Nov. 5, 2025

The Three Musketeers (1973) Richard Lester - Cinematic Flashback Podcast

The Three Musketeers (1973) Richard Lester - Cinematic Flashback Podcast
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The Three Musketeers (1973) Richard Lester - Cinematic Flashback Podcast
The Three Musketeers (1973) Richard Lester - Cinematic Flashback Podcast

🎙️ The Three Musketeers (1973) – Richard Lester Guest: https://x.com/defdavet (Def Dave – Apples & Oranges Podcast) Grab your sword and step into 1973 as Chuck and guest David Wright revisit Richard Lester’s witty, action-packed take on The Three...

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Season 1

🎙️ The Three Musketeers (1973) – Richard Lester
Guest: David Wright (Def Dave – Apples & Oranges Podcast)

Grab your sword and step into 1973 as Chuck and guest David Wright revisit Richard Lester’s witty, action-packed take on The Three Musketeers. Michael York, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, and Faye Dunaway headline this playful reimagining of Dumas’ timeless tale of loyalty, love, and royal intrigue.

In this episode:
• The Salkind family’s “two-for-one” gamble that changed Hollywood contracts forever
• Richard Lester’s Beatles-inspired directing style and its influence on Superman II
• The ensemble’s surprising chemistry — and the stunts that nearly went wrong
• How slapstick humor and swordplay collide in one of the decade’s most stylish adventures

Chuck and Dave share behind-the-scenes trivia, production chaos, and debate whether this 1970s swashbuckler still grooves through the decades or loses its beat.

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Musketeers much a young man has one for all and

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all for one, which loosely translated means ten to him,

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ten for him, and a tend.

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For you, and ten for me. My dear Aramis needs

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ten to impress his latest mistress. Mike would post, us

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needs ten to enable himself to dress decently. And you

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need ten for lodgings and a servant, I would suggest,

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and I and you.

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I need a drink. You will find, young man, that

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the future looks rosier to the bottom of the glass.

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Welcome to the Cinematic Flashback Podcast. Get ready to hop

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into the wayback machine as we journey through the wild, bold,

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and unforgettable films of the nineteen seventies. Each episode, we

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break down a classic movie or forgotten Jim by exploring

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the who's who of each film, diving into the premise

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and plot, seeing how perform then and now in helping

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things up by asking did it groove through the decades

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or did it lose its feat? Today we're unsheathing our

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swords for Richard Lester's nineteen seventy three adventure The Three Musketeers,

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a witty, action packed take on the classic tale of

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courage courtly intrigue and swashbuckling style. Joining me for this

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episode is David Wright aka Deaf Dave. David is a

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veteran video producer with an award winning career that is

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spanned broadcasting, cable advertising, live events, documentaries, and even the

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Department of Defense. He's also the creator and co hosts

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of the Apples and Oranges podcast, the host of American

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Soccer Quick Kicks on YouTube, and author of Galahad's Doom

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Fantasy trilogy. A true child of the eighties with a

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love of pop culture, David is also a fan of

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Atlanta United, the Georgia Bulldogs, and large Oreo Milkshakes. David,

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Welcome to the Flashback.

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Thanks Chug. I am a huge fan of your show.

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I've been listening from the very beginning and I am

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excited to be here with you today.

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Well, Dave, I've been hoping to get you on at

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some point. It took me a little while to get

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it scheduled in. You're a very busy guy. You are

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on so many podcasts, and you got your American Soccer

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Quick Kicks. How did you come up with Apples and Oranges?

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Last year, my son who was seventeen and turned eighteen,

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during the show we did a limited run Apples and Oranges.

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It lasted about seven months. It's Beatles Versus Beach Boys

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show that steps through the decade of the sixties, pairing

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their albums up against each other one v one in

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a very surely you can't be serious format.

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You know.

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I'd come up with the idea a couple years earlier,

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and we let it lie, and then randomly, at least

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a year later, Jackson says.

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Dad, remember that idea we had. I think we should

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do it.

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And I was like, if your teenager comes up to

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you and says he wants to do a project with you,

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you say yes.

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And so ABS had a good time spending all those

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weeks and months working on that together.

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And I think as time goes by it and he

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gets older, that's going to be a time capsule that

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will continue to just become more and more precious for us.

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Why the Three Musketeers.

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Well, I'll tell you it was a vague childhood memory.

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I have had it fixed in my mind since I

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was little, that there were three Musketeer movies in the

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seventies that set the standard and everything else has been

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second rate. I just remember them if this came out

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in seventy three, I was only two years old. There's

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no way I saw it when it was new. My

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dad must have had it on when it broadcast on

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TV one night. He was always a fan of swashbuckling adventures.

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If a movie had swords in it, he was probably

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a fan of it. I just remember this made an

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impression on me as a kid. I had not seen

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it in a very long time. I had been tracking

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it on all the free streaming services and it wasn't

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available anywhere for a long time, but I had it

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reserved if it ever came up, and it did become

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available early in the year on TV and probably a

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couple other places, and so that's I think that's when

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I reached out to I was like, he's doing a

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seventy show, He's got to talk about this. So I've

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now seen it again for the first time in probably

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close to fifty years.

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So before we talk more about this, let's have a

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listen to the trailer.

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The Three Musketeers the most red talk in the world

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after the Bible film, with a cast that dazzles the

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screen with their brilliant performances.

