Ben O'Shea - The Three Musketeers-D'Artagnan: Absolutely Visceral Action Sequences.

Our movie reviewer Ben O’Shea has been to see The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan movie and gives Clairsy & Lisa his verdict on it

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Great the flick with ben o'she I'm sorry, that's not
the Three Musketeers, Bride and Rod and Steve well good morning. Well.
People of a certain age might remember that song, that
power ballad as the theme song from the nineteen ninety

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three adaptation of The Three Musketeers, Yes, which was a
book written in eighteen forty four by Alexander Dumar and
it's a classic of literature. It tells a story of
a young boy from Gascony named d'Artagnan who comes to
the capital of Paris with dreams of joining the ranks

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of the Musketeers, and on his first day on the job,
you know, he bumps into three of the greatest musketeers individually,
insults them all and challenges them all to a duel separately,
and realizes when they all get together, I hang on,
I'm fighting all three of you, and they all realize
that they know each other Athos, Aramis and Porthos. And

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in that nineteen ninety three movie, there was some obvious
casting choices. As sixteenth century Frenchman. You had Charlie Sheen
who had Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt and Chris O'Donnell played d'Artagnan,
and he was actually nominated for a Golden Raspberry for
that performance because you know, I was I was just

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the right age as a teen boy who got into
the you know, the polpy swashbuckling of that film. But
it's not a good movie. It's not a good movie.
The best thing about it was Tim Curry as the
Cardinal Rischuler, who was the guy, the Macavelian character behind

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the strings, behind the scenes, pulling the strings of King
Louis trying to spark a war with the English and
the Protestants on behalf of the Catholic Church. So he
was amazing. The film itself was not so good. But
now long comes a bona fide French adaptation with French actors.
What a twist, and it is it is really really good.

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It's so fun. It's got Francois Seville, who is one
of one of France's hottest young actors at the moment,
playing d'Artagnan. He was g Q France's Actor of the Year,
only a young fella. And then you've got Vincent Cassell
who was the bag gym Westcrold, so many other, so
many other great TV shows and films that Vince he is,

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so it's great to see him back as a hero
as Athos, that's sort of one of the more complicated
of the three Musketeers. And then you have remain Durie,
who again has been in a lot of stuff and
he's he's a very accomplished French actor as well, and
so you've got a really talented cast of frenchmen as

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the Musketeers. It sticks much more closely to Alexander DeMar's
original text. You've got You've got the jewels at the start,
You've got the palace intrigued between the cardinal and the
king and the Protestants, and there's less there's a little
bit of a love interest in there with with Constance
call the Queen's the Handmaiden, which is you know from

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the book, and it's kind of touched on in the
nineteen ninety three American version. It's not Sidney Sweeney. Yeah,
but the thing that I found, no, it's not Sydney Steet.
All French, one hundred percent French. The most recognizable name
for people who don't follow French cinema is Eva Green,
who plays Milady de Winte, who's the who's I guess
the Cardinal's spy. She's the one tasked by the Cardinal

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to kind of make all of his nefarious plans come
to life, and she is perfectly cast in that role.
She's fantastic. But the thing that really struck me about
this film is some of the action sequences, because we've
all seen those films is sword fighting and you know,
sort of everyone's on God and away they go. This
was more like a John wickmo. They really modernize the

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action sequences. They're long, continuous sequences that move through the
Three Musketeers and d'Artagnan fighting the cardinals. Men. Absolutely visceral,
exciting action sequences that modernize it, while also I guess
that the film manages to stay true to the spirit

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of the time, Like so it's you're getting that kind
of real period feel, but then you're also getting the
modern action stuff, and the juxtaposition between those two things
I think is really cool. All right, well, how many
Duels at Dawn are you giving it? I'm going to
give this one three and a half Duels at Dawn.
It's a part one part. It's going to be coming

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three muscles, four parts in three and a half musket
thanks guys,