Useless Movie Trivia For
The Three Musketeers
Memorable Movie Quotes
Porthos: You, boy, are arrogant, hot tempered and entirely too bold. I like that. Reminds me of me.
King Louis: This world is an uncertain realm, filled with danger. Honor underminded by the pursuit of power, freedom sacrificed when the weak are oppressed by the strong. But there are those who oppose these powerful forces, who dedicate their lives to truth, honor, and freedom. These men are known as Musketeers. Rise, D'Artagnan, and join them.
Trivia
Some sequences were shot in Cornwall, England. A small woods called Golitha Falls was used in one sequence when the musketeers are being pursued by guards. The small harbour village of Charlestown is home to the galleon that was used in a night-shoot.
Charlie Sheen was originally sought for the role of Porthos.
Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell and Oliver Platt all endured six weeks of fencing and riding lessons. Charlie Sheen had to miss all this out as he was then embroiled in the filming of Hot Shots! Part Deux.
Mostly shot in Perchtoldsdorf, Austria, where Rebecca De Mornay attended high school and college.
Brad Pitt turned down the role that ultimately went to Chris O'Donnell. Billy Baldwin, Johnny Depp and Gary Oldman were also sought out by Disney for parts in the film.
When Lady Sebine jumps off a cliff, she became the first character in a movie released under the Walt Disney banner to commit suicide.
Goofs
D'artagnon turns around to Gerard and says, "In the meantime, give my regards to your sister." He then turns back round and a red and gold-ish striped blanket is strapped to the back of the saddle which was not there before.
In the final fight scene between the musketeers and the cardinals guards, D'Artagnian is fighting the assassin. Porthos shoots the assassin with a crossbow from the ground and the assassin clutches the arrow in his chest and falls. As he falls, you can see that the arrow is gone.
In the final fight between D'Artagnian and Rocheforte, D'Atagnian stabs Rocheforte on the left side of the row of buttons, five buttons down. We cut away to D'Artagnians face and in the next shot, the sword is on the right side of the row of buttons, three buttons down.
Aramis stated that it was 200 leagues to Calais or 600 miles. Actually it is only 180 miles from Paris to Calais.
During the execution rescue scene as Aramis and Porthos assure D'Artagnan that his rescue is at hand, Porthos remarks that the axe was a "gift from the Tsarina of Tokyo." The Three Musketeers story takes place between 1625 and 1628, a full 240 years before the city of Edo in Japan is renamed "Tokyo" by the Emperor Meiji in 1868. Regardless of how far fetched Porthos' claims may be intended to be, there is no historical way he could have known the term "Tokyo," which means "Eastern Capital" in traditional or archaic Japanese.
Box Office Info USA
Budget: $30,000,000
Gross: $53,898,845
Filming Dates: April 26, 1993 to August 6, 1993
Filming Locations
Boconnoc, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, UK
Burg Liechtenstein, Maria Enzersdorf, Lower Austria, Austria
Castle Landsee, Markt St. Martin, Burgenland, Austria
Castle Petronell, Petronell-Carnuntum, Lower Austria, Austria
Charlestown, Cornwall, England, UK
Hinterbrühl, Lower Austria, Austria
Korneuburg, Lower Austria, Austria
Lanhydrock House, Bodmin, Cornwall, England, UK
Pelyn, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, UK
Pentire, Cornwall, England, UK
Retz, Lower Austria, Austria
Rumps Point, Polzeath, Cornwall, England, UK
Vienna, Austria