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There are six of them and we are only three

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no four?

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What is your name, youngster?

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d'Artagnan bour both Aramis and d'Artagnan one four all for one.

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The action Do you want to sleep with me?

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You need a good cattle.

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Chase, the fights away, the romance, the excitement, the suspense.

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The Three Musketeers are truly great old adventure. Your majesty

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refers to God. I refer to Cardinal Richard, which is

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not quite the same thing. Ah Carlo.

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A carbon room.

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Queen, the spectacle, the splendor, the thrill, the genius of

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Alexander Romar, the brilliance of Richard Leicester. One great screen entertainment,

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The Three Musketeers, one mighty cast, a dazzling ocean picture.

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Oliver Reed, Laquearl Welsh, Richard Chamberlain, Michael Yon, Frank Finley,

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Christopher Lee, Geraldine Chaplin, Jean Pierre Casso, Simon wall Hey,

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you down away, Charlton Heston in The Three Muscatoons.

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So, Dave, did you realize that The Three Musketeers was

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not only a critical and commercial success, we could call

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it a blockbuster from nineteen seventy three.

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I don't think I was constantly aware of an extent

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of his success, but I did know they were very

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popular and well received. I was familiar with the idea

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that they immediately did a sequel of next year called

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The Four Musketeers, which for a long time bothered me.

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I was like, they're messing with the source material of

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making up Four Musketeers. I found out that the details,

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and one thing I can say about these movies is

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that it's actually fairly faithful to the original novel. I

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knew that there was the return of the Musketeers, which

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happened in the late eighties, largely the same cast and crew,

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and I knew that the Man in the Iron Mask

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was by the same author, in the same world and

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had a few adaptations. So I just kind of from

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a distance, was always kind of interested in the idea

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of up the Three Musketeers, and I always knew that

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these from the early seventies, they were like the Musketeer movies.

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They were so good and so popular that at least

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from the American adaptations, it was kind of all left alone.

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For a long time.

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When you first recommended this film, I'm not sure how

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excited I was about it. Okay, I have seen versions

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of The Three Musketeers before, but I know I had

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never seen this one. Michael York can be serious and

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he can be comedic, and right from the start of

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this film opens up with this incredible sword fight between

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d'Artagnan and his father, and it immediately goes to leaving

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his little village going to the big city. He's a

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country bumpkin. His mother's basically telling him, don't forget to

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have washed behind your ears, make sure you put on

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clean underclothing and whatnot. He switches from being a swordsman

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to being this young naive boy going into the big city.

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It was very funny.

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Young you should be brave if you are a gascon

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and a d'Artagnan, So fight whenever a cab.

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Never submit to intels except.

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From the king and the Cardinal. Richilda, I'll be worried

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of the Cardinal, for he rules friends through the king.

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But you are a kingsman and the queens.

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So.

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Nah, go and say good bye to your Mona. The

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oointmag is in the bellys Rabbi willing to wear three.

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Scratch and try your cloak and your shoes as well.

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Goodbye, good bye, brother, don't kill all.

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Let him die.

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Owner of the old age.

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I fine. Remember.

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So this film had a rather large budget of four

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and a half million dollars and it brought back about

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ten million when adjusted for inflation. That is a domestic

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box office take of over two hundred million dollars. It

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was produced by three generations of producers from a single family.

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Have you ever heard of the Salkinds.

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Yes, I believe I have.

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If you've ever watched Superman, Superman two, Superman three, okay,

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Supergirl and Superboy the TV series, you'll know the name

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Alexander Ilia and Michael's all kind and all three of

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these were producers on this film, but it was primarily

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Alexander Salkin running this show. Were there any other movies

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from the saw Kinds that you remembered?

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Yes, they did. Santa Claus the movie in nineteen eighty five,

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which I actually enjoy that one quite a bit. I

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think the first part of that movie is a pretty

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good origin story for Santa Claus, and then it goes

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into a plot about toys and saving Christmas. It's got

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Dudley Moore as an elf.

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I like it. It's entertaining.

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Both The Three Musketeers and its sequel, The Four Musketeers

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were originally a single film. However, they decided to release

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it as two films. Charlton Heston did well. They got

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two for the price of one. The actors were not

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happy because they signed a contract for one film, not two.

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There's money that should be involved in exchanging hands, and

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they weren't getting it. This created what is now known

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in SAG as the sal Kind rule. On every contract,

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there's a Salkind rule that basically requires producers to specify

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how many films that are being made so the actors

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can be fairly compensated.

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Who knew you mentioned that four and a half million

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dollar budget.

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I wonder is that for both movies? Did they basically

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get four Musketeers done for free after that budget was.

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Incoporated into I think they did.

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I think that was all inclusive. They did another movie

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like that once, right, the Saltans did. Yeah, didn't they

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do Superman and Superman two?

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Yeah?

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A lot of Superman two was shot at the same time.

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I don't know if they were able to finish it,

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but I don't think they were being sneaky with that one.

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I don't think they could be.

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No, but you know, you've already recovered your whole budget

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with the first movie, and you're not paying the actors anymore,

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and you're not paying your crew anymore, and you have

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a whole nother movie to put out in theaters as

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a sequel to something that was very popular.

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I'm sure that was very lucrative for them, and I'm sure.

