the man in the iron mask ( 1998 film )
a still from the 1939 film about the historical mystery, “the man in the iron mask. ”
the man in the iron mask
soundtrack (1998) - nick glennie - smith track 01, surrounded .
[ in the following essay, goodkin compares and contrasts dumas' s original text for the man in the iron mask with its 1998 film adaptation. ]
nor is it the first time louis xiv will have spoken english on screen. he was played by leonardo di caprio in 1998 film the man in the iron mask .
but the man in the iron mask is definitely a movie worth giving a try .
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roger macdonald - - the man in the iron mask j. b. wolf - - louis xiv
the man in the iron mask was a prisoner arrested in 1669 and held in the bastille and other french jails for more than three decades, until his death in 1703. his identity has been an enduring mystery because, throughout his imprisonment, the man' s face was hidden by a mask, according to sonnino. the story was even popularized in the 1998 film
the man in the iron mask ,
starring leonardo dicaprio .
there was an actual man in the iron mask imprisoned in the bastille. his identity has always been very much speculated on .
[ in the following essay, macdonald investigates the origins of the protagonists of the three musketeers trilogy and the man in the iron mask. ]
the man in the iron mask needed more of a jaunty twinkle, more wolfish grins, less thinking and more doing .
the man in the iron mask may have been royalty. this idea stems from clues regarding his treatment during his incarceration .
the iron mask is one of the most popular enigmas of french history. he was an unknown prisoner of the bastille. for more details, visit the wikipedia page for the historical man in the iron mask .
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i wear the mask. the mask does not wear me .
... this version of the man in the iron mask owes more to star wars than star wars owes to dumas .
double bind... two leonardo dicaprios for the price of one in the man in the iron mask. all photographs: ronald grant archive
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promoting [ the film ] properly
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alongside previous men in the iron mask, the' 98 contender doesn' t amount to much .
‡ other notable excerpted editions of this text have been published under the title the man in the iron mask, including the version illustrated by edy legrand in 1964; edited by david coward in 1991; and abridged and adapted by paul mantell in 1998, among many others .
one of two 1998 movies with the same title, based on the same novel. the other was
q: on the man in the iron mask, you crossed swords with gerard depardieu, jeremy irons, john malkovich and leo. were you the best swordsman ?
it should be pointed out that many of the so - called ‘facts’ about the man in the iron mask are not verifiable. suffice it to say that the following information is widely regarded as truth. moreover, this information fits with just about every existing story about the mystery man. however, it is certain that the man in the iron mask was a real person and that he was forced to wear a mask .
* my favorite scene in the man in the iron mask: the scene at the ball where the mustketeers attempt the switch is my favorite. i love the way the director shot that. and the ending is cool .
the man in the iron mask is a 1998 film adaptation of the vicomte de bragelonne (1847 - 1850) by alexandre dumas. the original serial novel was a sequel to the three musketeers. one of many adaptations, the film was the first directed by randall wallace, previously known for writing braveheart. the main stars were leonardo di caprio, jeremy irons, john malkovich, gabriel byrne, gerard depardieu and anne parillaud .
the man in the iron mask came out in 1998, and it was the first movie that leo starred in after titanic. and, well, if you know anything about backlashes, that is all i need to say. it just got shredded by anyone who hated leomania and who had an agenda .
the hollywood ending applied to the film was almost exactly the opposite of the book .
plenty of swash and buckle in this wonderful adaptation of dumas'' the man in the iron mask'. while it does not stick strictly to the original story it is still a most ...
sources: mark, ruth, who was the man with the iron mask? retrieved 4 / 7 / 10. urltoken the unexplained mysteries, retrieved 4 / 7 / 10 .
the man in the iron mask. one of my favorite little guilty pleasures of the late 90' s. a movie with a great cast. in particular, gabriel byrne is outstanding as the heroic d' artagnan .
in
the search for the man in the iron mask: a historical detective story
( rowman & littlefield, 2016), sonnino leads the reader through historical records, correspondence regarding the prisoner and other aspects of his investigation .
no one knows who the man in the mask was, but his dangerous identity must have been the whole point of the mask, so the twin brother theory is as good as any .
the man in the iron mask
is
loosely based
on the dumas novel, and includes a return appearance by the three musketeers. they come out of retirement in a scheme to rescue france from the cruel fist of the young, spoiled king .
