History Buffs: The Man in the Iron Mask

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@danielsantiagourtado3430 Жыл бұрын

Love your work!🎉🎉🎉🎉

@LoneWolfGamer9613 Жыл бұрын

Been a subscriber for a long time, Nick. Your historical work and research are amazing.

@AnimeFan-ot7bu Жыл бұрын

Another video you are on 🔥🔥

@HollywoodMarine0351 Жыл бұрын

History Buffs… you should review the 1992 French war film, “DIEN BIEN PHU” instead of this movie.

@ricardobimblesticks1489 Жыл бұрын

I used a service similar to incogni (may have been incogni I forget), yes these types of service contact companies that hold your details. What they don't tell you is those companies then email you asking for more details so they can delete your details and won't do it unless you provide them... My inbox was spammed hard and you end up having to do the work yourself. I wonder if any incogni users could comment on their experience.

@blampfno Жыл бұрын

My favorite memory of this movie is standing in line at some fast food place and listening to a dude in front of me complain to his friend about how he waited the whole movie for the mask to have powers and it never happened. Something like "Man, that mask didn't do nothin'. It was just some old-time movie!"

@TeslaRangerNY Жыл бұрын

I think he was expecting Jim Carrey under that mask. 😆

@johnstuartkeller5244 Жыл бұрын

Swords, Musketeers, intrigue ... swords ... there's just no pleasing some people.

@goatman9998 Жыл бұрын

Lmfao

@ray.shoesmith Жыл бұрын

I'm betting he really said 'dindo'

@darthpepe2994 Жыл бұрын

@@TeslaRangerNY You beat me by one hour.... 😂

@merphul Жыл бұрын

Hehe I always loved the accents in this movie full of Frenchmen. DiCaprio doing an American accent, Depardieu doing a French accent, Irons with an English accent and Malkovich doing a Malkovich accent.

@carrie4696 Жыл бұрын

Malkovich accent 🫠 so true

@akl2k7 Жыл бұрын

You could always look at that as French regional accents, though since these aristocrats all probably come from the same place, it probably doesn't work.

@merphul Жыл бұрын

@akl2k7 it's only Malkovich if it's from the Malkovich region of France. Otherwise it's just disquieting, older, white guy.

@anon17472 Жыл бұрын

@@merphulcomment of the day

@falconeshield Жыл бұрын

I cheat. I always watch the movie with the French dub

@Rystefn Жыл бұрын

Aramis was a priest in the books, too. Like 80% or more of his entire character is the tension between him being a priest and him being a swashbuckler.

@vpapako Жыл бұрын

I think in the final book he was a bishop and the antagonist

@michaeljohnangel6359 Жыл бұрын

@@vpapako The books are truly great, and everybody should read them. They are much raunchier than any of the films; they are also much more convoluted and complex. In the first book of the series, The Three Musketeers, all four heroes are on the same side. In the second book, Twenty Years After, it is D'Artagnan and Porthos who work together against the rebels (la Fronde), two of who are their old friends Athos and Aramis. In the third book, The Vicomte de Bragelonne, all four are old, and it is D'Artagnan and Athos who are against Porthos and Aramis. By the end of this third book (the final part of which is The Man in the Iron Mask) three are dead, and only one survives (and it's not whom you think).

@falconeshield Жыл бұрын

@@vpapakoMoral of the story church make you evil

@GrainneMhaol Жыл бұрын

That's my only problem with the new French version where Rómáin Duris plays Aramis. I feel like he insisted that Aramis had to be sexy. He's tormented by his relationship with God, but he also fucks women and tortures people for fun and profit.

@carlrood4457 Жыл бұрын

My favorite portrayal of these characters will always be from the two films in the 70's. Michael York as D'Artagnan, Oliver Reed as Athos, Richard Chamberlain as Aramis, and Frank Finlay as Porthos. They eventually come back together to do The Return of the Musketeers, based on Twenty Years After.

@SubduedPenguin1 Жыл бұрын

"Riots?, But Paris is the most beautiful city in the world" Bit of very early foreshadowing there Louis

@williamtimonen6814 Жыл бұрын

France being France.

@madkoala2130 Жыл бұрын

And telling that directly to Dr. Houses face, those are some serious balls to lie.

@rosameltrozo5889 Жыл бұрын

@@williamtimonen6814 The riots now are due to how un-frech France now is

@cosmedelustrac5842 Жыл бұрын

I work in Paris and the timing of your comments could hardly be more ironic.

@DIEGhostfish Жыл бұрын

@williamtimonen6814 Yeah, but doubt he expected the state to side with the riots so often

@SkepticalChris Жыл бұрын

I love how the French royal court is full of english accents and the king sounds like he's from Los Angeles.

@johnpoole3871 Жыл бұрын

Like how in Beauty and the Beast Lumiere was the only Frenchman in France.