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That if allowed to get away with that again, they

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would have continued that tactic. Why wouldn't you. It's a

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lot of sure offit margin on that second movie. The

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choice to make it to came late. They didn't go

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in to the production thinking that way, but they changed

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their minds later. I guess they were able to cut

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the first one in a way to give it its

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own ending. When I said, already missing with the original

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source material, Oh okay, this is Hollywood doing it four

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Musketeers now, not really, it was the same story. You know,

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they just split it in two.

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But now you get save for Musketeers because of d'Artagnan.

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So you do have. At the end of the Three Musketeers,

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it wraps up rather suddenly. There's some plot threads that

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haven't quite been closed up yet, and everything is ending

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on this nice high note. You're just going that's it.

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And then there's a title card that says, no, the

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Three Musketeers are coming back, and then they show some

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added for video features later on? But no, they already

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one movie at once. Obviously Lord of the Rings did it.

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to be above board with it and full disclosure, pay

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everybody fairly all of that. It still makes sense economically

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It turned out that the saw Kinds and the director

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of this movie, Richard Lester, would go on to work

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later on Superman two. Originally the director of Superman and

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Superman two was, of course, Richard Donner. Somewhere there was

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a falling out. I think they had to at some

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point tie up production so that he could get Superman

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out in theaters. Something had happened and they did not

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have Richard Donner complete a film. That's where Richard Lester

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came in. Lester has a little bit of a different

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eye than what Donner does. Lester has a, let's say,

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a more lighthearted view, and it's very much in evidence

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in The Three Musketeers. It's also evident in several of

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his other earlier works, A Hard Day's Night and Help.

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I could see you're setting up Beatles, But I want

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to point out it's also evident in Superman three.

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I mean that one was all his.

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You know, Oh wait a minute, did he do Superman three?

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I did not know that. I did not look at

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my homework that far on that. I'm actually rather rather amazed.

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So yes, he was the director of both Beatles films

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Hard Day's Night and Help, and those were movie that

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I watched dering Apples and Oranges as a bit of research,

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so I can.

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Absolutely especially with Hard Day's Night, see.

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The same Lester DNA that send Three Musketeers and the

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Leader Superman movies. I don't know if you had this

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later in your outline, but he had a couple of

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other movies from the seventies that stand out. He held

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Robin and Marion, which was a Robin Hood movie with

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Sean Connery. He also directed the prequel to Butch Cassidy

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and the Sundance Kid nineteen seventy nine's Butch and Cassidy

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The Early Years that starred Tom Berenger and.

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William kat Oh Wow instead of Paul Newman and Robert Ritt.

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George McDonald Fraser was the screenplay writer, and The Three

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Musketeers was his first screenplay, and you know it launched

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his career. With of course, The Four Musketeers, he wrote

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the James Bond film Octopussy and went on to do

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other films such as Red Sonja. David Watkins was the cinematographer.

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Do you remember.

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A scene from a movie called Chariots of Fire, the

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slow motion runners on the beach.

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Yeah that's the scene.

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Yeah, that's the scene. You know that is David Watkins

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beautifully shot. Michael Lagron was the composer, which he scored

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in just a week and a half.

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I wonder if his short amount of time available to

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work on the score, how much of that was Lester

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being fairly loose with his production. I feel I get

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the impression he's got a fairly loose style and yeah,

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and maybe not as disciplined as other people working on

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the film, maybe like a composer would like for him

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to be. So I got more to say about how

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Lester reminds me of John Landis in a.

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Lot of ways.

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that that's the case, and I would imagine that people

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that need time to do their job, I could see

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them being frustrated with the director like Lester, who is

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maybe just taking a loose approach to the production.

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I'm not sure if there was a single cast member

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that I didn't necessarily like or felt was not good

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for the film. I have to go off and jump

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down to the bottom of the list because I want

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to talk about fade down Away, and in this one,

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I don't think she has yet had her chance to shine.

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I'm hoping that in the sequel we see more of her.

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What did you think of Faye down Away in this film?

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I thought she was great. I would say this.

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There's a lot of big names throughout this cast, and

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it was one of the most interesting things about the

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movie is in almost every scene I'm like, Oh, it's

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that guy or that's her. It was truly, at least

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a very large screde, truly an ensemble piece. I don't

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think anybody necessarily stood out. They all worked together very well.

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Everybody's checking their egos and just playing the role. I

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thought she was great as Milady de Winter. I could

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buy her as a canniving villainous. I haven't seen a

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whole lot of movies with her. I probably can't even

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big roles. I would say that she was great, just

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like everybody in this cast.

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Was there anyone in this cast you found surprising, like, Oh, wow,

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they're in this film?

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I would say Charlton Heston. Charlton Heston is so American

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that it's interesting. He's playing Cardinal Richelieu, and I guess

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he pulls it off, but I've never with him.

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I never lost sight of the fact that it was

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Charlton Heston.

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I think maybe one that might surprise people was Raquel

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Welch's constance Banishu.

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I'll just go ahead and tell you most of my

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familiar to you with Roquel Welsh is from still.

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Images, you know, but movies. I haven't actually.

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Watched a lot of her actual acting, and I didn't

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know what to expect from her watching this movie.

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But she really went for it.

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She seemed to be having more fun with her role

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than anybody else I think was happening.

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I think so I can tell you somebody else who

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stared at her picture quite a bit. That would be

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one Andy Dupree, who was imprisoned at the Shawshank Correctional Facility.

