I expect your primary school version concentrated more on the swashbuckling action and less on d'Artagnan being a manipulative shit. I'm sure all the film versions do. I didn't remember a lot of the details until I reread it - I vaguely remembered the backstory for Athos and the whole Buckingham plot but the general impression was 'Milady eeeeeeevil, Musketeeers gooood' without me retaining details. And now the details do not exactly put me on the side of the Musketeers! I'm not saying Milady is good by any means, but you'd think she was the spawm of the devil and d'Artagnan and Athos downy innocents if you go by the reactions in the book and the facts of it are not that cut and dried.
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I expect your primary school version concentrated more on the swashbuckling action and less on d'Artagnan being a manipulative shit. I'm sure all the film versions do. I didn't remember a lot of the details until I reread it - I vaguely remembered the backstory for Athos and the whole Buckingham plot but the general impression was 'Milady eeeeeeevil, Musketeeers gooood' without me retaining details. And now the details do not exactly put me on the side of the Musketeers! I'm not saying Milady is good by any means, but you'd think she was the spawm of the devil and d'Artagnan and Athos downy innocents if you go by the reactions in the book and the facts of it are not that cut and dried.