@mamasmokin 11 ай бұрын

and we are learning french histroy from american, based on movie.

@nunyabidness674 Жыл бұрын

I love that Hugh Laurie was allowed to play his role in this seriously. For certain it comes as a refreshing change from Blackadder

@moisesjimenez4391 9 ай бұрын

honestly bruh I fucking lost it seeing him in a wig

@nunyabidness674 9 ай бұрын

@@moisesjimenez4391 most folks saw him in the wig first and were surprised to see him play a serious role when House came out

@billdehappy1 7 ай бұрын

morning peasent think most are we last centery europeans rather as house is an american show and why he recognized as that before blackadder of old...@@nunyabidness674

@falconeshield 7 ай бұрын

@@nunyabidness674There was a good cameo of House in Friends too before he grew a stubble (joke)

@BigNorbert 2 күн бұрын

Nefelim

@Laulo89 Жыл бұрын

I've heard that the man in the iron mask was actually just a common prisoner and that his guard (Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars) asked him to wear the mask so that it would make him look like he was in charge of a very important prisoner

@princesskatarina351 Жыл бұрын

Ha! An interesting theory. 😂

@nathanb5579 11 ай бұрын

Sounds like something Homer would come up with

@nathanb5579 11 ай бұрын

Sounds like something Homer would come up with

@ollie_raviollie 11 ай бұрын

Eeeeey, Fantomas!

@Laulo89 11 ай бұрын

@@ollie_raviollie exactly!!!

@cezar211091 Жыл бұрын

The costumes are beautiful in this movie. Lots of near exact reproductions of what Louis wears in his portraits

@marchess286 Жыл бұрын

I think they spent their money on actors and costumes. Not a bad choice.

@jamesmaybrick2001 Жыл бұрын

I can't see Hugh Laurie in a wig and period costume without expecting Edmund Blackadder to make an appearance. Maybe he was the man in the mask....

@sartanawillpay7977 Жыл бұрын

He's still trying to say "antidisestablishmentarianism"

@TheGosslings Жыл бұрын

Nice. Blackadder FTW.

@eldorados_lost_searcher Жыл бұрын

Did he ever figure out what happened to all of his socks?

@spiderlime Жыл бұрын

my sentiments exactly, and not having watched this version so far i was amazed to discover laurie was there...

@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control Жыл бұрын

I had zero idea he was in this film lol.

@hannahestes4171 Жыл бұрын

I think the movie's ending is a paralell universe where the twin DOES get on the throne and does all that stuff. But because that's another universe, we're in the one where Louis wins and parties until he dies

@johnpoole3871 Жыл бұрын

I thought he became a rather drab Catholic fanatic in his later years.

@williamkline7922 Жыл бұрын

One thing that’s usually left out of the basic analysis of Louis boy’s life is that the pomp and parties weren’t just their for his enjoyment. Nobles would have to spend lavishly, many impoverishing themselves in the process, and travel to Versailles instead of Paris surrounded by the kings men to garner favor with the king. Louis spent his childhood threatened by his nobles and he built a way to keep them dependent and incapable of rebellion. But great solutions have a nasty way of backfiring from time to time.

@nathanb5579 11 ай бұрын

What happened next?

@williamkline7922 11 ай бұрын

@@nathanb5579 not sure if this is a serious question or not but I’ll answer it anyway. His solutions crippled the government’s flexibility to the point that making moves that would prevent the revolution would topple the pillars the crown rested on.

@richardcaves3601 10 ай бұрын

Yes he was a nasty piece of work. There are no toilets on the ground floor, so the place stank especially during summer. Louis had an enlarged bladder, so could hold it in for a long time. No nobles were allowed to relieve themselves in his presence, which I guess added to the palace festivities. He spent almost all his wealth on wars, including the War of the Spanish Succession, so that by the time his grandson - Louis XVI came to finance support for the Americans, he had to borrow heavily, and bankrupted France, which caused the French Revolution. Butterfly effect.

@pendlera2959 9 ай бұрын

@@richardcaves3601 They used chamber pots back then...

@richardcaves3601 9 ай бұрын

@@pendlera2959 yes they did for private use, go look at Versailles, and search for a 17th century WC. Good luck with that - there ain't any. Charles Windsor has a fantastic collection of them, including one with Hitler's face in it. The chamber pots were in bedrooms, not the formal areas.

@nathanielgreer2764 Жыл бұрын

There is a 3 Musketeers movie from the 1970’s where the guy who played the Skipper on Gillian’s Island played Porthos. Apparently his Dad had played Porthos in a black and white movie and it was a life long aspiration of him to follow in his footsteps. I don’t know who his agent was but they must have been incredible to get him that role after he was typecast as the Skipper.

@THE_bchat Жыл бұрын

"The Fifth Musketeer", a 1979 German-Austrain film, for those who might care to check it out.

