In The Man in the Iron Mask, Phillipe spends six years locked in a dungeon with his face hidden from all by a locked iron mask. The three musketeers rescue him, and Athos in particular takes to looking after poor Phillipe.
I watched The Man in the Iron Mask for the first time today
I thought it was mostly a medieval action movie with horse-chases and sword fights. I truly didn’t expect it to be a heartwarming movie about camaraderie and love
You get the romantic love between D’artagnian and Anne
You also see the love in the loyal comraderie between the musketeers
You see the parent- child love that Philippe feels towards D’artignian, the Queen, and even Athos
You even see the love in the comraderie between the way the soldiers cannot kill their respected commander, preventing them from killing him
This goes to show how Louis, a king who doesn’t carry himself with love, becomes the antagonist of the story
this is kinda funny that when I read a fic about the man in the iron mask I am not happy to see some little errors (like places or stuff like that, for an exemple in a fic I really like, settled when Athos, Porthos and Aramis are training Philippe it says that it is at Athos' place when it was actually Aramis driving them to it) but when its me writing a fic I'm like "yeah okay let extend the time he's been trained to 3 months and not 3 weeks" because I need it (I'm writing a (what is supposed to be) a slow burn so....)
Throughout the film, they all four are being defined by these four colour: Aramis - black, Porthos - red, Athos - green, d'Artagnan - blue. The conflict relies on the disparity between them; whenever they are not working together (as the whole group of four; the movie would have us believe they were all the closest of friends), they are shown in distinguished, different colours (even at the masked ball, each of them is defined by a single one, different from the rest). There is the obvious symbolism (red - passion, green - bucolic, black - secretiveness, blue - prudence), but what is more interesting is how do they all relate to the colour of the uniforms? D'Artagnan is wearing the blue of the new ones, his everyday coat looks almost exactly like his uniform and is an exact match of the shade. But it is not until the all wear the black of the old uniforms they are truly united again (what is very interesting is how no one told d'Artagnan they would be wearing them, yet he showed up all cald in black). And who was wearing black the whole time?...
Aramis is not only the true "glue" of the group in this movie, but the only one who kept true to their pasts. In this essay I will
my teen niece is watching The Man In the Iron Mask for the first time and I keep hearing exclamations of "Ooh THAT was clever!" and "IMPOSTER???" from the other room it's great