Surely! I love everything about "The Three Musketeers", including turning it into a funny-animal TV cartoon.
One of the things that particularly impressed me about Dumas's writing, which doesn't come through in any of the movie adaptations or the cartoons, is that he always says how heroic the King's Musketeers are and how evil the Cardinal's Guards are, but his descriptions make it clear that they were both just gangs of teenage bullies with noble sponsors, going around showing off their dueling skills on anybody whom they could accuse of insulting them. And that Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu were, if not friends, very close political allies, and that neither could care less what trouble their Musketeers got into.
Surely! I love everything about "The Three Musketeers", including turning it into a funny-animal TV cartoon.
One of the things that particularly impressed me about Dumas's writing, which doesn't come through in any of the movie adaptations or the cartoons, is that he always says how heroic the King's Musketeers are and how evil the Cardinal's Guards are, but his descriptions make it clear that they were both just gangs of teenage bullies with noble sponsors, going around showing off their dueling skills on anybody whom they could accuse of insulting them. And that Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu were, if not friends, very close political allies, and that neither could care less what trouble their Musketeers got into.
Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo" is great, too.
Fred Patten