Robin Hood: Men in Tights
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- tender
- funny
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / heist, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Robin Hood comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard is in exile and that the despotic King John now rules England, with the help of the Sheriff of Rottingham. Robin Hood assembles a band of fellow patriots to do battle with King John and the Sheriff.
Our read · Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive comedy · heist · music entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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