as for why the man in the iron mask' s identity has remained veiled throughout history, sonnino said the blame lies with historians, who
insist on making it antiseptic, moralistic, sensible .
i remember really liking the man in the iron mask when i saw it in a theater back in 1998. and like i said before, i remember immediately thinking, hey one day this is going to wind up on an underrated movies list. because the hatred for leonardo dicaprio was just that immense at the time. nobody was going to take him seriously in a double role as the lead of a movie. not in 1998 they weren' t. not in a historical drama they weren' t. at the time they just laughed at him and called this a stupid teenybopper film .
bell, a. craig. alexandre dumas: le vicomte de bragelonne (the man in the iron mask): a critical study. devon, england: merlin books, 1995, 136 p .
so, to put all this in terms of a simple question: what can the 1998 version of the man in the iron mask tell us about the zeitgeist? if hollywood' s current take on louis xiv turns louis into a figure relevant to the presumably youngish audience targeted by the film, it may be able to teach us about some of the cultural baggage that our own youngish audiences bring to the reading of the texts of this period .
and so the count of monte - cristo finishes like a charlie chaplin film, with the back view of a man walking out of the picture .
q: …you recently starred in the man in the iron mask with leonardo dicaprio, who had just finished filming titanic before you started working with him. was he still gurgling up water and picking icicles out of his hair ?
i have to write a 1 or 2 page paper on the historical accuracy / inaccuracy of the hollywood 1998 version of
man in the iron mask
with leonardo dicaprio and was wondering if anyone had some links listing such information. i already know about wikipedia, and theres only about 1 or 2 items of useful information ...
the film is based on a book called le vicomte de bragelonne written in 1847 by alexandre dumas, third and last part of the musketeer trilogy, after the three musketeers and twenty years after. the iron mask is just one part of the book .
a set of 148 beautiful screencaps from the film, provided by aragarna, is available in the gallery .
on the island of st. marguerite, offshore from cannes of all places, still stands the rude stone fortress where the man in the iron mask spent his lonely days. i have sat below his window in a little italian trattoria, while the owner assured me that the man in the mask was no less than the twin brother of louis xiv, held there because the state could not tolerate another claimant to the throne .
you just need to look at the cast to know that this would be a automatic classic and yes it is a classic the film is right for the historic period it portraits the director has used all the talent from these set of actors. the cinema photography is brilliant this film has heart and soul i think we all know the story of the man in the iron mask but this new version i highly recommend it .
as of 22 december 2011 the film had grossed $ 132, 249, 913 .
offers nothing to recommend—or to set it apart from the many other film adaptations
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the man in the iron mask begins with the realization that the three musketeers, who once pledged'' all for one and one for all!'' are older (if not necessarily wiser) and long ago took divergent paths .
i have to write a 1 or 2 page paper on the historical accuracy / inaccuracy of the hollywood 1998 version of
man in the iron mask
with leonardo dicaprio and was wondering if anyone had some links listing such information. i already know about wikipedia, and theres only about 1 or 2 items of useful information there... please help !
a 350 - year - old french mystery has been unmasked: in his new book, paul sonnino, a professor of history at the university of california, santa barbara, claims he has uncovered the real identity of the mysterious man in the iron mask .
i love this adapted version of alexander damas' s classic story
the man in iron mask
. i can see some parallels between this version and the 1998 version which i will not reveal, you' ll just have to watch both movies a couple of times to discover the secrets. i wasn' t around when this version was released in the 1930s till about six decades later, but it is good to have this film for future generations to enjoy. i totally recommend this film to any newcomer fan of old movies like this .
leonardo dicaprio won a golden raspberry award for worst screen couple for his interactions as twins in the film .
some of this is legend, but at least this much is fact; when rioting citizens of france destroyed the bastille, they discovered within its records this mysterious entry: prisoner # 64389000 - the man in the iron mask .
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[ narrating ] some of this is legend, but at least this much is fact - when rioting citizens of france destroyed the bastille, they discovered within its records this mysterious entry: prisoner # 64389000 - the man in the iron mask .
only aramis and porthos are involved in the iron mask episode. so obviously, d’artagnan doesn’t die, but porthos does. in the book they do not succeed to replace one twin by the other .
why is the same red rose used throughout the film? if it was real over the amount of time in the film the rose would be long dead. look at the branching of the rose and you will see what i mean .
