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I always want the action to be witty. I don’t want it to be merely routine.

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I didn’t want to do that. But what I did want to do was have a real look at the adventure genre because I thought it was ripe for reinvention.
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Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else.
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The BBC came to me and they wanted to adapt the book [Three Musketeers] again, in the straightforward way, and I said no to that.
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The thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don’t necessarily see themselves as villains.
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But you need them to also have that sense of fun and that sense of movement and that ability to get the actors to really respond to the material in the way that you want them to. It’s a very big thing.
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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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He’s not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he’s absolutely right.
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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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You have to make that judgement yourself, and that’s partly where the casting director is so good. It was that blend that we were looking for.
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I think there’s an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D’Artagnan.
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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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The situation that women were in, at the time, was something that Dumas doesn’t really go into, but it’s a great subject to look at.
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You can use the fun of the genre, but I also really wanted to come at it from the point of view of some really complex characterization.
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The concept of being loyal to your friends, to the point where you’d even die for them, is a great subject.
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It’s a great genre because you can do a lot. Sometimes in thrillers, you can really explore things, and it’s the same in this genre.
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They’re classic themes, which is why I think it’s such a great story to look at again.
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