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La Fille de d'Artagnan
Great movie. Humourous in the Three and Four Musketeers film way. Sophie Marceau did some great sword fighting. Her final scene of sword fighting was up there with Stewart Granger's final fighting scene in Scaramouche. Not as long though.
Her fighting was rough because she had never been formally trained. Which led to scenes as d'Artagnan was teaching her while fighting. When she killed her first man it affected her, but didn't stop her from fighting.
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Re: La Fille de d'Artagnan
Thanks for the review, this was a good movie. Karma (+).
It's available on Region 1 DVD as "Revenge of the Musketeers", a name change which doesn't really sound Musketeerish - revenge isn't really their thing.
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Re: La Fille de d'Artagnan
I agree that Sophie Marceau had some good, desperate fighting scenes, especially the long one that ended on the roof.
However the set up, for her to show up on the aged d'Artagnan's doorstep, dragged. Will have to say I find many continental European action films spend far too much time setting the era or story question at the front end. Someone once mentioned the reason is European audiences always arrive late and first settle in with their food before paying attention to the story.
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Re: La Fille de d'Artagnan
I really liked this movie, bought my RC2 DVD long time ago.
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Will have to say I find many continental European action films spend far too much time setting the era or story question at the front end. Someone once mentioned the reason is European audiences always arrive late and first settle in with their food before paying attention to the story.
Not quite true. The famous script writer William Goldman once pointed out that in American productions, an awful lot must happen in the first 10 minutes - because producers only read the first few pages of a script and then decide to trash it, in most cases. So the writers know they must try desperately to grab attention immediately. Insofar, the European approach to stories, let them unfold at normal speed is more natural than this pushing.
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Re: La Fille de d'Artagnan
Writers call it "backstory," and it is usually lined-out by American editors. Impatient, upstart, brash folk we Americans are.
Get the audience into the story problem early, and you have their attention. Then drop a few small nuggets of "backstory" into the text as the action continues.
I give that the European slow-build is more logical, but less entertaining. I don't buy a ticket to watch an entire war minute by dragging minute.
Take "D'Artagnan's Daughter" (several release names), with all the early rumpus and violence at the convent. Once Ms. Marceau joins her father, it's never mentioned, yet it used a full third of the runtime (or so it seemed). Further, if memory serves, the photography in that part was darker than the rest of the film.
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Well, in the end it doesn't matter if it's French or American, but what kind of story you're going to tell. I mean, in "You Only Live Twice", guys rush in and shoot James Bond right in the first minute of the film. A nasty surprise to kick off with, works great for this particular film (see: title!). Would make little sense in most other stories though.
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