The order displayed makes this a little more confusing, but let's list them as they appeared and disappeared:
Moe Howard: The first of the two of the Three Stooges. A slapstick actor whose first appearance on film was as an extra, sitting on a diving board while exchanging slaps on the face back and forth with...
Shemp Howard: Moe's older brother. After failing at vaudeville, the Howard Brothers signed up with a shitty agent who got them shitty contracts, but pretty quickly paired them with...
Larry Fine: A talented violinist who was also a master at comedy, but struggled as a solo act. Never the real instigator, Larry fit in perfectly.
Shemp exits for a personal career
Curly Howard: Jerome "Curly" Howard was the younger brother of Shemp and Moe. Dude was an off-the-walls comedian on set, and a horrible, abusive drunk at home. His excessive drinking eventually lead to a stroke.
Curly exits for health reasons. He makes a cameo later as a passenger sleeping on a train, doing his iconic snore
Shemp returns
Shemp has a stroke
Joe Besser: Already a well-established comedian, and still under contract, the production studio rejected Moe's proposal to continue as the Two Stooges. They saddled the Stooges with Joe Besser, who refused to fully assimilate into the act. He continued playing his established character, and negotiated a "no excessive hitting" clause in his contract, which was significantly higher than Moe's or Larry's. This was a very polarizing choice for Stooges fans, but love him or hate him, Joe was the only way that the Three Stooges were going to continue filming shorts.
Shorts stop being popular, so the production studio drops them
Moe tries to go back on tour
Joe Besser exits after his wife has a heart attack
"Curly" Joe Derita: An established burlesque comedian who was excited to join the Stooges. Originally, he had long hair similar to Shemp's, and then the Three Stooges with Curly was suddenly popular again. They shave Joe Derita's hair, but he looks a little too much like Joe Besser or Curly Howard. They renamed him "Curly Joe" to differentiate while cashing in on Curly's popularity.
Larry Fine exits after a paralyzing stroke
Emil Sitka (not pictured): Named to replace Larry, but never got to perform.
Moe exits the Three Stooges because he was tired of the production studio taking advantage of him and all of his friends and family were sick or dead
Curly Joe tries to form a new Three Stooges, but nearly goes blind from diabetes
Here, find and watch this ABC made-for-tv biopic. It'll make you feel bad and condenses some of its info too much, but it's pretty revealing for a 90-minute TV film.
Leslie Nielsen's N.Y.U.K. was also a legitimately entertaining and informative way to watch and learn about the Three Stooges.
Pretty indicative of success at the time for upcoming talent who weren't related to established entertainers. Or now even. The many amazing abuses of Hollywood, y'know.
Harvey Weinstein didn't come out of a vacuum. So many songs about it, too, like Hotel California (more about the music industry, but same thing pretty much), Lost in Hollywood (more about those that don't make it or only kinda make it, but same shit different outcome), Celebrity Skin (focuses on the extra exploitation women face, but that doesn't mean men like the Stooges don't get chewed up and spit out when they aren't respected, too). And those are just three off the top of my head in a genre I like.
From what I understand, a genuine gentleman. I was so confused when Shawn Hayes was cast to play him in the incredibly confusing project that turned out to be a movie. To my surprise and delight, he paid a very impressive and respectful homage to Larry Fine. It felt like he picked up the role like a Stradivarius: gently and with intentions of entertainment.
It was a 2012 film that lived in production hell for literal decades. Name a famous actor between 1995-2012, and they were probably rumored to have been attached to the film. At one point, Jim Carrey gained 40lbs to play Curly, but then bowed out when he realized he'd have to gain another 40lbs and became concerned for his health.
Ultimately, they settled on Chris Diamotopolis, the guy who played the boom operator that ruined The Office. His previous notable credits included playing Robin Williams in the Mork and Mindy TV behind the scenes drama thingy.
Shawn Hayes, who played Jack on Will and Grace, played Larry. And Will Sasso, from MadTV and Vine, played Curly.
Overall, the movie mostly works. The story is very Stoogie, with some very peculiar pop references. It's a three-act story shot like shorts from the original Three Stooges days. All of the actors playing the Stooges are very careful and loving with their portrayals. The movie just didn't get the attention that it deserved due to being rumored for so long.
Anyway, definitely worth checking out if you're a fan or even just interested.
