Films I am excited about: The Three Musketeers

[alexandral]

OMPH! I have been alerted by always knowledgeable trailer_spot : The Three Musketeers are coming! In 3D!! With Ray Stevenson as Portos , Matthew Macfadyen as Atos and Luke Evans as Aramis! and Milla Jovovich as Milady!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and Mads Mikkelsen as Rochefort! For some strange and hard to fathom reason Dumas' books are not as popular in the UK as they are in Russia, but I must say that for me personally he is the number 1 as far as historical literature ( with some free interpretation of history ) is concerned. And The Three Musketeers trilogy is his best, I red and re-red these books so many times as a child. Hopefully there will be new editions of the English translation soon (this usually happens when new film adaptations are released) so that I can push it to my daughter - 12 years was the first time I read the books myself.

The trailer:

PS: this adaptation's D'Artagnan is a cutie.

Comments

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

Эээ, ты действительно считаешь, что этот смазливый, круглощекий херувимчик подходит на роль д'Артаньяна? 0___0
Меня трейлер ужаснул. Полное бру-га-га... Такое ощущение, что кино по-голливудски окончательно выродилось в бессмысленный аттракцион, делающийся исключительно ради эффектной картинки.
ЗЫ: А на фоне младенца по крайней мере двое из трех господ-мушкетеров смотрятся потасканными дядечками предпенсионного возраста, годящимися мальчику в папочки...

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

hee! I disagree on both account:

I am not sure yet about Logan Lerman as D'Artagnan because I haven't seen him anywhere, but I am really glad that this adaptation is finally getting the ages right. This is something that always bothered me in any previous adaptations:

- at the beginning of the books D'Artagnan is 17
- both Atos and Portos are heavily thirty-something (so yes, they both are D'Artagnan's father's age)
- Aramis is younger than Atos and Portos.

As to the fact that the movie looks very heavy on action - I like this too, this corresponds with the feeling I get from the books too.

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

По книжке, на момент знакомства четверки Д'Артаньяну 18 лет, Арамису 22-23, Портос примерно его ровесник, а самому старшему, Атосу, по разным вариантам от 27 до 30 лет.
ЗЫ: В этом, с позволения сказать, д'Артаньяне меня раздражает не его возраст, а его кукольная, херувимистая смазливость.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I was wrong (to some point, D'Artagnan is 18 which is close) Anyways, I like the cast , they all my favourite actors.

They made both Ray Stevenson and Matthew Macfadyen to look older than they really are, which must have been intentinal.

Some people below comment that Logan lerman is a really good actor. :D