"How can we make Robin Hood and his band of THIEVES more modern?" "I know! We can make him and all of his THIEVES black!" "...dammit, that's GENIUS!" Edit: Wait, this was created by a BLACK GUY??
Yes. A "creative" known more for making music videos than actual riveting cinema. He's had three films under his belt that seriously underperformed and never made back it's production costs.
“The kids are going to think this is so fire….that’s what the kids call cool nowadays right? Fire? Yeah it’s gonna be fire”. -Studio executives talking about producing this show, probably
'Re-imagining' Another entry into the dictionary of mealy mouthed words. Words like: "Modern Audience", "Inclusion", "Progressive".. All fall under the umbrella of garbage.
They somehow did it. They made the darker edgier modern re-imaginings of old tales from the 1990s-2000s look well considered and restrained by comparison to anything at all.
inferiority complex is strong with western leftist. Imagine having to walk the earth, knowing that your ancient ancestors didn’t do nothing compared to what the English has and are still doing.
Just as hilarious for me, is his explanations of storytelling techniques as though we were hypothetically unprepared for X's idea of 'creative genius.'
Im so glad the main character is a strong, stunning black female woman of color, who is also brave and strong, and dont forget independent and stunning.
Africans should be upset that Hollywood keeps on making them play as white European Characters. They can keep on playing dress-up and using white European stories as their backdrop. I would be highly embarrassed if I was a person of color and have to rely on European stories to “ Reimagine” since they can’t even imagine stories from non-Europeans
They have to do everything they can to try to be like Europeans, since they won’t go out in the real world and work. Dressing up, and acting like characters from an English story, that these people obviously hate to reimagine them as themselves must produce a crazy inferiority complex. They won’t make movies about minorities, myths and legends but demand minorities play white European characters based of Europeans mythology. 😂.
I will ask only two things ... Who wanted this? Who is this for? Thank you, Echo Chamberlain, for watching this so I will not have to waste my lifetime on it.
I'll be Reviewer _Sigh_ and that kick from ginger police person was absolute gold. Where she barely even lifts her leg and still sends the copper flying. (Perhaps she broke wind.) I cannot believe that you undersold that... brilliance.
Fellow from Nottingham England here. Given the state of the real city of Nottingham, which used to be the gun crime capital of the UK and had worse crime statistics than central London, I used to joke that these days, the criminal elements of Nottingham were more like robbing hoods! I never thought a Canadian film studio would not only take my joke seriously, but make it the theme of a woke series so extreme, that honestly it's hard to tell if it's real or a parody! Five years ago, if some doom-sayer had looked at the 2016 Ghostbusters and the state of starwars and said: "soon, every western male hero from myth and culture will be a black lesbian!" I'd have thought they were at the least exaggerating, at the most perhaps being themselves a bit sexist or racist, (INSERT STANDARD DISCLAIMER ABOUT ORIGINAL NONE-WHITE OR FEMALE CHARACTERS). But look where we are now!
Love the bit where Mayor and John actually care about a protest of 5 people, pretty much all from the same family... Out of a building that holds a thousand or more people.
I thought Robin Hood was against high taxation of the population, which would have been a good contemporary theme. Or would the austerity following it cut too deeply in social programmes for Robyn and her crew? 😂
How was Robin Hood against high taxation? He took from the rich and gave to the poor. That’s why she wants to take the gold from the rich guy. If this show had any level of sophistication they might play on the theme that the middle class pays high taxes because the rich pay little or no taxes, but I doubt they even thought of that.
I like that somebody in the ideas room had the train of thought of "Hey, you know Robin Hood? That story about a gang of thieves? They should be black!" and everybody clapped.
I don't mean to compare various critics I frequent on YT, but let me say this -- in your video here, you've managed to lock down fundamental flaws, tropes, and nonsense in the show in a fraction of the time used elsewhere. I like my long form criticisms just fine, but this is really well done.
I don’t understand their fascination with European legends, mythology and stories, You’re telling me all these diverse, non-white people cannot come up with a story of their own culture or history? I feel extremely bad for them. They literally have nothing except for this to look forward to in their culture.