@earlleeruhf3130 Жыл бұрын

Alan Hale was a successful actor and played as Erroll Flyinn's friend in several movies. His son Alan Hale jr played the skipper on Gilligan's Island.

@nathanielgreer2764 Жыл бұрын

@@earlleeruhf3130 Wasn’t Alan Hale Jr. also in Man In The Wilderness which was the same story as The Revenant? It’s so weird to see hem as anything but the Skipper.

@zigzgshodzixhoxohxh3800 Жыл бұрын

Nick’s coming out with upload after upload and I’m here for all of it.

@alexkruse3429 Жыл бұрын

Same dawg same.

@KaladinVegapunk Жыл бұрын

Funniest thing about this movie was casting a teen heart throb.. And putting a mask on him hahaha Though it's not completely fair to blame only the king, like Russia the church was absolutely leeching society to death with their greed

@RayzeCruxis Жыл бұрын

Gotta get my coffee and snickerdoodle cookies and I'm ready to go

@samfire3067 Жыл бұрын

Do You have a plan, dutch?

@falconeshield Жыл бұрын

It's like an old friend paying a visit after 5 months of not seeing them.

@HistoryBuffs Жыл бұрын

Sorry guys, due to my dyslexia I misread the word at 1:20, its "vicomte" the french word for viscount not victim🤦‍♂

@maarten1115 Жыл бұрын

Perhaps we can begin to forgive you.

@NPC_-mf4dw Жыл бұрын

/unsubscribed.

@Stormlordau Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I was really struggling to let this one go...

@giorgosmichael9142 Жыл бұрын

I think vicomte is french for viscount.

@huma474 Жыл бұрын

@@giorgosmichael9142 Correct. Comte = Count, Vicomte = Viscount.

@howardjessica7704 Жыл бұрын

Dumas father was imprisoned by napoleon out of sheer Jealousy. I think this story of his dad was the basis of “the man in the Iron mask” which also influenced “the count of montecristo” as his dad was know to be “the” greatest swords man.

@curtisthomas2670 2 ай бұрын

Colonel Joseph Bologne aka Chevalier de St George, another mixed race guy, was a better swordsman, one of the best in Europe in his day

@MegaKnight2012 Жыл бұрын

Not a historical gripe, but it was always problematic that D'Artagnan defended the tyrant Louis purely because he was his son. Once he finds out he has a spare, a more moral spare, he turns on his tyrranical son. That and he doesn't turn on Louis because of the countless wrongs the king's committed against his own people and D'Artagnan's friends, but the wrongs Louis committed against D'Artagnan's other son.

@florenciabalori3625 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, I hate D'Artagnan in this movie so self righteous when he's actually just basically thinking egotistically it's disgusting

@pritammitra1605 10 ай бұрын

D'Artagnan's son or Athos' adopted son?

@MegaKnight2012 9 ай бұрын

@@pritammitra1605D'Artagnan turns on his own son, Louis, to help Athos' adopted son, Phillipe, who is D'Artagnan's other son, but not because Louis murdered Athos' biological son, Raoul, so Louis could take Raoul's fiance, Christine, as a concubine.

@BoundyMan 7 ай бұрын

It's what were seeing in society today with parents defending the criminals actions of their children and calling cops dirty names.

@GiraffeFeatures Жыл бұрын

I've LOVED this movie ever since I was a kid, not necessarily for historical reasons but because I just really enjoyed it, haven't seen it in YEARS, this is a completely unexpected nostalgia hit and I can't thank you enough for it Mr Hodges!

@-NateTheGreat Жыл бұрын

I think this is one of Leo's best films in his early career. I love this movie and the cast.

@ryanprosper88 Жыл бұрын

I found him to be flat and dull

@Mute_Nostril_Agony Жыл бұрын

He’s awful. The best early film by Jennifer de Cuppochino is What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. Dreadful performances by Jeremy Irons His Shirts and John Monkey Nuts

@RictusHolloweye Жыл бұрын

When he was playing the king I hated him, when he was playing the twin brother I liked him. I figured, at that point, that he must be a pretty good actor.

@yeahno6100 Жыл бұрын

@@balabanasireti Nah

@chanelhenderson8460 Жыл бұрын

I agree I love this movie so much

@TheGerkuman Жыл бұрын

All we need now is for Dom Noble to do a Lost in Adaptation on The Vicomte of Bragalonne vs The Man in The Iron Mask as a counterpoint. Because this film is both ahistorical and very different from the book! (Especially as it's just the last third of it!) And yet I remain fond if it. If treated as its own thing, it's pretty good!

@MrImastinker 6 ай бұрын

The movie feels like an interesting 'what if our brave heroes were here to change the course of history' tale.