1. a number of films have been made about the story of the man in the iron mask; a history of these versions is beyond the scope of this study. rather, i aim simply to investigate how the most recent film version of a tale that takes place in the france of the seventeenth century reflects certain cultural prejudices of the present decade toward that period of french history .
source: macdonald, roger .
behind the iron mask .
history today 55, no. 11 (november 2005): 30 - 6 .
' ali & cavett: the tale of the tapes': film review | sxsw 2. .
villainous breakdown: louis has a protracted one during the film' s second and third acts; he leaves the ball when he sees the iron mask in the crowd, is shouting at and shoving everyone who comes close to him (including his mother) after the musketeers' failed attempt to depose him, actually goes to the battle himself when the heroes are cornered in the bastille, and devolves into incoherent screaming when he' s forced into the iron mask and carried off to prison .
all eyes will be on him and, to the certain satisfaction of his new legion of fans, the man of the moment, leonardo dicaprio, delivers a wonderful double star turn in “the man in the iron mask. ” an unusually sober and serious - minded telling of alexandre dumas’ classic tale, this handsome costumer is routinely made and [ … ]
adaptation of the novel by alexandre dumas. seeking to overthrow king louis xiv, the musketeers athos and porthos conceive a plan to rescue from prison a man who has lived in a cell for six years with his head covered by an iron mask .
source: goodkin, richard e .
separated at birth: the man in the iron mask; or, a louis xiv for the nineties .
papers on french seventeenth - century literature 26, no. 51 (1999): 319 - 26 .
the most popular of all the legends regarding this prisoner pertains to his lineage. some have theorized that the man in the iron mask was the twin brother of king louis xiv. the story says that the man was kept hidden because of his rights to the throne. another story says that the prisoner was indeed the king’s brother, but not his twin. this one varies too .
the man in the iron mask [ dvd ] [ 1998 ]: urltoken leonardo dicaprio, jeremy irons, john malkovich, gérard depardieu, gabriel byrne, anne parillaud, judith godrèche, edward atterton, peter sarsgaard, hugh laurie, david lowe, brigitte boucher, randall wallace, alan ladd jr. , paul hitchcock, rené dupont, russell smith, alexandre dumas: dvd & blu - ray
the man in the iron mask is a story that most of us have read or seen in movies. fictional accounts of this prisoner of the ‘sun king’ include a novel by famed author alexandre dumas and a movie starring leonardo dicaprio. the historicity of the man’s imprisonment and identity are shrouded in mystery. however, the man in the iron mask is no fictional character. indeed, he was a real prisoner of louis xiv and was incarcerated for at least five years: maybe more than forty. the problem is that no one alive today has any clue who this man was. furthermore, there has been so much wild speculation, rumors, and theories about his identity that historians may never be able to establish the truth .
all eyes will be on him and, to the certain satisfaction of his new legion of fans, the man of the moment, leonardo dicaprio, delivers a wonderful double star turn in
the man in the iron mask .
an unusually sober and serious - minded telling of alexandre dumas' classic tale, this handsome costumer is routinely made and comes up rather short in boisterous excitement .
louis xiv was never the good king described at the end of the film. he was clearly an absolute monarch .
serena donadoni writes about film for the metro times. e - mail her at letters @ urltoken .
louis xiv had a twin brother that was imprisoned from birth and became the (historical) man in the iron mask. he was then abducted and substituted with this brother by the musketeers. also, d' artagnan (another historical figure) was the real father of both .
i saw this film at the theaters and i loved it because leo did a good job of being good and bad. because he also was the man in the iron mask and plus the cast was good too so if you want to pick a good movie to watch well this is one i recommend if your in to these kind of films because i know kids you be into something like this
the man in the iron mask is the story of the famous three musketeers. their names are athos (john malkovich), porthos (gerard depardieu), and aramis (jeremy irons), and if you are familiar with french literature at all you have probably heard of them .
