It might have been poisoning, not strangling - what I remember is a painfully violent death. Most Western adaptations gloss it over.
Thank you so much for the links! I was telling a friend not long ago that I used to watch Russian adaptations of various literary sources a lot as a child and that so many of them are simply fabulous. Certainly much better than the American ones. They get the underlying darkness and corruption and the drama of human existence. I recently watched the classic (1967) Russian Anna Karenina adaptation on youtube, it is so much better than anything any Western filmmaker has ever created.
I don't mind the fact of Porthos' mistress keeping him; only, his sense of entitlement is never questioned and occasionally justified by the authorial voice. This is in stark contrast of the authorial voice condemning Milady for, essentially, being her. Her actions are never justified within the story, even though they objectively are. If the author never told me as the reader that I mustn't judge the men by modern standards, I might let it go. But he explicitely tells me that the musketeers are okay and Milady isn't, which is not what I see!
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Date: 2013-11-14 10:37 pm (UTC)Thank you so much for the links! I was telling a friend not long ago that I used to watch Russian adaptations of various literary sources a lot as a child and that so many of them are simply fabulous. Certainly much better than the American ones. They get the underlying darkness and corruption and the drama of human existence. I recently watched the classic (1967) Russian Anna Karenina adaptation on youtube, it is so much better than anything any Western filmmaker has ever created.
I don't mind the fact of Porthos' mistress keeping him; only, his sense of entitlement is never questioned and occasionally justified by the authorial voice. This is in stark contrast of the authorial voice condemning Milady for, essentially, being her. Her actions are never justified within the story, even though they objectively are. If the author never told me as the reader that I mustn't judge the men by modern standards, I might let it go. But he explicitely tells me that the musketeers are okay and Milady isn't, which is not what I see!