History Film / TheThreeMusketeers2011

** D'Artagnan is 18, and the majority of [[DerivativeWorks/TheThreeMusketeers previous adaptations]] (and [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers2023 following ones]] too) had him played by guys in their 30s (the needs for experimented leads prevailed). Here, he was played by Logan Lerman just at the right age (18-19).

Among the [[DerivativeWorks/TheThreeMusketeers many]] films of the novel, it stands out by taking the story into an AlternateHistory setting with elements of ClockPunk. Most notably, it has [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld airships]]. Otherwise, however, it is a surprisingly faithful take on the novel as far as its adaptations go.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Richelieu's galleon-sized airship lands bluntly on top of Notre Dame's bell tower and stays forked there for the next scenes, with the entire cathedral remaining shockingly intact in the process. In real life, even if a lot of the airship's weight was being lightened by the balloon's lifting gas, the impact and momentum alone would have been likely enough to wreck the building. (And even after this miracle of physics, we can only hope Richelieu's guards managed to refloat the airship before all the gas left the balloon, as the sheer unlifted weight of the damn thing could end up smashing the cathedral anyways.)

* IHaveThisFriend: King Louis plays this out of embarrassment when having a guy talk with D'Artagnan, who obviously realizes the truth but plays along because it's the King. The latter tries his best with the illusion for most of the dialogue, but after trading a ButHeSoundsHandsome joke, it's implied he realizes what D'Artagnan has been doing and simply elects to play it to the end for decorum, giving him a little knowing look that feels like a "well played, sir". This is further shown when they later recall the talk, with the King now giving D'Artagnan a wink and a heartfelt thanking.

** The break-in at the Tower of London takes this to amusing levels. Milady, who's worked with them in the past, knows their methods, and can give Buckingham the information. They know she knows their methods and will tell Buckingham. She knows they know she knows and will tell Buckingham. [[spoiler: The English capture D'Artagnan, who she knew they'd use to infiltrate while the others acted as decoys, assuming she wouldn't take him into account. Turns out, they knew she'd do that, he's the decoy, and they do something completely different.]]

* KickChick: Milady does several spinning kick feints in her fight scenes.

* MasterSwordsman: Obviously many, but oddly enough, the CombatPragmatist Rochefort seems to be the best example in the film. He dominates his climatic battle with D'Artagnan, who is already easily on par with the Musketeers in skill.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent:
** Pretty much everyone in this movie. The only exception could possibly be Creator/OrlandoBloom (him being British in RealLife and all), and the Austrian Christoph Waltz putting on a mild French accent.
** It could be argued that the accents are a TranslationConvention. Most Parisian characters speak in [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents Received Pronunciation English accents]], while D'artagnan, a Gascon, has Creator/LoganLerman's American accent, as does his father, despite the latter being played by British actor Dexter Fletcher. And Creator/OrlandoBloom, in the role of an actual Englishman, [[IAmVeryBritish plays it up even further.]]

* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Richelieu spars with three {{Mooks}} at once in one scene and does pretty well. A comparison is done with Rochefort, who shadow-fights alone and is taunted by Richelieu for it.

** Planchet: [[spoiler:Dude's threatened with capture, and he just [[BigEater starts grabbing food off a nearby buffet table]].]]

* TruerToTheText: D'Artagnan is 18, and the majority of [[DerivativeWorks/TheThreeMusketeers previous adaptations]] (and [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers2023 following ones]] too) had him played by guys in their 30s (the needs for experimented leads prevailed). Here, he was played by Logan Lerman just at the right age (18-19).

* WhatIf: Done with gusto. Athos as bitter at state ex-MIB leads to the whole new attitude towards women - like lecturing D'Artagnan that saving your true love and enjoying the youth is better that having your life ruined by serving the crown. Total opposite of the personality in book.

* TruerToTheText: D'Artagnan is 18, and the majority of [[Franchise/TheThreeMusketeers previous adaptations]] (and [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers2023 following ones]] too) had him played by guys in their 30s (the needs for experimented leads prevailed). Here, he was played by Logan Lerman just at the right age (18-19).

