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Speaker 1: Great the flick with ben o'she I'm sorry, that's not

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Speaker 1: the Three Musketeers, Bride and Rod and Steve well good morning. Well.

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Speaker 1: People of a certain age might remember that song, that

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Speaker 1: power ballad as the theme song from the nineteen ninety

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Speaker 1: three adaptation of The Three Musketeers, Yes, which was a

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Speaker 1: book written in eighteen forty four by Alexander Dumar and

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Speaker 1: it's a classic of literature. It tells a story of

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Speaker 1: a young boy from Gascony named d'Artagnan who comes to

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Speaker 1: the capital of Paris with dreams of joining the ranks

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Speaker 1: of the Musketeers, and on his first day on the job,

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Speaker 1: you know, he bumps into three of the greatest musketeers individually,

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Speaker 1: insults them all and challenges them all to a duel separately,

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Speaker 1: and realizes when they all get together, I hang on,

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Speaker 1: I'm fighting all three of you, and they all realize

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Speaker 1: that they know each other Athos, Aramis and Porthos. And

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Speaker 1: in that nineteen ninety three movie, there was some obvious

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Speaker 1: casting choices. As sixteenth century Frenchman. You had Charlie Sheen

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Speaker 1: who had Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt and Chris O'Donnell played d'Artagnan,

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Speaker 1: and he was actually nominated for a Golden Raspberry for

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Speaker 1: that performance because you know, I was I was just

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Speaker 1: the right age as a teen boy who got into

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Speaker 1: the you know, the polpy swashbuckling of that film. But

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Speaker 1: it's not a good movie. It's not a good movie.

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Speaker 1: The best thing about it was Tim Curry as the

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Speaker 1: Cardinal Rischuler, who was the guy, the Macavelian character behind

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Speaker 1: the strings, behind the scenes, pulling the strings of King

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Speaker 1: Louis trying to spark a war with the English and

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Speaker 1: the Protestants on behalf of the Catholic Church. So he

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Speaker 1: was amazing. The film itself was not so good. But

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Speaker 1: now long comes a bona fide French adaptation with French actors.

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Speaker 1: What a twist, and it is it is really really good.

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Speaker 1: It's so fun. It's got Francois Seville, who is one

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Speaker 1: of one of France's hottest young actors at the moment,

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Speaker 1: playing d'Artagnan. He was g Q France's Actor of the Year,

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Speaker 1: only a young fella. And then you've got Vincent Cassell

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Speaker 1: who was the bag gym Westcrold, so many other, so

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Speaker 1: many other great TV shows and films that Vince he is,

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Speaker 1: so it's great to see him back as a hero

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Speaker 1: as Athos, that's sort of one of the more complicated

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Speaker 1: of the three Musketeers. And then you have remain Durie,

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Speaker 1: who again has been in a lot of stuff and

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Speaker 1: he's he's a very accomplished French actor as well, and

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Speaker 1: so you've got a really talented cast of frenchmen as

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Speaker 1: the Musketeers. It sticks much more closely to Alexander DeMar's

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Speaker 1: original text. You've got You've got the jewels at the start,

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Speaker 1: You've got the palace intrigued between the cardinal and the

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Speaker 1: king and the Protestants, and there's less there's a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a love interest in there with with Constance

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Speaker 1: call the Queen's the Handmaiden, which is you know from

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Speaker 1: the book, and it's kind of touched on in the

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three American version. It's not Sidney Sweeney. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but the thing that I found, no, it's not Sydney Steet.

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Speaker 1: All French, one hundred percent French. The most recognizable name

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Speaker 1: for people who don't follow French cinema is Eva Green,

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Speaker 1: who plays Milady de Winte, who's the who's I guess

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Speaker 1: the Cardinal's spy. She's the one tasked by the Cardinal

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Speaker 1: to kind of make all of his nefarious plans come

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Speaker 1: to life, and she is perfectly cast in that role.

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Speaker 1: She's fantastic. But the thing that really struck me about

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Speaker 1: this film is some of the action sequences, because we've

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Speaker 1: all seen those films is sword fighting and you know,

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Speaker 1: sort of everyone's on God and away they go. This

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Speaker 1: was more like a John wickmo. They really modernize the

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Speaker 1: action sequences. They're long, continuous sequences that move through the

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Speaker 1: Three Musketeers and d'Artagnan fighting the cardinals. Men. Absolutely visceral,

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Speaker 1: exciting action sequences that modernize it, while also I guess

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Speaker 1: that the film manages to stay true to the spirit

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Speaker 1: of the time, Like so it's you're getting that kind

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Speaker 1: of real period feel, but then you're also getting the

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Speaker 1: modern action stuff, and the juxtaposition between those two things

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Speaker 1: I think is really cool. All right, well, how many

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Speaker 1: Duels at Dawn are you giving it? I'm going to

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Speaker 1: give this one three and a half Duels at Dawn.

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Speaker 1: It's a part one part. It's going to be coming

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Speaker 1: three muscles, four parts in three and a half musket

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Speaker 1: thanks guys,