Post by Phill on Aug 4, 2006 10:19:23 GMT -5
Green Arrow: Costumed Vigilante
"He Will Be There"
Directed By: Phillip Boyd
Written By:Mort Weisinger
Genre: Action Adventure/Super Hero
Plot: Based straight out of the famous comic books, the Green Vigilante, makes his big screen debut.
Run Time: 120 minutes
Content: Stylized action violence (Like the Spiderman movies)
Stars: Chad Michael Murray, Kirsten Dunst, Gene Hackman
Theatre Count: 3,400+
Budget: $80 million
Release Date: August 18th
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History of Green Arrow:
The Green Arrow was Oliver Queen, a millionaire and an anthropologist/archaeologist Queen was an expert on the culture and traditions of various Native American tribes, mostly Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Apache and Navaho. His interest in Native Americans was kindled as child when he spent most of his childhood living on a ranch near a Sioux reservation.
He had become an expert at the use of the bow and arrow during this time. In his late teens and early twenties he went to England his University training. He became enamoured of the legend of Robin Hood and became an expert at the use of long bow, cross bow. He also learned the compound bow. He also became interested the old legend of the Green Archer.
In early 1940 Oliver Queen received a telegram from a lawyer, asking him to visit his old stomping grounds of Montana on a rather delicate personal matter. Queen was surprised that according the will of Mr. And Mrs. Joseph Harper III, Oliver Queen had been designated as the guardian of their son Roy in the event of their death. Tragically they had perished in a fire which had also destroyed their ranch house. This had happened a week prior to Mr. Queen's having been contacted. Queen was at a loss; he was unacquainted with Mr. or Mrs. Harper. The lawyer asked if Mr. Queen had not been acquainted with Mrs. Queen when she had been Leona.
The Harpers had told the lawyer in confidence that their marriage although a happy one had been a marriage of convenience. Harper was a wealthy, widowed Rancher without any heirs and Leona was a girl in trouble. The boy she had been involved with had gone off to school in England and his family refused to see her. Roy Harper was Oliver Queen's natural son. In fact his first name had been chosen in honor of Queen. Roy was French for royalty. Queen remarked that it meant King not Queen. The Lawyer replied that the Harper's had not been likely to name their son Regine now were they? Oliver Queen agreed to become the boy's guardian. The lawyer then let Queen know some more shocking news. Rather than be adopted by a stranger, Roy Harper assisted by the former foreman of the Harper ranch had headed for the mountains. According to some of the Sioux ranch hands, they were heading for the Lost Mesa.
Efforts to find them had come to naught, not enough manpower, too much area to cover and an ongoing forest fire that was a concern to the nearby ranchers. Oliver Queen rented a small plane to see if he could spot them from the air and land on the mesa if he did not see them. The chartered plane was not in the best of condition and the wheel assembly broke when he landed on the mesa.
Over the next few weeks Oliver Queen led a Robinson Crusoe existence while he searched for Roy Harper and his Indian companion. The comics usually render the Indian's name as Quoag, although it was probably Kan`gi which means Crow. Queen found a boy he assumed was Roy Harper in some ruins. Some artifact thieves who were raiding a Hohokam burial site were holding Harper captive. They had killed Roy's friend and probably intended to return Roy to his family for a price.
Using his skill as an archer, Oliver Queen he freed Roy Harper. They escaped from the artifact thieves. Queen and Harper who turned to out to also be a bow aficionado captured the artifact thieves. They bound them and forced them to walk down the mountain. The thieves were turned over to justice once they had climbed down the mountain.
Roy Harper was a red headed bundle of energy. It was Roy Harper's idea for them to use their archery skills to become costumed heroes like Batman and Robin. Because the idea of really acting like Robin Hood appealed to Queen and because this seemed like an activity that he could share with his new-found son, he agreed. Oliver Queen could see the family resemblance between himself and Roy. As Roy became older his hair became blonder.
Oliver Queen operated as a costumed vigilante in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Billings, Montana, whichever city his business and archeaological interests happened to take him. The comics picked up on Queen's and Roy's forays into crime fighting and wrote wholly unauthorized adventures which made The Green Arrow seem like Batman with a Bow. The comics Green Arrow had an Arrow -Car, Arrow-Cave, Arrow -Signal etc. About the only real similarities between the comics version and the real version were that they fought urban crime and it is true that Oliver and Roy designed some trick arrows. However these arrows were not as diverse or as complex as portrayed in the comics. For example the "punching glove" arrow was simple one that ended in a lead weight, the glue arrow was more of a distracting arrow than an immobilizing one, the net arrow was actually a net connected to two arrows fired simultaneously by Roy and Oliver.
If the Green Arrow was said to have an archenemy it was a psychopath who called himself the Bull's Eye. He mocked Green Arrow's non-lethal code and would do violent acts to goad the Green Arrow into shooting him in the Bull's Eye on his chest. The other part of his costume was a clown's outfit. He was a Joker copycat with suicidal tendencies.
In the comics Green Arrow and Speedy fought many colorful adversaries in this era such as The Cat, The Angler, The Skylark who appeared twice, The Blue Lancer, The Snare — collector of human trophies, The Storm King, The Mask, The Turtle, The Octopus, The Switchmen, The Rainbow Archer, and a variety of other misfits. In reality most of these were regular criminals with a streak of exhibitionism which exhibited in colorful costumes. The Octopus however was the same deadly foe fought by the Shadow and The Spirit.
