History Film / TheThreeMusketeers1993

-->'''Gerard''': d'Artagnan! [[IncrediblyLamePun Don't lose your head!]]

* SympatheticMurderer: This version of Milady is portrayed this way, as it's implied she has some mental illness that drives her to kill, and she ends up helping the Musketeers at the end.

* TheWorfEffect: Rochefort defeats [[spoiler: Athos]] to prove how scary he is, only for d'Artagnan to beat him.

* AlasPoorVillain: The death of [[spoiler: Milady De Winter]] is presented rather tragically, as the character throws herself down a cliff rather than face an executioner.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Averted as noted above, when Porthos confronts the above-noted UsefulNotes/Kenjutsu master who has, somehow, made his way to France ten years after the Sakoku policy closed Japan to the outside world.

[[caption-width-right:300:[[AwardBaitSong "Let's make it all for one and all for love..."]]]]

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Louis [=XIII=] and Anne of Austria famously [[AwfulWeddedLife detested one another]] in real life, largely due to having no stillborn children for ''twenty years'' before finally siring [[UsefulNotes/LouisXIV an heir]] and a spare. In fairness, their marriage did not turn ugly right away, so maybe the film takes place during the brief time their relationship was relatively stable.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Louis [=XIII=] and Anne of Austria famously [[AwfulWeddedLife detested one another]] in real life, to the point of not having any children for ''twenty years'' before finally siring [[UsefulNotes/LouisXIV an heir]] and a spare. In fairness, their marriage did not turn ugly right away, so maybe the film takes place during the brief time their relationship was relatively stable.

''The Three Musketeers'' is a 1993 film produced by [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney Pictures]] and very loosely based on the novel ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' by Creator/AlexandreDumas. It stars Creator/ChrisODonnell as d'Artagnan, Creator/KieferSutherland, Creator/CharlieSheen and Creator/OliverPlatt as the three Musketeers, Creator/MichaelWincott as Rochefort, Creator/TimCurry as the villainous Cardinal Richelieu, and Creator/RebeccaDeMornay as Milady de Winter.

This adaptation greatly simplifies and alters the story. For instance, the relationship between Athos and AntiVillain Milady de Winter is altered to make the two characters more sympathetic.

d'Artagnan is on his quest to becoming a Musketeer. During his quest he joins the three titular Musketeers in their own quest to stop a plot against the young King. This adaptation greatly simplifies and alters the story.

The relationship between Athos and AntiVillain Milady de Winter is altered to make the two characters more sympathetic.

* NamesTheSame: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] InUniverse when Porthos comments "Rochefort... Isn't that a smelly kind of cheese?"

''The Three Musketeers'' is a 1993 film produced by [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney Pictures]] and very loosely based on the novel ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' by Creator/AlexandreDumas. It stars Creator/ChrisODonnell as D'Artagnan, Creator/KieferSutherland, Creator/CharlieSheen and Creator/OliverPlatt as the three Musketeers, Creator/MichaelWincott as Rochefort, Creator/TimCurry as the villainous Cardinal Richelieu, and Creator/RebeccaDeMornay as Milady de Winter.

D'Artagnan is on his quest to becoming a Musketeer. During his quest he joins the three titular Musketeers in their own quest to stop a plot against the young King. This adaptation greatly simplifies and alters the story.

** Rochefort, TheDragon, gets no major development, and is killed off at the end of the film. This is despite his starting off as a WorthyOpponent who experiences DefeatMeansFriendship. He is killed in the second novel by D'Artagnan, but on accident, with some mourning afterwards.
* AdaptedOut:

** The musketeers don't have servants in the film, including D'Artagnan's trusty friend Planchet.
** Constance isn't married in this version, so there's no issue of her committing adultery with D'Artagnan.
* AdaptationalWimp: D'Artagnan is considerably less capable than his book counterpart, often getting beaten up and captured, requiring the Musketeers (and Constance in the climax) to bail him out.
* AncestralWeapon: D'Artagnan's sword belonged to his father. Part of his quest is getting it back from [[TheDragon Rochefort]].

* AttackOnOneIsAnAttackOnAll: Girard ends up being chased by the entire musketeer force at the end of the film when he threatens D'Artagnan.

** D'Artagnan -- His late father. Even Gerard, a HarmlessVillain, nearly got himself killed when he called D'Artagnan's father a "disgrace." [[HairTriggerTemper He also handles not getting his way pretty poorly and even something as simple as someone accidentally falling on him is enough to set him off.]]
** Athos -- If you value your life, do not question the Musketeers' loyalty to the King in front of him.
** Aramis -- Do not make light of a man's duty to God, or abuse your station as a Man of the Cloth.

* BetaCouple: In an odd way, the king and queen act as this when compared to her lady-in-waiting Constance and D'Artagnan.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:Milady throws herself off a cliff after giving the Musketeers the info they need to save the king.]] Had the character stayed around, shewere about to get her head cut off.

