I remember Brian Blessed telling a story of beating the crap out of Oliver Reed. The story is hilarious. Oliver Reed was truly a horrible person in real life.

An old story . A lousy human being, but a great actor.

No, it was "think outside the bun"

He was only a quarter black.

Man in the Iron Mask is about the three musketeers. Also Dumas’ father was the first black commander with certain battlefield offices (I can’t remember which ones) and met Napoleon. Dumas also ghostwrote for historical figures of Napoleon’s time

@wyattcole5452 Yes. Affirmative. "WORLD'S GREAT MEN OF COLOR" Vol. I & 2 by J.A. Rogers, check 'em out.

​@@claydobbins9342 Facts

​@@GathKingLeppbertI Read JA Rogers then speak

Ther3 are 3 - 4 following novels Start w 20 yrs after. the best one

Never saw it but it sounds cute!

Uh, it's what's called an 'historical novel', meaning it's fiction...made up stuff...based on real people and historical events the author chose to hang his story on. Never meant to be "true" as a history of the time. Also, Dumas was writing about events and people two hundred years earlier, after the French revolution, so he had a social/political bias that he wanted to convey, as well as writing a damn fine swashbuckler. But it's just a story, folks.

It wasn’t intended to actually be a true story, it’s a historical fiction

@@wyattcole5452 Dumas drew upon history, setting the story about 100 years earlier, but obviously the characters and events are fictional. Just like Westerns or pirate movies. What happens is that over time readers come to think the story is history. Perhaps a commentary on our educational quality.

@@jackrice2770 I didn’t know swashbucklers or westerns were generally thought of as history. Maybe I’m the 50s and 60s the Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp show might’ve been taken too seriously in that regard, but idk other instances I’ve heard of personally

@@wyattcole5452 Well, it's my impression that the fantasy of the "Old West" is better fixed in the popular psyche than the actual history. My point is perhaps better illustrated by the many pseudo historical videos and novels of today, similar to Dumas' popularity. A "book" is just a story, it might be a tall tale or it might be research based history, the readers have to be smart enough to tell the difference.

His father was one of Napoleon’s top generals .. Same name as his son and his own father !

Very interesting!

I read this book. Very good read. I'm listening to this guy's lies. I can see how easy people can be misled.

His mother was Haitian.

there's a Paul in there somewhere.

Apparently, Dumas was black.

@@patriciajrs46 Not apparently. His paternal grandmother was black, so Alexandre Dumas, and his father, Thomas Dumas, were biracial.

@@AScottishOdyssey Okay.

​@@patriciajrs46That's debatable. I mean in terminology. He was one quarter from African descent. You could just as easily say he was white is saying he was black. I find it distressing that it still is considered that if you have one drop of black blood in you that you are black. We might as well start using the terms octoroon and mulatto again!

​@@patriciajrs46He had a black grandmother, which makes him 1/4 black. Therefore he mostly wasn't, he was mixed race. We don't use the American system where if you have a single black great-great-great-grandparent then you're black. That makes no sense!

I want to thank you for the polite correction you gave on the pronunciation, unlike other snobs who derided the author for his pronunciation. English is my native language, but I grew up speaking better French than English, and I still was pronouncing Dumas with an S. I never put two and two together to realize it is like "pas". If someone who should know better can make the mistake, how much more someone who doesn’t speak the language. I wish more people were willing to give simple correction like you instead of mockery and derision.

@@b_korthuis My grandma on my mom side is French American. They came to America in the 1840s. They spell their surname Chalot, but it's prounced Sharlo. Pne group of cousins added an extra t so their's in pronounced Sharlot.

@@d.kyrstede3556 I know what you mean. My last name, Korthuis, is Dutch. It is pronounced kort- heus but it is tough for most English people to pronounce so we started to use the common mispronounced kor-theis. This, along with the actual spelling of "-uis" led people to think it was Greek and spell it "-ius". So my great uncle, when he moved to the United States, legally changed it "ius". So now we have the Canadian Korthuis family, the American Korthius family, and still no one outside of Holland pronounces it right.

@@b_korthuis My paternal ancestors came from Norfolk, England. I found at least 8 different spellings for the surname. The Kyrstede being the Middle English spelling going back to the late 1400s. My ancestor that came to America used the surnames Curstead, Cursted and Curstick when he lived in Norfolk, England, but when he moved to America He usedCurstead, Cursted, Custed , Custard and Curstard. For the Census he used Custard abd Custed as he was hiding from British Creditors. I have cousins that go by Curstead, Custead and Custard in America . The cousins in Canada go by Custead

AI often doesn't know how to pronounce things.

