Scarlet Pimpernel, 1982

This film takes place in the 18th century during the French Revolution (Reign of Terror). The story is basically about an aristocrat who disguises himself and saves people from being executed for no reason. This man, Sir Percy Blakney, (Anthony Andrews) calls himself the Scarlet Pimpernel. He saves a man (Armand Sanjuste) and falls in love with that manˇs sister (Margarite, played by Jane Seymour). This starts a conflict because Margarite already has a boyfriend, Chauvelin (Ian Mckellen), who happe

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Visual Analysis

The scenery and setting was perfect for the film because it gives the audience an idea of when the story took place. This movie was based on the novel by Baroness Orcsy and later aired on TV and brought out on VHS in 1982. From looking at the scenery, this film most likely was filmed in Europe. Like I said before, it was good, but not spectacular. The video quality of the film gives it away. There was one part in the video, which the colors were all red. It was amazing how Anthony Andrews changed his appearance as the Scarlet Pimpernel, but it wasnˇt good enough to turn this movie into a blockbusting film. The music didnˇt really seem to entertaining to me. Using my five-star rating scale, I give this movie four stars. ns to be Robspierreˇs right hand man during the Reign of Terror.

Overall Conclusions

This movie was good but it wasnˇt spectacular. Margarite marries Percy and Chauvelin gets jealous so he spreads lies about Margarite to separate her with Percy. The plan works and leads to Chauvelinˇs discovery of the Scarlet Pimpernelˇs identity. Then the story basically leads to a fight between Percy and Chauvelin.

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