The World Beyond BetterMost > The Culture Tent
Is the cinematic age of the Period piece gone? 2011's Three Musketeers
Aloysius J. Gleek:
:laugh: :laugh:[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWKuHB0eqGQ&feature=related[/youtube]
&feature=related
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Ghoul on October 22, 2011, 12:45:43 am ---The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
--- End quote ---
Must make myself a note to try to track that one down. I've never seen it. :(
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Ghoul on October 22, 2011, 02:05:06 am ---Featuring
Roy Kinnear as Planchet
(D'Artagnan's servant)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aezX4lxCaCw&feature=related[/youtube]
--- End quote ---
Another favorite scene.
Note that the Musketeers are very clearly and accurately, using muskets. ;D
Again, poor Planchet is put-upon to not only carry and serve the food, but to reload their weapons And a great commentary on the religious wars.
The movie The Four Musketeers starts with a voiceover from a much older Porthos where he talks about the French Catholics fighting against their fellow French Protestants at LaRochelle.
"We were teaching them the meaning of Christian charity by bombarding them into submission, what!" :laugh:
And this scene shows the ludicrousness of religious wars is plain even to the Musketeers:
Porthos: Why are we killing these poor devils for anyway? Just because they sing their hymns in French and we sing ours in Latin?
Aramis: My dear Porthos, are you that uneducated? That's what religious wars are all about.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
One of my favorite scenes (and I haven't seen the movie in more than thirty years!)--at the Cardinal's instigation, Louis is demanding his Queen
(Anne of Austria) wear his gift of the diamond studs she has secretly given to the Duke of Buckingham. The scene, with the King and Queen and
the courtiers (except for Richelieu) all in silver and white, is sumptuously gorgeous, but as always with the Lester-ian comedic element: the King
is picking hors d'oeuvres from silver trays strapped to the heads of court dwarfs, who are also dressed in silver, and the dwarfs, being ignored by
the court, are quietly fighting among themselves immediately below: "He (the King) picked from my tray!" "No, from me!"
Hilarious!
Jeff Wrangler:
This film taught me how (intentionally) funny Raquel Welch could be--such as in the scene where the musketeers come to rescue her, and she drops the key down her bosom, making it impossible for anyone to reach it, so she jumps up and down until the key falls out from under her skirt. ;D
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version