* BigDamnKiss: Two instances -

** D'Artagnan to Constance, just after he's been made a Musketeer. The other Musketeers applaud, and the King and Queen obviously approve. So does Constance.

* BlatantLies: Porthos likes to claim that he's on "quite intimate terms" with such luminaries as the Queen of America and the Czarina of Tokyo.

-->'''Porthos'''''(discovering a chest containing wine and gold coins in the back seat)'': Ah ha! The Cardinal's sacred snack chamber.\\

'''Porthos''': For a chase, the Cardinal recommends his excellent '24 Cabernet. ''(to D'Artagnan)'' You can't have any, you're too young.\\

* ChasedOffIntoTheSunset: The film ends with D'Artagnan and all the Musketeers chasing off Girard and his men. This is also a BookEnds as D'Artagnan's introduction showed him being chased by Girard and his men.

* AChildShallLeadThem: The king is portrayed this way (as well as something of a WideEyedIdealist), easily manipulated by Richelieu because of his piety and having to turn to his equally young though much more savvy queen for assistance in navigating the murky political waters of the court. There are indications he isn't quite as naive as he seems and is aware of the manipulations going on, but he still seems fairly helpless and uncertain how to escape them and become an assertive king until he is bolstered by the queen's advice (and inspired by the examples of the Musketeers and D'Artagnan).

* CriminallyAttractive: The (double) crux of the backstory - Athos married the former Lady de Winter, only to turn her over to the authorities when realizing she'd been condemned for murder - then realizing she probably HAD been innocent - but was, by the time he met her again, guilty of far worse things. [[spoiler:And right after they sorted things out, she DIED. On purpose. To avoid being executed.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Everyone has their snarky moments, but Creator/CharlieSheen is the most deadpan of them all. When D'Artagnan notices Athos getting into some serious drinking:

** D'Artagnan's father is alive in the book.

* DemotedToExtra: Constance has hardly any screentime, and basically only exists to [[spoiler:throw D'Artagnan his sword at the end.]]

** D'Artagnan fights one of the Cardinal's men on top of some ruins, and knocks him off to his death.

** D'Artagnan comes to Paris to join the Musketeers...right as they are being disbanded by order of Richelieu.
** D'Artagnan, after overhearing of the assassination plot with the Duke of Buckingham, rushes off to warn the other Musketeers and the King, only to collapse from exhaustion on the road and is rescued by Milady de Winter. He then tells her everything he overheard to obtain her help in stopping the horrible scheme...completely unaware, thanks to the hooded cloak the courier had worn when meeting with Richelieu, that she ''was'' the courier.

'''D'Artagnan''': Pirate?\\

* DressingAsTheEnemy: The Musketeers do this several times: as the executioners at D'Artagnan's execution, as the sailors planning to take Milady from Calais, and as the hooded guard on Richelieu's raft when kidnapping the king.

* DrunkDriver: Defied (it is a Disney movie). When Athos takes a bottle of '24 Cabernet, he makes a point to hand the reins to D'Artagnan before he starts drinking.
* DuelToTheDeath: Between D'Artagnan and Rochefort.

** D'Artagnan is introduced [[RunningGag dueling]] the brother of one of his, er, "romantic conquests" and [[BerserkButton loses his temper]] when the man insults his father.

* ExcuseMeComingThrough: {{Subverted}} when D'Artagnan throws the Cardinal's gold off his coach to the crowd so the crowd blocks the Cardinal's men that are chasing them.
* EyepatchOfPower: Rochefort wears one, because he lost an eye [[spoiler:fighting D'Artagnan's father]].

* {{Fanservice}}: The D'Artagnan/de Winter scene is shot with the emphasis on Chris O'Donnell's shirtless chest and Rebecca [=DeMornay=]'s cleavage. To provide something for everyone in the audience.
* FemmeFataleSpy: Milady, of course, made explicit (for a Disney film, that is) in her scene with D'Artagnan.

* FollowingInRelativesFootsteps: In this adaptation, D'Artagnan states early on that he specifically wants to become a Musketeer because his late father was one.

* GallowsHumor: In the dungeons of the Bastille, a chained and defenseless D'Artagnan is facing interrogation from Rochefort and eventually the Cardinal. Rochefort accuses him, accurately, of killing the Cardinal's guards.
-->'''D'Artagnan''': They interrupted a duel we were fighting.

-->'''D'Artagnan''': It's been a busy day.
** This is followed on the actual gallows by a moment of BlackHumor, as D'Artagnan faces the headsman:
-->'''Gerard''': D'Artagnan! [[IncrediblyLamePun Don't lose your head!]]

* GiveMeASword: How D'Artagnan wins his fight against Rochefort, when Constance slides it to him.

