Really? Morgan wasn't even in it that much, from what I recall.
But in addition to being able to laugh and banter and swing a sword, in his best performances he can do the sort of still, infinitesimally shaded stuff that you'd associate with a very different type of actor. (Custer is a pretty good example, as I recall.)
*nods*
And since it would be rude to speak of Errol Flynn so long without mentioning a certain person, I'll tell you how he helped achieve something I previously thought was impossible.
I've been a Robin Hood fan since I was a kid. I never liked Marian or the Robin/Marian pairing. I'm not entirely sure why, but it probably stemmed from my main source of Robin Hood lore being Pyle's book, in which Marian is only mentioned twice and never appears. Didn't that prove Robin had no need of a love interest, and that Marian was essentially a useless character? My very jaded attitude toward romance in general didn't help, either. Nothing could make me like Marian or ship the Robin/Marian pairing. Or so I thought.
Fast-forward a few years.
After a chance encounter with The Mark of Zorro, I was poking around on the Internet looking for more swashbucklers, and came across The Adventures of Robin Hood. I'd never heard of anyone in it (save Claude Rains and Basil Rathbone), but as previously mentioned, I love Robin Hood, so I checked it out.
When Robin and Marian met, I remember sighing, mentally bracing myself, and thinking, "Oh, fuck, here it comes..."
"Why, you speak treason!" "Fluently!"
I was so shocked, I almost fell off the couch. The rest, as they say, is history.
Does Marian still annoy me? Yes. But not out of hatred, out of being spoiled by Olivia de Havilland. I doubt any Marian will ever measure up to hers.
I'm glad they made eight films together. That kind of screen chemistry is not something you see every day.
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But in addition to being able to laugh and banter and swing a sword, in his best performances he can do the sort of still, infinitesimally shaded stuff that you'd associate with a very different type of actor. (Custer is a pretty good example, as I recall.)
*nods*
And since it would be rude to speak of Errol Flynn so long without mentioning a certain person, I'll tell you how he helped achieve something I previously thought was impossible.
I've been a Robin Hood fan since I was a kid. I never liked Marian or the Robin/Marian pairing. I'm not entirely sure why, but it probably stemmed from my main source of Robin Hood lore being Pyle's book, in which Marian is only mentioned twice and never appears. Didn't that prove Robin had no need of a love interest, and that Marian was essentially a useless character? My very jaded attitude toward romance in general didn't help, either. Nothing could make me like Marian or ship the Robin/Marian pairing. Or so I thought.
Fast-forward a few years.
After a chance encounter with The Mark of Zorro, I was poking around on the Internet looking for more swashbucklers, and came across The Adventures of Robin Hood. I'd never heard of anyone in it (save Claude Rains and Basil Rathbone), but as previously mentioned, I love Robin Hood, so I checked it out.
When Robin and Marian met, I remember sighing, mentally bracing myself, and thinking, "Oh, fuck, here it comes..."
"Why, you speak treason!"
"Fluently!"
I was so shocked, I almost fell off the couch. The rest, as they say, is history.
Does Marian still annoy me? Yes. But not out of hatred, out of being spoiled by Olivia de Havilland. I doubt any Marian will ever measure up to hers.
I'm glad they made eight films together. That kind of screen chemistry is not something you see every day.