the decipherment of the great cipher of louis xiv was eventually completed by the french cryptanalysis bazerie. he was the first person for two hundred years to witness the secrets of louisxiv these secrets revel the true identity of the man in the iron mask. and leaving the most popular theory that he was the twin of louis xiv to be untrue. the true identity of the man in the iron mask goes back to the commander responsible for leading an attack on the town of cuneo, on the french - italian border. his name was vivien de bulonde. he abandoned his wounded soldiers and munitions. therefore the king ordered to that bulonde would be
locked in a cell under guard at night and permitted to walk the battelment during the day with a mask
.
the mask that is removed from leo has 3 parts - a face mask which is held onto leo' s head, with a 2 piece hinged cage that locks in the back. in the flashback, where they show leo being put in the mask, it is only 2 pieces. the face part is fused to the hinged cage section .
some other speculations regarding the identity of the man in the iron mask include him being the duc of beaufort or antonio ercole matthioli. the former man was said to have been the lover of louis xiv’s mother. he was imprisoned so that no one would learn that the king was a bastard. the latter was an enemy of the king who had been tried for treason. nevertheless, there, regrettably, remains no proof of any of these claims. with all of the rumors convoluting the story, it is doubtful that we will ever know who the man behind the mask was .
love this movie, one of my favorite stories from alexandre dumas brought to life on film .
the film opens in a dungeon .
are you dead yet ?
grunts a jailer through a hatch, and then we see him: the man in the iron mask. the writer voltaire claimed that the prisoner' s mask was iron, but it seems he made it up. the only piece of first - hand evidence available reports that the mask was of black velvet. identities suggested for the prisoner have included richard cromwell, the duke of beaufort, and an italian diplomat. while he was busy making things up, voltaire said that it might have been the king' s secret brother. alexandre dumas père' s last three musketeers novel, the vicomte de bragelonne, made him philippe, the king' s secret twin. the film plumps for this, too. in real life, the masked prisoner was registered as eustache dauger .
the plot is slightly unbelievable in places but if this and possible historical inaccuracies are overlooked, this is a very good film .
alexandre dumas' three musketeers tales have proven to be all but surefire source material for many movies since the silent days, but william richert' s low - budget
the man in the iron mask
demonstrates that some stories simply cry out for lavish, big - star treatment .
another great story / film that i enjoyed better than the latest version, albeit one made for tv .
appropriately louis does have a complete mental breakdown after he is forced to wear the mask .
to get down to specifics, i have chosen to analyze the 1998 film, the man in the iron mask, not because i find it to be a masterpiece; although parts of the film are compelling, it is not a great film by any stretch of the imagination. 1 rather, i believe that studying a film about louis xiv made for an american audience in 1998 can be an instructive way to reflect upon a place that all students of the french classical period inhabit: the intersection between a courtly culture distanced from us temporally, geographically and politically, and our own culture, from whose standpoint we inevitably view louis xiv and his contemporaries. my premise is that however much we attempt to contextualize the literature of this period in reading and analyzing it, we are still inevitably influenced by our own culture, with all its implicit beliefs; needless to say, this tends to be even more true of our students. in spite of our best efforts, our students bring to seventeenth - century french courtly literature the same kinds of culturally - conditioned questions they bring to contemporary american literature and film, and it may be instructive and enriching to examine those questions, as well as our own cultural prejudices .
george blagden, best known for his role as grantaire in the 2012 film adaptation of les miserables, will play the role of the sun king .
the man in the iron mask isn' t the best movie i have ever seen. i mean, you have five actors doing five entirely different accents. and some of the twists in the story are beyond silly. and of course looking at gerard depardieu' s naked ass isn' t something i would recommend to anyone .
a sizeable proportion of the funding for the film came from german sources: $ 4 million from bavaria' s bank fund (bbf) and film and tv fund (fff), about $ 1. 3 million from the
if you kill him, you will be just like him: or rather, if you imprison him in an iron mask for the rest of his life, you will be just like him. phillipe ultimately pardons louis and allows him to retire to the country in comfortable exile, utterly proving himself the better man .
the story is based on a myth, and after watching the film for the first time, i felt compelled to research the myth myself. the most convincing parts of the film are the acting of the supporting characters (notably byrne, malkovich and irons) and the musical score .
in the man in the iron mask, the costumes are good, everybody is dirty and unkempt, and the attitudes are completely weird. the whole series of the three musketeers is an 1840s reimagining of a novel from around 1700 written about the 1660s, so we shouldn’t be too harsh regarding factual errors of attitude…unless they’re from the 1990s, when this movie was made .
