Word: matchlock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solemn - and often inhuman - pomposities of power on display. This movie's first sequence, for example, shows the musketeers' efforts to rescue a spy from a firing squad, greatly assisted by the fact that a) it requires something like five minutes to load and aim a matchlock gun and b) using this very latest thing in weaponry, an entire squad of men is likely to miss a stationary target not ten paces away. A little later the French monarch and his retinue pause on their way to a siege for a little lunch in the fields. A portable...