@Gol_D_Rog3r 3 ай бұрын

This was my grandma's favorite movie, she passed a little while ago and watching this brought fourth a flood bittersweet memories. Not your intention but thank you

@ukmediawarrior Жыл бұрын

I love this movie. It's about as historically accurate as Bill and Ted movies, but it has good action, great characters and the ending always brings a tear to the eye.

@CrimsonMey Жыл бұрын

Sir Dude! The peasantry are like, totally not chill with the raising of the taxes. They do not feel most triumphant!

@progadkri5662 Жыл бұрын

The real Louis actually wins in the book and he successfully re-exiles his brother, while making Aramis and Porthos fugitives.

@sabir1208 Жыл бұрын

Same

@ilovebutterstuff 11 ай бұрын

Agreed. Something to spark the interest of a young historian. I thought the writing was well above average.

@ilovebutterstuff 11 ай бұрын

@@progadkri5662 --- Impressive. Somebody actually read it. 👍

@eileen_a_b Жыл бұрын

I weirdly like that everyone just spoke in their own accent. It adds to the fantasy aspect. I actually admire the movie more, knowing the true history behind it.

@ilovebutterstuff 11 ай бұрын

It was, as is with all, fiction. The history of France during the Middle ages is above, all; up to interpretation. So many details. So many characters; most of whom were perceived by authority. The truth is in there... Somewhere.

@timelordvictorious 10 ай бұрын

it makes more sense then everyone doing a fake french accent.

@nathanjedrej792 9 ай бұрын

There was this TV show on bbc 2 hosted by Jean Paul gaultier and another French man. They highlighted the kinky stuff the europeans were up to. It was called eurotrash. People from Belgium talking about bestiality in a broad Newcastle accent.

@gozepplin 7 ай бұрын

All the references to Dumas’s works in Django Unchained are more palpable when you appreciate Dicaprio playing both Louis XIV and Calvin Candy

@jehoiakimelidoronila5450 Жыл бұрын

The fact that John Malkovich plays the role of one of the Musketeers puts the icing on the cake

@huskaroar6869 Жыл бұрын

Could you please do "Das Boot" ? Its one helluva movie and i want to see how historically accurate it might be

@slowerthinker Жыл бұрын

From what I've heard the only inaccuracy would be the sailors daring to throw an oily rag at the journalist on board (who held the rank of an officer).

@vinak963 Жыл бұрын

@@slowerthinker The movie takes place during U-96's 7th deployment. It's fairly accurate. However, U-96 didn't sink after returning to port. She would go on and complete another 4 deployments. By 1943, she was being used as a training vessel before being decommissioned in 1945. She would be sunk in an air raid a few weeks later.

@jehoiakimelidoronila5450 Жыл бұрын

Yes YES *YEESSS* I better hope it happen

@huskaroar6869 Жыл бұрын

@@jehoiakimelidoronila5450 let's hope he sees this and review this bad ass movie ✌️

@huskaroar6869 Жыл бұрын

@@balabanasireti yeah ! That scene where his top generals start stuttering " Mein Fuhrer...." and Hitler goes " nein! Nein! Nein! Nein! Nein!" is hopefully true😄 an epic meme

@carloszapata847 Жыл бұрын

The "Philip as King Louis XIV brought peace and prosperity" part never bothered me because I like the interpretation of this movie as an Alternative History where Louis XIV is replaced before he can fully cause the damage history remembers him for, thus averting many tragedies. Eddit: Fixed mistake.

@Marksman3434 Жыл бұрын

*averting

@kingofcards9516 Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure he's remembered for being the imbodyment of absolute monarchy. I've never seen peoples first thought of him being any damage he may have done.

@kingofhearts3185 Жыл бұрын

Now this is a fan theory I can get behind

@Cancoillotteman Жыл бұрын

To be honest the age was crazy and full of wars and abherrent waist of lives. Every country in Europe took part in it, my guess is that the worst harm Louis XIV did to France was his court intregues and constant politicking that stood in the way of efficient armies leadership, and of course his terrible social management.

@thalmoragent9344 Жыл бұрын

@@kingofcards9516 Absolute Monarchy in a good or bad way?

@DrWest2 Жыл бұрын

Great video as always, thank you very much. I'm french and Alexandre Dumas is one of my all time favourite authors, ever since I'd learned how to read I literally devoured his books! My grandmother had the complete collection (and believe me that's A LOT of books!) and I can remember being 7 or 8 and always carrying with me one of these big red volumes, and reading it on every occasion I could find, even in holidays on the beach! His books were actually the root of my passion, still to this day, for literature and History. 😊

@kylecope528 Жыл бұрын

I would like to meet you sometime, One of my favorite novels when I was in primary school was The Three Musketeers, while I've had an interest in history since I was much younger.

