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The Man in the Iron Mask

Dec 31, 2006 14:13

This year's last spork features Randall Wallace's Man in the Iron Mask. Since this is History Spork, not Literature Spork, we haven't paid that much attention to the raping of Dumas' novel (as much as there's left of it in this movie) - there was enough other stuff to keep us busy...

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history_spork January 2 2007, 20:23:16 UTC

Peace? Was there a single five minutes in the reign when France wasn't at war?

That probably depends on who you're asking - history or Hollywood ;)

roguetailkinker February 16 2007, 10:56:27 UTC

Awesome icon. :) Is that Charles II?

history_spork February 16 2007, 13:06:21 UTC

It's Hyacinthe Rigaud's portrait of Louis XIV of France, painted in 1701.

roguetailkinker February 16 2007, 22:43:15 UTC

D'oh. The hair threw me. Still a great icon, though. :)

fourth_moon January 25 2007, 23:56:31 UTC

Whoa. Why am I only now noticing that pretty icon? Where is that from, who's the eye candy?

The peace and prosperity thing... yes. What can one say? It's the end of the movie, so it has to be "happily ever after" by definition. (And besides, judging from how "the people" hardly ever cropped up in the entire movie, the movie makers weren't interested in them anyway.) They'd have resurrected Christine and Raoul if there would have been any chance to get away with it.

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er, friend... fourth_moon February 1 2007, 23:04:42 UTC

Is that "er, friend" the way Patroclus is Achilles, er, cousin?

But if that's the film I found (made before 1948, that one?) it's not a surprise that some things had to be kept to the subtext.

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