polls reported that the average grade moviegoers gave the film was a
b
on an a + to f scale .
randall wallace has attempted to re - create the old - fashioned hollywood studio epic, where grandeur and romance could help audiences overlook historical inaccuracies and the jarring mix of accents from an international cast. but the man in the iron mask is just cleverly packaged fluff, not unlike the candy bar that dubiously perpetuates the musketeers' fame .
a lad jousting with his tutor is kidnaped and carried to the bastille where his head is locked in an iron mask. jump ten years: musketeers return from war in morocco to find paris starving... see full summary »
the film does not rely too heavily on the swashbuckling appeal of the musketeers, but rather on the development of individual characters and the relationships between them .
louis xiv is depicted as unmarried, but in 1662 when the film is set, he' d already been married for two years .
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with conditions quickly becoming intolerable, aramis calls together his former colleagues to propose a plan to change the course of french history. d’artagnan sticks by his king and drops out, but athos and porthos join in an ingenious plot in which they spirit out of prison a man who, for six years, has lived in a cell with his head encased in a locked iron mask. the man is named philippe and is, in fact, the younger twin brother of the present king louis .
i just could not concentrate on this film because of the whole mishmash of accents. english, french and american .
voltaire, who was a prisoner at bastille in 1717, claimed that he had learned things from former servants of the masked prisoner during his time there. according to voltaire’s writings, the man in the iron mask had been wearing the mask as far back as at least 1661. he said the man was tall, handsome and played the guitar, and also he supposed the man was about 60 when he died. this would have been the only way that he could have been louis xiv’s twin brother, as the sun king was in his 60s when the prisoner died. however, this would mean that the death certificate that is associated with the prisoner is either false or not that of the prisoner .
at the mask - ball, when louis is seeing iron masks everywhere and rushes out, the music suddenly stops, but in the background we can see the violinists still playing (moving their bows) - we don' t hear any sound .
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the film is set in the year 1662. louis is supposed to be in the middle of a war against the dutch. this is actually not correct. the war against the dutch didn' t begin until 8 years later in 1672 .
, about $ 10 million in tax rebate cash from the german film fund, the dff and $ 1 million (€800, 000) in subsidy financing from the berlin - brandenburg medienboard .
a: no, i’m completely uncoordinated. john malkovich is really good at it and so is jeremy. but leo and i were like the fencing dunces. we acquitted ourselves nobly in the end. — movieline magazine 1998
the film received negative reviews from critics, with the major criticism on the lack of originality, acting performances and outdated visual style. review aggregator
the man was a prisoner at bastille from 1698 until 1703. many historians believe that he was a prisoner before this and had simply been transferred there. however, there is no concrete proof of this. whoever he was, the man in the iron mask died on november 19, 1703. a death certificate associated with him lists his name as monsieur de marchiel. it says that he was in his forties at the time of his death .
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unaware of athos' true fate, dumas kept the three musketeers and d' artagnan in robust health until almost the end of the third book in his trilogy, the man in the iron mask. for the central figure of that tale (which fictionalizes an essentially true story of a mysterious prisoner of louis xiv) he followed the most popular current theory of the prisoner' s identity, that of an identical twin of the king. in dumas' version, d' artagnan, who remains loyal to louis, escorts the royal twin to the remote mediterranean island of sainte - marguerite and locks him into the mask .
who played him best? 1948’s robert coote wasn’t quite pretty enough to play this ladies’ man, and we can discount charlie “tiger blood” sheen, whose hair never quite convinced, leaving it a straight race between richard chamberlain and luke evans. since the former’s given much more to do and the latter’s given a scene ripping off assassin’s creed, we’re going for chamberlain, with an honourable mention for jeremy irons’ older version in the man in the iron mask. why him? well, that film’s the only recorded instance of aramis being vastly more attractive and interesting than athos, and that’s really rather remarkable .
of all of the muskateer, man in the iron mask movies that i have seen, this version is the worst. it has very slow moving partaking of the characters participation in this movie. very little action and the action that is in this movie leaves very little excitement. the actors / actresses in this movie act as if they are reading from a card instead of memory. and the costumes in this movie as way out of date, infact, it seems as if the costume designer cannot figure out what century this movie takes place in. even the wigs worn by the charactors look rediculas and out of style. i was very dissapointed in this film and i give it a 2 .
