{"id":7744,"date":"2011-10-12T18:20:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T18:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=7744"},"modified":"2015-05-10T18:23:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T18:23:33","slug":"movie-preview-paul-w-s-andersons-the-three-musketeers-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=7744","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE PREVIEW: ‘The Three Musketeers 3D’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n

LONDON \u2013 When Milla Jovovich\u2019s husband said that he wanted to make a new film version of \u201cThe Three Musketeers\u201d, she said, \u201cReally? No. Really?\u201d The actress says: \u201cBut then I thought if anyone is going to reboot \u2018Three Musketeers\u2019, it\u2019s going to be Paul, so I just wanted to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It helps that her husband is Paul W.S. Anderson who has directed the star in the \u201cResident Evil\u201d franchise, the most recent of which, \u201cResident Evil: Afterlife\u201d grossed $296 million around the world.<\/p>\n

That film was shot in 3D and afterwards Anderson said every movie he made would be in that format. Thus the new \u201cThree Musketeers\u201d \u2013 released by eOne this month in theatres and in February on Blu-day Disc \u2013 is in 3D and uses the same Cameron\/Pace system used for \u201cAvatar\u201d<\/p>\n

\"jovovich<\/a>Anderson says he takes a holistic approach to 3D filmmaking and so everything about a movie has to be 3D: \u201cWe start by writing a 3D script that has action set-pieces in it and descriptions of places that think about the dept that 3D likes and loves. Then we design sets that emphasise the 3D. I choose locations that work well in 3D. We chose to shoot fight scenes in the rain because rain looks great in 3D.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ray Stevenson (\u201cRome\u201d, \u201cThor\u201d), who plays Porthos in the film, says that filming fight sequences in 3D is very liberating: \u201cThe 3D cameras can almost see around you so everything has to be on point and on target. We had phenomenal training before we started to shoot and it had to be of such a high standard because of the 3D, and when we came to filming we were a lot freer.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was good because there are a lot of fights in the picture, big ones with scores if not hundreds of people who use not only daggers and swords but futuristic weapons inspired by 17th century exhibits and illustrations in German museums.<\/p>\n

They were German because the film\u2019s interiors were shot at Studio Babelsburg in Bavaria. Anderson says, \u201cThey have very big stages and we needed the big stages for the sets we built. The movie was 70% on location and 30% stage. Obviously, we needed a lot of historic locations, which were fantastic but once you start blowing things up, as we do in the movie, we had to do all of that on the stage. We had to build really big so that the stage portion matched visually the locations.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was great fun, too, for the rest of the cast, which includes Matthew Macfadyen (\u201cSpooks\u201d, \u201cPride And Prejudice\u201d) as Athos, Luke Evans (\u201cTamara Drew\u201d, \u201cClash Of The Titans\u201d) as Aramis, Logan Lerman (\u201c3:10 To Yuma\u201d), Christoph Waltz (\u201cInglourious Basterds\u201d) as Cardinal Richelieu, and Orlando Bloom (\u201cLord Of The Rings\u201d) as the Duke of Buckingham.<\/p>\n

Anderson says he set out to make a family popcorn movie because it was the first film he\u2019s made since he\u2019s had a family. He says: \u201cThere\u2019s no blood in it, no nudity, no bad language. It depends on how sensitive your kids are. There is a certain intensity in the action scenes but if your kids are up for that, I would say definitely go for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This story appeared in Cue Entertainment.<\/p>\n

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