The musketeer
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| Original title | The musketeer |
| Country of production | USA , UK , Germany , Luxembourg |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Peter Hyams |
| script | Gene Quintano after Alexandre Dumas |
| production | Moshe diamond |
| music | David Arnold |
| camera | Peter Hyams, Stefano Paradiso |
| cut | Terry Rawlings |
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The Musketeer is a coat-and-epee-movie- style adventure flick . It was created in 2001 as a co-production between Great Britain , France , Germany and Luxembourg . Directed by Peter Hyams and written by Gene Quintano , based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas .
action
France in the 17th century. The people suffer from general poverty and the weak king. Little D'Artagnan from Gascony has to watch helplessly as the nefarious Febre kills his family - but he is severely cut in one eye, forcing Febre to retreat. Planchet , his father's best friend, took D'Artagnan into his home and trained him as a soldier over the years.
As adults, both go to Paris , where D'Artagnan, like his father once did , wants to join the infamous royal musketeers . But the king's bodyguard has been deposed and is living a bleak existence underground and in taverns, while their leader Treville is incarcerated in prison.
Meanwhile, the power-hungry Cardinal Richelieu has usurped control and filled key positions in the empire with his own soldiers, led by henchman Rochefort . And Febre is also one of his henchmen.
In the course of the plot, D'Artagnan can free Treville with the help of the loyal musketeers Athos , Porthos and Aramis , unite the bodyguards and win the favor of the queen and her lady-in-waiting, Francesca .
Meanwhile, Febre mutinies against Richelieu and pursues his own plans to abuse the Queen for a plot. He keeps her and Francesca prisoner in a heavily fortified castle , with whom D'Artagnan has since fallen in love. Richelieu asks D'Artagnan for help. D'Artagnan turns to the musketeers, who at first do not want to hear from him because he left them behind without explanation when he accompanied the queen and Francesca on a secret mission.
D'Artagnan goes to the castle alone; little by little his colleagues appear there, who followed him. You and Planchet storm the castle. Febre shoots Francesca and is then killed in a degendual by D'Artagnan .
The king honors the musketeers. In the end, D'Artagnan and Francesca go away together.
Comparison book - film
- The story of D'Artagnan and the three musketeers is one of the most widely read books in the world. The material has also been filmed countless times over the years, including a. with Gene Kelly , Michael York , Richard Chamberlain , Kiefer Sutherland , Charlie Sheen and Chris O'Donnell . In his adaptation, director Peter Hyams tried to gain new impulses from the story and thereby changed certain parts of the famous novel.
- The most important change is the introduction of the main villain Febre, played by Tim Roth . The character does not appear explicitly in the book. At most the mysterious Count von Rochefort from Dumas' novel could have served as his model.
- D'Artagnan's lover Constance , who came to a tragic end in the novel, was made into Francesca , who also survived the adventure.
- The leading role of Milady de Winter was completely left out, the long-established musketeers Athos , Porthos and Aramis degenerated into extras.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a "listlessly staged story" that had "some furious fighting scenes", but "only a few good performances".
useful information
- The Musketeer was filmed in a production time of 13 weeks on original locations and in studios in France and Luxembourg . This was preceded by six months of preparation time in the United States and four months in the European locations.
- Xin Xin Xiong was hired as a stunt coordinator , who also performed and coordinated stunts at Once Upon a Time in China (Wong Fei Hung) . This is probably where the idea for a battle in a warehouse came from, in which the combatants jump from ladder to ladder.
- Director Peter Hyams' trademark is the name Spota , which he incorporates in some form into each of his works. In The Musketeer this name appears also, Oscar O. Sanchez plays a certain Marquis de Spota.
- The German actor and comedian Stefan Jürgens , known from RTL Saturday Night, has a tiny role in the film as brawler Darcy in a tavern .
- The federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia contributed to the production costs of the film through financial support.
literature
- Alexandre Dumas : The Three Musketeers. Roman (OT: Les trois mousquetaires ). German by A. Zoller and Michaela Meßner. (Complete edition.) Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag (dtv), Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-20534-2 .
Web links
- The Musketeer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Musketeer in the Lexicon of International Films
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Musketeer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .