Editing The Adventures of Robin Hood (section)

==Legacy==
The film's popularity inextricably linked Errol Flynn's name and image with that of Robin Hood in the public eye, even more so than those of [[Douglas Fairbanks]], who had played the role in 1922.<ref>{{cite news| title=Classic Hollywood: 100 years of Robin Hood movies| work=[[The Los Angeles Times]]| date=May 12, 2010| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-may-12-la-et-classic-hollywood-20100512-story.html| access-date=October 2, 2010| first=Susan| last=King}}</ref> The film became a benchmark for later movie adaptations of Robin Hood.

This was the third film to pair Flynn and Olivia de Havilland (after ''[[Captain Blood (1935 film)|Captain Blood]]'' and ''[[The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film)|The Charge of the Light Brigade]]'').  They would ultimately star together in nine films, the aforementioned and ''[[Four's a Crowd]]'' (1938), ''[[The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex]]'' (1939), ''[[Dodge City (film)|Dodge City]]'' (1939), ''[[Santa Fe Trail (film)|Santa Fe Trail]]'' (1940), ''[[They Died with Their Boots On]]'' (1941) and ''[[Thank Your Lucky Stars (film)|Thank Your Lucky Stars]]'' (1943), although they shared no scenes in the last film.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/search.aspx?s=| title=AFI Catalog of Feature Films| publisher=American Film Institute| access-date=19 April 2016}}</ref>

Scenes and costumes worn by the characters have been imitated and spoofed endlessly.  For instance, in the 1949 [[Bugs Bunny]] animated [[short film]], ''[[Rabbit Hood]]'', Bugs is continually told by a dim-witted Little John, "Don't you worry, never fear; Robin Hood will soon be here." When Bugs finally meets Robin at the end of the film, he is stunned to find that it is Errol Flynn, in a spliced-in clip from this film (he subsequently shakes his head and declares, "It ''couldn't'' be him!"). Other parodies were [[Daffy Duck]] and [[Porky Pig]] in ''[[Robin Hood Daffy]]'' (1958) and [[Goofy]] and [[Pete (Disney)|Black Pete]] in ''[[Goof Troop]]'' episode "Goofin' Hood & His Melancholy Men" (1992).

''[[The Court Jester]]'', a musical comedy starring [[Danny Kaye]], is in great measure a spoof of Robin Hood. [[Basil Rathbone]] even appears as the villain and has a climactic sword fight with Kaye.

Most of the [[Mel Brooks]] parody ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]'' relied on this film for its aesthetics, although the plot was almost completely a riff on ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]'', as well as referencing the [[Robin Hood (1973 film)|1973 Disney version]].  Mel Brooks also spoofed the Robin Hood legend in his 1975 television series ''[[When Things Were Rotten]]''.

A fragment of one of the film's sword fighting scenes was converted to [[Sprite (computer graphics)|sprites]] by [[Jordan Mechner]] and used for his 1989 [[platform game]] ''[[Prince of Persia (1989 video game)|Prince of Persia]]''.<ref name="GDC2011">{{cite speech| title=Classic Game Postmortem: PRINCE OF PERSIA| first=Jordan| last=Mechner| author-link=Jordan Mechner| event=Game Developers Conference| location=San Francisco| date=2011| url=http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014634/Classic-Game-Postmortem-PRINCE-OF| access-date=30 May 2013| time=38:35| archive-date=1 June 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601195358/http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014634/Classic-Game-Postmortem-PRINCE-OF| url-status=live}}</ref>

Errol Flynn's acrobatic swordplay became a crucial touchstone for the [[Lightsaber|light-saber]] duels choreography in ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Robey|first=Tim|date=2015-11-24|title=10 films that influenced Star Wars|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/star-wars--a-new-hope/movies-influences-george-lucas/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/star-wars--a-new-hope/movies-influences-george-lucas/ |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=2020-12-25|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Disney]]’s 2010 animated film ''[[Tangled]]'', the appearance and personality of [[Flynn Rider]] are partly inspired by that of Errol Flynn,{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}} with his surname also being used in homage.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hall|first=Sandra|date=2011-01-07|title=Tangled|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/tangled-20110107-19i46.html|access-date=2020-12-24|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}</ref>