![]() Shanty - don’t understand the bit about the politics - it’s a 12th century-set movie, the politics is hardly relevant to today ? Incidentally,that was the day Russell Crowe got us all to sing Happy Birthday to Will Scarlett, and had cake distributed to all the Background Artists, so he’s a good bloke on my chart, food being one of the few bits of entertainment we get on film sets. There was also a bit of hanging around during shooting down in the woods for the scene where Robin meets King John ( wearing my other hat as an extra ) and I had the opportunity to ask about the lute Alan was carrying across his back, but he explained that that instrument was a prop, and not a playable instrument. We did like the sea shanty drinking song they sang on the boat crossing the Channel. ![]() Late in the film they pull out a real irish tune for a bit of background, and my partner and I were grinning away. *The term makes me think of a tradition, on a gurney, with paramedics running alongside shouting “clear!” and pressing paddles to its notional chest. Or they could have done it as a Bollywood - oldschool bollywood, Sholay-style, with Maid Marian doing a tweny-minute dance number after Robin is captured by the oddly corpulent Sherrif of Nottingham, before Little John pulls a rescue and is killed in the process, but not before singing his plight at the top of his lungs with a bunch of arrows sticking out of him.Īctually, that sounds kind of cool, that one I might go to see.īut the other reason, besides the common confusion that mingles Irish tunes with English songs, is even simpler: English tunes are sort of boring. ![]() They could have decided to use the Irish-Cuban fusion (Che and Fidel robbed from the rich to give to the poor, didn’t they?). In other words, there are plenty of people who have this minor confusion of traditions. Haven’t seen the fillum - won’t be seeing it, life’s too short - but the Robin Hood songs are certainly popular with a certain species of folk revivalists*, many of whom play Irish tunes. ![]()
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