@Anim1013 Жыл бұрын

Would love a review of The Alamo (2004), it's a good movie that was made with the same kind of love as Gettysburg and often finds respectable middle-ground with the history and the fantasy surrounding the Alamo

@JABRIEL251 Жыл бұрын

"An oath is an oath because it cannot be removed", I love that line

@picahudsoniaunflocked5426 Жыл бұрын

Can't you renounce an oath? Oh no I sense a 3 hour Google rabbit hole coming my way as I try to answer that & it turns out to be One Of Those Questions --- the "sounds easy; not easy" ones.

@LabrnMystic Жыл бұрын

I believe the ending was always meant to be this is an alternate history. Because real history the man in the Iron Mass died in the Bastille. So we got the bad Louis XIV.

@nicholasmaddocks7545 Жыл бұрын

11:12 true, but in the story that the man in the iron mask is based on, aramis is a bishop. So technically he's a man of Faith by this time.

@exidy-yt Жыл бұрын

Excellent choice, Nick! One of my favourite movies of all time despite several warts (John Malkovich's jarring American accent being the worst of these) and while it plays fast and loose with historical facts, it is rich in historical detail, even little things like what happens when you charge a Martello head-on. (You die like Raoul) The scenes in the palace are fantastic, Leonardo DiCaprio is a perfectly arrogant Sun King, Porthos made me a fan of Gerard Depardieu and I can never see anyone else but him when I imagine the character. Thanks for covering it, I hope this video inspires a new generation to enjoy this fantastic movie.

@mainpage725 Жыл бұрын

I remember a time that Nick's videos were 6 months to a year in between...this...this is nice.

@Argumemnon Жыл бұрын

This is actually one of my favourite movies. The narration at the end, I think, makes clear that this is an alternate timeline.

@jacob4920 Жыл бұрын

I watched this when I was halfway through college. So I was familiar with the history of France at that point. I knew this movie was mostly bullsh!t, but I still love it, because it's a great work of historical fiction, done well on the movie screen. That's really all I can ask for.

@zephyr8072 Жыл бұрын

Yeah to me it’s basically the same as Gladiator. It’s a world where a benevolent Louis XIV ruled much like Gladiator restored the Roman republic.

@ismellstatic Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love your videos and the way you untangle reality from movies and the creative process behind them. I was watching All The President's Men recently and I was wondering how close the movie was to the real investigation and I feel like you could make a really interesting video about a historical event that most people are familiar with but know very little about. Cheers!

@MrMielke Жыл бұрын

I haven't watched this movie since I was a kid. It's really funny to realise how star-studded it is. :D (It's especially funny to see that Hugh Laurie actually also was a serious French aristocrat at one point.)

@josephagundez5336 Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing this in theaters when I was 10 years old and I absolutely loved it. 1998 was jammed pack with great period piece films like Saving Private Ryan, Titanic, Man in the Iron Mask, The Mask of Zorro, and L.A. Confidential. I'm still mad that Shakespeare in Love took home Best Picture over Saving Private Ryan at the Oscars.

@monmothma3358 9 ай бұрын

...And Gwyneth Paltrow over Cate Blanchett As Elizabeth I, which was, incidentally, also an excellent period movie

@iamjohnfarlow Жыл бұрын

I’ve got three little rules 1. I expect your loyalty 2. Don’t step on my groove 3. Don’t look at the man in the Iron Mask - King Louis XIV

@irighterotica Жыл бұрын

Who?

@eldorados_lost_searcher Жыл бұрын

1. Don't tug on Superman's cape 2. Don't spit into the wind 3. Don't pull the mask off the ol' *Man in the Iron Mask* 4. Don't mess around with Jim

@maarekstele2998 2 ай бұрын

Jack rackham enjoyer

@chiwantstea Жыл бұрын

I am having a tough morning because I have surgery on Wednesday and this has just cheered me up so much! It was one of my favs! LOVE THIS MOVIE! thank you :)

@shuntley23 Жыл бұрын

I love when you put out a video because its so well done. You arent pumping a video out every week but take your time. Id rather have one good one a month or every few months that you take your time with than multiple ones per month with the value of the video going down. Keep it up :)

@TheRennDawg Жыл бұрын

I really loved this movie. Here is a suggestion if you also love this movie. Pair it up with the 1993 Disney The Three Musketeers. I know they have different actors and were from a different production company. However, the two really seem to flow together.

@ferulebezel Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry but you have to be on crack. Richard Lester nailed the musketeers stories.

@Mistwolfss Жыл бұрын

I think thats on purpose as the 1993 three musketeers would have been the closest movie so they made kind of a sequel to it.

@DIEGhostfish Жыл бұрын

There's also the '73 one with Christopher Lee. Weitten by Historical Fictionnauthor George Macdonald Fraser

@eldorados_lost_searcher Жыл бұрын

@@DIEGhostfish There is, but the '73 and '74 films adhere closer to the events of source novel, whereas the '93 version is closer to the fast and loose nature of this film.

