Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Page #5

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:

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