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elenatria · 2 years

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Hello :) I'm not sure if this is still relevant, but yesterday I was looking for fanarts on the Soviet musketeer and yours are the best. And yes, their Aramis is also my favorite! I would like more people to see this adaptation. Thank you, it has made my day a little better.

Oh hi! The Musketeers are always relevant to me as I often go back to my old fandoms for inspiration. 😁

Thank you so much! I must add that the best Soviet musketeer fanarts can be found on VK (I've seen some gorgeous Starygin!Aramis portraits there). Sigh, I love Aramis so much, I swear I'll learn his song by heart one day.

Many of my tumblr friends have seen this adaptation but most of them are Russian so it makes sense lol. But seriously, people *should* see this version, honestly it's the best adaptation there is, the most faithful to the book. And it's also very heart-warming that the actors stayed friends for years after the filming.

I'm really glad my art made your day, Один за всех, и все за одного. 😄

#three musketeers #musketeers #soviet musketeers #igor starygin #venjamin smekhov #mikhail boyarsky #valentin smirnitski #soviet musketeers fanart

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kathogelia · 9 months

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Venyamin Smekhov as Athos D'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers (1979) dir. Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich

#venyamin smekhov #athos #d'artagnan and the three musketeers #georgi yungvald khilkevich #1970s #soviet cinema #dailykino #dailyworldcinema

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alliluyevas · 1 year

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was talking to @xenowlsome about 19th century novels we were into as kids and she was like “oh i really loved the headless horseman but i can’t remember the author” and i said “i’m struggling but it’s on the tip of my tongue. all i can think of is ichabod crane but that’s the character” and she goes “oh that’s not the headless horseman that’s a different story. i’m talking about the headless horseman. you know. it’s set in texas.” MA’AM THE WHAT? i’m pretty sure sleepy hollow is not in texas!!!

anyway that’s how we discovered that this story is in fact called the headless horseman, set in texas, and apparently wildly popular in the former soviet union due to being the inspiration for a 1972 soviet western film.

another hit in the “often obscure 19th century european or american novels that are disproportionately wildly popular in the former soviet union” canon

#ivanhoe is very niche in modern day english speaking countries but was really popular in the soviet union #and the other one i can think of is the three musketeers which is def not the same level of obscurity here but super popular in former ussr

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ladydewinterestelle · 2 years

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The first crush from film (and book too)!

#russian musketeers #1978 #aramis #three musketeers #Igor Starygin #russian film #soviet film #soviet movie #soviet actor

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sovietpostcards · 8 months

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There was this Soyuzmultfilm animation called "The Dog in Boots" (Пёс в сапогах) ?

I really love that animated short and i don't see alot appreciation for it anywhere :') ..

It's a fun one for sure! It's based on the Three Musketeers and I love how it's rooted in the Soviet Three Musketeers movie that came out just a couple years prior, in 1978. Fun fact: the English detective dog was voiced by Vasily Livanov who played Sherlock Holmes in the famous 1979 film.

But my favourite part of the Dog in Boots is definitely songs!

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#soviet cartoons #animation

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jadedbirch · 4 months

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The Three Musketeers (2023) - Part 1: d'Artagnan

Directed: Martin Bourboulon

Starring: Vincent Cassel, Eva Green, François Civil

First of all, you do not know the struggle we had to go through to even get our eyeballs on this movie! Only die hard Dumas idiots like me would have even bothered 🤦🏻‍♀️. Finally, we had to buy it from AppleTV. Anywho, below is my live blog of the latest French nonsense! I make a point of tutoring myself watching as many 3 Musketeers adaptations as possible, regardless of the psychological damage, and I kind of have high hopes for this one despite the fact that I can already tell they cast more for 20 Years After than for The 3 Musketeers. But I'm willing to pretend there are no good, young actors in France (because there's no other way to explain these casting choices) for the sake of my own sanity. The rest of my babbling and movie spoilers will be below the cut!

I see we start the movie in 1627, which already makes me laugh 🤣. The book famously starts in 1625 and then they time skip a year and a half into the future because I guess Dumas remembered that the war starts in 1627. Alex was the king of inexplicable time skips and I see the movie has chosen to stick to history rather than literary canon 👌🏻.

Everything is cold, dark, and wet. I have no idea what's going on, or who this blond woman is, or why d'Artagnan is coming back from the dead. But I'm always in favor of immortal abominations 😈.

