just bought it a couple of weeks ago as a double with "First Knight"

Two of my favorites on one DVD for $5.00 from the bargain bin.

[Aristus]

7. My parents always did odd things that made an impression on us kids.

They took us to see "Robin And Marian" only about a year after we had seen Disney's "Robin Hood". My dad told us that this Robin Hood story was going to be a little different than the cartoon.

When I saw the film again as an adult, I was a little surprised that my parents had taken us to see it when we were so young. (I was 7 at the time). It was a pretty bleak story, a very adult version of the RH legend; full of old age, bitterness, wistfulness, regret, hope and hopelessness. I was shocked that Robin Hood died at the end. He had never died in any of the books I had read up to that point (cause 'duh' - I was 7!)

It was a film that could probably only have been made in the '70's. It sure as hell couldn't get made the same way today.

[First Speaker]

8. Yep. For a few years--about, say, 1965-75--America made movies for grown-ups

...the censorship made it impossible before then, and our adolescent puerility has made it impossible since...thanks, Steve and George...:-/...but for a brief decade, America had a serious polity, and a serious culture, and the movies were a part of it... (Could you imagine, say, *Chinatown* or *Five Easy Pieces*, made today? At least with their endings?)

[Demoiselle]

9. I just watched it again, too. It really is lovely…Connery and Hepburn are magic. (nt)