I just had the kind of thought you used to put on social media in the olden times, and thought, "as usual, my thoughts would be wasted on me and my human experience." But then I remembered this thread.
They tended to combine long rifles and rapiers against heavy infantry, because both weapons could penetrate mail armor. They also served on horseback as dragoons, useful for outflanking main units and harassing the slower moving artillery, baggage trains, and reserve units.
Because rifle technology was in its infancy (early firearms were literally called "hand cannons"), bayonet-rifles and swords allowed soldiers to quickly close on units that were slow to reload. From a storytelling perspective, this made them popular as adventurous heroes of the battlefield. From a more military perspective, they were either household guards more inclined to be visually impressive than militarily useful or expendable second-sons of the aristocracy who were often more trouble to train and field than they were worth.
Historical ones did, but marksmanship wasn't really a thing because, well, muskets. The ones in the book mainly rely on swords, nougat, and multiple Quirks.
Ah yeah fair enough, tbh i was worried i got the SW characters wrong, i saw phantom menance and decided i didnt really need to see the other two prequels.
Funny thing is some looked familiar and when I looked them up, all three of the older ones were big names that I didn't realize were in that movie because I watched it before I knew them as actors.
From left to right, Keifer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Chris O'Donnel, Oliver Platt. And of course the legendary Tim Curry as Cardinal Richelieu, though I at least already knew that one.
Trying to figure out if the cast would have been considered stacked at the time or if the three main ones all just happened to become big names after. Keifer and Charlie were already established (eg they had already done "A Few Good Men" and "Platoon", respectively), but Oliver was still on the rise (most notable role I see for him prior to this was as the villain's assistant in Beethoven).
I was in the Supermarket a few weeks ago and "All for Love" by Bryan Adams came on and I was like "Is this the fucking song from The Three Musketeers movie that came out in the 90s?".
Indeed it was. Not sure who is making the Shop rite playlist, but rock on dude or dudette.
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AtariDump@lemmy.world · 95 pts · 241d
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 241d
10/10 meme. Chef's kiss, no notes.
AtariDump@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 241d
Thanks!
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 240d
There's six, actually.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 85 pts · 241d
D'Artagnan wasn't originally a Musketeer.
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 241d
What about Albert?
i_love_FFT@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 240d
This kid is too young to be a musketeer, we can safely ignore him.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 241d
krull_krull@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 239d
Yeah, that part bothers me mpre than the number
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 241d
Rooty@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 240d
Spoiler for a 170 year novel: They start out as The Three Musketeers then D'artagnan joins them.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 241d
The Three Stooges
SatyrSack@quokk.au · 36 pts · 241d
Larger version I found:
blazeknave@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 241d
Who are the last two?!
fartographer@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 241d
The order displayed makes this a little more confusing, but let's list them as they appeared and disappeared:
Moe Howard: The first of the two of the Three Stooges. A slapstick actor whose first appearance on film was as an extra, sitting on a diving board while exchanging slaps on the face back and forth with...
Shemp Howard: Moe's older brother. After failing at vaudeville, the Howard Brothers signed up with a shitty agent who got them shitty contracts, but pretty quickly paired them with...
Larry Fine: A talented violinist who was also a master at comedy, but struggled as a solo act. Never the real instigator, Larry fit in perfectly.
Shemp exits for a personal career
Curly Howard: Jerome "Curly" Howard was the younger brother of Shemp and Moe. Dude was an off-the-walls comedian on set, and a horrible, abusive drunk at home. His excessive drinking eventually lead to a stroke.
Curly exits for health reasons. He makes a cameo later as a passenger sleeping on a train, doing his iconic snore
Shemp returns
Shemp has a stroke
Joe Besser: Already a well-established comedian, and still under contract, the production studio rejected Moe's proposal to continue as the Two Stooges. They saddled the Stooges with Joe Besser, who refused to fully assimilate into the act. He continued playing his established character, and negotiated a "no excessive hitting" clause in his contract, which was significantly higher than Moe's or Larry's. This was a very polarizing choice for Stooges fans, but love him or hate him, Joe was the only way that the Three Stooges were going to continue filming shorts.