@akl2k7 Жыл бұрын

TBH, when I was a kid and this came out, I thought it was the sequel to the Disney Three Musketeers for some reason. Never mind the different actors.

@KingsandGenerals Жыл бұрын

The movie was eh, but such a fascinating story! Excited to watch the video!

@Amantducafe Жыл бұрын

I read this in the stoic voice tone you always use in your videos.

@danielsantiagourtado3430 Жыл бұрын

OMG they are here awesome 😊😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@Psychol-Snooper Жыл бұрын

"Eh," you say? I think you're being too generous.

@TotallyNotElPresidente Жыл бұрын

Don't you dare speak ill of one of my favorite childhood films

@tomsandesh8765 Жыл бұрын

Omg Kings and Generals

@Rotarrin Жыл бұрын

Thank you for reviewing this one! It was fun to watch, and (as always) I enjoyed learning the extra historical bits I didn't already know. I've always loved this particular adaptation of "The Man in the Iron Mask", despite its flaws and hilariously over-the-top dramatics -- perhaps even because of it. But then, I'm kind of a sucker for costume period dramas...

@hayeswilson7457 11 ай бұрын

My grandmother was watching this movie once and I walked into the room right as they were putting the mask back on Leo. His screams scared the shit out of me as a kid game me nightmares

@sitizenkanemusic Жыл бұрын

This was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid in the 90s. It is simply a good story- but what made this movie for me is the beautiful music composed by Nick Glennie-Smith. The music reminded me of the beautiful Golden Age of hollywood music with a late Baroque/Enlightenment period flair. Kind of like Max Steiner's music (Gone with the Wind, Little Women, Casablanca, and much, much more). The beautiful scenery in this film made me want to travel to France, which I do every few years.

@ray.shoesmith Жыл бұрын

My biggest issue with all the portrayals of the Musketeers is that they're never armed with Muskets

@rynemcgriffin1752 Жыл бұрын

I mean it’d be a bit awkward if they were called “The Rapiteers”

@jacob4920 Жыл бұрын

@@rynemcgriffin1752 They use pistols at several moments in the flick. But "pistolteers" just doesn't quite have the same ring to it, you know?

@glennross85 Жыл бұрын

Marines dont spend much time in the water anymore either and the "cavalry" use helicopters now 🤷‍♂️

@ray.shoesmith Жыл бұрын

@@glennross85 Dude, they were the original musketeers. They were called musketeers because they were the only troops equipped with muskets. That's like calling them marines but them never going to sea. Anyway, it's not a big deal, just something I found interesting so I made a comment.

@vpapako Жыл бұрын

They used muskets in war. Matchlock and flintlock muskets were a slow firearm to load and fire, you could fire perhaps 3 shots in a minute. It wasn' t practical to use anywhere bit in a military formation.

@TheLadySilverMoon Жыл бұрын

It's been awhile since I've seen it, but this was one of my favorite movies when I was younger, mainly because I was a big fan of the Three Musketeers movie from 1994.

@bluestrife28 10 ай бұрын

Me too. Back then I felt like Iron Mask was a sequel, like many years later when Chris O’Donnell grew up into Gabriel Byrne, etc.

@TheLadySilverMoon 10 ай бұрын

@@bluestrife28 I also thought of it as a sequel back then.

@monmothma3358 9 ай бұрын

Ever seen the Musketeer version from 1973- and 74? That's my favorite by far. Lavish, so funny, great music and so close to the book. Recommend it.

@AndriaBieberDesigns Жыл бұрын

I love your videos, so much, Nick! Thank you for making them. You are amazing.❤

@DeanTheLaughingMann Жыл бұрын

This movie made me believe I could throw a sword sideways, have it spin perfectly and cut through gushing water from a fountain, and then hit a man in the chest with precision some yards away. Now that is suspension of disbelief at its finest. (Serious note: I still enjoy watching this movie)

@keithdean9149 Жыл бұрын

A lot of people have asked, why Loui XIV did not simply have the Masked Prisoner executed. The best answer I have seen is that, despite all his faults, Louis did not have people executed who had not committed a Capital Crime.

@dkupke Жыл бұрын

Possible he didn’t even know about the masked prisoner

@williamkarbala5718 Жыл бұрын

Or care.

@dkupke Жыл бұрын

@@williamkarbala5718 the theory I’ve read that makes the most sense to me is that he was a butler or carriage driver for one of the high ups in the court. Not someone who would merit the king’s attention, but had spent enough time around the nobility and knew their dirty laundry.

@keithdean9149 Жыл бұрын

@@dkupke I think he was sent to prison on Louis order.

