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No Plutarch, no Shakespeare, not even Whitman or Frost; just Louis L'Amour westerns and books about horses and copies of Arizona Highways . Morris, who fancies himself a cultural sophisticate, is obviously appalled.
When he royally fancies the lady love (Judith Godrèche) of the son (Peter Sarsgaard) of former musketeer Athos (John Malkovich) and orders the young man shipped off to battle, it's time for the aging Three Musketeers--Athos, Aramis (Jeremy Irons), and Porthos (Gérard Depardieu)--to haul their uniforms out of mothballs and prove once again that they're more than the stuff of chocolate bars.
Her fiancé, François, a petit bourgeois in behavior, though considering himself the crème de la créme, is aide-de-camp to a general and has the rank of lieutenant, fancies himself as a raconteur and littérateur (having published a pastiche of vers libres and a catalogue raisonné of the works of Oliver North, which was hailed as a chef d'oeuvre), though his ambition is to be a Grand Prix driver.
' The modern sense of ill-humored or rudely morose dates from about the mid-17th century, but the “u” spelling had taken over about a hundred years earlier, perhaps, one fancies, as an act of revenge by the churls.
It shouldn't make a lick of sense, let alone feel all of a piece, but The Matrix is actually one of the more lyrical sci-fi action thrillers ever made, in which space and time become love slaves to the directors' witty visual fancies.