Shorts stop being popular, so the production studio drops them
Moe tries to go back on tour
Joe Besser exits after his wife has a heart attack
"Curly" Joe Derita: An established burlesque comedian who was excited to join the Stooges. Originally, he had long hair similar to Shemp's, and then the Three Stooges with Curly was suddenly popular again. They shave Joe Derita's hair, but he looks a little too much like Joe Besser or Curly Howard. They renamed him "Curly Joe" to differentiate while cashing in on Curly's popularity.
Larry Fine exits after a paralyzing stroke
Emil Sitka (not pictured): Named to replace Larry, but never got to perform.
Moe exits the Three Stooges because he was tired of the production studio taking advantage of him and all of his friends and family were sick or dead
Curly Joe tries to form a new Three Stooges, but nearly goes blind from diabetes
Phegan@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 240d
fartographer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 240d
Here, find and watch this ABC made-for-tv biopic. It'll make you feel bad and condenses some of its info too much, but it's pretty revealing for a 90-minute TV film.
Leslie Nielsen's N.Y.U.K. was also a legitimately entertaining and informative way to watch and learn about the Three Stooges.
bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 240d
Sounds miserable.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 240d
Pretty indicative of success at the time for upcoming talent who weren't related to established entertainers. Or now even. The many amazing abuses of Hollywood, y'know.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 240d
Harvey Weinstein didn't come out of a vacuum. So many songs about it, too, like Hotel California (more about the music industry, but same thing pretty much), Lost in Hollywood (more about those that don't make it or only kinda make it, but same shit different outcome), Celebrity Skin (focuses on the extra exploitation women face, but that doesn't mean men like the Stooges don't get chewed up and spit out when they aren't respected, too). And those are just three off the top of my head in a genre I like.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 240d
I love Larry Fine so goddamn much. Always been my favorite Stooge, he's just so funny.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 240d
From what I understand, a genuine gentleman. I was so confused when Shawn Hayes was cast to play him in the incredibly confusing project that turned out to be a movie. To my surprise and delight, he paid a very impressive and respectful homage to Larry Fine. It felt like he picked up the role like a Stradivarius: gently and with intentions of entertainment.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 240d
I'll have to check that out! I'm unfamiliar with any Shawn Hayes and Three Stooges movie with them played by someone else.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 239d
It was a 2012 film that lived in production hell for literal decades. Name a famous actor between 1995-2012, and they were probably rumored to have been attached to the film. At one point, Jim Carrey gained 40lbs to play Curly, but then bowed out when he realized he'd have to gain another 40lbs and became concerned for his health.
Ultimately, they settled on Chris Diamotopolis, the guy who played the boom operator that ruined The Office. His previous notable credits included playing Robin Williams in the Mork and Mindy TV behind the scenes drama thingy.
Shawn Hayes, who played Jack on Will and Grace, played Larry. And Will Sasso, from MadTV and Vine, played Curly.
Overall, the movie mostly works. The story is very Stoogie, with some very peculiar pop references. It's a three-act story shot like shorts from the original Three Stooges days. All of the actors playing the Stooges are very careful and loving with their portrayals. The movie just didn't get the attention that it deserved due to being rumored for so long.
Anyway, definitely worth checking out if you're a fan or even just interested.
Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 240d
Man, barely any of them got away in good health it seems.
According to Emil Sitka's wiki-page he never got starred as a Stooge because Moe got a heart attack.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 240d
I can't believe that this man managed to stick with it for that long; literally until the day he died.
blazeknave@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 239d
I just had the kind of thought you used to put on social media in the olden times, and thought, "as usual, my thoughts would be wasted on me and my human experience." But then I remembered this thread.
Nermal is the Shemp of Garfield.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 241d
I never knew their last names. This explains the “Paging Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard” call n the hospital scenes.
I feel like such a Stooge right now.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 2 pts · 239d
This gif immediately made me think of the NES Three Stooges game
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 241d
or the three Marx brothers, THERE ARE 5 OF EM but not all of them are actors, in the movies there are 4 of them
negativenull@piefed.world · 21 pts · 241d
(might be a bit of a stretch)
marcos@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 241d
But also all will satisfy the needs of ones
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 241d
Bryan Adams: And love!
emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de · 18 pts · 240d
THERE. ARE. NO. MUSKETS!
filtoid@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 239d
Check the ears
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 241d
I just looked at this and I'm like hey that's Oliver Babish , the senior White House Council for the Bartlett administration.
