00:00The Death of Robin Hood
00:01A Brief History of the Wicked and Murderous Bandit
00:04From your narrator, Hugh Jackman
00:07In the earliest tellings, Robin Hood is portrayed as a famous cutthroat
00:11In the 15th century ballad, A Jest of Robin Hodder
00:15Robin tracks the Sheriff of Nottingham
00:17Fells him with an arrow
00:18And takes his head with a sword
00:20Yet from these grim beginnings emerged a hero
00:24The romantic ideal of Robin Hood
00:26Has long captured the public imagination
00:28I steal from the rich and give to the needy
00:31But in reality, life in the medieval ages was a brutal fight for survival
00:36In The Death of Robin Hood
00:38We meet Robin as an aging recluse in the throes of a life
00:42Governed by fighting and stealing to survive
00:45You were a murderous brigand, nothing more
00:48Now Robin is hunted as a pariah and outlaw
00:51As he approaches death, he must make peace with the sins of his past
00:58In the literary tradition, two key figures emerge
01:01The Prioress
01:03Stories of Robin Hood's death describe an ailing Robin
01:06Betrayed by a wicked Prioress during a bloodletting
01:09But what if the roles were reversed?
01:11Robin as the sadistic menace
01:13And the Prioress, his noble caregiver
01:16You begged for me to let you die
01:17And I did not
01:20Little John
01:21Known as the gentle sidekick
01:23Little John has a new identity obscuring his dark past
01:27But what does a lifetime of brigandry cost?
01:31It will be a mighty battle, Robin
01:34In the end, the stories of Robin Hood are just that
01:37Stories
01:39I've seen the power in stories
01:41They can be used to make men do terrible things
01:47In this interpretation of the outlaw Robin Hood
01:50The fables we've come to know left bloodied and thrashing in the mud
01:53The fables we've come to know left
01:56The fables we've come to know left
01:56The fables we've come to know
01:56The fables we've come to know
01:57The fables we've come to know
01:57The fables we've come to know
01:57The fables we've come to know
01:57The fables we've come to know
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