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[로빈 훗] Robin Hood
Robin Hood; Prince of Thieves
November 1998; ? Clint Plas
1 JERUSALEM
Early in the morning, a priest calls the citizens from the top of a minaret to come to church.
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2 PRISON/ JERUSALEM
PRISONER
Aaahhh (Turkish)
QUARD
Show us how brave you are
He says you stole the bread
PETER OF DUBOIS
It's a lie, I caught him stealing ours
QUARD
Cut off the infidels hand
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I stole the bread
PETER OF DUBOIS
That's not true
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
They're not interested in the truth
PETER OF DUBOIS
But he's lying!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Peter, you'll not life trough it
QUARD
As you wish, cut the other one's hand off as well
PETER OF DUBOIS
I'm sorry. I'm sorry Robin. No no!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Puts his hand near the chopper
This is English courage
Retreats his hand and hits his guards. One of the them fall in the fire
This is for five years of hell!
AZEEM
Behind you!!
They attack the guards
PETER OF DUBOIS
Come on, Robin, for God's sake. Come on!
PRISONER
Robin, take us with you!
AZEEM
You can not safe those people, Christian, but you can safe me!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I'm coming
AZEEM
Christian!!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Why should I?
AZEEM
For pity's sake. Mine is the sentence of death
PETER OF DUBOIS
No Robin, he's a Moor, don't listen to him…
AZEEM
Set me free, I will show you a way out
PETER OF DUBOIS
Why should we?
AZEEM
If you do not, we are all dead men
PETER OF DUBOIS
For God's sake, Robin, they're coming!!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
To the other prisoners
I'm sorry
AZEEM
Hurry! This way
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3 EXT./ STREETS OF JERUSALEM
PETER OF DUBOIS
Thanks, I misjudged you
AZEEM
You're fast with a sword my friend
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Five years I've waited for the smell of free air, that makes a man fast.
An arrow hits Peter in the chest
Peter, Peter!
PETER OF DUBOIS
It's mortal, leave me!
Give this ring to my sister Marian. Swear you'll protect her for me
AZEEM
We can not save him
PETER OF DUBOIS
Swear it, Robin
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I swear it
AZEEM
They're coming!
PETER OF DUBOIS
Tell Marian I died a free Englishman
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Peter, Peter..
Peter gets up and attacks the guards
PETER OF DUBOIS
For England!!!
AZEEM
Come my friend, make his sacrifice an act of honour. Come now.
Azeem and Robin run for the guards on horses
Why did you let me free, Christian?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Whatever blood is in your veins, no man deserves to die in there.
Some guards pass their hiding place
Farewell, my friend, God'll speed your way
AZEEM
Our way lies together. With the speed of Allah. You have saved my life. Christian. Now I'll stay
with you, until I've saved yours. That's my vow.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Thanks, but I go to England. I relieve you of your obligation
AZEEM
Only Allah can do that
ROBIN
What if I say no?
AZEEM
You have no choice. I'm Azeem Edin Bashir Al Bachrim. You may call me Azeem
ROBIN
Robin of Locksley
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4 INT./ EXT./LOCKSLEY'S CASTLE, ENGLAND
LORD LOCKSLEY
Kind Sir, It's rumoured that you fought in King Richard's crusade with my beloved son, Robin. I
fear you are returned home to desperate times. When dark forces plot against our absent king. I'm
anxious for words of my son. Were you present at his capture near Jerusalem? Do you know the
name of the potentate who holds him? Does he still bear me ill will? A little news, please sir. I
would give all that I own for his release.
DUNCAN
Not now!
SERVANT
Help me, my Lord!
DUNCAN
You should have waited. I'm sorry you were disturbed, master.
LORD LOCKSLEY
Duncan, it's alright. Let him go…
SERVANT
They have taken my Gwen.My daughter..
LORD LOCKSLEY
Who has taken?
SERVANT
Men on horses, in masks. We tried to stop them, but…My son is dead. He's dead!
DUNCAN
Master, stay. There's an evil moon tonight.
LORD LOCKSLEY
Never fear, Duncan. The good will overcome. Trust in that.
SERVANT
I'm sorry, my lord. I had no choice
Man on horse takes his mask of; it's the SHERRIF of Nottingham
LORD LOCKSLEY
You!
SHERIFF
Locksley…
LORD LOCKSLEY
The king will hear of this!
SHERIFF
Join us
LORD LOCKSLEY
Never!
SHERIFF
Join us, or die!
LORD LOCKSLEY
For God and King Richard!
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5 EXT./ ENGLISH COAST
Little boat approaches the British coast, Robin and Azeem and some others are in it. Robin kisses
British ground.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Oh, thank you Lord. I'm home! I'm home!!!
AZEEM
You are strange Christian
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Yes, but I'm free. And now I beg you to free yourself of your vow. Return with the boat.
I know how it feels to be so far from your home and family
AZEEM
Because I love them so much, I cannot dishonour them.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I'd thought you'd say that.
AZEEM
Azeem's attacked, but wins the struggle
No one controls my destiny. Especially not one who attacks with down wind and stinks of garlic.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Come, Azeem. Our fighting days are done. By nightfall, we'll celebrate with my father.
You'll understand of course, I had to try.
AZEEM
I would have succeeded.
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6 EXT./ ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE
Robin and Azeem are walking over a stone wall
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Why must you walk at the back of me?
AZEEM
In you country, am I not the infidel? It's seem safer to appear as your slave, rather then your equal
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
For an infidel, you have uncommon clarity of thinking. And you'll tell me nothing of yourself.
For instance your name; Azeem, what doe sit mean?
AZEEM
Great one
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Great one? Really? Did you give yourself this name? It was a joke! Azeem the great one! I'm
home! Look! Mistletoe. Many maids lost their resole to me thanks to this little plant.
AZEEM
In my country we talk to our women, we do not drug them with plants
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
What do you know of women?
AZEEM
Where I come from, Christian, there are women of such beauty. That they can poses a mans mind
so, that they would be willing to die for her.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Wait. Was that why you were to be executed? Because of a woman?
That's it, isn't it? That's it!
AZEEM
It is close to sunset
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Who was she? The Mullah's daughter? Another man's wife? What's her name?
AZEEM
Is there no sun in this cursed country? Which way is east?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Her name
AZEEM
East?!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Her name
AZEEM
Yasmina
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
That way!
Robin points Azeem to the East
AZEEM
You are sure?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I would know blindfolded, I'm five miles from home. Was she worth it?
AZEEM
Worth dying for
TRANSITION
7 EXT./ ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE - CLOSE TO SUNSET
Little boy is being chased by soldiers and dogs
SOLDIER 1
You're dogsmeat, son, you know that?
SOLDIER 2
Get down here, you now what you've done. Down!
GUY
You're not playing by the rules, boy! Deer don't climb trees. Perhaps he thinks he's a gay bird!
Shall we teach him to fly?
SOLDIERS
Yeah!
GUY
Get him down!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Hold! I'm curious…what man or creature is so fearsome that it takes six men to attack it.
GUY
This is no affair of yours
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Or are we treating the devil himself? A small boy. A truly dangerous animal
GUY
He killed one of the Sheriff of Nottingham's deer
WULF
We were starving! We needed the meat!
