Popular Culture Review Vol. 3, No. 2, August 1992 | Page 49

^RobinHood|s_Perva(to 45 warriors can win in an orderly world against enslaved men whose master flings himself megalomaniacally against that order. In the Erroll Flynn version, viewers are constantly reminded that King John and the Sheriff of Nottingham are usurpers of the power rightly possessed by King Richard. There is, nevertheless, a grace and dignity about the behavior of the evil duo: their dinners are correct; they stage an orderly shooting contest to trap the hero. The evil in the Costner film, on the other hand, is worked chiefly by a man who is always dangerous but sometimes absurd. Not the Hitler who bestrode Europe, he is the Hitler who frothed and threw himself on the floor and c