Three Musketeers (1974)
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In Theaters : 29 March, 1974
Video Release : 28 April, 1998 |
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Three Musketeers (1974) Customer Reviews
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Spaghetti Western or Hamburger Musketeers ?
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This remake of the old black and white film adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's A The Three Musketeers A misses the main point of the book, maybe even two main points. It misses the gallant courtly politeness that is nothing but hypocrisy in the mouth of Cardinal Richelieu who appears as a bad loser when he is an elegant plotter who never loses because his short term defeat is a victory in the long run, a victory of the main political objective of his that the film misses completely. In this 17th century, with King Louis XIII, the father of the Sun King Louis XIV, the French state is starting to centralize and to conquer real state power, hence to move out of feudal allegiances that are too vague, loose and easy to betray to build a modern state on. And what is essential in this situation, the autonomy of the Queen from a weak-looking and yet strong-willed King, is not captured for what it is : the source of a civil war later on because she will be the last Queen to try to impose her will to the King and the State, and for three centuries women will be out of politics in France, except a marginal presence on the left, and that is still true : France was the last western country to grant the right to vote to women, apart from Switzerland, France was one of the last European countries to grant them the right to contraception and that was conquered thanks to a Jewish woman turned minister in the 1970s, and women are still second fiddle in Parliament, the Government, top administration and business. And when I say second fiddle, I wonder if it is not twentieth string-scratcher. It is a shame this film does not understand this element with which the extremely reactionary and conservative Alexandre Dumas agreed at least 200%, to the point of making the Queen dependent on a bunch of braggards, the King's Musketeers.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Paris Dauphine & University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne
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