Robin Hood: Men In Tights (1993)

There are several scenes where animals are used. Horses are ridden throughout as the mode of transportation. When Robin Hood arrives at a banquet that Prince John has given, he arrives with a dead pig across his shoulders which he throws on the table. This was a fake pig. When the Maiden jumps from the balcony and lands on her horse, it was a stunt double who actually lands on a platform not on the horse. Then the stunt double jumps approximately three feet off camera onto the horse’s saddle which is padded. This was accomplished by the wranglers giving verbal and visual commands to the horse. Also, Broomhilde, jumps from the balcony. Her horse, sensing that Broomhilde is heavy, moves, causing her to land on the pavement. This scene was accomplished by the wranglers positioning the horse and giving it a verbal cue to move. In the scene where the Sheriff of Rottingham rolls over upside down on his horse, the scene was shot in cuts. The Sheriff was seen sitting on a real horse. A fake horse was substituted when the Sheriff rolls over upside down. In another cut the real horse was seen trotting off to his trainer who was off camera. You see what you think is the Sheriff hanging upside down on the horse. In this particular cut, it was a dummy Sheriff who was hanging under the horse. In one scene in the Maiden’s quarters, a trained blue bird flies in and lands on the Maid Marian’s hand. For this scene trainers off camera gave verbal and visual cues to the bird. It was released by one trainer and received by the other with food as a reward. Other animals seen are a fox which is sent off to alert the villagers with a message strapped to him, and a mule is seen pulling a wagon.