I Watch Films: The Man In The Iron Mask (1998)
The Man In The Iron Mask (1998) Louis XIV (Leonardo DiCaprio) maintains a lavish lifestyle despite the common people being poor due to taxes to pay for war. When his advisers suggest giving them food he sends rotten food rejected for his troops. This almost causes a riot but is stopped by the Captain of Musketeers D’Artagnan (Gabriel Byrne). Learning that there is a renegade Jesuit plot to assassinate him, Louis asks former musketeer Aramis (Jeremey Irons) to stop them. At court Louis seduces Christine, sending her fiancé Raoul to death in the wars. This is a mistake as Raoul is the son of Athos (John Malkovich), another former musketeer. Aramis invites his old comrades Athos, D’Artagnan and Porthos (Gerard Depardieu) who for some reason is suicidal* where he reveals that Louis made a mistake as Aramis himself is in fact the secret head of the Jesuits. D’Artagnan refuses to join the plot, but the others are willing to attempt Aramis’s plan. That plan is to break into the...