It does entertain me that Eric Ruf, who played Aramis in an earlier French adaptation, plays Richelieu in this one. Nice touch.

LOL d'Artagnan gate crashing the musketeer headquarters all "I'm not Soviet, the French do not stand in line!" Anyways, he's authentically obnoxious, which I like, although clearly also 20 years too old.

I feel like this is an AU that takes place before they invented soap and also dyes, which is hilarious because if they're going for historical accuracy, this is just what the plebs think looks "authentic". Why are these men all so dirty and old? At least they make fun of Athos being a thousand years old in the movie, but why is Jussac also so ancient? And still serving in the guards? Life expectancy back then was like 25, but surely no one would be serving in the army past the age of 50, which was like Ancient for the 1600s, even among nobility.

I must laugh at the fact that Athos straight up introduces himself to d'Artagnan as Athos de Sillegue, le comte de La Fère. So, I see we are just going to go there 🤭🤭🤭. This changes his story arc completely though, stay tuned for my whinging. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Absolutely incredible, legendary , A++, 11000/10: bisexual Porthos waking up in bed with a lady and a dude after a night of debauchery! Chef's fucking kiss! I forgive the fact that there are no young people in France.

Aramis, so far is very Murder Kitten. I do wish he'd wash his face more and do something about his guyliner (I feel like he should have just committed to MORE MAKEUP frankly because the guyliner alone is odd), but c'est la vie, I guess.

Plus one point for Athos getting wrongly arrested, minus twenty points for making Athos a Protestant WTF? And in what world would a nobleman of Athos' lineage get sentenced to death for stabbing an unknown woman? This is all so silly! (I do have to give Milady points for just like fucking with him so fantastically. Plus one revenge point to Milady.)

Aramis torturing a guy to save Athos is honestly 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 11/10 Murder Kitten, automatic plus one point.

This is all incredibly Dramatique, as much as it strains credulity. I love it when modern directors decide that they can write better "action" than Dumas himself. I'm just sitting here screaming "Why would you have that conversation where anyone can hear you!" Minus one point.

I must say Constance and d'Artagnan have a much more believable romance here than in the book. Plus 5 non-creeper points.

(Please I can't stop looking at how old all these Musketeers are 😅😅😅)

Okay so they've also given Athos a BROTHER. Who is part of a Protestant conspiracy. This is all so fucking crazy, I don't even know what to say. Am I watching the musketeers or La Reine Margot? 🤔

Incidentally, the King also gets a brother! Everyone gets a brother! J/K at least the King really did have a historical brother. Athos just gets fucked with in this movie a lot. Automatic minus one point for unnecessary siblings.

WHY must you all insist on having these super SECRET conversations in the middle of a public square where literally anyone can hear you? Minus one dumbass point.

And now d'Artagnan must go to England.... Alone? Because it's more heroic this way? Ambushed by ghost squirrels in the woods? Oh no, that's just Athos, lurking in the woods, as one does. "All misery comes from love." Thanks, Old Man Lush.

This revisionist tale of Milady's past is all very convenient but I FUCKING HATE IT every single time they try to do this in modern adaptations. Let Milady Be Evil 2023! But I see that you will not. Listen, it's not "feminist" to turn the villain into the victim. I'm so tired. 🤦🏻‍♀️ These misguided attempts at feminism really do not do her any favors, she has a lot more agency as simply the Really Bad Girl who just wanted money and power. Minus 5 points for not letting Milady have any fun and minus another 10 points for giving her an abusive ex-husband!

As for Athos, IMO it's always much more compelling to let him be the guy who tried to kill his beloved wife for betraying him, than to make him the spineless man who turns her over to the authorities for Handwavium. Yes, it's pretty fucked up. But it's much more humanizing and makes him a darker, more interesting character. And I will always maintain that.

(This movie is so fucking dark, all the scenes take place at night or in some cthonic tunnels or prisons ffs have mercy on my eyes!)

Oh dear, here we go again. Milady taking a Dramatique - and completely unnecessary - dive off a cliff. Only this time, we know she doesn't die because.... She can swim? And definitely will not have all her bones broken by that 1000 ft fall. Minus 20 points for lazy writing.

(My God, everyone is so dirty, you would think they never did their laundry in France 🤦🏻‍♀️)

Ironically, the only well lit scene takes place in what looks like the Notre Dame which is just very silly as that place is a sepulcher.

