"The picnic was delicious, the champagne was excellent. Remind me to send the Cardinal a note."
Hold onto your horses boys and girls, we have come to the episode Aprill has been waiting on since we started this journey. We have come to the one and only, 1993 Disney's THE THREE MUSKETEERS.
Based on the Alexandre Dumas novel of the same name, the timeline is 1625 France where a Young d'Artagnan (Chris O'Donnell) makes his way to Paris to follow in his late-father's footsteps and become a personal guard of the King- known as a Musketeer. Unbeknownst to him, Cardinal Richelieu (Tim Curry) has disbanded this "private army" and has a plot against the young King Louis. As with any good swashbuckling adventure there is always a rebellious trio that sees through the ruse and in this movie, it's the last three remaining Musketeers who refuse to give up their tunics - Athos (Kiefer Sutherland), Aramis (Charlie Sheen) and Porthos (Oliver Platt).
Do beware -- as with any of our movie episodes : SPOILERS ALERT !!! And this is your warning to not read any farther if you want to watch the movie first.
While Ashley made sure to be kind and not completely and utterly rip open Aprill's heart over her all-time favorite movie. We did discuss how, with the exception of just a couple of things, this movie held up a lot better than some of the others and that it wouldn't be completely burned at the stake for being overly sexist. While this movie does have a heavy male presence - one female stands out as being pretty kickass for the 17th Century. Countess D'Winter played by Rebecca De Mornay, was not only a bit of an idol for Aprill in the sense that she was someone who knew how to take care of herself, but Rebecca played her flawlessly as an antihero.
We discuss everything from the fact that Aprill is still watching this movie about once a month, how the comedic timing on this action movie is impeccable, thanks in large part to Oliver Platt if we do say so ourselves, the swashbuckling fashion choices, the overuse of "Hyah", and so much more!
While this movie isn't exactly historically accurate, the names do have some accuracy - like King Louis XIII did have a chief minister by the name of Cardinal Richelieu, it did aide in Aprill's interest in European History. So hey - at least it helped with school, sort of. ;)
There is some deep shit we discuss in this episode and a big part of what makes our youngest co-host who she is.
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