Arrow splitting scene in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
I remember in the Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie that there was a scene where Robin splits an arrow in half with an arrow shot. I tried going through the movie but couldn’t find such a scene. Did I imagine it?
Best Answer
No, you did not imagine it.
Here's the scene, and the arrow split shot happens at 3:08
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How did they split the arrow in Robin Hood?
Playfully subverted in Robin Hood (1991). In the archery contest, the first archer's arrow hits just to the side of the target (a slim wooden wand), a very respectable shot. Then Robin shoots his arrow and hits the wooden wand dead on\u2014 splitting the target in two.What is it called when you split an arrow with another arrow?
Robin Hood: A Robin Hood is when your arrow hits another arrow so perfectly that it splits the arrow that was already shot into the target. There were lots of \u201cRobin Hoods\u201d in those old movies, some of them were even shot by the guy himself.Can you really split an arrow with another arrow?
Archers do plant arrows in the back of other arrows\u2014it's a rare but not uncommon occurrence called \u201ctelescoping\u201d or shooting a \u201cRobin Hood,\u201d that seems to be on par with a hole-in-one in golf\u2014but there's no evidence that it's possible to sail one arrow straight through another.What are the odds of Robin Hooding an arrow?
That's a lot of Arrows So the chances of doing a Robin Hood are approx 0.025%. That's roughly 1 to every 4,000 arrows shot.Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Arrow scene
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