Film and Film

“The three Musketeers” Paul Anderson, 2011

The famous novel of adventures written by French Alexandre Dumas, in 1844 has been made into a film many times due to its success and action; Since its beginnings in the silent film era, there are several versions of different nationalities, and from there, when appeared the soundtrack it turned out another reason; years later it was because the arrival of color screens, and so forth. So with 3D, it was logical that with this technology, becomes to revise all the films to transfer to this new form, so the novel in question was not going to wait.

If you would like to make a list of the adaptations that have turned this work into a film, the only thing that it would be endless would be the list of changes each version suffers from the original. In some cases they remove some characters, others added, or there is more emphasis in this event, or there is more action where the novel says nothing, and thus in a myriad of mutilation, stretching and other changes that each producer considers it is necessary to make the highest grossing film, and generally speaking, taking into account other adaptations that preceded it.

Of course, this version is not the exception, on the contrary, being in 3D and making the first version in this new format, they are careful to place all the ingredients to make a box office product and first of all reviewing other films, but not all the other versions of "The three Musketeers", but before anything by introducing elements and scripts of other tapes of action-adventure famous and successful in the public, with the intention of achieving all this that likes popularly and sells on a guaranteed basis; a mixture of some of the commercial Hollywood formulas copied here and included every now and then.

But it is "The three Musketeers" and with 3D everything goes and is solved, as in "Pirates of the Caribbean", just missed the monsters, replaced by the flying ships for greater "verisimilitude". From the beginning, for example, it appears as "Indiana Jones" the sequence of the fatal passageways leading to the treasure, or infrared rays, type "Matrix" that changed into fine threads that are crossed "flying"; In addition to terrible weapons fire with the style of "Jim West" the cowboy and of course, the starring swordsman exceeds by far "The Fox"; Finally, the list is long and becomes tedious. In addition the story also includes typical elements with the same purpose: love story from the beginning (one happy and another tragic one), very simplistic intrigues, the caricature of a King, lots of action and gratuitous violence, and besides the teenager who wins a place in the world of adults and gets girlfriend (the latter very important taking into account the amount of young audience that attends this type of films).