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He actually dug a hole and escaped, and he covered

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the hole with a poster of Raquel Welch from the

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film One Million Years BCS. That was a classic poster.

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Absolutely.

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Oliver Reed was a very well known person in England,

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just a celebrity that would have made all the headlines.

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But Athos is more quiet, more brooding. Would you say

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that is who.

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Athos is supposed to be? But I honestly didn't get

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that from Oliver Reed. In the portrayal. He struck me

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as someone who lived life very broadly. I'm speaking of

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the character, not the actor. He was magnetic in this movie.

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He was easily my favorite musketeer and my favorite character

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in the movie. And he looked so cool. He made

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that costume work. I thought Oliver Reed was the coolest

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cat in the movie, and so I was drawn to

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him and the idea that he's supposed to be the

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introvert and the quiet one.

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I just didn't get that.

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Maybe I focused on him too much, but it seemed

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to me that he had a very big presence in

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the movie, where Frank Finley as Porthos did not that

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doesn't line up in my head. But I loved Oliver

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Reed in this movie. He was easily my favorite part

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of it.

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I would say that of the three porthos as portrayed

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by Frank Finley was more comic relief than anything. I

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just didn't quite get him as say Master Swordsman.

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Yes, there's a lot of comic relief in this movie.

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In fact, I don't know if you call it relief.

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There's just a lot of comedy.

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Yes, yes, Frank Finlay actually had two roles in this film.

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Yeah, I do that one.

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Then I couldn't find him.

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I know he's subtle.

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Well, I ended up rewatching it again and I sat

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through the credits to look, and he plays the jeweler

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who works for the Duke of Buckingham who assist in

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replacing some valuables that were missing from Queen Anne's necklace.

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Is this your favorite Richard Chamberlain portrayal?

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Lever Well, It probably is.

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When I think of Richard Chamberlain, I think of the Musketeers,

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I think of Showgun, and I think of Alan Quatermain.

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And I was too young for Showgun to land with me.

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It kind of missed me. I know it was a

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huge deal when when it was airing. My parents were

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all into it. I never personally got into it. And

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I don't remember if I saw Alan the King Saulomon

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Minds when it first came out or not, but I

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know that when I did watch it the most recent time,

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whenever that was, Oh my lord, I was struck by

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how completely awful that movie is.

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Yes, but it's awful in a good way.

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I can't see it. It's unwatchable to me, I thought

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it was. Oh, I don't know. I was extremely disappointed

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in that movie.

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So yes, I think, by default, I Thinkretty most contarists

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is my favorite.

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Richard it has to be. Yeah, he was somewhat of

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the heart throb on daytime television and in various made

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for TV movies. He's had quite a long career.

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Yes, I think it's extremely well cast.

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So when I was asking you about if there was

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any actor who was in here that maybe you're like, oh,

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I didn't know he was in here. For me, that

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was Christopher Lee.

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That was my other answer.

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Yeah, oh my word. He plays Rochefort and he's the

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most interesting person in this whole film. For me, anytime

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that he's screen, I'm locked in. I found him as

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a villain better than Charlton Heston.

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To someone riding about the cups, it's just a cheese

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with lakes.

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Tell you what you laugh at, saying you will laugh

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together if you speak to me.

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If you want a gentleman, I would speak to you.

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I was speaking at Chooser.

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Oliver Reid would throw himself so much into his fighting

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that the stuntman tended to get hurt. That happened to

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Christopher Lee, who looks at him and says, remember who

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first taught you how to fight with a sword, and

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that was them from an earlier production they did on

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the old Hammer films from the early seventies.

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Wow, that's awesome. I'll go ahead and mention it here.

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One thing that Lester would do is he liked to

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shoot everything at once with multiple cameras. He would get

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the master shot and the close ups all at the

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same time with multiple cameras.

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There's pos and cons to that.

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Actors, I'm sure probably liked the idea of being able

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to act the scene out at length and not have

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to worry about matching action for other angles that are

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picking up whatever. And obviously it reduces the number of

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setups you're doing any day. On the negative side, you're

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probably not sending a whole lot of time with the

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setups because you're having to figure out how to block

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and light and keep your angles in such a way

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that the cameras aren't in each other's shots. You know,

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it becomes a lot more complicated. It does, I think

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lends more believable long shots and long sequences. But what

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it does is it limits your ability to use stuntman

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for the principal actors. So these principles found themselves having

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to do a lot of their own fighting, a lot

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of their own horse riding, And there were a lot

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of injuries on this set. I think everybody at some

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point another got hurt.

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I think Oliver Regat stabbed through the arm.

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Oh, it's worse than that. He almost died.

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Really in the scene where he's fighting and he gets

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caught on a water wheel and he gets stepped up

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off the ground, there's a shot where he's rotating around

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and as he's coming back down low, his opponent strikes

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him with the sword right in the throat.

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And when I saw that happen.

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In the movie, I flinched because I was like, ooh,

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but obviously I'm thinking fake sword whatever. Then I read

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up on the trivia and know that actually injured him

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in the throat and he almost died.

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Oh my word. Yeah wow.

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So when I say this guy reminds me of John

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Landis what I mean is, Oh, safety standards seem very

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loose on set.

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Yeah, that's definitely a throwback to the issues on the

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Twilight Zones.