@keithdean9149 Жыл бұрын

@@dkupke he likely was a servant who saw or heard something he shouldn’t have

@egyptfrazier Жыл бұрын

Hugh Laurie is a dam good actor. Seeing his work before he become Dr. House is just astonishing

@BeefAndCheeseRugby Жыл бұрын

As someone who grew up in france I would like to put something forward, despite all the problems louis the 14th caused, he is still considered one of the best kings of france by most people. Just behind Charlemagne of corse

@jmitterii2 9 ай бұрын

The victors write history. But they're often more insidious than their predecessors in that any opposition was more brutally culled to 0. One way to evaluate such potential is to firstly, look at amount of detraction from contemporary sources... if nearly none exist, you can bet it was culled. Because that's very unusual. The other is to just take on face value their achievements that were so highlighted. Were they, in the end really significant life changing for the majority things? Or were they superficial even carnival act stunts? And what is praised? And why was it praised? Who could it have hurt? And who did it hurt?

@jmitterii2 9 ай бұрын

Just a modern day example at this very moment, the North Koreans are lead to believe the present dynastic ruling family are near divine and the best thing that could have ever happened to them. All while the nation starves and is at the mercy of a outright tyrannical dictatorship where all opposition is sent to work camps or simply killed.

@krankarvolund7771 Жыл бұрын

The main motivation behind moving to Versailles was also controlling the nobles, the peasants were rioting often, but Louis was most of all shocked by a nobility revolt during his childhood that could have killed him, la Fronde (the slingshot ^^). Versailles was away from the capital and there was a system to keep nobles in check there ^^

@kingofcards9516 Жыл бұрын

Exactly, it wasn't just some fancy palace built because why not? It was made so king Louis could centralize power around himself and destroy the power of the nobility which held emence power before and after him.

@rynemcgriffin1752 Жыл бұрын

@@kingofcards9516It worked though didn’t it?

@kingofcards9516 Жыл бұрын

@@rynemcgriffin1752 yes, it did. The nobility went from a powerful force that could depose kings to fighting over who would tie king Louis shoes.

@Hutchyy Жыл бұрын

@@kingofcards9516 immense :)

@francismorin8561 Жыл бұрын

@@kingofcards9516 Did it though? It concentrated some of the aristocracy in one place while marginalising others but that's really one big toxic cesspit in the making. We make a lot of the courtly functions that were being sold for money but we forget that these positions usually gave you access to the King and might open other doors for you. Ultimately, the French aristocracy would be more powerful than ever before in some ways and it would push his successors towards a policy of stagnation and reaction that would end with the revolution.

@slowerthinker Жыл бұрын

The best adaptation of Dumas' work are the 1970s films with Michael York as D'Artagnan, Oliver Reed as Athos, and Charlton Heston as Richelieu. I will glady challenge anyone who thinks otherwise to a duel, -at the Luxembourg at three o'clock!

@sartanawillpay7977 Жыл бұрын

"Are you fighting this fellow? But I'm fighting him myself!"

@il_solitario55 Жыл бұрын

I'll see you there.

@michaeljohnangel6359 Жыл бұрын

Apparently, the new French one is supurb!! (I haven't seen it yet; is it out yet?)

@jaredbezes7806 Жыл бұрын

Love it how timely you are now with these videos KEEP IT UP man WE LOVE IT!!!

@CSC52698 7 ай бұрын

I just rewatched the film today and I love this movie. It's a film that I could watch over and over again. The A list ensemble was immaculate. And then of course I had to come here and watch the History Buffs review again.

@Pastel_of_Nate Жыл бұрын

Great video as always, this is my favorite film. Ps.: in the books, at least in the first novel, Aramis becomes a priest, but before that, both he and Porthos were two Don Juans.

@lambokr3497 Жыл бұрын

HISTORY BUFFS UPLOADED??? wow, can't wait to watch this! your videos are always amazing, funny, but informative.

@kopperhead Жыл бұрын

I watched this movie for the very first time because you posted this video and wanted to watch it before hearing what you had to say. Great video and thanks for expanding my movie repertoire!

@Aristophocles Жыл бұрын

You have been my favorite KZfaqr since the channel started! I'm a teacher and I'm always referring your videos to students who like history and/or movies

@andrewhook6092 Жыл бұрын

Such a coincidence that I start this the same day I start the Three Musketeers once again. Highly recommend the book and the way the characters lived and died.

@avatarmikephantom153 Жыл бұрын

I literally was just watching this the other day. It was years since I saw it, and loved it.

@bweeptabop3944 Жыл бұрын

Great review. Would you ever consider doing a historical analysis on the Dollars trilogy? I don't think it's got any historical figures in it, but I wondered how authentic the setting and characters were.

@geekazoid1983 Жыл бұрын

How awesome that I've been on a History Buff's binge the last two days of all the old reviews....and you give us a new video today. Fantastic!

@MegaKat Жыл бұрын

I fully approve of the idea of you putting out videos more often! However, don't do it to the point that you get burned out! You do what's good for you, and we'll absolutely be happy whenever a new video comes out.

