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The Three Musketeers (1993) More at IMDbPro »

• Crew or equipment visible: In final fight scene, modern track lighting can be seen on the castle ceilings.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Velcro fasteners on the Musketeers' over-shirts.
  
  
• Continuity: Aramis' legs disappear in the carriage twice after he rescues D'Artagnan from the block.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: Obvious stunt doubles in the carriage chase scene.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Aramis is shown quoting Genesis (the first chapter in the Bible) while presumably reading from a Bible, which is open in the middle. Given Aramis' reputation and the subsequent action, it is possible that he was quoting from memory and merely had a book open in front of him to give the impression of piety.
  
  
• Continuity: As D'Artagnan is preparing to leap up onto the fallen tree during the initial chase scene in which he is being pursued by Girard and his brothers, his rapier is conspicuously absent from its scabbard.
  
  
• Factual errors: The copyright date (in Roman numerals) is incorrect in the end credits (it is missing an 'M'). The film shows (c) MCXCIII (1193) when it should read (c) MCMXCIII (1993).
  
  
• Continuity: D'artagnon turns around to Gerard and says, "In the meantime, give my regards to your sister." He then turns back round and a red and gold-ish striped blanket is strapped to the back of the saddle which was not there before.
  
  
• Continuity: At the windmill, the sun changes positions between the time D'Artagnan sees Constance, a lady-in-waiting of the queen, and the bodyguards coming, to the time when he speaks with Constance.
  
  
• Continuity: After receiving the information about the assassination from Lady De Winter, the four men are seen riding around shooting arrows to rally the other musketeers. In one shot (after which Athos' original white horse is killed) he is seen riding a brown horse. A later shot of all four of them have them all on the white horses again.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In some shots, rifling is quite clearly visible on a musket, however this wasn't in wider use until the 18th century.
  
  
• Continuity: In the final fight scene between the musketeers and the cardinals guards, D'Artagnian is fighting the assassin. Porthos shoots the assassin with a crossbow from the ground and the assassin clutches the arrow in his chest and falls. As he falls, you can see that the arrow is gone.
  
  
• Continuity: During the fight between Athos and Rocheforte in the end battle scene, Rocheforte is wearing a sword sheath. Athos knocks him down, and when he rises to begin fighting D'Artagnian in the next shot, the sheath and belt are missing.
  
  
• Continuity: In the final fight between D'Artagnian and Rocheforte, D'Atagnian stabs Rocheforte on the left side of the row of buttons, five buttons down. We cut away to D'Artagnians face and in the next shot, the sword is on the right side of the row of buttons, three buttons down.
  
  
• Anachronisms: There is a ship in the harbor with a Plimsoll line. This was not invented until 1870 to stop ship owners from overloading ships.
  
  
• Continuity: When D'Artagnan is fighting the assassin on the roof, he holds off his upper arm when he pulls out a dagger. In the next shot, he's holding off his lower arm.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When d'Artagnan knocks the assassin from the roof, the assassin's wire is visible during his fall.
  
  
• Continuity: In the chase scene between D'Artagnan and Gerard both riders have empty scabbards but when they both reach the tree and jump over it, their swords return.
  
  
• Continuity: After Rocheforte knocks D'Artagnian out in the dungeon and tells the guard to "Take him below" the guard walks in and drops the keys and reaches for D'Artagnian but after the camera angle changes he clearly still has them in his left hand.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Aramis stated that it was 200 leagues to Calais or 600 miles. Actually it is only 180 miles from Paris to Calais.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When the assassin is shot off the wall you can see the pad he falls into for a quick second before he hits.
  
  
• Continuity: When D'Artagnan jumps down from the carriage to unhitch the horses, he throws the reins forward over the nearest horse's back. A few moments later Porthos grabs the reins which are now resting on the driver's seat, and throws them forward again.
  
  
• Factual errors: Anne of Austria is referred to as being from Austria, when she is actually a Spanish princess.
  
  

• Anachronisms: SPOILER: During the execution rescue scene as Aramis and Porthos assure D'Artagnan that his rescue is at hand, Porthos remarks that the axe was a "gift from the Tsarina of Tokyo." The Three Musketeers story takes place between 1625 and 1628, a full 240 years before the city of Edo in Japan is renamed "Tokyo" by the Emperor Meiji in 1868. Regardless of how far fetched Porthos' claims may be intended to be, there is no historical way he could have known the term "Tokyo," which means "Eastern Capital" in traditional or archaic Japanese.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: When the cardinal shots Aramis,he falls to the ground,and Porthos runs to him. When Athos is there too, they discover that Aramis' cross saved his life,yet it is clearly seen that the cardinal shots him in his stomach and not upper, where the cross is hanging from his neck.
  
  

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