468
00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:45.880
Well being the worst example.

469
00:25:45.960 --> 00:25:49.039
Yes, will pause here for just a moment. Think of

470
00:25:49.039 --> 00:25:52.279
it as a real change stick around. There's more cinematic

471
00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:56.799
flashback coming up right after this, and we're back. The

472
00:25:56.920 --> 00:25:59.880
lights are down, the film's rolling, and the final act begin.

473
00:26:00.359 --> 00:26:04.680
Let's jump back into the cinematic flashback podcast. The last

474
00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:07.119
person that I really wanted to bring up was Roy

475
00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:12.519
Kanear as Planchet, the man servant that d'Artagnan has hired

476
00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:16.799
to be his companion. He's the intentional comic relief. He

477
00:26:16.920 --> 00:26:21.160
was also in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

478
00:26:21.720 --> 00:26:23.839
He was Veruca Salt's father.

479
00:26:24.039 --> 00:26:26.279
There you go. I have largely blocked out Willy Wonka

480
00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:27.079
in the Chocolate Factory.

481
00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:31.000
I was one of those kids traumatized by that movie.

482
00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:34.079
I hate to turn dark hair, but I got to

483
00:26:34.240 --> 00:26:38.079
talk about Roy Kanear and Richard Lester's safety standards on set.

484
00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:41.519
So Alexander Dumas, the original author for the Three Moscaires

485
00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:43.480
novel he wrote a trilogy of what he called the

486
00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:46.920
d'Artagnan romances, Three Musketeers being the first one, and in

487
00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:49.759
the second book in the series was called Twenty Years After,

488
00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:56.559
and Dick Lester actually adapted that fifteen years after in.

489
00:26:56.559 --> 00:26:57.519
Nineteen eighty nine.

490
00:26:58.200 --> 00:27:00.440
He came back to the Musketeers with the Return of

491
00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:03.079
the Musketeers, which I believe was a TV movie, and

492
00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:05.319
it had mostly the same cast as much of the

493
00:27:05.359 --> 00:27:07.759
cast as they could get to come back in Cleaning

494
00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:12.400
Michael York as d'Artagnan, and they had Roy Kanear and

495
00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:17.039
on set for a scene. Kannear was injured riding a

496
00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:22.039
horse and those injuries would prove to be fatal. He

497
00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:25.799
would later die from those injuries. And what was bad

498
00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:27.279
is he didn't want to ride the horse. He's very

499
00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:29.519
uncomfortable with it, and Lester made him do it.

500
00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:33.000
And wow, but I think you're making your point.

501
00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:34.920
Yeah, I mean there's a lot of John Landis in

502
00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:37.720
Dick Lester. He could be very frivolous and light hearted

503
00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:40.640
with the comedy and the tone. And at the same time,

504
00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:44.039
I think he's being a little too casual on set with.

505
00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:48.279
Safety even though you're not running.

506
00:27:53.319 --> 00:27:55.519
But you denied my show. Now I trust him with

507
00:27:55.640 --> 00:27:56.599
not convenience you, sir.

508
00:27:57.240 --> 00:27:59.359
If you wish to postpone a meeting, by no means

509
00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:02.640
I fight just as well with my left hand. If

510
00:28:02.680 --> 00:28:04.440
you find this place as you want to disadvantage, I

511
00:28:04.480 --> 00:28:06.400
do apologize.

512
00:28:06.079 --> 00:28:07.119
You're very curteous, sir.

513
00:28:08.119 --> 00:28:10.240
I was going to add about your wop. I have

514
00:28:10.279 --> 00:28:11.079
annoytment of my mother.

515
00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:13.559
As you've this film did a lot of things right.

516
00:28:13.720 --> 00:28:16.480
One of the things that it did really well were

517
00:28:16.519 --> 00:28:20.799
all the sword fights. Sometimes they may have gone on

518
00:28:20.880 --> 00:28:23.960
a little bit too long, but they were all very

519
00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:27.880
well made. And it starts right from the very beginning.

520
00:28:28.160 --> 00:28:29.799
What did you think of these fight scenes.

521
00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:33.880
I'll be honest with you, I was actually disappointed in them.

522
00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:38.039
They were well laid out, well shot, well choreographed, but

523
00:28:38.079 --> 00:28:40.759
I also felt like they were realistic in.

524
00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:43.440
The sense of being kind of clumsy. You know, I

525
00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:43.799
don't know.

526
00:28:43.880 --> 00:28:45.880
I think I was coming in with the expectations of

527
00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:49.319
like an Eryl Flynn swashbuckler, and that's not what we

528
00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:52.359
get here. So I wish we had gotten a different style.

529
00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:56.240
The depression I get is that it was realistic in

530
00:28:56.279 --> 00:29:00.359
the sense that showing these sword fights, you know, they're

531
00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:02.759
not going to be at lightning speed where they've practiced

532
00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:05.799
choreography for six months. There's gonna be awkwardness, and it's

533
00:29:05.839 --> 00:29:07.400
just a matter of taste, I guess, And whether that's

534
00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:09.880
if that's the approach you wish they had taken now.

