New at Reason: Cathy Young on Ridley Scott's Robin Hood

Now this is a Robin I can get behind. Interesting backstory of the legend and how it's become corrupted.

New at Reason: Cathy Young on Ridley Scott's Robin Hood: "

The new Ridley Scott film Robin Hood is
drawing some critics' political ire. In New York's leftist weekly,
The Village Voice, Karina Longworth laments that 'instead
of robbing from the rich to give to the poor, this Robin Hood
preaches about 'liberty' and the rights of the individual' and
battles against 'government greed'; the film, she scoffs, is 'a
rousing love letter to the tea party movement.' But as Contributing
Editor Cathy Young explains, the Robin Hood of myth and folklore
probably has much more in common with the 'libertarian rebel'
played by Russell Crowe than with the medieval socialist of the
'rob from the rich, give to the poor' cliché.

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