Among the [[Franchise/TheThreeMusketeers many]] films of the novel, it stands out by taking the story into an AlternateHistory setting with elements of ClockPunk. Most notably, it has [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld airships]]. Otherwise, however, it is a surprisingly faithful take on the novel as far as its adaptations go.

''The Three Musketeers'' is a 2011 {{swashbuckler}} film directed by Creator/PaulWSAnderson, loosely based on the novel ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' by Creator/AlexandreDumas. It stars Creator/LoganLerman as D'Artagnan, Matthew Macfadyen, Creator/LukeEvans, and Creator/RayStevenson as the three Musketeers, and Creator/ChristophWaltz, Creator/OrlandoBloom, Creator/MadsMikkelsen and Creator/MillaJovovich as the villains.

* TruerToTheText: D'Artagnan is 18, and the majority of [[Franchise/TheThreeMusketeers previous adaptations]] had him played by guys in their 30s (the needs for experimented leads prevailed). Here, he was played by Logan Lerman just at the right age (18-19).

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Richelieu spars with three {{Mooks}} at once in one scene and does pretty well. A comparison is done with Rochefort, who shadow-fights alone and is taunted by Richelieu for it.

** During the ActionPrologue, Aramis, sporting a hooded cloak that conceals his eyes, leaps off of a roof in a way that's strikingly similar to ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed''. The DVD commentary confirmed that this was indeed a reference to the video game.

''The Three Musketeers'' is a 2011 film directed by Creator/PaulWSAnderson, loosely based on the novel ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' by Creator/AlexandreDumas. It stars Creator/LoganLerman as D'Artagnan, Matthew Macfadyen, Creator/LukeEvans, and Creator/RayStevenson as the three Musketeers, and Creator/ChristophWaltz, Creator/OrlandoBloom, Creator/MadsMikkelsen and Creator/MillaJovovich as the villains.

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* ActionizedAdaptation: Not that the original novel is devoid of action, but this movie includes martial arts stunts, airship-to-airship gunfire and the usage of some other innovative weapons.

%%* AbsoluteCleavage: Pretty much every female character sports a push-up corset

* BadassCrew: This version takes this and the PraetorianGuard aspects of the Musketeers played up in other movies UpToEleven, so much they're essentially royal special forces or a full-fledged secret service. Also the three Musketeers make up the entire corps, until D'Artagnan makes four.

** Buckingham amps this UpToEleven. Then again, he amps '''[[LargeHam everything]]''' UpToEleven...

* RuleOfCool: Airships, obviously. Taken UpToEleven when one of them gets T-boned by another.

* BadassBeard: This movie is filled with badass beards and {{Badass Mustache}}s.

** Milady doing a MissionImpossibleCableDrop and fighting with GunAndSword. [[Film/ResidentEvil Sound familiar?]]

* LaserHallway: You might think being set in the seventeenth century means Paul W.S. Anderson won't be able to do another [[Film/ResidentEvil laser hallway scene]] [[Film/ResidentEvilExtinction with Milla Jovovich]]. You would be wrong (it's invisible razor wire).

* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: Richelieu's galleon-sized airship lands bluntly on top of Notre Dame's bell tower and stays forked there for the next scenes, with the entire cathedral remaining shockingly intact in the process. In real life, even if a lot of the airship's weight was being lightened by the balloon's lifting gas, the impact and momentum alone would have been likely enough to wreck the building. (And even after this miracle of physics, we can only hope Richelieu's guards managed to refloat the airship before all the gas left the balloon, as the sheer unlifted weight of the damn thing could end up smashing the cathedral anyways.)

* IHaveThisFriend: King Louis plays this out of embarrassment when having a guy talk with D'Artagnan, who obviously realizes the truth but plays along because it's the King. The latter initially tries his best with the illusion, but after trading a ButHeSoundsHandsome joke, it's implied he realizes what D'Artagnan is doing and simply elects to play it to the end for decorum, giving him a knowing look that feels like a "well played, sir". This is further shown when they later recall the talk, with the King now giving D'Artagnan a wink and a heartfelt thanking.