GUY
I advice you to move on, pilgrim, this is the Sheriff's land
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Wrong, this is my land and my tree. So whatever's in it also belongs to me
GUY
Might I have the pleasure of your name, before I have you run through?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Robin of Locksley
GUY
Well, well, Locksley. Welcome home! Kill him!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Azeem, it's time to redeem that vow!
GUY
Release the hounds!!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Get up, Azeem!
Points his swords in Guy's neck
Now, sir. If you'd be so kind to give me your name, before I run you through…
GUY
Guy of Gisborne, the Sheriff's cousin. The little bastard was poaching deer
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Poaching? Is it not a greater crime to starve a family?
GUY
Go on, Locksley, go on
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I've seen enough blood spilled to last two lifetimes. Now get off my land! And tell Nottingham
what happens to scum when they pick on small children!
And you! (tegen Azeem) you've travelled ten thousand miles to save my life and then leave me
to be butchered?!
AZEEM
I fulfil my vow's when I choose!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
And that does not include prayertimes or mealtimes or any time I'm outnumbered by six to one?
AZEEM
You whine like a mule. You're still alive!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Have no fear, come down boy. Is it true boy, did you kill a deer?
WULF
Hundreds of them!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
You've scared him
AZEEM
Interesting place this England!
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8 INT./ SHERRIF'S PRIVATE CHAMBERS / NOTTINGHAM CASTLE
Guy enters the Sherrif private rooms by climbing some stairs. The Sherrif is in his room with a
whore.
GUARD
Hold on, sir! The Sheriff doesn't want to be disturbed!
SHERIFF
Cousin. I trust you justify your intrusion with news of profound value?
GUY
I met a hooded man today who made me warn you not to harm his people
SHERIFF
Who told you to cover up? His name?
GUY
Robin of Locksley
SHERIFF
The prodigal son returns! He's a whelp. This girl could vest him! Put it There!
GUY
Well, this whelp, has vested four of my men
SHERIFF
Your men were probably drunk! But you survived, cousin!
GUY
I've barely survived. He has a companion, a dark skinned foreigner with a dark face of Islam and
a Saracens sword
SHERIFF
Yes yes, I'm sure it would take an army to match these roves
Locksley must have visited his manor and find the home fire still burning!
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9 EXT./ INT./ RUINS OF LOCKSLEY'S CASTLE - NIGHT
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Father?! Father?! Anyone here? Duncan? No…No!!
AZEEM
Who is it?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
It's my father…Who's there, who's there?
An old man appears in the ruins of the castle
DUNCAN
Master Robin, is that you?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Duncan?
DUNCAN
Oh, praise thy, I thought that God had abandoned us
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Duncan, my father!
DUNCAN
It's a miracle…
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Why didn't you cut him down?
DUNCAN
Never thought to hear your voice again…
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Are you deaf?
AZEEM
Easy!! Look at him!
DUNCAN
I would have done it, if I could see.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Who did this to you, Duncan?
DUNCAN
Guy, Guy of Gisborne…and the SHERIFF and his witch looking on
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Why?
DUNCAN
They said the Sheriff captured your father worshipping the devil. He has signed a confession
before the bishop
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
No, that's not possible!
DUNCAN
Nottingham declared all of Locksley's land forfeited
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Do you believe the charges?
DUNCAN
Not even when they took my eyes
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10 EXT./ IN FRONT OF LOCKSLEY'S CASTLE
Robin, Azeem and Duncan knealing around Locksley's grave.
AZEEM
We must go
DUNCAN
He loved you 'till the end, young master. He never gave up hope of your return
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I should have been here
He called the crusades a foolish quest, he said it was vanity to force other men to our religion.
DUNCAN
You must (vluchten) now, head south to safety. Gisborne will surely seek revenge
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I hear you, Duncan.
To Azeem You should go home. My world is turned upside down here. And I can not ask you to
come where I'm going.
AZEEM
Alone Christian, you'll only get yourself killed. Besides there's nothing left for me to go home to
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I will not rest until my father's revenged. I swear it by my own blood!
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11 INT./ NOTTINGHAM CASTLE/ CELLAR
SHERIFF
Mortianna? You called, madam? What do you see?
MORTIANNA
The son of a dead man
SHERIFF
Locksley! Does he affect us?
MORTIANNA
He proceeds the Lionheart
SHERIFF
If King Richard returns from the Crusades, that could prove a bit awkward. It will suffer the
support of the barons. Soon?
MORTIANNA
Make haste!
SHERIFF
But my plan, is it still intact?
MORTIANNA
Aaaahhhh!!!
SHERIFF
What's wrong?
MORTIANNA
I've seen our death. The painted man, he horrors my dreams, with strange foreign motifs
SHERIFF
Locksley's companion!
MORTIANNA
Kill him, kill them both!
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12 EXT./ DUBOIS CASTLE
AZEEM
What is this place?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Peter's home. It's nearly six years since we've left together. We'll find food and shelter here.
SERVANT
No more beggars
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Tell the lady of the house that Robin of Locksley is at the door.
SERVANT
Her ladyship is not here
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Is the child Marian at home then?
SERVANT
Maybe she is, maybe she isn't
AZEEM
The hospitality in this country is as warm as the weather
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I'm leaving
SERVANT
Leave your weapons. Just you
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13 INT./ HALL/ DUBOIS CASTLE
SERVANT
Wait here
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Right here?
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14 EXT./ OUTSIDE DUBOIS CASTLE
DUNCAN
Curse on Moors and Saracens. If not for their ungodly ways, Master Robin would never have left.
What kind of name is Azeem? Irish? Cornish?
AZEEM
Moorish!
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15 INT./ HALL/ DUBOIS CASTLE
SARAH
Who are you?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Robin of Locksley
SARAH
You lie, Robin is dead. Step into the light
Turn around
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Am I to dance next?
Who are you?
SARAH
I'm the Maid Marian
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Well, then show yourself, child, for we knew each other well.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
The years have….been kind
SARAH
Thank you. With the king away, we must guard us from villainous outlaws, who would kidnap a
relative of his.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Surely you can see that I'm not one of those
SARAH
Perhaps. Now, move yourself from his house.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I would my lady, but I've sworn to protect you.
SARAH
Protect me? Robin of Locksley was nothing but a spoiled bully. And besides as you can see, we
have enough protection.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Marian, wait!
You're truly courageous against an unarmed man.
(kort gevecht, Azeem probeert de deur in te beuken)
DUNCAN
Point me towards danger, Azeem. I'm ready!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Hello Marian
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16 EXT./ DUBOIS CASTLE COURT YARD
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
His last thoughts were of you
MARIAN
Oh Peter
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I'm sorry, Marian. I'm sorry.
MARIAN
How do I know you didn't abandon him to save your own skin?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
No one feels his loss more then I
MARIAN
Well, next time I go to London, I'll be sure to convey your condolences to my mother.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I would think, for your safety, that you would join her there
MARIAN
No, I have no interest in life at court. All that gossip and carrying favours
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
But you're alone here
MARIAN
Hardly. These years have left us many in need. Well you and my brother were playing boy-hero
Nottingham has plundered the shire.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I see you still have your lands
MARIAN
Because I give them no excuse to take them
As the kings cousin it's my station to look after these people until he's returned
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Marian, Marian! My purpose to come here, was not to hurt you. I swore. I swore to your brother
that I would protect you.
