Come, Chauncy, we must. . .bustle

[rolanni]

Hey, there's going to be a(nother) remake of The Three Musketeers. With a sword-fighting Queen leaping from the balcony of Versailles in court dress in order to take part in a melee. Oh! And an airship. Um, what?

All in Glorious Three-Dee so you're right there in the middle, though without a sword, because, presumably, the audience of this film will have no honor to defend.

Does that seem mean-spirited? Here, judge for yourself

This will make the fourth remake of The Three Musketeers since I started paying attention to them. For me, the definitive version is of course the York-Reed-Finley-Chamberlain 1973 extravaganza. Yeah, I know. What can I say? I was 21 and in love.

Then we had the Truly Awful 1993 edition with all the Hot Young Studs of The Moment -- Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, &c, which not only Made No Sense, completely subverted the text when it did, and also had lousy swordfights.

Then in 2001 there was The Musketeer, which made the 1993 edition look like a work of art.

You'd think they'd stop trying, since the editions keep getting worse, but I guess the lure of a free! story! from a dead author is too great to resist.

Comments

[otterb.livejournal.com]

I also adore the 1973 version. I was a senior in high school and swooned over York as D'Artagnan. Nor do I regret a moment of it.

Didn't go look at your link; 3D makes me queasy even if it's a GOOD movie. But I must admit there's a certain dark humor in imagining arming the theater audience with swords before they proceed to the 3D movie. Though they aren't in the original, and I like the original, it seems like the addition of airships and sword-fighting queens could still be a plus ... but jumping from the balcony in court dress seems highly unlikely to end in anything but landing badly though perhaps amusingly, fully entangled in court dress.

[queenmaggie.livejournal.com]

I've done that, as a Tudor... a little less complicated in court garb, but only slightly;D