Robin Hood

Continuity mistake: On the beach after Robin kills Godfrey, he pulls Marian from the surf to save her and pushes her helmet off into the water, when he's walking up the beach with her in his arms, she has the helmet on again.

Continuity mistake: When the Sheriff reads the royal pronouncement decreeing Robin an outlaw to the citizens of Nottingham, he holds the top of the document with his right hand. He's then holding the top with his left hand, then back with his right again.

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Continuity mistake: The Sheriff asks why Marion is treating him like an enemy when she knows that he wants her, and has just forcefully grabbed her. His right thumb is on her left cheek in medium shots and is missing in close-ups of Marion's face.

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Suggested correction: I just watched that scene and there are two angles. One on Marion's face, the other on the sheriff's face. You can see the sheriff's thumb on Marion's face shot. His thumb can be seen briefly in the reverse angle.

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Continuity mistake: Marion is guiding a plow horse when a man comes to collect more tax. As she turns to tell him that her father-in-law is too poor to pay him, her long braid, which has been in front of her right shoulder, is now hanging behind her.

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Continuity mistake: During the siege of Chalus Castle, a french cook aims a crossbow at King Richard the Lionheart. He holds it with his left hand in front and his right hand back on the trigger. A few seconds later, as the crossbow fires his right hand is now in front with his left on the trigger.

Factual error: Richard I was not fighting his way back across Europe following the Crusades when he was killed. He had already returned to England and put down John's rebellion before returning to France to put down rebellions there.

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Trivia: William Hurt as William Marshal repeats a line that he first spoke in "The Big Chill" with exactly the same inflection. In "The Big Chill" he was referring to his departed friend Alex, and in "Robin Hood" he was referring to King Richard. The line is: "Look what happened to him."

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Question: When the caravan that is moving the grain is captured by Robin Hood, he ties the men together and they are forced to walk back to the town ("17 miles" or so). Shouldn't they have used the metric system to state the distance they have to travel to the town? I thought stating the distance to be traveled in miles was just for the sake of the joke for American viewers.

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Chosen answer: A "mile" is not American in origin. The British adapted it from the ancient Roman term, "mille passuum," meaning one thousand paces or strides. Each pace was the length of five Roman feet, resulting in a mile that was approximately 5,000 feet long. This measurement fluctuated up until the Tudor era, when Parliament established the current measuring standard, though the metric system, which was developed by the French in the late 1700s, has since replaced it in Europe and elsewhere. Britain still uses mile as a standard measure of distance on road signs and for speed limits, etc.

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