D'Artagnan + Queen Anne


In the book wasn't supposed that D'Artagnan and the Queen fall in love? Because I saw "The Man in the Iron Mask" (with Leonardo DiCaprio) and there it shows they had a relationship...

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Reed the book and you will see that these is not real.
Even in the "The Viconte de Bragelonne" the novel that inspired the movie he remains a noble servant of the Queen (and the King guard).

So read the book and then consider the movie as what it is.
Most of the adapted screenplays are just parts of the original novels (not only regarding this novel but also others).

One more thing from a diferent site:

The film is also inconsistent in its treatment of Alexandre Dumas' fictional universe: the plot implies that d'Artagnan was Anne of Austria's lover (and hence the father of Louis XIV and of his twin brother), while none of Dumas's works even remotely implied such a relationship.

The character of Christine is comparable to Louise de la Vallière, a mistress of Louis XIV's who, in Dumas's novel, is also loved by both the young king and Raoul. Her name change may have been so as not to create confusion between 'Louise' and 'Louis'."


QED.

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No, that was the product of Randall Wallace's mind, not Dumas. The ironic thing is that in the commentary track for Iron Mask, he takes pot shots, without naming the film, at the Lester movies' accuracy (in regards the novel). Lester and Fraiser were far more faithful to Dumas than most, if not all screen versions, while still making the material their own.

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Iron Mask also has. Young Louis XIV in a room with a painting of the real Louis XIv when he was in his 60s.

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This is the same Randall Wallace that wrote Braveheart and held it up as historically accurate.

"Well she turned me in to a newt!... I got better."

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