(Once again, we are advancing the plot by having super secret conversations conducted in the middle of the palace with an open door where anyone can see and hear you plotting 🤦🏻‍♀️ Minus one petty point.)

Okay, so poor Constance has been kidnapped, and our young hero (who is already a Lieutenant because he and his pals conveniently saved the King's life in a plot twist that was very necessary in other to return Athos to favor in this version) lies unconscious in the streets. They probably didn't even try to kill him this time because they know he's immortal. And speaking of people who just won't die, in a mid-credits scene, it is confirmed that Milady is indeed, very much Not Dead Yet. Surprise! The scene is now set for war in The Three Musketeers: Part 2: Milady.

In summary:

I tallied up my totally random points and ended up with a score of -51, which is Not Good, my friends.

Okay, so I've seen much worse? It's better than Atrocity in 3D, for example, which was just barely watchable as a film and as an adaptation. But they changed so much about the plot and some of the main characters, that it doesn't really feel true to the spirit of the book at this point, which is my main criteria for measuring whether an adaptation is successful. And the main reasons for that are because it's much darker and grittier and less fun than the novel. Which - Quelle domage!

I know that as an unrepentant Athos fangirl, I tend to be biased, so I was trying to be on guard (heheh get it?) for my own biases while watching this. But it's really difficult when Ya Boy is such an integral part of the novel as well as this particular adaptation. And so I must regrettably come back to what a shame it is that they've cast a 60 year old Athos (Vincent Cassel is 57 and he's a fabulous actor whom I've loved in many of his worlks), and I feel like they had to rewrite his character to be more age appropriate and less of the drunken asshole he is in Dumas' first d'Artagnan book. But that's the asshole I fell in love with, and will stan forever. Without him going around beating his servant, indulging his gambling addiction, and being a sarcastic pain in everyone's ass, it's just a completely different story.

Pros:

Hot Eva Green!

bisexual Porthos!

d'Artagnan is given a much less creepy love story with Constance (and I assume he will also not be nonconning Milady in this adaptation)

The King and Queen are much more humanized and sympathetic here.

Cons:

Visually really drab, everything is brown, everyone is dirty.

Very little humor unlike in the novel and some other adaptations.

EVERYONE IS WAY TOO OLD, which changes the feeling of the story significantly, and IMO for the worse, because these people are just not allowed to have fun, and subsequently, neither is the audience.

I will still absolutely be here for Part 2 because I am a masochist!

Grade: B- as a piece of art, but a C as an adaptation of the Dumas classic.

#the three musketeers #2023 the three musketeers #alexandre dumas #the three musketeers: d'artagnan

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dangermousie · 8 months

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This is a petty complaint but I am all about petty:

I hate hate hate HATE iQIYI’s habit of putting an unskippable short ad of whatever the drama they are flogging the most on their platform whenever I open the app. It’s not because I have VIP so why do I need to watch ads (tho that’s part of it) but because its the same freaking ad over and over for weeks and it’s genuinely pointless and even having the opposite effect.

I disliked it when they did it with Love You Seven Times even when I was watching it - I am already watching it, I don’t need a reminder it exists. I disliked it even more after I dropped it - yes I know it exists and I didn’t care enough to continue, no your ad over and over and over just annoys the hell out of me.

And now they’ve switched to Sunshine by My Side, that modern Xiao Zhan and Bai Baihe drama and it’s even more annoying because I just want to get to my period assassins and having to sit through two chirpy grinning romcommers feels like the most annoying kind of нагрузка (I can’t think of a more pithy term but for those unfamiliar with Soviet planned economy this is a word for some unwanted good the government had you buy in order to be allowed to buy the wanted good. Because they produced stuff so it had to be sold and/or to demonstrate how much people wanted such and such ideological thing. A good example would be you want to buy Three Musketeers novel but in order to do it you first have to buy a volume of a Lenin works.)

Anyway, this is a drama I never ever had any interest in and would never watch and having to watch that stupid terminally sunshine ad over and over and fucking over has taken me from benign indifference to the existence of this drama to active irritation at merely seeing its name mentioned and just bad will towards the drama and everyone involved it. I mean I normally like Xiao Zhan just fine but I started twitching just seeing his face. That is not the result you want!

/petty over.

#cdrama

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spiritcc · 3 months

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Soviet Movie Club(tm): February

For the next three Sundays, the Series(tm) part is ez - the return of the musketeers.

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For the foreseeable Saturday 3rd - another return, of Onegin the opera. THEEE hotguy, hotguy(s) even