THE SCREEN
Westerbeck, Colin L. Jr.
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...In scene after scene we are mesmerized by props and appointments which are no doubt historically accurate, but are all the more confusing for being so because they are introduced without exposition or explanation--introduced simply as exotica...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MA SHOU-CHEN (Tr...
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...This is, then, a somewhat more jaded band of Musketeers than Dumas accustomed us to as schoolchildren (though not so jaded that today's schoolchildren shouldn't go to the film...
...She was a painter of orchids as well as a poet.] This poem is from The Women Poets of China, translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung, published by McGraw Hill (Herder & Herder), Winter, 1972...
...It remains a question whether the academic establishment's recent renunciation of the sanities of life and the doings of their economic emissaries to the national capital have fatally undermined the operations of a small band of dedicated men who for years have been publishing a disproportionately large number of all books produced within these United States that are generally worth reading...
...A man goes everywhere carrying an orange imbedded with cloves...
...Everything he touches turns to a crumpled heap on the floor...
...Sky is indefinite, even the ocean floats undefined as horizons dim and disappear, yet gulls, all sound and substance, adorn the shore in dominance, flail memory with imperious wings, seize remorse in arrogant beaks, ignore the out-going tide...
...COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR...
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...But in Lester's version all that nonsense has been cut out in order to get at the other nonsense--the nonsense that's left over when you relieve the Musketeers of their ideals and let them just be devoted to wreaking havoc and nothing more...
...Kenneth Rexroth & Ling Chung) W ATERLILIES The floss of the reed flowers Is like flying snow...
...For all the brawling and wenching in Alexander Dumas' novel, we always know that deep down inside his Musketeers are devoted to France and ever vigilant to serye her...
...Like this scene, the whole film is constructed along essentially the same principles as an exploding cigar...
...In scenes with grander circumstances and nobler intent, the Three Musketeers often play only supporting roles...
...To some extent Lester seems to feel that the only thing recapturable from the past is this flood of minute, trivial detail...
...Indeed, the two of them really do fall for each other, for she's always falling down too--down stairs, over spittoons, etc...
...The wild geese return On the first Autumn gales...
...The only Musketeer who doesn't seem to fit is the third one, Aramis, played by Richard Chamberlain...
...and the other brother (in arms) here is of course D'Artagnan...
...Only the overbearing gulls have dared to raise impassioned altercations of their own...
...At times this tapestry is so preoccupying, we don't know where we are supposed to look next...
...FUN FOR ALL AND ALL FOR FUN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 THE SCREEN The way director Richard Lester interprets it, "one for all and all for one" could well be the motto of the Marx Brothers rather than the Three Musketeers...
...The landscape is so beautiful that we are just beginning to appreciate it when--thud!--twenty of Richelieu's agents fall out of the tree like over-ripe fruit...
...Chamberlain is entirely too handsome and dandy to belong...
...An uncertain sun shrinks in its pale eclipse and hovers hesitantly...
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...As D'Artagnan makes advances towards his landlord's wife (Raquel Welch), for instance, the rowels of his spurs, against which he's braced his weight, begin to wheel across the floor, and he falls right off the bed...
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...Other men play bizarre, unknown games-chess on a lawn with dogs as pieces, ancient forms of bowls, greased poles and even, it seems, pin-ball...
...Their big scene in this film is not some acrobatic rescue or daring raid into the domains of Cardinal Richelieu (Charhon Heston), but rather a fracas in a tavern where they are trying to steal their dinner...
...D'Artagnan is just like King Midas, only different...
...Typically Lester lets a scene run a normal course for a few minutes before the bodies start to fly, as when D'Artagnan rides past P. lone tree in a field while on a dangerous mission to England...
...And to fit his players to their parts, Lester has chosen two amicably dissipated stars, Oliver Reed and Frank Finlay, to play Athos and Porthos...
...As the very mention of Zeppo must remind you, however, the Musketeers, like the Marx Brothers, were really four rather than three...
...He's the odd man out, like Zeppo...
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...Ma Shou-chen (16th century), also known as Ma Hsiang-lan, was the leading courtesan o] her time in Chin Ling (Nanking...
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...24 May 1974:284 If the other Musketeers play second fiddle to D'Ar- 9 9 tagnan, it is because his position as the film's consummate fall guy entitles him to be at least spiritual leader here...
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...This no doubt helps to conceal how amateur some of the swordsmanship is, but a more important reason for it is to prevent the swordplay from seeming graceful or heroic...
...Here and there waterlilies are still blooming...
...In more than one scene the background where such detail abounds is brilliantly lit and thus dominates characters in the foreground almost too shadowy to make out...
...If nothing else, such training teaches an actor to look perplexed and duel well...
...After the heavy dew, it is hard For the beauty to get up...
...Since a blank expression and a pointed sword are what's needed to play this naive fellow, Lester has awarded the role to Michael York, the only member of the cast with training as a Shakespearean actor...
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...A jade inlaid horizontal flute Sounds above the noise of men...
...Even the blade of his sword falls off...
...What is certainly recognizable all the time, though, wherever we look, is Lester's special, ingenious instinct for the pure oafishness in life, which is such a delight to see betrayed...
...Wretches hang from the ceiling of Richelieu's dungeon in enormous bird cages...
...Pratfalls, dead falls, failings in love: any kind of fall can be worked into Lester's broad idea of slapstick...
...And it is pluck, together with a horse's dose of common sense, that keeps under the protection of God organizations not devoted primarily to the pursuit of the dollar...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NINA SANDRICH HERRING GULLS Morning slides past with fog and mist clinging like fingered seaweed to my caftan's lace-embroidered skirt as it trails like foam upon wet sand...
...The Autumn river turns cold...
...During the dueling scenes Lester's camera works in close so that the action becomes a mere tangle of gusseted flesh and brandished color...
...They hold rapacity like gems within their eyes, like tyrants stalk the saline tidal pools...
...Her perfumed rouge Is reflected in the Autumn water, A slanting flowered branch in a mirror, Beautiful as an evening cloud...
...It is the immediate chaos of life in the seventeenth century that Lester is after, and he effects it in his backgrounds as well as his foregrounds--in the way he dresses his sets as well as 9 9 the way he stages his sword fights...
Vol. 100 • May 1974 • No. 12