MARIAN
You can not replace my brother
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I do not want to replace him. Marian, I've returned to my home to find it destroyed and my father
murdered. And the only explanations for it are the ramblings (gebrabbel) of an old blind man.
MARIAN
All I remember of you is a spoilt bully who used to burn my hair as a child.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Please allow that years of war and prison may change a man.
MARIAN
Robin, whatever happened between you and your father, you mustn't believe...what they accused
him of
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I don't
TRANSITION
17 EXT./ DUBOIS CASTLE
AZEEM
Christian! Look!
How did you uneducated kind ever take Jerusalem?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
God knows
MARIAN
What is it?…What is it?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
It's Nottingham's soldiers
MARIAN
C
oming here? Is this your protection?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I've killed some of the Sheriff's men
MARIAN
Oh dear…
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I fear I've placed you in danger
MARIAN
I can take care of myself…just go! No that's my horse!
AZEEM
A truly magnificent animal, my lady
MARIAN
Go!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I said I've sworn to protect you
MARIAN
And I say no more boyish gestures
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I'm not leaving
MARIAN
Stop them! They're stealing my horses!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
You're so kind, ma'am
GUY
Sheltering outlaws, Lady Marian?
MARIAN
They are thieves, you imbecile!
GUY
I hope they didn't steal you virtue as well
The crown for the man who brings me Locksley's head, my lady!!
TRANSITION
18 EXT./ ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Have we lost them?
AZEEM
No, my horse carries two and yours is lame. We can not outrun them
DUNCAN
Leave me, master Robin, I slow your escape
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
We can loose them in the forest
DUNCAN
Sherwood Forrest is haunted, master
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Either we take our chances with the ghosts or become ghosts ourselves
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19 EXT./ AT THE EDGE OF SHERWOOD FOREST
GUY
Come on, damn you! There are only three of them
SOLDIER
It's not the man we fear sir, it's the evil spirits
GUY
Robin of the Hood!! Son of a devil worshipper!! Your father died a coward, cursing your name
and squealing like a stag pig!
AZEEM
You'll bring no justice to your father by dying today
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20 EXT./ SHERWOOD FOREST
DUNCAN
Master Robin?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
There are your ghosts, Duncan; windchimes. A child's told put to good use.
You're scared easily, my painted Moor.
AZEEM
This forest has eyes, I swear it.
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21 EXT./ KREEK AND WATERFALL/ SHERWOOD FOREST
AZEEM
In my dreams alone have I imagined such a place
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Then imagine a way to cross it. There's hope!
After causing robin to fall in the river.
WILL SCARLET
There was a rich man from Nottingham, who tried to cross the river
What a dope, he tripped over a rope. Now look at him shiver!
Beg for mercy, rich boy!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I beg of no man
WILL SCARLET
Well, this here is our river and each man that wishes to cross must pay a tax
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I'll pay no tax, as you can see I have nothing. Not even my sword
JOHN
Any man who travels with two servants and claims that he's got no bloody money, is even a fool
or a liar.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Who are you?
JOHN
John little, best man of the woods
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Well, best man. You lead this rabble?
JOHN
Yes I do mate. And if you want to travel through Sherwood Forrest, it's gonna cost you that gold
medallion.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
This is sacred to me
JOHN
It's sacred to us to, mate. That there will feed us for a bloody month
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
You'll have to fight me for it
JOHN
Love to mate!
WULF
Be careful father, he won of twelve of the sheriff's men.
JOHN
Is that so? I reckon I'm gonna enjoy this
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
He! Is that your father?
WILL SCARLET
He's drowning!
JOHN
Lost something? Thanks for the taxes!
WILL SCARLET
Looks like the little rich boy is lost for words
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Any great ideas?
AZEEM
Get up! Move faster!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Move faster, great idea
WILL SCARLET
Watch it, John!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
We're not through yet!
JOHN
Already, my old cocker. You want another good whacking? You should have one!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
It seems like I've made it passed the gate, John Little. Or should I call you Little John?
WULF
Hit him father!
JOHN
Swimming time again, old chump!
WULF
Where is he? Do you see him?
JOHN
It's a bloody shame. He was a brave lad…Help!!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Do you yield?
JOHN
I can't bloody swim! Help!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Do you yield?
JOHN
Yes!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Good, now put your feet down
JOHN
I'll be buttered!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
The medallion
JOHN
Give me your name first
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Robin of Locksley
JOHN
Well, Robin of Locksley, you've got balls of solid rock.
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22 EXT./ CAMPFIRE/ SHERWOOD FOREST - NIGHT
JOHN
That's Max, the miller's son, Harold Brownwell and that stumpy one there is David of Doncaster,
but the lads all call him Bull.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Because you're short?
DAVID
No, because I'm so long!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
No, Bull, save it, save it. Save it for the ladies
JOHN
Give the man some meat. Now I made that myself
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Is English hospitality changes so much in six years that a friend of mine is not welcome at this
table.
UNKNOWN 1
But he's a savage, sire!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
That he is. But no more then you or I. And don't call me Sire
AZEEM
With regret I must decline. Allah forbids it
JOHN
You bloody lost me
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Why is it that so many of you are hiding
JOHN
Well, we are all outlaws. We have prices on ours heads. Even that young lad there. The blasted
sheriff, he says we owe him taxes.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Well, your ghosts will only keep the sheriffs man at base so long
WILL SCARLET
Well, they have worked so far. Do you have a better idea?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
You can always fight back
JOHN
I reckon I must have cracked that noble our of yours. Well these are all good lads here. They have
hearts of oath but they are farmers. It would be lambs to the laughter. They say the sheriff was
raised by a witch.
AZEEM
A witch?
WULF
She knows every man's thoughts, you can see her eyes fur and she flies.
JOHN
That's a load of Cotswold (onzin), Wulf.
WILL SCARLET
What does a rich son of a devil worshipper care about a bunch of outlaw pheasants…
DUNCAN
My Lord was a kind and generous man. Who among you dare to believe…
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
My father was no devil worshipper. And I'll have words with any man who says otherwise. But
he's right. I was a rich man's son. When I killed the sheriffs men, I became an outlaw like you.
WILL SCARLET
You are nothing like us
JOHN
That is Will Scarlet. Take no notice of him, he's full of piss and wind. Come on lads, drink up.
Don't talk about so much bloody rubbish. This here is the best that we simple men can expect.
Here we're safe. We are kings!
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23 EXT./ SHERWOOD FORREST - MORNING
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Too much meat, old friend?
DUNCAN
Forgive me, I was asleep
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
No, no, rest yourself. What day is it, Duncan?
DUNCAN
Sunday, I think
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Do they still give alms to the poor at mass?
DUNCAN
They do, these days the need for mercy is greater then ever.
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24 INT./ NOTTINGHAM CATHEDRAL
BISHOP
We'll be searching thy blessing Lord, on all thy people, but most especially on ours noble Sheriff
of Nottingham. Grand him the wisdom to guide and protect our glorious city, grand him also the
strength to bring to justice the lawless men, who would threaten it's safety and prosperity and the
judgement to punish them. In your name, amen.
ALL
Amen
BISHOP
Go in peace
MARIAN
Sarah?