they hide in plain sight, suddenly visible in one frame and gone in the next .
alexandre dumas’ three musketeers tales have proven to be all but surefire source material for many movies since the silent days, but william richert’s low - budget “the man in the iron mask” demonstrates that some stories simply cry out for lavish, big - star treatment. threadbare production values and sub - par cast here don’t do dumas, or the viewer, [ … ]
don' t be put off of this film because it is a period drama, or because it stars leonardo dicaprio .
just before embarking on his spectacular series of historical novels, dumas produced celebrated crimes, a series of eight volumes on dark deeds from history. volume six included the man in the iron mask. like much of dumas' s prodigious output, it owed a great deal to the work of others, in this instance his closest collaborator, auguste maquet, a former history teacher. as was often the case, dumas undermined maquet' s meticulous research by some impulsive contributions of his own. dumas confessed that in writing an earlier play about the iron mask, he had been forced to ‘choose one view of a dramatic situation to the exclusion of all others … and … by the inexorable laws of logic to push aside everything that interferes with its development’. he had selected, and would stick with, the notion of an identical twin in the mask, because ‘it was incontestably the most dramatic’. how ironic, then, that the qualities of loyalty and honour that d' artagnan possessed, brilliantly captured by dumas in fiction, proved the musketeer' s eventual undoing in fact: and that dumas, in failing to give credit to courtilz, ensured that an even better story would slip through his fingers, the astonishing secret that d' artagnan himself was the man in the iron mask .
all eyes will be on him and, to the certain satisfaction of his new legion of fans, the man of the moment, leonardo dicaprio, delivers a wonderful double star turn in “the man in the iron mask. ” an unusually sober and serious - minded telling of alexandre dumas’ classic tale, this handsome costumer is routinely made and comes up rather short in boisterous excitement. but the compensations of an involving old - fashioned narrative and, above all, a magnetic and enjoyable cast go a long way toward making this an agreeable middle - of - the - road entertainment. dicaprio’s presence assures a strong opening, and it will be interesting to see how far the film can travel in the wake of “titanic. ”
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masquerade ball: figures prominently in the attempt to replace louis with philippe. with the added bonus that the hidden twin had spent his entire life wearing a heavy iron mask, which he flashes to the king from under the decorative gold one to freak him out, along with the three musketeers. it works .
anne :
i have raised a son who destroys lives instead of saving them, and i have failed to save a son who died within an iron mask. aramis :
no! that mask was louis' creation. now we have a chance to make a miracle. to strip all masks away forever .
in 1873 an army officer, théodore iung, published his research into the man in the iron mask, which established that saint - mars had been his jailer at four successive prisons. the names of only two of saint - mars' prisoners eluded iung. the first, surely the mask himself, had arrived at pignerol from paris in march 1674 amid extraordinary precautions, ‘manacled at night’ and ‘kept from view’ in such a way that he could neither ‘shout out or write … who he was’. the second, a prisoner in the bastille at the beginning of 1699, proved to be gatien de courtilz de sandras, the author of the mémoires de monsieur d' artagnan .
one year later, the man in the iron mask was released in france. i had already read the whole trilogy by then and i was over - excited by the idea of watching my big time heroes for real. i was probably the only girl of my age (at least among my friends) to be excited by this movie, not for king leo, but for d’artagnan. not even gabriel, just d’artagnan .
damn you, muscle memory: phillipe is so used to eating and drinking in the mask that he spills water on himself when it is removed .
, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gives the film a score of 35 based on 15 reviews .
a lad jousting with his tutor is kidnaped and carried to the bastille where his head is locked in an iron mask. jump ten years: musketeers return from war in morocco to find paris starving while louis xiv and his retinue idle at duke fouquet' s estate. louis is enamored with his host' s virginal daughter, valliere, herself in love with athos. the queen mother calls the jesuit aramis to her deathbed to confess that louis has a twin ,
a second born, he was first conceived, the oldest and true heir ,
the man in the iron mask. aramis secures his release and hides him while porthos and athos school him for his destiny. d' artagnan remains loyal to louis: love, schemes and politics entwine .