Robin, no matter what Version they cast him in. He will always be a white English European legend With all this diversity, they still have to use old European stories not a single one of them have any history of their ancestors, sad
9:00 The writers gave sheriff lady a shocking dark secret - she's really a 9-tentacled Cthulian horror, and that's how she's so efficient at her job and can afford to spend time in the middle of day subjecting her desk to an OCD-style arrangement ritual. Can't wait for that setup to get paid off!
Back in the day Costner's California accent was all we 'kids' needed for the movie to be *updated for modern sensibilities*. And we were happy with it. I'm kidding, it was a major distraction. But otherwise the movie was pretty entertaining.
To be honest, I'm surprised by the fact of the sheriff being female- I wonder if it's a creative decision or just a way to show the antagonist as empowered and independent, only to later on team up with the protagonist to fight the "real enemy" which will surely be a white guy.
Isn't it interesting that in every promo image of "X" he looks exactly like Prince and not at all like Robyn? Apparently he's one of those "oppressed" rich black guys. This show is the epitome of what's wrong with Hollywood today. 🙄
When the sheriff kicked one of her own guys in the thigh and sent him flying I nearly died from laughter, truly amazing stuff Also the guy who is their “tech guy” at one point is questioned about his robe he is wearing and he responds with “it’s anti facial recognition tech” yet he’s wearing it on his body.
I appreciate your channel. I found you through Little Platoon and think you both fill a niche the internet absolutely needs. Intellectual and objective critique, keep it up
Uh...no. "Director X" has about as much "authentic, lived experience" as a faux leather couch on sale at TJ Maxx. In between the shameless self-promotion photo shoots and inane Twitter ramblings about being a misunderstood genius, I can hear the lofty refrain of one of the hit musical numbers present in "CB4", wafting delicately through the aether... Song: "I'm black! I'm black! I'm blacker than black, and I'm black!" THAT is the most appropriate song track one could possibly choose for the talentless hacks of the race-hustling minority mindset, of which "Director X" is, at best, the usual mediocre example. 🤷♂️
It's extra cringey because it would have been the kind of Fantasy I might have written as a pre-teen (If I were a Marxist). I'm Cringing for having childish fantasies as a child, and for the writer who produced this , and for the actors who participated in it. Cringe has become a high art it seems, they missed no opportunities.
@funkrobot9762 look up Fabian socialism and it's connections to Marxism and propaganda induced population control through use of the destruction of the patriarchal family relationship. You asked don't remain ignorant. If you can't make the connections between money, people, and ideology no one can help you.😂
Who wants to go watch a bunch of no culture or history having minorities dress up and reenact white Europeans legends It truly shows how desperately they want to be white and hate it that they’re not
Social commentary done right is presenting the idea, then challenging the idea yourself with a question, then leave the idea open-ended for the audience to decide themselves which argument is more solid. But the characteristic of a despot mentality is to only have answers but none questions.
Sturgeon’s Law: “90% of everything is crud” If only the percentage of crud was that low for modern Hollywood, there might be a reason to watch something.
Nicely done. You confused me a bit with all those sophisticated cinema terms, but everything worked out in the end. Robyn Hood was roasted with just the right amount of withering sarcasm. And only a week before Thanksgiving! Sadly this turkey comes from my country. It's a cheap series done to fulfill government legislated Canadian content requirements. Chorus Entertainment owns a bunch of broadcast TV and cable channels, and makes a good living repackaging mostly American entertainment for local audiences. But the government says that big companies like Chorus have to spend a certain amount of their budget on locally made productions, hence this show. No one expects Canadian shows to have an audience, not even in Canada. So you get stuff like Robyn.
So... It's come to this... I'm not sure what Hollywood has against redheads, but for the past ten years or so they've been elliminating iconic redheaded characters by changing their race and hair color, and now a female redhead is the arch villain. Merida from Brave is very, very nervous. She knows she's next on the chopping block.
