... by making sure to avoid it.
It's always entertaining to read the French reviews of such films, however (at least when they're ironic and mocking rather than really offended, which gets boring really fast).
I don't know why Hollywood even bothers with films like that instead of leaving them to the French (of course, unlike the rest of the world the Americans just don't see many foreign movies shot in other languages, at least in movie theaters, perhaps in a large part thanks to Hollywood not wanting them to as a great deal of subtitled foreign films are available in the US on DVD).
The whole notion of French characters (or other continental European characters) played by Americans/Brits is totally silly and verge on parody (at best) or arrogance (at worst), as silly as if you filmed a bunch of French actors in Texas and tried to sell to an american audience they're real Americans and the fact they all speak French in the movie is "just a convention" (no matter how great or entertaining the movie... it would be awful the same way an American production of Dumas is), or if you tried to pass Tom Cruise as a German officer (oh wait... they did to pull that one off too... great success.).
The French movies based on Dumas (especially on the Three Musketeers) aren't so great (it's become a cliché to say so, but d'Artagnan is probably one of the hardest character of French literature to pull off on screen, and it's widely believe no actor so far has really succeeded - there's even an essay about it somewhere), but the American movies based on Dumas' books (and all other movies with American actors pretending to be French) are all (so far) simply atrocious to watch and I bet the new one is the same or worse (it will be hard to "top" the memorable performance of Di Caprio as Louis XIV, though I hesitate between that one and Jason Schwartzman as Louis XVI in the movie by Sofia Coppola which could have been good fun had she filmed it with French and European actors as the worst/most hilarious example).
It's always entertaining to read the French reviews of such films, however (at least when they're ironic and mocking rather than really offended, which gets boring really fast).
I don't know why Hollywood even bothers with films like that instead of leaving them to the French (of course, unlike the rest of the world the Americans just don't see many foreign movies shot in other languages, at least in movie theaters, perhaps in a large part thanks to Hollywood not wanting them to as a great deal of subtitled foreign films are available in the US on DVD).
The whole notion of French characters (or other continental European characters) played by Americans/Brits is totally silly and verge on parody (at best) or arrogance (at worst), as silly as if you filmed a bunch of French actors in Texas and tried to sell to an american audience they're real Americans and the fact they all speak French in the movie is "just a convention" (no matter how great or entertaining the movie... it would be awful the same way an American production of Dumas is), or if you tried to pass Tom Cruise as a German officer (oh wait... they did to pull that one off too... great success.).
The French movies based on Dumas (especially on the Three Musketeers) aren't so great (it's become a cliché to say so, but d'Artagnan is probably one of the hardest character of French literature to pull off on screen, and it's widely believe no actor so far has really succeeded - there's even an essay about it somewhere), but the American movies based on Dumas' books (and all other movies with American actors pretending to be French) are all (so far) simply atrocious to watch and I bet the new one is the same or worse (it will be hard to "top" the memorable performance of Di Caprio as Louis XIV, though I hesitate between that one and Jason Schwartzman as Louis XVI in the movie by Sofia Coppola which could have been good fun had she filmed it with French and European actors as the worst/most hilarious example).
The Three Musketeers (2011)
13/09/2011 09:34:25 AM
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Oh dear. I may not survive this. *NM*
13/09/2011 01:34:33 PM
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I plan to...
13/09/2011 09:51:33 PM
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are there French actors who would lower themselves to an America Film?
14/09/2011 02:49:53 PM
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Lower?
14/09/2011 11:52:46 PM
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The "lower" was mostly a joke
15/09/2011 01:45:59 AM
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Re: The "lower" was mostly a joke
15/09/2011 04:28:36 AM
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I explained to you why a majority of America would not be comfortable.
15/09/2011 01:27:19 PM
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Re: I explained to you why a majority of America would not be comfortable.
16/09/2011 10:48:36 PM
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That seems a bit harsh.
14/09/2011 07:35:56 PM
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I am confused...
14/09/2011 09:46:45 PM
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At a guess ...
14/09/2011 10:05:00 PM
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No. I try to pretend Valkyrie doesn't exist.
14/09/2011 10:12:25 PM
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Can I ask why? You've got me curious.
14/09/2011 10:33:57 PM
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Are you really trying to make me argue both sides of the argument in one thread?
14/09/2011 11:04:50 PM
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Clearly the answer is I shouldn't refer to movies I haven't seen nor want to see.
14/09/2011 10:10:37 PM
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I had no idea Scarlett and Ashley were played by brits *NM*
14/09/2011 11:01:06 PM
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And not just any Brits... Leslie Howard died on some sort of mission for his government in the war.
14/09/2011 11:08:26 PM
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Ok, if Orlando Bloom is a cackling over-acting villian, I may have to see this.
13/09/2011 10:03:06 PM
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Haven't seen it yet, but...
14/09/2011 02:17:02 AM
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I think with that attitude it is entirely possible to have fun with this film. *NM*
14/09/2011 11:48:50 AM
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Definitely waiting for this to hit the cheap theater. Then it can just be a guilty pleasure. *NM*
15/09/2011 01:24:23 PM
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