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The Three Musketeers (2011)
★ 5.8 · 2,773 ratings on TMDB
Every legend has a new beginning.
The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.
DirectorPaul W. S. Anderson
The emergence reading
The Three Musketeers keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, politics, honor, war, intrigue.
zero-distanceUStechnologypoliticshonorwarintrigue
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E3flightsteam‑powered airships are technologically feasible in the 17th‑century world (technology · universal)
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