I own 20 years after and I’m reading it now, it’s fantastic and better than the first imo

I like the one with Cantinflas . . .😺😺😺

Hmmm.

That plot line (Aramis as father of Louis) appeared in the BBC TV series " The Musketeers. (2014)

@@johnminnitt8101 rwally? Never saw that one. Sad that they said it was from the novel, though...

Every "Hollywood" writer believes himself better than whoever created the source materiel. Thus, familiar stories are all torn apart. Beloved characters are turned into contradictory fools. Every time a familiar book is made into a film, I shudder to think what the fools will do next...

@robertwood6272 Yeah, true. But that one is particularly mistreated. Flying ships, to cry out loud! The worst thing is, Dumas already wrote that novel like a movie scenario! It's fast-paced, with action, romance, adventure, and heroism! Compared to what was written in France at the time (looking at you, Victor Hugo!), it was accessible and jump-packed with Hollywood goodies. Such a shame... I would love to see a very good adaptation of both The Three Musketeers and Twenty-Years Later. An adaptation of the Vicount of Bragelonne would also be great, although impossible to adapt in its entirety as a movie. Would make a great TV show, though...

Not really because D'Artanian did not become an actual musketeer until the end of the novel. So it was three musketeers plus a man's striving to be a musketeer.

They’re musketeers, that’s literally what they’re called, and the tittle doesn’t imply there’s only three musketeers, it’s already part of the D’artagnan romances and he doesn’t become a musketeer until more than half way through the book

Aramis was the best with shot with a musket if I remember correctly.

It is like edo period Japanese samurai. Their main weapon was still the bow or the spear or musket but for civilian life at times of peace they strutted around with the daisho ( long &short) the set of 2 swords.

They used muskets only in war on the battlefield.

Yes... the same with Béarn...

Charisma is a near superpower for some.

At the time (and maybe still today), religious offices were given to people with backing and influence. If you were charismatic, your chances to be pushed to higher offices were greater. Knowing the right person at the right time kind of thing.

At that time, you could become a Cardinal or even a bishop without even being in the clergy. Mazarin was never a priest.​@@sandralachance1424

The book and the films give him a bad press. I read three biographies on him, and all agreed he was overplaying his bodily deficits with being of a sparkling intelligence and a rather charming and on top not that sinister cat-caresser but a ladie's man. One biography claimed he was actually very nice to Queen Anne, preventing her of being divorced because of her first miscarriages and the Buckingham-affair, when charming Buckingham tried to persuade her to run off to Virginia with him, and L13 was about divorcing his wife, though she had jumped from de Vere's carriage, thinking it improper (and mainly fearing a beheading for high treason if caught running off with a lover). In another biography there even was a film-ripe scene of Anne learning that her mother-in-law Maria and her brother-in-law Gaston were trying to get rid of her sickly husband, and not believing that Gaston would keep his word of marrying her (an always miscarrying and used up wife) after his brother was gone, she - rummaging a wardrobe allegedly coming over a feather Louis 13 had gifted her for their wedding or some other souvenier from her early marriage - believing it was a sign by god, decided to run - barefooted and only in her nightshirt beneath a servant's mantle - to Richelieu's place to denounce the plot. And that Richelieu afterwards was the mastermind behind the courtier's plot to get the completely estranged royal couple together again, resulting in the birth of L14 and Philippe.

He means "Lucky Charms," the Cereal 😺😺😺

Not in middle 17th century.

Nonsense point of view

No

When reading it I hear “Rich-a-low” but the English pronunciation is aree-shuh-loo, the American is rish-uh-loo or rish-loo, and the French thus proper pronunciation is rich-shul-lyoo to me, with a slight accent at the end for lack of better ability to explain myself. Google actually says that pronunciation as “ri-shoe-lyoe” but it doesn’t sound like that when it does the audio

@@wyattcole5452It's a French name, the English pronunciation should be as close to the original as possible within the constraints of the English language. I will never understand what convolute twists and turns it took to, for ex, turn D'Artagnan into Dartanian! But, anyway, here's the correct pronunciation in both languages: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qpNomaui2dXJqqs.html

​@XofHope you may not know that the French "ieu" sound is not native to English and therefore not easily pronounced by those without a second language.

@@b_korthuis I'm very aware of it, which is why I mentioned an approximation, which is much closer to "uh" than "oo".