535
00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:13.680
William Hobbs, who was the choreography for these fights. He

536
00:29:13.680 --> 00:29:16.000
would start them off, of course, with your plastic and

537
00:29:16.039 --> 00:29:18.160
your wood swords. By the time they got to set,

538
00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:20.599
they had rehearsed it so much that they're using real

539
00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:23.519
steel there, so they're not using plastic. You're going to

540
00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:26.559
know William Hobbs from movies like The Duellists and ex

541
00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:29.880
Caliber and Rob Roy and all of those movies are

542
00:29:29.920 --> 00:29:33.599
not more the Errol Flynn's style. They're very clumsy, they're

543
00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:37.400
very brutal. I liked that they were able to weave

544
00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:40.759
humor into the film. I thought that the fights were

545
00:29:40.759 --> 00:29:43.240
a lot of fun and it kind of met with

546
00:29:43.720 --> 00:29:46.279
the style of the film and it kind of worked

547
00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:47.079
into it.

548
00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:49.680
So, first of all, I want to give a huge

549
00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:52.640
shout out to ex Caliber. It's one of my favorite

550
00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:55.200
movies of all time. That's on the short list. It's

551
00:29:55.240 --> 00:29:56.920
on the very top shelf. You'll never hear me say

552
00:29:56.920 --> 00:29:59.920
that bad word about It's caliber. As far as they

553
00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:02.960
humorous fights, probably my favorite scene in the whole movie

554
00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:05.799
is the sword fight where they're stealing food the whole

555
00:30:05.799 --> 00:30:09.599
time and you know, stabbing the loaf of bread, flicking

556
00:30:09.599 --> 00:30:11.680
across the room, and they're hiding it under his cloak

557
00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:14.920
and whistling like nothing's happening. And they go through the

558
00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:17.279
whole fight, beating everybody, and they walk away with all

559
00:30:17.319 --> 00:30:18.319
the food they want to eat.

560
00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:21.960
I thought all the hilarious. I thought that worked extremely well.

561
00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:27.039
Richard Lester really wanted to make this film earlier, back

562
00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:30.759
when he was making his movies with the Beatles. Now,

563
00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:33.079
I have to ask you this question, if you were

564
00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:37.359
casting the Beatles as the Three Musketeers, who would be

565
00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:39.920
your choice for each of the roles.

566
00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:46.559
Well, the easiest and most obvious answer to that is,

567
00:30:47.119 --> 00:30:50.839
you have to have Ringo as d'Artagnan. I think that's

568
00:30:50.920 --> 00:31:00.079
absolutely the slam dunk, right, considering the comedic approach that

569
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:03.240
Lester took with this movie and knowing what hard Day's

570
00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:08.119
Night is like, I think a nineteen sixty five Three

571
00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:10.960
Musketeers movie with the Beatles would have been something I

572
00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:14.519
would have enjoyed. And I think having Ringo as d'Artagnan

573
00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:18.240
would have been great. And I think you make Paul

574
00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:21.160
Aramis because Paul's the cute one.

575
00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:21.880
Right.

576
00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:25.039
Where it gets a little bit tricky is what to

577
00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:28.680
do with the other two because with this Lester film

578
00:31:28.759 --> 00:31:32.519
in mine and my impression of Oliver Reed's performance compared

579
00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:37.359
to Finley's, I think I would make John Lennon Athos

580
00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:39.119
in the Oliver Reed role, and I.

581
00:31:39.119 --> 00:31:41.440
Would make George Porthos.

582
00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:45.359
I think that's probably opposite of how those characters are

583
00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:50.960
traditionally defined, and so take the extrovert the introvert. Whichever

584
00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:53.400
character you're going with is the introvert. I would give

585
00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:54.039
George that.

586
00:31:54.079 --> 00:31:57.039
Role, gotcha, that's a good casting. I find it very

587
00:31:57.039 --> 00:31:59.880
interesting that the Beatles had such an impact during that

588
00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:02.960
time that you had Stanley Kubrick wanting to do a

589
00:32:03.000 --> 00:32:07.039
Lord of the Rings films with them, Richard Lester Three Musketeers.

590
00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:10.119
Were there any other roles that were maybe outside of

591
00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:11.920
their two films that they didn't make that.

592
00:32:11.920 --> 00:32:12.400
You know of?

593
00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:14.000
No, that's all I'm aware of.

594
00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:19.160
Were there other versions besides the Three Mousketeers that you

595
00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:20.200
have seen?

596
00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:22.279
Yes, I have seen a few.

597
00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:24.680
There have been many going back to the solid film era,

598
00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:26.799
and they've been made on both sides of the Atlantic,

599
00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:31.039
so I have not seen anywhere close to all of them.

600
00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:33.599
I'm a huge fan of the Adventures of Robin Hood.

601
00:32:33.839 --> 00:32:37.920
Errol Flynn. I love that movie. It competes as the

602
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:40.000
number one movie for me of all time. And I

603
00:32:40.079 --> 00:32:44.319
love those huge Golden Age of Hollywood technicolor epics. You know,

604
00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:48.000
Ivanhoe right next to it, the one with solid choices,

605
00:32:48.799 --> 00:32:51.400
And I want there to be a Three Musketeers movie

606
00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:56.440
that fits in alongside those. There's not really. There is

607
00:32:56.519 --> 00:32:59.200
a Gene Kelly production that I believe is from the forties,

608
00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:01.720
and I started to watch it one time. Man, I

609
00:33:01.720 --> 00:33:06.400
couldn't finish it. It has the Musketeers in like monochromatic pestels.