SARAH
Yes. That's all I have
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25 INT./ NOTTINGHAM CATHEDRAL
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Alms for a blind man, my lady? For I can not see your beauty… Hello
MARIAN
What are you doing here?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I'm searching my soul
MARIAN
I do not wish to be seen with an outlaw
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
You prefer the company of Nottingham?
MARIAN
There's a price on your head
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
How much?
MARIAN
One hundred goldpieces
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Is that all? I'll have to annoy the good sheriff more. Soon it'll be a thousand.
MARIAN
For a thousand I'll turn you in myself
Nottingham is mounting an army. He has every blacksmith in the county hold up in the castle
making swords and armour.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
What is he planning?
MARIAN
I don't know. There's no limit to the man's ambitions. Go!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Thank you
MARIAN
Quickly, go! Robin, do something for me…
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
What?
MARIAN
Take a bath!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Take a bath?
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26 INT./ BISHOP'S PRIVATE CHAMBERS/ NOTTINGHAM CATHEDRAL
BISHOP
These are my private chambers, my son. I have priests who would hear your confession. Ah! I
see the boy I knew, in the man before me. Welcome home, Robin.
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27 INT./ NOTTINGHAM CATHEDRAL
SHERIFF
You shine like the sun, my lady. You have been meeting with Robin of Locksley. My cousin tells
me he may have deprived you of some horses.
MARIAN
Yes, a most disagreeable experience
SHERIFF
Yes, I know, and for inflicting that upon you form the walls by his own intestines
MARIAN
I would like to see that my lord
SHERIFF
If you would bring your household within the city walls I could give your every need personal
attention
MARIAN
Well, thank you Lord but I'd rather stay in my family's home, for now.
SHERIFF
Well then perhaps, you do me the honour of accepting a small token of my undying devotion to
your safety
MARIAN
My, King Richard would be deeply moved to hear from your concern for my welfare
SHERIFF
I'm afraid the King has many enemies, both abroad and at home. I fear for his safe return.
MARIAN
Oh, fear not, dear sheriff. He will return, and when he does he will wish to reward his faithful
subjects.
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28 INT./ EXT./ BISHOP'S PRIVATE CHAMBERS/ NOTTINGHAM
CATHEDRAL
BISHOP
I asked your father three times if he worshipped the dark one and his answer vexed me so
grievously. He said he must meet God with a clear conscience.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
U lie
BISHOP
Your souls; do not shed blood in the house of God!!
SHERIFF
In there you Bastard!
Get him!
Locksley, I'm gonna cut your heart out with a spoon!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
And then it begins
SHERIFF
Close the gate!!!
SOLDIER
Close the gate! He stole the sheriff's horse!
SHERIFF
What are you looking at?
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29 EXT./ SHERWOOD FOREST
AZEEM
Water! For the animal. How can I protect you if I know not where you go?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
You hardly raise a finger when you do know
AZEEM
I prefer to have the choice
WILL SCARLET
Wonderful, you have stolen the sheriff's horse?
JOHN
You stirred up a bloody hornets nest now!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Are you afraid, John?
JOHN
Yeah, a little
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Well, so is the sheriff and today I gave him this thing he'll not forget
WILL SCARLET
You fool, you've started a war!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
We're already in war
Duncan, bread. And I say we strike back at the very man who takes our homes and hunts our
children's.
JOHN
We? You're planning to join us then, mate?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
No, to lead you!
AZEEM
Christian, these are simple people, they are not warriors. Be careful you don't do this for your
own purposes.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
You forget yourself, Azeem, I do not ask for your company or council.
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30 INT./ SHERRIF'S CHAMBERS/ NOTTINGHAM CASTLE
GUY
Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe?
SHERIFF
Because it's dull, you twit! It'll hurt more!
Oh, I want this brigand found. Starve them out, slaughter there…no, and take their live stock. I
want Locksley own people fighting to bring his head in.
GUY
Perhaps we could create a name for him. Sometime to drive fear in to the hearts of the populous,
maybe "Locksley the Lethal", or "Weakling Robin"
SHERIFF
Whatever! I want him dead by the next fool moon, before the barons come back. Now sow! And
keep the stitches small
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31 EXT./ LITTLE VILLAGE
GUY
Where's your mate? The man they call Little?
FANNY
He died, last winter
GUY
Burn it down!
FARMER
Leave us the sow, it'll feed us through the winter!
GUY
Ever heard of the Sherwood bandit?
STEPHEN
Robin of the Hood, yes sir!
GUY
Pray he's brought to us before winter
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32 EXT./ SHERWOOD FOREST
DAVID
Over here!
WILL SCARLET
What's happened to you?
STEPHEN
They've burned the village, all of it! Where is this Robin Hood?
WILL SCARLET
He's there!
STEPHEN
Look, look what they've done
AZEEM
If it's fame you seek, Christian, I think you have it.
WILL SCARLET
You brought this misery on us, Locksley.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
This is Nottingham, trying to divide us
WILL SCARLET
We are divided, rich boy. I'm not as blind as that old man over there. You're still trying to be lord
of the manor. I heard today that the sheriff now values your neck at five hundred goldpieces. I
say we take him in!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Will, do you think that the sheriff will give everything back when I'm gone?
WILL SCARLETT
They'll give us the reward and our pardons
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Wrong. He'll stretch your necks one by one.
WILL SCARLET
Well, what will you have us do? Fight men on horsebacks with rocks and our bare hands?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
If it needs to be
But with the one true weapon that escapes you, Will. Courage
WULF
Look out!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Thank you, Wulf. Wish to end this? Wish to go home? Then we must stop fighting amongst
ourselves! And face that the price worth may be dear…But I for one would rather die and spend
my life with hiding. The Sheriff calls us outlaws, but I say we are free! And one free man
defending his home is more powerful then ten hired soldiers. The Crusades taught me that. I will
make you no promises, safe one; that when you truly believe in your hearts that you're free then I
say we can win!
DAVID
But they've got armour!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
They've got armour, so? Even this boy can be taught to find the chinks in every suit of armour.
STEPHEN
But we ain't got nothing to eat!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
What do we need that the forest can not provide? We have food, wood for weapons. We'll find
safety in the trees.
STEPHEN
Yeah, but what about our kids? The sheriff has taken all they've got to.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Then, by God, we'll take it back!
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33 EXT./ ROAD THROUGH SHERWOOD FOREST
BARON
What's the meaning of this?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
My lady, a woman with your beauty has no need for such decorations.
BARON
How dare you?!
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34 EXT./ LOCAL CHURCH
PRIEST
Please, please don't take that. Those belong to our Lord!
SOLDIER
And now they belong to my Lord, the Sheriff!! Give it back!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Good, now tell the sheriff for every harm he does to these people, I'll visited back on him tenfold.
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35 INT./ NOTTINGHAM CASTLE/ CELLAR
MORTIANNA
Something vexed thy?
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36 EXT./ ROAD THROUGH SHERWOOD FOREST
BARON
What the devil?!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
It's a hot day, my friend, to burden your horse with such a heavy purse
BARON
The sheriff will hear of this!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I truly hope so!
WULF
Yeah!
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37 EXT./ LITTLE VILLAGE
STEPHEN
Bread!
