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> Cue a terrifying, if hilarious, scene where the soldiers try and cook pancakes as shells explode around them. In the 1974 movie The Four Musketeers, Athos ne
by thaumasiotes 7mo ago
> Cue a terrifying, if hilarious, scene where the soldiers try and cook pancakes as shells explode around them.
In the 1974 movie The Four Musketeers, Athos needs to find a private place in which to impart some information to d'Artagnan. The musketeers are currently deployed battling some French rebels.
The solution he finds is to place a bet with another soldier that he and his friends will have breakfast inside a fortress that is being bombarded by the rebels. We see a similar comedy scene of five people attempting to cook and eat a meal while under attack. (Athos also struggles to get his information across, since the constant attacks understandably pull a lot of attention.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aezX4lxCaCw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aezX4lxCaCw
- shawn_w 7mo agoMovie? That happens in the original book.
- oniony 7mo agoDoes it not also happen in the movie?
- rat9988 7mo agoYou usually cite the original story
- encrypted_bird 7mo agoYou also usually cite what you know. Maybe OP has not read the book.
- thaumasiotes 7mo agoWell, I've read a translation of the book. If that scene was present, it made no impression. It's not very comedic in the book. You can see for yourself: it is the entirety of chapter 47, here: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1257/pg1257-images.html#chap47 https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1257/pg1257-images.html#cha... . (Interestingly, I would have said that the translation I read came from Project Gutenberg, but it wasn't the one I just linked and no other is currently available there. Does Project Gutenberg take down existing versions of out-of-copyright books sometimes??)
- nottorp 7mo agoIf the book is out of copyright is the translation also out of copyright? Edit: apparently not. So Gutenberg is hosting whatever they legally can, which is older translations.
- thaumasiotes 7mo agoThere are multiple older translations, but Project Gutenberg only has one at the moment. I'm conjecturing that they used to have a different one (also out of copyright; that's their whole thing), but have taken it down for unclear reasons. It's also possible that I found a free translation of The Three Musketeers somewhere else, or that I read the same version PG has now and have misidentified it as being different.
- encrypted_bird 7mo agoAh, okie dokes.