610
00:33:06.759 --> 00:33:08.839
They kind of look like the Teletubbies when you line

611
00:33:08.839 --> 00:33:11.279
them all up next to each other, and it's a

612
00:33:11.359 --> 00:33:13.119
Geen Kelly movie, and I just couldn't really take it

613
00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:18.039
that seriously. I feel like when it comes to American adaptations,

614
00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:21.119
these Leicster films were so successful that people left them

615
00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:23.319
alone for a long time. We did get what I

616
00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:26.440
called the Young Guns version in the early nineties with

617
00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:27.960
Keefer's otherland Charlie.

618
00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:28.680
Sheen and Oliver Platt.

619
00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:29.400
Should I watch it?

620
00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:30.880
Let me put it this way, I saw ont of

621
00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:33.200
the early nineties. I was not a kid. I was

622
00:33:33.319 --> 00:33:37.039
in college, and I remember liking it I have not

623
00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:40.079
seen it since. I do want to watch it again.

624
00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:44.720
But these are very American actors that I will never

625
00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:48.720
forget are American, and I don't know how well it's

626
00:33:48.759 --> 00:33:51.200
gonna hold up, but I'm interested in watching it again.

627
00:33:51.799 --> 00:33:55.839
Something that you won't ever forget while you're watching Richard

628
00:33:55.920 --> 00:34:01.799
Lester's Three Musketeers is that these are very English Musketeers.

629
00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:03.160
Yes, they're not French.

630
00:34:03.680 --> 00:34:06.759
Some of the French accents are questionable, maybe with the

631
00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:10.840
exception of the actor playing King Louis the Thirteenth, who

632
00:34:11.119 --> 00:34:14.760
was indeed French. Everyone else is a little suspect, but

633
00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:18.400
that's that suspension of disbelief, right.

634
00:34:18.280 --> 00:34:21.519
Yes, And as a dumb American, I can buy an

635
00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:25.599
Englishman as a Frenchman a whole lot better than then

636
00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:27.840
I can just buy you know, keep Her Solo or

637
00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:30.559
Charlie Sheen. But you know, I love those guys, love

638
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:32.159
the career. I do want to see that movie again.

639
00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:34.519
I wonder how well it actually holds up. When my

640
00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:38.360
son was little, we had abd of the Mickey Donald

641
00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:41.599
and Goofy version of Three Musketeers movie, and I have

642
00:34:41.639 --> 00:34:46.000
to say I actually, like, genuinely enjoyed that a lot.

643
00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:48.480
I actually thought it was very good. But I want

644
00:34:48.480 --> 00:34:52.719
to mention this, Yeah, the original Dumas novel. When I

645
00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:56.639
own a copy, I have attempted to read it. It's

646
00:34:56.679 --> 00:34:57.719
a tough read for me.

647
00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:01.039
It was written in the eighteen hundreds, set in the

648
00:35:01.079 --> 00:35:04.519
sixteen hundreds. It is not a comedy. The novel is

649
00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:07.840
not comedic in tone, and it seems as though, for

650
00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:12.159
whatever reason, most of all the adaptations have been comedic,

651
00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:17.440
are been lighthearted, and certainly since the Lester films, like

652
00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:20.599
I haven't seen the most recent stuff that's like BBC produced.

653
00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:23.320
I know there was a Musketeer film in the two

654
00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:25.519
thousands that was kind of like a Hong Kong action

655
00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:28.119
framing to it all. I haven't seen any of those,

656
00:35:28.119 --> 00:35:30.800
so I can't really speak with full authority, but it

657
00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:34.079
just seems like, for whatever reason, there's this attitude that

658
00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:38.400
the Three Musketeers can't be taken very seriously in film,

659
00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:41.079
and I wish that we would get that. I found

660
00:35:41.159 --> 00:35:45.360
myself frustrated by the slapstick humor in this movie. I

661
00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:48.280
wanted to be able to take the Musketeer seriously and

662
00:35:48.559 --> 00:35:50.760
I don't think we get that. And of the movies

663
00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:54.599
I've seen, I still don't think I've gotten that. What

664
00:35:54.760 --> 00:35:59.599
I will credit the Lester Films for is faithfulness to

665
00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:03.719
the original plot. A lot of adaptations take extreme liberties

666
00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:05.960
with the plot, and this kind of followed the novel,

667
00:36:05.960 --> 00:36:08.000
so I give it credit for that, but it just

668
00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:11.239
took its own tone. I would like to see something

669
00:36:11.280 --> 00:36:13.920
like this that was done on location, you know, real castles.

670
00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:14.159
You know.

671
00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:17.400
It's just it looks awesome. The costumes are awesome, you

672
00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:19.800
have a great cast. I would like to have seen

673
00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:22.519
a more earnest approach, don't I don't think we've gotten

674
00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:26.480
that yet from any adaptation. I'm aware that this BBC

675
00:36:26.920 --> 00:36:29.639
television show that was done, I'm told that it takes

676
00:36:29.719 --> 00:36:32.880
like a more gritty approach. I don't necessarily know if

677
00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:35.800
that's an accurate either, or if they're just being gritty

678
00:36:36.039 --> 00:36:39.639
by their own choice. But I would like to see

679
00:36:39.679 --> 00:36:41.519
this property treated more seriously.

680
00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:44.480
All Right, sir, we're kind of coming to the end

681
00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:46.840
of our time. Should we go ahead and ask the question?