FANNY
Here you go, love. Buy yourself a new sow, Stephen!
STEPHEN
God blesses you, Fanny! And God blesses Robin Hood!
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38 INT./ SHERRIF'S CHAMBERS/ NOTTINGHAM CASTLE
SCRIBE
We reckon he has nicked three to four million in the last five months, Sire.
SHERIFF
Go on, fine, raise the penalty on his head to 25.000 crowns.
SCRIBE
Begging your pardon, Sire. It won't do no good. How much you raise it.
SHERIFF
Really, scribe, why is that?
SCRIBE
Because Sire, the poor, you see. He gives to them what he takes. So, well Sire…They love him!
SHERIFF
Wait a minute…Robin Hood steals money from my pocket, forcing me to hurt the public and
they love him for it?
SCRIBE
Yes…
SHERIFF
That's it then! Cancel the kitchenscrabs for lepers and orphans. No more mercy full beheadings.
And call of Christmas!
The treasury is empty. All day and all night people plague my door waning about taxrelief and
safe passage through Sherwood Forrest. "We can not pay it, because the highwayman has taken
it".
SCRIBE
It's the shortest route to London, Sire
SHERIFF
It's the only way, you little ferret!
SCRIBE
Sir Guy's patrol's have found nothing, Sire
SHERIFF
No camp, nothing. This viper simply slivers into the forest.
To a wrench
You, my room 10.30, tonight.
To another wrench
You, 10.45. And bring a friend!
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38 EXT./ ROAD THROUGH SHERWOOD FOREST
FRIAR TUCK
…laughter and a lot of drinking.
Let King Richard bless us all
With wine rewarding
But for us who stay at home
Here it will be boring
Play the music, dance today
Think not of tomorrow…
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
How many?
AZEEM
Twenty
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Twenty?!
DAVID
How many?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Five! They can't count anyway, why scare them!
AZEEM
And they call me Barbarian
FRIAR TUCK
With wine rewarding
But for us who stay at home
Here it will be boring
Play the music, dance today…
GUY
Friar! Silence; you'll find it much more difficult to sing with a sword in your gullet.
FRIAR TUCK
Yes, my Lord…
STEPHEN
Will you shut up, and help me move this stock
DAVID
This isn't a stock, this is a tree!
STEPHEN
Now will you shut up and start helping me!
DAVID
I'm supposed to be meeting a girl
GUY
The men in front, after me! The rest stay with the wagon!
SOLDIER 1
On to glory!
GUY
Bastards! Come on, find them!
FRIAR TUCK
Wooh!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
JOHN
Welcome to Sherwood, friar!
TRANSITION
40 EXT./ CAMP/ SHERWOOD FOREST
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
This treasure had a purpose. We must find out what.
FRIAR TUCK
He!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Goodmorning, my reverent friend. You travel with poor company when you travel with
Nottingham's soldiers
ALL
Tax him!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I'm Robin of Locksley. And my men are thirsty.
FRIAR TUCK
Robin Hood! God blesses me!
I mistook you for common thieves. Let me pass, Sir
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Surely the Lord has the charity to spare a few barrels for good Christian men.
ALL
Yeah!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
We have much to celebrate
FRIAR TUCK
Well, if you wish to share in the good Lord's brew, you must pass me for it!
Confess, Robin Hood, that Friar Tuck is a braver and wiser man then thy are!
He gives us and he takes it away…
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Do you yield?
FRIAR TUCK
I'd rather roast in hell!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Shoot him! Shoot him!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Ho! I think the good friar has taken us far enough
STEPHEN
Well done, friar!
FRIAR TUCK
Thank you, Lord, for teaching me humility
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Well, Tuck
DAVID
Thanks, for the beer!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Are these not the meek of the earth?
We're in need of an honest men to minister them. What say you friar?
FRIAR TUCK
The Lord reveals himself in mysterious ways. I accept!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Good, you'll not regret it.
FRIAR TUCK
But you may!
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41 INT./ NOTTINGHAM CASTLE/ SMITHY
GUY
We were ambushed, cousin
SHERIFF
Spanish steel. Much stronger then our native blades. Any losses?
GUY
Some. The truth; all of them
SHERIFF
And the gold?
GUY
Taken
SHERIFF
Robin Hood?
GUY
They were woodsmen, cousin.
SHERIFF
Robin Hood!
GUY
I tried, I tried…
SHERIFF
Cousin, we must be strong. We can't allow an outlaw to make fools of us. And I can't allow my
lieutenant to fail me! Well, at least I didn't use a spoon! This is good steel!
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42 EXT./ ROAD THROUGH SHERWOOD FOREST
DAVID
Roger, take the one on the left!
MATT
Which one is left? Which one are you taking?
DAVID
You mean, which one am I taking?
If you're taking the one on the left, I'm taking the one on the right.
MATT
Which one is the one on the right
DAVID
The one next to the one on the…
We'll just get out and grab them!
MATT
Now?
DAVID
Now!
A donation is you please
SARAH
A donation? For what?
MATT
For passage through Sherwood.
MARIAN
Very well, come and get it.
You stupid scruff, how dare you attack us?!
MATT
It's my job, my lady
MARIAN
Your job? And who's your employer?
MATT
Robin Hood!
MARIAN
I insist on seeing him at once!
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43 EXT./ LAKE AND WATERFALL/ SHERWOOD FOREST
DAVID
No, you do not go down there!
SARAH
You'll fall, my lady
DAVID
He's not expecting you!
SARAH
My lady's intrusion is simply treats his tracks (zijn verdiende loon)
DAVID
Out of the way, you old tramp!
You can't go down there! I told you not down there!
SARAH
Oh, what's that?
DAVID
Cover your eyes!
SARAH
My lady, don't! If you had said…
DAVID
You've got visitors!
No, don't look at me like that, it wasn't my fault.
It was Matt's!
SARAH
Carefully, it's slippy down there!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Hello
MARIAN
What are you doing here?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Taking a lady's advice
What happened to your eye, Bull?
DAVID
We were set up by ten…twelve…fifteen large big lads!
SARAH
Oh, yeah?
DAVID
Yeah
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44 EXT./ CAMP/ SHERWOOD FOREST
MARIAN
You've been busy!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
We have guests!
JOHN
Bring them down!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
It works, kind off
AZEEM
Of course it works!
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45 EXT./ CAMP/ SHERWOOD FOREST
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
That's good, WULF. Can you do it with a little distraction?
Can you make the shot when you must?
JOHN
Show him, Wulf!
MARIAN
Can you?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
… treat
JOHN
Is the shirt coming off, or not?
MARIAN
Well done!
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46 EXT./ CAMP/ SHERWOOD FOREST
FRIAR TUCK
This is grain, which any fool can eat. But for which the Lord intended a more divine meaning of
consumption. Let us give praise to our maker and glory to his bounty, by learning about…beer.
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47 INT./ EXT./ TREEHOUSE/ CAMP/ SHERWOOD FOREST
MARIAN
Did you bring me here to brag?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
This is blood money, Marian. It's intended to bribe King Richard's enemy's to unite them against
him. We intercepted it.
MARIAN
But who would…?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Nottingham!
MARIAN
No…Nottingham would not dare challenge the king!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Well, the King is not in England to be challenged, is he. While he's away he may loose his
country. You thought…you thought I was keeping it all, didn't you?