* GracefulLoser: Oddly enough, [[spoiler:Rochefort accepts his death, admitting that he was wrong about D'Artagnan not being musketeer material.]]

* {{Homage}}: D'Artagnan spotting the sniper about to assassinate the king and rushing to stop him was possibly inspired by ''Film/TheManchurianCandidate''.
* ILikeThoseOdds: The Musketeers comment amongst themselves that five soldiers against the three of them is hardly fair. D'Artagnan, ComicallyMissingThePoint, tries to point out that there's four of them.

* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: D'Artagnan has a personal vendetta against Rochefort, who killed D'Artagnan's father.
* IWantThemAlive: Averted with Cardinal Richelieu declaring a bounty on the titular Musketeers: "One thousand gold pieces on each of their heads, dead or alive!" (Steps away, then returns) "...I prefer dead!"
* {{Jerkass}}: D'Artagnan to begin with is very short-tempered, arrogant and entitled, which is what gets him in trouble most of the time.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Averted as noted above, when Porthos confronts the above-noted UsefulNotes/Kenjutsu master who has, somehow, made his way to France ten years after the Sakoku policy closed Japan to the outside world.

* LeaveHimToMe: D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis kill several members of the Cardinal's Guard. After Athos, Porthos and Aramis leave, D'Artagnan is left behind. Rochefort and more Cardinal's Guard members arrive and D'Artagnan challenges them. Rochefort tells his troops "He's mine!" and the two charge toward each other.

* NamesTheSame: "Rochefort... Isn't that a smelly kind of cheese?"
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: With the exception of Oliver Platt as Porthos, nobody bothers to pronounce "D'Artagnan" the French way. As a result, it ends up sounding like an insouciant affectation on Porthos' part.

** At the very end of the "theology tutoring;"

** In the final scene, Girard again tries to demand satisfaction from D'Artagnan, only to realize he's made a de facto challenge to ''the entire musketeer corps''. He promptly legs it.
* PlayingCyrano: D'Artagnan tries to woo a bar wench using words Aramis had previous used. When he messes up twice in the first few lines, he abandons further attempts and favors Porthos's approach.

* PostClimaxConfrontation: After the heroes defeat Cardinal Richelieu and Rochefort and save the King and Queen, they're confronted by a group of thugs who started pursuing D'Artagnan at the beginning of the movie. It's been so long since the audience saw them that their appearance is a surprise.
* PriceOnTheirHead: The Cardinal offers a bounty for the each of the Musketeers after they free D'Artagnan.

* QuotingMyself: Aramis recites poetry to a tavern wench. D'Artagnan asks if it's Shakespeare and Aramis replies that it's Aramis.

* RedHerringShirt: When D'Artagnan is led to the chopping block, two of the execution personnel turn out to be Porthos and Aramis in disguise, and they're there to rescue him with help from Athos (who takes care of the escape transportation by appropriating the Cardinal's carriage).

* RunningGag: Girard and his men, pursuing D'Artagnan to defend the honor of his sister. Turns into ''literal'' running when he finds out he's just challenged the entire Musketeer corps.

* ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou: When Gerard and his brothers, who have been looking to fight D'Artagnan throughout the movie, finally confront him at the end of the film, they suddenly scream and run away, because the ''entire Musketeer corps'' comes to back D'Artagnan and starts chasing them.

* SecondPersonAttack: After Rochefort knocks D'Artagnan off his horse, the guards surround him and he looks up. Cue a fist flying down at the camera. Pow!

* ShirtlessScene: After passing out while trying to reach Calais, D'Artagnan wakes up in Milady's bed in only his trousers.

* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Richelieu and D'Artagnan have a brief moment in the scene where Richelieu questions D'Artagnan when D'Artagnan mentions his desire to join the Musketeers.

'''D'Artagnan''': So I've heard.

* SpiritualSuccessor:
** There is an argument to be made that this serves as one to ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves''. (Adaptations of classic swashbuckling adventures, Creator/MichaelWincott as the major supporting antagonist, a score by Music/MichaelKamen, a pop song attached featuring Music/BryanAdams, etc).
** Some, including Creator/LeonardMaltin, compared the film to ''Film/YoungGuns'', largely due to the presence of Creator/KieferSutherland and Creator/CharlieSheen.
* StealthHiBye: D'Artagnan plays it straight. Complete with open window.

* TakeTheWheel: Athos orders D'Artagnan to take the reins of the carriage they're driving so that he can start drinking.

** Athos makes a point of telling D'Artagnan that Aramis was one of the Cardinal's best students before joining the Musketeers and devoting himself to thwarting Richelieu. When Aramis confronts Richelieu (twice) in the climax, therefore, we expect some detail as to why... which is not forthcoming.
** When the Musketeers are reunited after Aramis, Porthos and (especially) Athos having apparently sacrificed themselves to give D'Artagnan a chance to reach Calais, it's at least one that they never explain ''how'' they escaped, if not a full-blown PlotHole.