** In the practice duel with his son, the elder D'Artagnan (as well as Athos in a short scuffle with Milady) demonstrates the same MutualKill dagger move as an early chapter of ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', to teach him the same lesson.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Constance [[spoiler: and Milady.]]

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Inverted. Planchet looks just plain in the book, but he is greatly overweight here.

* EliteArmy: This version takes this and the PraetorianGuard aspects of the Musketeers played up in other movies UpToEleven, so much they're essentially royal special forces or a full-fledged secret service. Also the three Musketeers make up the entire corps, until D'Artagnan makes four.

** Richelie is also made more evil, given that his novel version was an AntiVillain.

* TheUnfought: Richelie is presented here as a great swordsman, but he never fights personally.

--> '''D'Artagnan:''' Afraid to face me in a fair fight?
--> '''Rochefort:''' No, I just don't fight fair.
* CostumePorn: Nearly everyone, and King Louis and Buckingham's outfits are especially fabulous.

* IHaveThisFriend: King Louis plays this out of embarrassment when having a guy talk with D'Artagnan, who obviously realizes the truth but plays along because it's the King. The latter initially tries his best with the illusion, but after trading a ButHeSoundsHandsome joke, it's implied he realizes what D'Artagnan is doing and simply elects to play it to the end for decorum, giving him a knowing look. This is further shown when they later recall the talk, with the King now giving D'Artagnan a wink and a heartfelt thanking.

** It could be argued that the accents are a TranslationConvention. Most Parisian characters speak in [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents Received Pronunciation English accents]], while D'artagnan, a Gascon, has Creator/LoganLerman's American accent, as does his father, despite him being played by British actor Dexter Fletcher. And Creator/OrlandoBloom, in the role of an actual Englishman, [[IAmVeryBritish plays it up even further.]]

** The [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993 1993 version]] has Milady dying by jumping to the sea off a cliff instead of being beheaded, which this film recreates by having her jumping to the sea off an airship ([[spoiler:only that this time she survives]]). Also, this film having UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} throws in its choreography might be a reference to that version having a Japanese katana master.

** [[Film/ThePrincessBride "Life is pain, anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something."]] is paraphrased.
** The contortionist burglary scene is a blatant reference to''Film/{{Entrapment}}.

** In the practice duel with his son, the elder D'Artagnan (as well as Athos in a short scuffle with Milady) demonstrates the same MutualKill dagger move from an early chapter of ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', to teach him the same lesson.
-->"Look down."

** The same treatment is given to Captain Rochefort, who in the novel is a WorthyOpponent that ends up striking a DefeatMeansFriendship with D'artagnan. In this movie, he is much more ruthless and amoral, as well as a borderline troll CombatPragmatist.

* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: Richelieu's galleon-sized airship lands bluntly on top of Notre Dame's bell tower and remains forked there, with the cathedral remaining shockingly intact in the process. In real life, even if a lot of the airship's weight was being lightened by the balloon's lifting gas, the impact and momentum alone would have been likely enough to wreck the building. (And even after this miracle, we can only hope Richelieu's guards managed to refloat the airship before all the gas left the balloon, as the sheer unlifted weight of the damn thing could end up smashing the cathedral anyways.)

* IHaveThisFriend: King Louis plays this out of embarrassment when having a guy talk with D'Artagnan, who obviously realizes the truth but plays along because it's the King. The latter initially tries his best with the illusion, but after trading a ButHeSoundsHandsome joke, it's implied he realizes and simply elects to play it to the end for decorum, giving D'Artagnan a knowing look (and a wink when they later recall the talk).

* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: Unless Richelieu's guards managed to fix the crashed airships before all the lifting gas left the balloons, so they could maneuver the bigger one to dislodge it from the bell tower, the sheer unlifted weight of the damn thing would end up crushing the tower and wrecking the entire building. That it didn't do it back when it landed bluntly on top is already a miracle.