Didn't you?
MARIAN
Here, a contribution to your cause
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Keep it
MARIAN
No, this dagger would fetch such a great price!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Keep it
MARIAN
Oh no, it's not dear to me! I mean, well…It's not. I'm saying everything wrong…Cheers!
How do I get down?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Wait, wait! We don't go that way anymore.
MARIAN
I'm happy to hear that
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Grab on!
We have a rule here, you know. Once someone has seen the way to our camp, that person can not
leave. There are too many lives at stake.
MARIAN
That's why Sarah and I asked to be blindfolded.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Oh. Well, perhaps you might join us for dinner?
MARIAN
Perhaps…
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48 EXT./ CAMP/ SHERWOOD FOREST
AZEEM
Salaam, little one
BOY
Did God paint you?
AZEEM
Did God paint me? Haha…for certain
BOY
Why?
AZEEM
Because Allah loves wondrous variety.
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49 EXT./ CAMP/ SHERWOOD FOREST
MARIAN
How is it that a once arrogant young nobleman, has found contentment living rough with the salt
of the earth?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I've seen knights in armour panic at the first hymns of battle. And I've seen the loneliest, unarmed
squire pull a spear from his own body, to defend a dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, it's
defined by ones actions.
MARIAN
It's interesting to hear you say that.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I didn't. My father did.
MARIAN
Did the holy quest raise your hatred of him?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I don't know. All I know was that our last words spoken in this world were spoken in anger
I was lost after my mother died. My father too and for a short time he found comfort in the arms
of another woman. I thought he was betraying my mother's memory. For the love of a twelve
years old boy who would never forgive him. Anyway, who says I'm content? I've my plans for
the future
MARIAN
No?! A grander scheme than this?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
No, a simpler one. A home, a family...you know
MARIAN
Men speak conveniently of love when it's serves their purpose. And when it doesn't it's a burden
to them. Robin of the Hood, prince of thieves. Is he capable of love?
TRANSITION
50 INT./ EXT./ WOODEN HOUSE/ CAMP/ SHERWOOD FOREST
WULF
Father! Father! Mother, she's dying!
FANNY
(moans)
AZEEM
Fanny, your baby has not turned! It can not be born without help.
FRIAR TUCK
He's a devil's seed. Don't listen to him, he will kill her!
AZEEM
If you do not listen to me, she will certainly die!
FANNY
No!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
The good friar has done all he can. I suggest you let the Moore try.
FRIAR TUCK
So be it! And it'll be on your head, I warned you!
AZEEM
Marian, get me a needle, thread and water. Hurry!
MARIAN
Yes! Come with me! Come, John!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
What are you going to do?
AZEEM
I've seen this many times. With horses.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
With horses?
MARIAN
Bite down! Bite down, yes!
AZEEM
Help me
MARIAN
Spread your arms
AZEEM
It'll be alright
FRIAR TUCK
I tell you, John, the barbarian is killing her!
FANNY
No!!!
WULF
But father…?!
JOHN
Don't worry, boy!
MARIAN
Your son, my lady! There you are…
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
You truly are a great one
JOHN
My son! Look at this little baby, isn't he wonderful?
FRAIR TUCK
Today the Lord has taught me a fine lesson. Although I may think I'm godly, I know I'm not
worldly. Please…Not come my Barbarian friend! For you and I open a barrel together, to do our
best to save each others souls.
AZEEM
Alas, I'm not permitted
FRIAR
Fine then, you'll talk. I'll drink
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51 EXT./ CAMP/ SHERWOOD FOREST - NIGHT
WILL SCARLET
May I have this dance?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
This lady is spoken for.
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52 EXT./ LAKE/ SHERWOOD FOREST - FOGGY MORNING
MARIAN
Why this way?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
So you can not find the way back, when you're forced by others to tell the way.
It was good to see you again, Marian.
MARIAN
It was good to be seen
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I have two favours to ask of you…
MARIAN
One…?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Take Duncan with you. I fear for his health for what lies ahead. Besides I grew tired of his
bellyaching.
DUNCAN
You wish me to leave, master Robin?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Old friend, listen to me. Can you bring Lady Marian safely home? I fear for her safety.
DUNCAN
Of course, Sire!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Good. Bull?!
MARIAN
And two?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Yes, two..
You're King Richard's cousin. You can give word to him of Nottingham's plans. He would
believe you.
MARIAN
If the sheriff found out, I could loose al that I have
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
But will you do it for your king?
MARIAN
No, I'll do it for you!
DUNCAN
He fancies you, my Lady. I'm blind, but some things I can still see.
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53 INT./ NOTTINGHAM CASTLE/ CELLAR
SHERIFF
In ten days time the barons are coming. Robin Hood has stolen what I was to pay for their
alliance. I'm surrounded by fools, who do not realise my obligations! Tell me, Mortianna. Am I
affronted?
MORTIANNA
Recruit the beasts that share our God.
SHERIFF
Animals?
MORTIANNA
From the North
SHERIFF
Celts? They drink the blood of their dead.
MORTIANNA
Yoke their strength.
SHERIFF
Hired lugs! (huurlingen) ah, Brilliant!
MORTIANNA
Thy own issue on the thrown?
SHERIFF
A child? How?
MORTIANNA
An ally with Royal blood.
SHERIFF
Who?
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54 INT./ NOTTINGHAM CATHEDRAL
MARIAN
It's a personal matter, My Lord. But one of vital importance.
BISHOP
I understand, my dear lady. This is my most trusted emissary.
MARIAN
Yes, he must travel to France immediately and put that directly into the hands of the King. And
him alone! My lady in waiting will accompany you.
BISHOP
My dear, I could not vouch for her safety. The journey is froth with danger!
MARIAN
Yes, I appreciate your concern, My lord. But Sarah is an accomplished rider and I insist that she
goes along.
BISHOP
As you wish…
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55 EXT./ ROAD THROUGH SHERWOOD FOREST
SARAH
What is wrong?
EMISSARY
The horse is fearing his foreleg.
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55 INT./ DUBOIS CASTLE - NIGHT
MARIAN
Duncan, is that you? Hello? Rebecca?
(cat jumps at her)
MARIAN
Oh, Nicodemus. Find mice!
SOLDIER 1
I've never seen the breasts of a noble woman…
SERVANT
My God! My Lady, we couldn't hold them!
SOLDIER 2
Someone wants a word with you.
MARIAN
NO!
DUNCAN
Easy! Easy…tonight I need your eyes, old friend.
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57 EXT./ CAMP/ SHERWOOD FOREST
DAVID
Robin! Someone's coming! Oh, it's well. It's Duncan!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Duncan! Duncan, what happened?
DUNCAN
I found you, Robin. Thank God, I did it. Nottingham's men attacked us.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Marian?
DUNCAN
They took her
JOHN
What is it?
DAVID
Over there, look!
STEPHEN
On the hills!!
FARMER
Celts! God help us!
AZEEM
Allah, be merciful!
DAVID
To the trees!!! To the trees!
WILL SCARLET
The old fool let them straight to us.
SHERIFF
Get me prisoners!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
My God!!
WOMAN
Robin, save us!
AZEEM
Hurry, hurry!!
STEPHEN
Save yourselves!