@one1blue Жыл бұрын

Great channel as always. I’d love to see The King historical breakdown.

@deenagara9151 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for covering on this! I've been so fascinated!

@SoraOfTheDarkness Жыл бұрын

now realizing Leonardo DiCaprio has been in two movies where the name D'Artagnan has been mentioned

@technetium9653 Жыл бұрын

I sometimes look at the palace of Versailles, and think, "they're never making another one of these" they'll upkeep this one but there's never gonna be a Versailles 2

@sd3457 Жыл бұрын

Let's face it, rioting is pretty much the National sport of France.

@cynthianolder3557 2 ай бұрын

Nick Hodges, & History Buffs, where have you been all my life? I was scrolling through KZfaq 3 days ago, and came across History Buffs for the first time. I may become an addict, having seen 6 or 7 episodes so far........stellar

@ryanh3635 Жыл бұрын

I loved this film as a child. Watched the video tape over and over.

@Gstrangeman96 Жыл бұрын

Just got home, no more perfect timing could be had

@amtmannb.4627 Жыл бұрын

I wondered if you would mention the painting of the old real Louis XIV in the background in one or more scenes of the movie (the famous portray by Rigaud). Declaring Louis XIV a great king in the end of the movie at least reflects some opinions about his reign. Voltaire and other contemporary historians called it "the great period" as we see an enormous output in industry, arts, technic etc. during the period of Louis XIII to Louis XIV. Louis XIV ended the civilwars in France during Mazarin's reign. We see somehow stability which gave the chance for France to start expansion of the territory. On the other hands hundreds of thousands of French soldiers were killed during the wars and the protestants had to leave their homes (although some stayed).

@thomasbuege8074 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Nick for the amazing content! I would LOVE to hear your take on Hacksaw Ridge!

@stephenc4790 Жыл бұрын

I'd love to see you interview Sean Bean on the history the Sharpe series is based.

@gezzarandom Жыл бұрын

I didn’t know The Man In The Iron Mask was based on a true story. Plus Louis XIV had a big impact on my country’s (Ireland) history when he backed the ousted James II in his bid to regain the English crown from William III.

@warlordofbritannia Жыл бұрын

Speaking of which, funny how this video was published the day before the anniversary of the Boyne, huh?

@cairoingram1329 Жыл бұрын

Keep this frequency. Your videos are much needed.

@markportch6526 7 ай бұрын

The closest to the first book the three musketeers is from the 1970's with Athos played by Oliver Reed, it is a much more accurate reflection of the morals of the time and is absolutely brilliant

@ab5olut3zero95 Жыл бұрын

Always a good day when History Buffs uploads, but I do miss the Palladio opener.

@Urlocallordandsavior Жыл бұрын

Always love to see more 17th/18th century history.

@ilovebutterstuff 11 ай бұрын

2 minutes in, I already know this is going to be the best production value I'll have seen all day! Awesome!

@magnificus8581 Жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this film, I liked how they had a grittier, more heartfelt version of the musketeers.

@Czar Жыл бұрын

Another video already!? You've absolutely been pumping them out recently, and I'm certainly not complaining!

@josu6283 Жыл бұрын

it is good to see that you are starting to upload a bit more frequently Nick! Can't wait to see what other videos you have planned.

@ArtlikeDaVinci Жыл бұрын

The best part of my day is when I get notified that History Buffs has uploaded a new video 🔥🔥👍🏼

@AccaLarentia90 Жыл бұрын

Just seeing that clip with D’Artagnan getting shot made me cry again. It was such a rewatch movie in our house that we’d all drop what we were doing and watch it when it came on TV.

@Gdgaiennie Жыл бұрын

YESSS!!! Another History Buffs!!! Can’t wait to watch a new one!! I love binging these videos over and over again. It’s one of my favorite channels. ❤️❤️❤️

@mightypanda5768 Жыл бұрын

Hell yeah another one so soon

@anastasiodeleon727 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I had been waiting for this one.

@canicheenrage 10 ай бұрын

The main point of Versailles was to keep the nobility at each others' throats, and at arm's length. A honey trap.

@orarinnsnorrason4614 Жыл бұрын

I love this movie for the fact that Leo even so young did a fantastic job.

@trenthenry4389 Жыл бұрын

Nick at it again ! Love your content and will always watch.

@kylehazachode 11 ай бұрын

So I always go back and rewatch the films you cover, and then come and watch your uploads. I thoroughly enjoyed the BBC show The Musketeers and they even had an episode about King Louie's twin. So I was excited to go back and watch The Man In The Iron Mask. Loved it when I saw it in the theater, but lord this was hard to rewatch. Don't know why, but this movie just didn't grab my attention during the rewatch. Finally finished the movie after two days, now I can watch your upload. :)