Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He’s doing what he needs to do.
ADRIAN HODGESWhen she gets to know him, she sees qualities in him that she recognizes and it’s almost like trying to remake the past, but of course, it doesn’t work.
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Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man.
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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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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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I always want the action to be witty. I don’t want it to be merely routine.
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Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.
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In the book, D’Artagnan doesn’t actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end.
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In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.
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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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It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.
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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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Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.
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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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But when he finally does make it, they’re not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.
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There was a lot that I wanted it to do, and I wanted it to be fun. It’s fun, but it’s not simple fun.
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When she gets to know him, she sees qualities in him that she recognizes and it’s almost like trying to remake the past, but of course, it doesn’t work.
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