DAVID
We've got to get out of here, Robin! Come!
FRIAR TUCK (with WULF and other children)
This way, my lambs. Come on…
SOLDIER1
Got you!
SOLDIER 2
Hold, or I'll fire!
KELT
It's gold! Gold!
JOHN
Fanny?? Fanny??
FANNY
John!
JOHN
Fanny!!
FANNY
Go, flee John, save yourself!
JOHN
No, Fanny! I won't leave you!
FANNY
Go on, John!
JOHN
Never!
FANNY
Oh, John!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
John, you'll have to catch her!
JOHN
Come on!
I've got you girl!
FANNY
Quick, quick!!
JOHN
Robin, come on!!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Go on, don't wait for me! John, go!
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58 INT./ EXT./ NOTTINGHAM CASTLE / CHAPPEL
BISHOP
Corpus Christi
MARIAN
Amen
SHERIFF
My Lady Marian…
MARIAN
By what right do you keep me prisoner?
SHERIFF
You misunderstand my intentions. You've been brought here for your own protection.
MARIAN
Protection from who?
SHERIFF
From yourself! It seems you've been consorting with outlaws.
MARIAN
Where do you hear such lies?
SHERIFF
By your own hand, my Lady
BISHOP
I'm sorry, my child. I feared you would be lead astray.
SHERIFF
Come. It's over! Today I return justice to this land. I shall have to hang the real leaders of course,
but I would like to be generous and give you the lives of the woodsman and their families.
The children! And of course of your traitorous lady in waiting, as a wedding gift.
MARIAN
And just who am I supposed to marry?
BISHOP
Search your heart, my child. Why not a union with the house of Nottingham, and heal the wounds
in our land.
MARIAN
There's only one man who can heal the wounds of this land; Robin Hood.
SHERIFF
I'm truly sorry, my lady. He wasted his life. How many more lives would you waist?
What a beautiful, child. So young, so alive, so unaware of how precarious life can be.
I had a very sad childhood, I'll tell you about it sometime. I never knew my parents. It's amazing
I'm sane.
Marian, our bonding would allow these children to grow up as my allies. I'll understand. I can't
allow them to grow up as my enemy's.
MARIAN
I have no choice
SHERIFF
That's true
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59 EXT./ CAMP/ SHERWOOD FOREST
AZEEM
Look! Christian!
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60 INT./ NOTTINGHAM CASTLE DUNGEON
SHERIFF
Now I have heard that Robin Hood may still be alive. Either tell me where he may be hiding, or
you'll be hanged and well find him anyway and we'll do the same thing to him.
WILL SCARLET
I'll kill him for you
WULF
Will, no!
SHERIFF
So he's alive then…
WILL SCARLET
I'm not really sure…
SHERIFF
Then why would I need you?
WILL SCARLET
Because, my Lord, if he is alive, I could get close to him. I'm one of his men, he would never
suspect me.
WULF
He knows you always hated him, traitor!
WILL SCARLET - SHERIFF
Shut up!
WILL SCARLET
He's a trusting fool. He'll believe me and if he doesn't he'll kill me. And you have lost nothing.
SHERIFF
If you fail I will personally remove your lying tongue
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61 EXT./ CAMP/ SHERWOOD FOREST
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
My pride brought us to this
AZEEM
No such a thing. It was you who gave pride to these people.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I was a fool. I was a fool to let him leave. I believed I planned it all so perfectly.
AZEEM
I once heard a really wise man say: there are no perfect men in this world. Only perfect intentions.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
You're an honour to your country, Azeem. You fought better then twenty English knights.
Will!! I thought that you were taken?
WILL SCARLET
I was.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
How did you escape?
JOHN
Traitor! I'll break your skinny neck! You can't escape!
FANNY
Where are the others?
JOHN
Get a rope! Where's my son?
FANNY
Leave him!
JOHN
Bugger me!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Let him speak
WILL SCARLET
I bring a message from Nottingham. Our men are to be hanged in the square at high noon
tomorrow. The boy to. Ten men at all. The hangings are part of the celebration for the Sheriff's
marriage…
DAVID
Marriage? To whom?
WILL SCARLET
Lady Marian
FRIAR TUCK
The takes a bride of Royal blood
JOHN
And with King Richard away, he'll be after the bloody thrown!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
U would use this news to get close to me and then kill me, right Will?
What are your intentions.
WILL SCARLET
Well, that depends on you, Locksley. I never trusted you, that's no secret. But what I want to
know is, are you going to finish what you've started? I want to know if he's gonna split and run
like the spoilt little rich boy I always took him for.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Did I wrong you in another life, Will Scarlet? Were does this intolerable hatred for me come
from?
WILL SCARLET
Knowing that our father loved you more then me
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Our father?
WILL SCARLET
I'm your brother, Robin of Locksley. I'm the son of the woman who replaced your died mother
for a time. It's your anger that drove them apart
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
You lie!
WILL SCARLET
It's not a lie! You ruined my life!
I have more reason to hate you then anyone. But I found myself daring to believe you. What I
want to know brother, will you stay with us and finish what you've started?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I have a brother? I have a brother! So I'll stand with you, side by side. Until the end.
DAVID
Until the end!
JOHN
We are all bloody in!
FRIAR TUCK
Damn Buggers!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
We finish this
TRANSITION
62 EXT./ CAMP/ SHERWOOD FOREST
DAVID
What was that?
FRIAR TUCK
Truly you are a wizard!
AZEEM
The mystery is in the black powder
TRANSITION
63 EXT./ CAMP/ SHERWOOD FOREST
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Bull, your position's by the gate to cut of reinforcements
John, You'll sit on this wall to protect our escape.
I'll will conceal myself here, below the scaffold, to cut our men loose at the signal.
WILL SCARLET
No, I'll do that. You can cover us with your bow.
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
It's too dangerous Will
WILL SCARLET
So is your aim…
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Whatever Azeem is concocting, we must seem to be in place for it. Now, our success depends on
total concert, you are the only six men..
FANNY
Seven!
JOHN
What are you doing, woman. Where are the little ones?
FANNY
They are safe, they are with my mother.
JOHN
Are you bleeding cracked girl, you could get hurt!
FANNY
I've given birth to eight baby's. You don't talk to me about getting hurt, you big ox!
Anyway, I'm not just gonna sit here and let one of them die, am I?!
JOHN
You should be bloody well minding the other seven! Tell her, Rob!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Fanny, you'll take position here.
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64 EXT./ NOTTINGHAM CASTLE/ CASTLE GATE
SOLDIER
No blades, no bows! Leave your weapons here!
No blades, no bows! Leave your weapons here!
No blades, no bows! No blades!
What do you've got there, father?
FRIAR TUCK
The Lord's finest brew for the good Sheriff's fighting men! A mighty kick, huh?!
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65 EXT./ NOTTINGHAM CASTLE/ COURTYARD
DAVID
He, what do you want! He!
MAN
Watch out, he's a Celt! Horrible!
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66 EXT./ NOTTINGHAM CASTLE/ CASTLE WALL
FANNY
John! John!!
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67 EXT./ NOTTINGHAM CASTLE/ CASTLE GATE
SOLDIER
He you, do I know you?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Please Sir, don't hurt me…
SOLDIER
Oh, my God! U stink!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Pardon me, Sir. Pardon my blindness. I'm always falling..
