Corrected entry: Near the end of the movie, just before the fight in the beach, Robin is riding his horse on top of the cliff. In the next shot, just a few moments later, he is in the beach leading the attack. There is not enough time for him to go down the cliff.
rswarrior
11th Jun 2010
Robin Hood (2010)
19th Jun 2010
Robin Hood (2010)
Corrected entry: Right after his coronation, John calls out to his mother. Eventually saying that she supported him at all times, even during his four-year imprisonment in the Muslim lands. These four years however, where just two. 1192 - 1194.
Correction: Counting 1192, 1193, 1194 is three years, he just likely rounded up.
13th Jun 2010
Robin Hood (2010)
Corrected entry: When Prince John and his French girlfriend are discussing politics, she uses French and a French accent to indicate her Frenchness. But in 11th or 12th century England, French was the language of royalty. That is all of the royal family spoke French as their first language. Thus we get Anglicized words like royal, viscount, earl and food words like beef (instead of cow), pork (instead of pig) etc, etc.
Correction: They all spoke French, but not necessarily as their first language. His girlfriend speaking with an accent is just a movie convention to emphasize she is French. Movie language is also produced for the mass audience to understand without having to read subtitles. There's no mistake here.
23rd May 2010
Robin Hood (2010)
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie, when thieves steal Marianne's grain, she says the word "bastard". However, the word "bastard" didn't originate until the second half of the 1200's.
Correction: As with all fictional, semi-or historical films set in an era other than modern, modern vernacular is usually used to make the movie understandable for modern audiences. It's a standard movie making convention, not a mistake. Particularly since nearly all the vocabulary of French and English in this period would be incomprehensible to a modern English or French speaker.
24th May 2010
Robin Hood (2010)
Corrected entry: When Robin and the boys are being rowed up the Thames, the captain tells Robin "we dock in 20 minutes." Mechanical clocks weren't in Europe until the 1300s and they were cumbersome affairs. No one could have told time by the minute on-board ship in the 12th century.
Correction: Since there were no clocks, the captain could have called out any amount of time within an hour, and no one could dispute him. The fact, though, is that people can estimate time without a clock pretty easily, especially in times when people didn't rely on clocks. If they docked in 24 minutes instead of 20, no one would complain.
Since there were no mechanical clocks, there was no use for minutes, therefore captain would never use minutes to estimate the time of landing. Minutes were only added in 14th century, when quarters of an hour became insufficient.
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Correction: The charge to the beach is not shown in real time.
rswarrior