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<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m 10 years old and realizing these iconic symbolic characters are human beings, I\u2019m talking about parents in this situation, and they can fail and die just like any other person can,\u201d he continues. \u201cThey can suffer. It\u2019s when you\u2019re coming to terms with what mortality is and what growing up is, and I think it all just sort of hit me right around the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The impact of that hit lingered in Sarnoski\u2019s mind for decades, seemingly expressing itself in strange ways. The filmmaker swears he wasn\u2019t thinking about Robin Hood when he named Nicolas Cage\u2019s vaguely outlawish chef living in the self-exile of a forest \u201cRobin\u201d on Pig, but he won\u2019t deny the similarities between that story and the Robin Hood movie he would begin writing soon afterward\u2014or even his A Quiet Place prequel. It was in fact the prospect of tackling the latter, which led to him finally returning to that elegiac ballad about Robin and the Prioress.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was getting ready to write A Quiet Place, and it was just like this moment of \u2018screw it.\u2019 I\u2019m about to go do a studio movie, so let\u2019s just write this thing that\u2019s always lived inside me and that I\u2019ve always wanted to get out on paper. I know it could be a dumb idea to make another Robin Hood movie, who needs that? But I gotta get this thing out of me to see if it\u2019s something that I wanted to put aside and leave behind, or if it\u2019s something I wanted to pursue someday.\u201d<\/p>\n
What came from Sarnoski\u2019s pen is, in some ways, a faithful adaptation of the earliest, bloodiest medieval ballads of Robin Hood, before daring exploits in the Holy Lands or Locksley lands and titles were later granted to the character\u2019s name. In other ways, however, it\u2019s a total inversion in which the violence is extreme, and so is the spiritual penance Robin unconsciously receives when he ends up on an island with a true holy woman.<\/p>\n
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