SOLDIER
Get out of here!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Thank you for noticing me, Sir!
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68 EXT./ NOTTINGHAM CASTLE COURTYARD/ SCAFFOLD
AZEEM
Be careful, Friar!
SOLDIER
What are you doing?
FRIAR
Ah, distributing liberation for the celebration of the Sheriff's naturals.
Why is there something wrong?
SOLDIER
Yeah, you are! Come on, get this stuff out of here!
FRIAR
Caesar has spoken, my leprous friend. Let's get our offerings and depart. Is thing your finger?
SOLDIER
Leper? What? Come on, get this cart out of here!
FRIAR
He leaves bits and pieces and so al over England
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69 EXT./ NOTTINGHAM CASTLE/ CASTLE WALL
SOLDIER
What are you doing here?
FANNY
Nothing, dear. I like a good hanging.
SOLDIER
What's in this bundle?
FANNY
Ah, that's firewood! Hello, my lover!
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70 EXT./ NOTTINGHAM CASTLE/ COURTYARD
FRIAR TUCK
Make way for the Lords work! Make way for the Lords work. A simple benedictary for these
poor bastards. God, perceive them in thy mercy and show them your love, that they so richly
deserve, although they are sinners.
WILL SCARLET
He, nothing there but trouble, boy!
SHERIFF
That's a little inappropriate, don't you think?
MARIAN
Not more then your wedding present
SHERIFF
Bring them out! Get your hands of me, you bastard!
SOLDIER
Make way!
WULF
Traitor! Kill him!
SHERIFF
What's going on? Bring him here!
WULF
Kill him!
SHERIFF
Oh, the turncoat. Did you succeed?
WILL SCARLET
Well, I found his layer but he was already dead.
SHERIFF
Are you sure? You saw Hood's body?
WILL SCARLET
No, I saw a grave.
SOLDIER
We found this on him
SHERIFF
String him up with the others!
WILL SCARLETT
Let me go!
JOHN
Now Robin!
WILL SCARLET
My Lord, it appears there's no more room. I'm afraid that I respectfully decline!
EXECUTIONER
Come on, down! Down! There's always room for one more!
FANNY
My child!!
JOHN
My Boy!!!
SHERIFF
Locksley!
MARIAN
Robin!!!!!!
JOHN
Bull!
SHERIFF
Get the troops in here! Now, what are you waiting for. Get on with it!
JOHN
Wulf!
WULF
Father!
FANNY
Oh, thank God!
JOHN
Come on, fight your way free!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
This way, to the wall!
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71 EXT./ NOTTINGHAM CASTLE
BARON
Well Sir, is this your idea of control?
SHERIFF
Shut up, you twit! Come with me!
MARIAN
Robin!!!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Marian! Marian!
AZEEM
English! English! I'm Azeem Edin Bashir Al Bachrim! I'm not one of you, but I fight. I fight with
Robin Hood! I fight against the tyrant who holds you under his boot! If you want to be free men,
then you must fight! Join us now! Join us now!
DAVID
Freedom!
MARIAN
Robin! Help!
SHERIFF
Close the gate! And guard it with your life1 Bring the bishop to my chapel!
AZEEM
Is she worth it?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Worth dying for? Will!
WILL SCARLET
Fuck me, he cleared it!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Marian!
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72 INT./ NOTTINGHAM CASTLE/ CHAPPEL
MORTIANNA
We're doomed!
BISHOP
It's rebellion, my Lord. We must escape1
SHERIFF
Mary us!
MARIAN
I will never marry you!
MORTIANNA
(Hits Marian)
SHERIFF
That's my wife, crone.
MARIAN
Go away!
MORTIANNA
She's right! She'll give us a son! You must take her now!
SHERIFF
I will not take her until we are properly wed. For once in my life I will have something pure. Will
you stop interfering!
BISHOP
It's madness to delay
MORTIANNA
Marry them or face me!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Marian! Marian! Where is she? The lady Marian?
SCRIBE
Up the stairs, that way!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Marian!
MARIAN
Robin???!!!
SHERIFF
Get on with it!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
The statue!
BISHOP
Do you, George, the Sheriff of Nottingham, take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife. To
have and to hold, in sickness and in health, for richer and poorer
SHERIFF
Yes, yes, come on!
MORTIANNA
Make haste!
BISHOP
Do you, Marian of the House of Dubois, take this man to be your lawful wedded husband?
MARIAN
No!
SHERIFF
But of course she does!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
Marian!
AZEEM
Damned English oak!
MARIAN
Robin, Robin!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I'll try another way
SHERIFF
I can't do this with all that racket!
MARIAN
How could you! How could you!
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73 INT./ NOTTINGHAM CASTLE/ CASTLE PASSAGE
MORTIANNA
Aahhh!! The painted man!
AZEEM
The witch!
MORTIANNA
I didn't know! I didn't know it was you! Please, please, Sire. Have pity. Don't harm an old woman.
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74 INT. NOTTINGHAM CASTLE/ CHAPPEL
MARIAN
You may take this body, but it will not be me! It will not be me!
SHERIFF
Not again!
BISHOP
I now pronounce you husband and wife, in the name of the father, the son and the Holy Ghost.
MARIAN
Robin
SHERIFF
Do you mind, Locksley? We've just been married! Recognise this? It belonged to your father.
Appropriate, don't you think, that I now use it to send you to meet him?
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I shall never fear of my father's sword
SHERIFF
Really? And now we're even!
MARIAN
Robin!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
If I must, I'll take you a piece of a time!
SHERIFF
I do the only taking today
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75 INT./ BISHOP'S PRIVATE CHAMBERS/ NOTTINGHAM CATHEDRAL
FRIAR
So, you sold your soul to Satan, your grace. You accused innocent man of witchcraft and let them
die.
BISHOP
But brother friar. You would strike another man of the cloth.
FRIAR
No, I wouldn't. In fact, I'll help you pack for your journey! You have to take a lot of gold to help
you on your way. You are a very rich men. And that, and that. Here's thirty pieces of silver to pay
the devil on your way to hell!
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76 INT./ NOTTINGHAM CASTLE/ CHAPPEL
MARIAN
Robin!
SHERIFF
Get ready!
MARIAN
No!
AZEEM
I have fulfilled my vow.
MARIAN
You came for me. You are alive!
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I would die for you!
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77 EXT./ SHERWOOD FOREST
FRIAR TUCK
With the power vested in me, of God's holy church, I say let any man who has reason why these
two should not be joined, let him speak now or forever hold his peace.
Then I now pronounce you…
KING RICHARD
Hold, I speak!
ALL
It's the King!
MARIAN
Richard!
KING RICHARD
I will not allow this wedding to proceed…
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
My lord..
KING RICHARD
Unless, I'm allowed to give the bride away! You look radiant, cousin.
MARIAN
Oh, Richard
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I'm deeply honoured, your majesty.
KING RICHARD
It is I who is honoured, Lord Locksley. Thanks to you I still have the thrown. Friar, proceed!
FRIAR
Husband and wife? You may kiss the bride
ROBIN OF LOCKSLEY
I know that
ALL
Hooray!!!
FRIAR TUCK
Now, get out of it! We're wasting good celebration time!