"drink the wine and chew the wafer / two, four, six, eight / time to transubstantiate!"

[larryhammer]

It occurs to me that it would not be hard to rewrite the plot of The Vicomte of Bragelonne into a wuxia epic. It'd be a lot of work, because long-ass epic is long, but the structure and themes -- including the competing loyalties of the four musketeers after the passage of time -- translate very well.

---L.

Subject quote from "The Vatican Rag," Tom Lehrer.

Comments

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

Have you... have you seen Korean Musketeers? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers_(2014_TV_series)

[larryhammer]

No! I hadn't even heard of it.

Ha!

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

It's more translating the characters into Josyeon Korea than a straight retelling, but they do that really well: Richelieu is twisty, hard to say no to, and not exactly wrong; Athos is simultaneously noble, a bit of a troll, and a hot mess underneath; Porthos and Aramis are expansive and subtle respectively... They work in lots of motifs from the book, though, and I enjoyed the story a great deal.

[larryhammer]

Heh.