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the knights don’t carry lances for the most part. why not? what use is a man on horseback without a lance ?
with the reveal of tom holland’s spider - man in the captain america: civil war trailer, we wanted to go back and look at the many spider - man costumes over the years! peter parker being the thrifty science - nerd that he is, we can’t include every version of the wall crawler that has appeared in marvel comics as some only make single issue appearances (though we did include some of those). starting from peter’s first appearance in amazing fantasy # 15 to the ultimate spider - man miles morales and every major version of the webslinger in - between, check out the gallery below for a look at the spider - man costumes .
man, 52, fatally shot by police in florida refused multiple orders to put down eight - inch knife and charged ...
when phillipe stands up to look in the water bin after he had his mask removed, he places only his left hand on the bin' s edge. but in the next shot of him looking in the water, his right hand is on the edge instead of the left .
who played him best? gig young always seemed like more of an aramis to us, but he was certainly big and imposing enough; frank finlay had a magnificent moustache but was sometimes overshadowed by his more outgoing cast mates; oliver platt wasn’t quite physical enough. in this case, we’re actually inclined towards ray stevenson’s version, who’s huge and hulking and more than charismatic enough even in the scrap of screentime he’s given. honourable mention to gerard depardieu in the man in the iron mask, who was the drunkest .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
long before the days of mass - produced paperbacks, alexandre dumas achieved sales of over one million for his musketeers trilogy: the three musketeers (1844), twenty years after (1845) and the man in the iron mask (1850). in an obituary notice published in 1870 after his death, aged sixty - eight, an american newspaper placed dumas second only to napoleon bonaparte as the most famous man of the century. yet the great french playwright and author, having set the musketeers firmly on the road to immortality, had been compelled through circumstance to obfuscate their origins, until they came to be regarded as entirely fictional characters, when they were really based on flesh and blood. in doing so he also unwittingly distanced himself from clues to the true identity of the secret prisoner in the mask, a tale more extraordinary and terrible than even dumas could devise .
alexandre dumas got a little studlier when leonardo dicaprio, at the height of his teen - idol powers, donned a long wig to play both louis and phillipe. the former is the ruthless king of france, the latter a country boy who is scooped up and thrown in the bastille, forced to wear the titular iron mask. based on dumas’ d’artagnan romances, including the vicomte de bragelonne, the man in iron mask brings back the familiar names of the three musketeers to play soap - opera politics. athos (john malkovich), porthos (gerard depardieu), and aramis (jeremy irons) come out of musketeer retirement to depose the evil louis and replace him with the identical phillipe. but dicaprio was still years away from his prestige performances in scorcese dramas; he took home the golden raspberry for worst screen couple. [ molly eichel ]
another theory suggests that the prisoner’s mask was not iron at all, but cloth. in addition, he may not have had to wear it all the time, as many accounts suggest. he may have only had to wear it when he was out in public. there are some eyewitness accounts that seem to corroborate these claims .
in 1687, during his transfer from another alpine prison, exiles, to the island of sainte - marguerite, off cannes, a priest at grasse saw the prisoner in his mask, made not of iron, but steel. his eyewitness account appeared in a newsletter circulated by clerics, which also reported an unguarded remark made by saint - mars about the identity of his charge that ‘all the people one believes to be dead are not’. this meant that the man in the mask had to be sufficiently well - known to attract comment, for his supposed death to have been widely reported and for him to be held in the utmost secrecy. d' artagnan, almost alone of all the credible candidates, meets this criteria .
then, last year, something remarkable happened: sony and marvel studios reached an unprecedented rights - sharing agreement whereby the two would co - produce spider - man flicks, meaning the web - head could pal around with iron man, et. al. , in the mcu. given the positive fan response it seemed like a wise and potentially profitable move, but the proof would be in the pudding when this rebooted spidey, portrayed by relative unknown tom holland, debuted in captain america: civil war. he didn’t disappoint, and is actually one of the most delightful parts of the movie. let’s take a look at what the film gets right about this iconic character. spoilers ahead .
polar opposite twins: louis is extremely cruel, uncaring, and selfish, while philippe is a much nicer person and even pardons louis at the end of the film .
this set - up, easy enough to explain, takes director randall wallace too long to set up, and there are side plots, such as the king' s war against the jesuits, that will confuse audiences. there was once a time when everyone had heard of the musketeers and the man in the iron mask, but history these days seems to start with the invention of mtv, and those not familiar with the characters will take some time to get oriented .