Honestly this show would of always been trash imo, but where it tries to force the Robin Hood bits is the worst. The Sherif has a gun and suddenly people are fighting with bows and swords. While every one ignored the threat of the gun, the bow is so powerful no one moves. Never mind the fact those gold coins are likely near impossible to fence and even if they did how would Robyn's family explain the sudden influx of wealth? Given it was to be used to pay for a lawyer in a court case against the cops, people would notice money turning up from no where right after a high value item was stolen.
Opening bars to Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" are ringing in my head 😂 Thanks for sticking in there until the end of the episode, Echo, while the trauma of Arse-oka is still fresh in your mind 👏
The glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel I see is this. Works like Netflix's "Arcane" demonstrate that audiences will full-throatedly cheer stories full of strong and diverse characters of various sexes and sexualities if those characters have depth, complexity, and flaws. Similarly, "One Piece" demonstrates that an audience with low expectations *will* come around and give something they expect to disappoint a chance, and celebrate if their expectations are overturned for the better. Eventually, maybe creators of things like "Robyn Hood" (and many others) might have to face up to the possibility that if the audience sneers at their work, it may not be prejudice, but their failure to create something of worth.
lol 'Robin Hood' tried to do a version of Cristobal Tapia de Veer's recurring audio motif in 'Utopia', but did it in a hacky way that highlights the chasm of creative ability between the two projects.
Now that we've made it to the apartment tower and are safe let's all go to the balcony so the police can use a drone and see what apartment we're in. Genius.
And here I thought "business mogul wants to evict innocent residents for profit and is this revealed as the bad guy" had been played out by the 1990s. Or, no, I'm underthinking it - it must be a case of "what is old is new again", with that story beat having been played out for so long that it is ready to be fresh again for a new generation. Yeah, that's the ticket! Nailed it!
This show and so many like them remind me of that Emo Kid parody song...."You'd be non-conforming too, if you looked just like me." If the average 45 year old white dude knows exactly what you are going to do (and they do) in your "groundbreaking and fresh modern take" on a classic story maybe you aren't breaking ground, maybe you are just piling up dirt.
For some reason Marxists really hate ginger people. Gingers are true minorities, the rarest and most beautiful type of person on earth. For some reason, they are often used to depict villains, especially in older works. There seemed to be a period recently where gingers were depicted as normal people and were used often in television and print ads because of their rarity. Now apparently, red heads are the symbol for ultimate whiteness. The grand wizards of the Caucasian menace. Their ranks as titular characters, supporting roles and roles as human beings with complexity must be completely purged for the sake of "diversity" Oh well. Gingers had a good run there for a minute. It's time to start burning them as witches again I guess.
Robin Hood was a character of peasant folklore, updated and gentrified through the centuries. What's interesting about 'Robyn Hood' is that it arrives already gentrified, with a commodified vision of the poor, and reliance on lazy racism and bias. Jada Smith might have written or produced this sort of schlock.
It's not that new of a thing. I mean when I was a kid there was that Romeo and Julet movie set in modern times. American McGee re-imagines Alice in Wonderland for his video game series. Lots of things like that.
What might be a gripe I have that only exacerbates the sheer obliviousness that was behind the inspiration of the show in general is that it would have been so much more, dare I say “original”, or at least clever, and certainly more in line with the portrayed narrative, if they called the show “Robyn’s Hood”. Being that it works as a double play on both the name of her rap group/gang and ss a reference to the neighborhood she and her people inhabit. But, no…they had to be all “on the nose” with their naming conventions. Figures.🙄
I still get a good laugh when I see the like/dislike ratio of the trailer on the Global TV RU-vid page, and only 80-ish likes and 4k dislikes. Even my fellow Canadians couldn't care about this tripe, and Canadian taxpayer money was funneled into Canada's film funding initiatives to help release this abomination.
Frankly, I couldn't care less about any of the changes this show made to the original story. Not a single one, except for the fact that they've removed the draconian government and taxation completely. They still included the corrupt local police, why remove all that other stuff? It's pretty important. It's probably why the story of Robin Hood became so popular in the first place, and has been since the 13th century, because most adult human beings for the last 800 years find it's story relatable enough to keep it mostly unchanged.