* WarriorPoet: D'Artagnan gets the Musketeers to like him by tossing out a one-liner.
-->'''D'Artagnan''': I may not wear the tunic, but I believe I have the heart of a Musketeer.
-->'''Porthos''': Warrior.

* TheWorfEffect: Rochefort defeats [[spoiler: Athos]] to prove how scary he is, only for D'Artagnan to beat him.

* YouKilledMyFather: D'Artagnan to Rochefort, after that the later taunts him with

* YouShallNotPass: PlayedWith. When Athos and D'Artagnan are attacked by mercenaries and bounty hunters, Athos tells D'Artagnan that he will hold them off as long as he can so D'Artagnan can escape and continue their mission. Athos later turns up alive, having somehow survived the deadly attack.

* FatalAttraction: The (double) crux of the backstory - Athos married the former Lady de Winter, only to turn her over to the authorities when realizing she'd been condemned for murder - then realizing she probably HAD been innocent - but was, by the time he met her again, guilty of far worse things. [[spoiler:And right after they sorted things out, she DIED. On purpose. To avoid being executed.]]

'''Porthos''': You're right. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Something red]]. For a chase, the Cardinal recommends his excellent '24 Cabernet. ''(to D'Artagnan)'' You can't have any, you're too young.\\

* AbsoluteCleavage: Most women in this movie wear dresses exposing a good amount of cleavage.

** Constance isn't married in this version, so there's no issue of her comitting adultery with D'Artagnan.

* BlatantLies: Porthos likes to claim that he's on "quite intimate terms" with such luminaries as the Queen of America and the Tzarina of Tokyo.

* ChasedOffIntoTheSunset: The film ends with D'Artagnan and all the musketeers chasing off Girard and his men. This is also a BookEnds as D'Artagnan's introduction showed him being chased by Girard and his men.

* DelayedCausality: A form happens at the beginning when Rochefort slices through three candles with one stroke, and then calmly pushes the top halves off naming the musketeers in turn.

** Later in the film D'Artganan surprises the King's assassin on the palace roof, and the fight ends with the assassin getting a crossbow bolt to the heart and falling to the ground below.

* DressingAsTheEnemy: The Musketeers do this several times: as the executioners at D'Artagnan's execution, as the sailors planning to take Milady from Calais, and as the hooded guard on the Richelieu's raft kidnapping the king.

* DrunkDriver: Defied (it is a Disney movie). When Athos takes a bottle of '24 Cabernet, he makes a point to hand the reigns to D'Artagnan before he starts drinking.

** D'Artagnan is introduced [[RunningGag duelling]] the brother of one of his, er, "romantic conquests" and [[BerserkButton loses his temper]] when the man insults his father.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Cardinal Richelieu, even more so than his [[AntiVillain book counterpart]]; while the historical one would be certainly viewed as someone authoritarian and cutthroat for his actions, he most certainly never plotted to usurp the king (but then again, he probably didn't need to since the king was a figurehead anyways) and would have never worked against him. If anything, he is famous for having ''strengthening'' the monarchy instead.

* {{Jerkass}}: D'Artagnan to begin with is very short-tempered, arrogant and entitled which is what gets him in trouble most of the time.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Averted as noted above, when Porthos confronts the above-noted UsefulNotes/Kenjustu master who has, somehow, made his way to France ten years after the Sakoku policy closed Japan to the outside world.

* LadyInWaiting: Constance specifically refers to herself as a lady in waiting to the Queen of France.

** Oliver Platt as Porthos. Like Tim Curry, he seems to be there just for the fun of ChewingTheScenery.

** In the final scene, Girard again tries to demand satisfaction from D'Artagnan, only to realize he's made a de facto challenge to ''the entire musketeer corps''.

* RunningGag: Girard and his men, pursuing D'Artagnan to defend the honor of his sister.

* SecondPersonAttack: After Rochefort knocks D'artagnan off his horse, the guards surround him and he looks up. Cue a fist flying down at the camera. Pow!

* SinisterMinister: The Cardinal, who aside from his nefarious plans against the King, makes a sleazy advance to his wife.

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[[caption-width-right:232:[[AwardBaitSong "Let's make it all for one and all for love..."]]]]

* ScarilyCompetentTracker: [[Milady de Winter's vengeful brother-in-law has been hunting her for years and has a good idea where she is.]]

* {{Fanservice}}: The D'Artagnan/de Winter scene is shot with the emphasis on Chris O'Donnell's shirtless chest for the girls/moms and Rebecca [=DeMornay=]'s cleavage for the boys/dads.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Milady gives the Musketeers the information they need... and then [[spoiler: throws herself off a cliff.]]