during the reign of louis xiv, a mysterious masked man was kept prisoner for 34 years in the bastille and other jails. his identity has never been established .
christine, when she finds out about louis' uriah gambit and can' t bear to live any longer in the power of the man who killed her fiancee .
the plot was good (eh... might have been predictable, but still... great), the cinematagraphy was awesome, the music was moving, the sword fighting / action was cool! i absolutely loved gabriel byrnes in this movie. he was so great as d' artagnan (sp ?). john malcovich was perfect for his role of athos too. i really felt his pain. i have both the vhs (older) and the dvd version (hey, it was on sale for 9 bucks! ! lol) of the man in the iron mask, and the dvd version (although not a whole lot of extras) has a nice directors commentary. it really tells the director' s vision for the film and all the behind the scene info. i still can' t believe that this movie was his first film! !
louis xiv and his brother are played by leonardo dicaprio in a dual role, his first since
titanic .
he looks well - fed as the despotic ruler and not particularly gaunt, for that matter, as the man in the mask. as the film opens, he presides over a court that lives in decadent luxury, while street mobs riot for bread in the streets. the beautiful christine (judith godreche) catches his eye, and since she' s engaged to the young raoul (peter sarsgaard), the king sends raoul off to war and makes sure he gets killed there .
joseph lagrange - chancel also wrote about the man behind the mask, after his stay in prison. supposedly, the man was a prisoner on sainte - marguerite during the 1720s. chancel said that the man had stayed there during the mid to late 1600s. voltaire also made this claim. he went on to say that saint - mars (the governor of sainte - marguerite and once keeper of the famous prisoner) called the masked man “my prince. ” of course, this claim is only hearsay. furthermore, chancel would have heard this information nearly twenty years after the prisoner had died. there was sufficient time for unfounded rumors to circulate. then again, it could have very well been true.
the man in the iron mask is a 1998 american action drama film directed , produced , and written by randall wallace , and starring leonardo dicaprio in a dual role as the title character and villain , jeremy irons as aramis , john malkovich as athos , gerard depardieu as porthos , and gabriel byrne as d'artagnan . the picture uses characters from alexandre dumas ' d'artagnan romances and is very loosely adapted from some plot elements of the vicomte de bragelonne . the film centers on the aging four musketeers , athos , porthos , aramis , and d'artagnan , during the reign of king louis xiv and attempts to explain the mystery of the man in the iron mask , using a plot more closely related to the flamboyant 1929 version starring douglas fairbanks , the iron mask , and the 1939 version directed by james whale , than the original dumas book . like the 1998 version , the two aforementioned adaptations were also released through united artists . 
the man in the iron mask is a 1998 american action drama film directed, produced, and written by randall wallace, and starring leonardo dicaprio in a dual role as the title character and villain, jeremy irons as aramis, john malkovich as athos, gerard depardieu as porthos, and gabriel byrne as d'artagnan. the picture uses characters from alexandre dumas' d'artagnan romances and is very loosely adapted from some plot elements of the vicomte de bragelonne. the film centers on the aging four musketeers, athos, porthos, aramis, and d'artagnan, during the reign of king louis xiv and attempts to explain the mystery of the man in the iron mask, using a plot more closely related to the flamboyant 1929 version starring douglas fairbanks, the iron mask, and the 1939 version directed by james whale, than the original dumas book. like the 1998 version, the two aforementioned adaptations were also released through united artists.
the man in the iron mask is a 1998 american action drama film directed, produced, and written by randall wallace, and starring leonardo dicaprio in a dual role as the title character and villain, jeremy irons as aramis, john malkovich as athos, gerard depardieu as porthos, and gabriel byrne as d'artagnan. the picture uses characters from alexandre dumas' d'artagnan romances and is very loosely adapted from some plot elements of the vicomte de bragelonne. the film centers on the aging four musketeers, athos, porthos, aramis, and d'artagnan, during the reign of king louis xiv and attempts to explain the mystery of the man in the iron mask, using a plot more closely related to the flamboyant 1929 version starring douglas fairbanks, the iron mask, and the 1939 version directed by james whale, than the original dumas book. like the 1998 version, the two aforementioned adaptations were also released through united artists.