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Director Richard Lester had already done The Beatles movies & would go on to work on Superman & many other hits, beyond his all-star cast, location filming, period appropriate sets & production values & this excellent score, he used a lot of physical slapstick, making it a cowd-pleasing comedy lacking any pretentiousness, screenplay also solid, adhered to the novel & its era. Lester made this The Three Musketeers as performed by The Marx Brothers in a quality production. Sequel ruined for me by loss of Legrand & death of 1 of the romantic leads.
@@unowen-nh9ovI actually loved both the unpretentiousness and fun (mostly in first one) and the fact that they managed to give the serious stuff impact (mostly in the sequel). Usually I would have hated that they changed composer from such an excellent one as Legrand, but in this case it fit! Lalo Schifrin made a more melancholy score befitting the more serious and sad events that had to come, if they were going to follow the book. It's like it reflected the development of the musketeers: In the first movie, they are basically immature upper class kids who view the world as their playground. Lester clearly has a class perspective on it, but in a comedic way. In the second one, however, they are hit by tragedy and have to grow up a bit more. I think it's something of a miracle that Lester made both the comedy and the drama work!
Didn't realize there was a 3rd, different producers & apparently director Lester has disowned it, now I must seek it out to watch 2 decades older Musketeers.
Whenever I meet my brother these days and it comes to „breakfast?“ - „Breakfast!“, we share a grin that noone else around gets, because of these movies.
2:30 to 5:25 ~ Best swashbuckling & sword fighting ( and romantic) music I've ever heard! This music has stuck in my head since the age of 12, and it's still playing in there now, often in my dreams! Plus, we all really have to acknowledge how heroically sexy Michale York and how extremely bad-ass Oliver Reed looked in this film. Next to "Enter The Dragon", this movie more than any other got me interested into studying the "martial arts".
@@KurtI2525 Have you seen Reed in The Assassination Bureau? Another period piece action adventure romantic lead, opposite Diana Rigg before she was a Dame.
York was too old to play D'Artagnan, but his performance & physicality overcame that, he was literally golden boy in this 1 & probably 1st shirtless dude I ever saw who was cut.
@@unowen-nh9ov Completely agree - A'tartagnan should have been 17 or maybe 19 ish, - However I recall Michael York's shirtless scenes standing out because his athletic wire-y muscular build seemed like that of a real "sword fighting" hero - and his looks were still youthful enough to place him as a "Boyish-man". The film cast the four heroes so well... had elaborate fight scenes, a fantastic orchestral sound track, plus casting some incredible villains & others - like Christopher Lee & Raquel Welch.
This thumbnail is so funny to me because it’s 1. The most somber moment in both films and 2. Not even from The Three Musketeers, it’s a screenshot from its sequel, The Four Musketeers
For every musketeer movie, this adaptation is the benchmark, and although there have been some good ones - among a lot of trash -, none of them has ever quite cut it yet. And in particular, this cast set the ultimate benchmarks especially for Athos, Aramis, Richelieu and Rochefort.
Fun fact ... Music used in the movie "The Three Musketeers" from 1973 ... but the picture is from the Movie "The Four Musketeers" from 1974 ps. Yes I do know that these movies were originally fimled as one single movie
What was confusing is in four musketeers he didn’t recognize milady as an enemy given she was fighting his lady constance in the three musketeers and kicked her in the butt to get back the diamond 💎 studs
I read they never told the actor until the second movie was announced. They intended to pay them only for one movie. There,s been a lawsuit and since then, they have to add sequel options and all that stuff to all Hollywood contracts.