682
00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:49.880
Yes, it is time for the question.

683
00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:53.199
Machine and rolling.

684
00:36:55.039 --> 00:36:58.199
Did the Three Musketeers groove through the decades or did

685
00:36:58.239 --> 00:36:59.280
it lose its beat?

686
00:36:59.719 --> 00:36:59.920
Dave?

687
00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:01.360
What do you say?

688
00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:06.119
I am the one who suggested this movie. I have

689
00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:09.800
golden childhood memories of this movie. I remember watching it

690
00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:12.000
and enjoying it with my dad, as I've watched many

691
00:37:12.039 --> 00:37:15.679
swashbuckleing movies with him. But I'll tell you that again,

692
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:18.599
like I touched on a second ago, that the comedic approach,

693
00:37:18.760 --> 00:37:21.679
I was frustrated by that more than I wasn't. I

694
00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:25.599
grew tired of the slapstick and I just felt like

695
00:37:26.039 --> 00:37:27.960
a lot of the jokes felt a lot of gags.

696
00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:30.119
They weren't even jokes, theyre just gags. They just fell

697
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:33.800
flat for me, and they just seemed unnecessary. Obviously, that

698
00:37:33.960 --> 00:37:35.719
was the choice, and the whole cast was behind it,

699
00:37:35.719 --> 00:37:37.400
and they were having fun with it, but it's not

700
00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:41.320
what I wanted. It's not what I wanted the Musketeer

701
00:37:41.360 --> 00:37:44.599
movie to be. And now I can kind of zoom out,

702
00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:48.360
take a macro, look at Richard Lester and realize, well,

703
00:37:48.400 --> 00:37:50.400
you know that's what you're gonna get when you hire

704
00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:54.480
Richard Lester. So I'm not really blaming him necessarily. I

705
00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:57.199
just I just found myself wishing we had gotten a

706
00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:00.559
different treatment. I'm glad to hear that you seem to

707
00:38:00.639 --> 00:38:04.440
enjoy this movie a lot, and there's a lot to like,

708
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but for me it skips a beat. I just grew

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weary of the slapstick humor and wish they had taken

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a different time.

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I am going to recognize a lot of what you

712
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just said there, because the third act gets a little wearisome.

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It's a travel log where d'Artagnan is going to England

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and coming back, and there's a long sword play at

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the very end, and what makes the wrap up at

716
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the very end, basically it's this award metal scene from

717
00:38:48.559 --> 00:38:52.480
Star Wars that's super uplifting, and I think that Mark

718
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Legeran does a lot of heavy lifting in those final scenes.

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A lot of it is writing on his music. I

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was not expecting a comedy, and I rather appreciated that,

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not that I'm super familiar with the source material to

722
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begin with, and like you, as I started to read

723
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more about Richard Lester, all of a sudden I understood

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why this was more of a humorous film. So if

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you know that going in it may be helpful. I

726
00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:28.039
found it very entertaining. It's just kind of a roaring

727
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good time, as the video box says on its cover,

728
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and I went along with the ride I enjoyed it

729
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a group for me very good.

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I cannot point out, and I don't know if you

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want to keep this in or not, but if you

732
00:39:40.679 --> 00:39:44.679
recall the scenes fighting in the streets in Superman two,

733
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where the bus is falling over and someone's walking against

734
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the wind, or the phone booth flies away and the

735
00:39:51.159 --> 00:39:53.400
guys still standing there on the phone, all those visual

736
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gags very much in the vein of Three Musketeers, very

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much dick luster.

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So see that right there is why I do not

739
00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:00.920
like Superman too.

740
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And it rub me the wrong way a little bit

741
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here with Three Musketeers, to be honest.

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But hey, I'm going to say though, thank you for

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recommending it. I am going to follow up with watching

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The Fourth Musketeers. I probably will not ask you to

745
00:40:17.239 --> 00:40:19.400
review that because I think we're gonna end up talking

746
00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:21.079
about the same kind of things. I'm not really sure

747
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if it's worth an episode if we're getting more of

748
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the same.

749
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It's the same movie they just split it into.

750
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Well, Dave, thank you so much for joining me on

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this swashbuckling ride, and thank you listeners for hopping into

752
00:40:32.840 --> 00:40:35.679
the wayback machine. Have you seen The Three Musketeers? What

753
00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:38.360
did you think was the sword fighting? Did it work

754
00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:40.519
for you? Did the comedy take away or did it

755
00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:43.360
add to it? What were your memories on it? You

756
00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:47.079
can connect with us on our website, the Cinematic Flashback

757
00:40:47.159 --> 00:40:50.199
dot com. You can actually let us know right there

758
00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:53.320
what you thought of the Three Musketeers, What do you

759
00:40:53.320 --> 00:40:57.920
think of other Richard Lester films? Pro con let us know.

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00:40:58.599 --> 00:41:00.920
You can also read our blog, art articles, catch up

761
00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:04.159
on past episodes, and as I said, share your feedback.

762
00:41:04.199 --> 00:41:06.760
So don't forget to subscribe so you won't miss an

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episode and join us next time as we review another

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film from the Groovyous decade. And until then, remember all

765
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for one and one for all.

766
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Well brought you here?

767
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D's the man?

768
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Take him away?

769
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He's not the Man's not a man altogether