I've been watching the West Wing too much
sudoshakes@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 240d
I need you to stop doing that.
Answering more than was asked.
TBi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 239d
I think you got downvoted because someone didn’t get the reference…
sudoshakes@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 239d
Sad, cause it was a great scene by him
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 241d
It gets weirder because they're known for their storesmanship rather than their marksmanship.
Do they ever use muskets?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 241d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musketeer#France
They tended to combine long rifles and rapiers against heavy infantry, because both weapons could penetrate mail armor. They also served on horseback as dragoons, useful for outflanking main units and harassing the slower moving artillery, baggage trains, and reserve units.
Because rifle technology was in its infancy (early firearms were literally called "hand cannons"), bayonet-rifles and swords allowed soldiers to quickly close on units that were slow to reload. From a storytelling perspective, this made them popular as adventurous heroes of the battlefield. From a more military perspective, they were either household guards more inclined to be visually impressive than militarily useful or expendable second-sons of the aristocracy who were often more trouble to train and field than they were worth.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 23 pts · 241d
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 241d
Historical ones did, but marksmanship wasn't really a thing because, well, muskets. The ones in the book mainly rely on swords, nougat, and multiple Quirks.
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 6 pts · 241d
In the movies, not so much. In the books they do. Historically they would have.
Hegar@fedia.io · 14 pts · 241d
I didn't know that the three musketeers were really Quigon Gin, the Sheriff of Nottingham from prince of thieves, Anakin Skywalker and Matt Berry.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 241d
Guy on the left looks less like Qui-Gon and more like Obi-Wan in Attack of the Clones.
Hegar@fedia.io · 2 pts · 241d
Ah yeah fair enough, tbh i was worried i got the SW characters wrong, i saw phantom menance and decided i didnt really need to see the other two prequels.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 241d
fair enough, the prequels peaked with the pod race, it's a natural decision to call it there at the top
sakuraba@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 241d
That last man is clearly Jackie Daytona
Honytawk@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 240d
You mean the regular human bartender?
negativenull@piefed.world · 6 pts · 241d
The remake we all need now! Thanks a lot for giving me this vision that'll never happen.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 240d
Funny thing is some looked familiar and when I looked them up, all three of the older ones were big names that I didn't realize were in that movie because I watched it before I knew them as actors.
From left to right, Keifer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Chris O'Donnel, Oliver Platt. And of course the legendary Tim Curry as Cardinal Richelieu, though I at least already knew that one.
Trying to figure out if the cast would have been considered stacked at the time or if the three main ones all just happened to become big names after. Keifer and Charlie were already established (eg they had already done "A Few Good Men" and "Platoon", respectively), but Oliver was still on the rise (most notable role I see for him prior to this was as the villain's assistant in Beethoven).
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 11 pts · 239d
D'artagnan fought with the musketeers but did not actually hold the title of musketeer. Unfair, I know.
TBi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 239d
Reminds me of a Jedi!
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 241d
I was in the Supermarket a few weeks ago and "All for Love" by Bryan Adams came on and I was like "Is this the fucking song from The Three Musketeers movie that came out in the 90s?".
Indeed it was. Not sure who is making the Shop rite playlist, but rock on dude or dudette.
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 240d
Absolutely. Don't lay our love to rest in the frozen foods ...
Taleya@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 240d
"D'Artagnan wasn't a Musketeer. He only had a letter of introduction to the captain of the guards - which he lost!"
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 3 pts · 240d
I read an abridged version of the novel and I grt that reference!
picnic@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 240d
Did you ever read the novel?
chefdano3@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 240d
Mighty nein vibes.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 240d
Dar tan yun
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 240d
Whatever happened to Chris O’Donnell?
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 240d
I think Batman & Robin finished his career.
Last seen in 300+ episodes of Tedious Police Procedural Show.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 240d
I'm glad he has work, but that poor man...
Kenny2999@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 241d
one is biologically a tiger
troglodytis@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 241d
Daniel
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 241d
Vainqueur!
J92@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 240d
His name is Albert! Albert! Albert the fifth musketeer!
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 241d
and your friend steve, doo doo do do do, steve.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 237d
Barclay's latest holodeck porn. Guy had a fetish for historical costumes.