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American hardboiled crime film with the influence of European art cinema stalwarts such as Alain Resnais. At the same time, both films are about quests for elusive grails. Similarly, the protagonists of Point Blank and Leo the Last (1970), Boorman’s most overtly European film, are variations on the figure of the wounded Fisher King. Boorman has even claimed that aspects of Beyond Rangoon (1995), his Hollywood thriller about the political situation in Burma, were based on the medieval poem, Pearl . 59 Boorman’s evocation of this medieval dream-vision also reminds
-budget British version Robin Hood (1990); the American blockbuster Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), starring Kevin Costner; and Mel Brooks’s spoof Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993). A further eighteen films were adapted from an assortment of other literary sources, from the medieval to the postmodern. Medieval poems and letters and the plays of Shakespeare and Marlowe accounted for The Wanderer