Talk:Robin Hood: Men in Tights

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Contents 1 Relation to Spaceballs? 2 Budget 3 Men in tights 4 France?? 5 Filthy Luchre?? 6 Maid Marian 7 Relevance 8 latrine 9 The sheriff 10 Robin's speech 11 Well Received?

[edit] Relation to Spaceballs?

I've never heard anything about this film being based on Spaceballs. Can anyone confirm this? -- LGagnon 14:59, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)

I did a little looking around, and I didn't see anything to support your argument. But it could be there. Doughboy 05:45, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

The only note I have to Spaceballs is the phrase "Ticket Please" that is mentioned in the first fight sceen in the castle by Prince John. This phrase is also used in Spaceballs at the Diner right after the Aliens reference. -Zhorgoth Sept 27 2006

Actually, the line in Spaceballs is "Check, please!" -67.163.95.236 20:42, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

The line is "Check, please!" in RH:MIT as well. Additionally, being that both Spaceballs and RH:MIT are wide-ranging parodies written by the same person, there are bound to be similar references and jokes in both. This does not mean that one was based on the other, but rather, that they, together, are both based on the same fodder. DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 14:21, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Budget

When I was creating the table, I couldn't find any information on the film's budget. If anyone has information on this, it would work nicely to fill out the table. Doughboy 05:45, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Men in tights

I once saw a movie with Marty Feldman about the Foreign Legion, and if I am not mistaken, during a march, the soldiers sang "We're men in tights". Why can I not find any information about this?

[edit] France??

Why in the world is this under the France Project? 172.131.99.161 13:32, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

It was cofunded by a French company, it seems. But does that really make it a French film ? -- Beardo 08:51, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

I say we remove it from the France Project immediately. Otherwise, let's put Karate Kid under the New Zealand Project. That seems to make just as much sense. No, wait, even more sense! DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 04:11, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Filthy Luchre??

Could the author reference what he means by "Filthy Luchre?" It is widely held that the reference in the name "Filthy Luca" is to "Filthy Looker," a play on the Americanism "Dirty Look," or a menacing glare. In the film, immediately after being introduced, the character seems to act out the reference.

"From the 14th century lucre has meant money and is referred to as such by no less writers than Chaucer and John Wyclif. These references generally included a negative connotation and gave rise to the terms "foul lucre" and "filthy lucre", which have been in use since the 16th century. "Filthy lucre" appears first in print in 1526 in the works of William Tindale: "Teachinge thinges which they ought not, because of filthy lucre." Tindale was here using the term to mean dishonourable gain. Following on the the term "filthy lucre", money became known by the slang term "the filthy", and it isn't a great leap from there to the rich being called the "filthy rich". -http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/filthy-rich.html

-- Beardo 08:56, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maid Marian

Does Amy Yasbeck provide the singing voice for the character? -- Annie D 09:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

No, her singing voice is provided by Cathy Dennis, a UK singer. Naysie

[edit] Relevance

Is this line from the trivia section: "The film will run on the Starz! Encore Networks in July 2007. " relevant? The movie has been shown on many channels for years now. Naysie (my tildes key is broken)

• I agree, took it out. Lugnut215 21:16, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] latrine

it states here that latrine is a witch, but isnt she just the cook?

At one point she offers to make up a potion, something normally done by a witch. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kilraven (talk • contribs) 02:19, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The sheriff

Okay, so he has a speech impediment, and his father got him into the National Guard to keep him from war. I cautiously propose that this is a reference to a person famous in 1993. I don't know if it's the current president, since I don't know how much of a public figure he was, and I don't know much about the famous people in 1993 (or 1992) in general, being as I was a grade schooler then. --Raijinili 05:31, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

The National Guard reference is a dig at then-Vice President Dan Quayle, who served in the National Guard while the US was fighting the VietNam war. Many people criticized Quayle for serving in the National Guard rather than the armed forces, and some suggested it was his father's influence that allowed him to do so. Kilraven (talk) 02:22, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Robin's speech

The speech Robin makes and everyone falls asleep, is this based on some real-life speech? Takeshi357 21:12, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

It is based on Churchill's famous speech, We shall fight on the beaches. krikkert (Talk) 04:20, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Well Received?

Anyone know how the film was received. I heard it was a bomb and was panned.72.78.251.212 (talk) 00:26, 1 March 2008 (UTC)