The Three Bucketeers, a standout in the swashbucketing adventure genre

Our March calendar image features an all-star cast of CPS folks: Ben (EVP), Jon (Programmer), Jeff (Sales Rep), Justin (Sales Rep), Tracy (Programmer), and Naomi (C-Team Agent). The film The Three Musketeers has been remade many times; we are parodying the Disney production from 1993, with the amazing title song All For Love from early nineties power ballad raspers: Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting (wait for ad to play, it’s worth it).

Having read The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas), I must confess that I am a fan, and highly recommend it. The 1993 adaptation for film was very good (I thought). It’s a story of the young D’Artagnan who aspires to join the Musketeers of the Royal Guard. The story is filled with intrigue, assassinations, plots, romance, theft, murder, and more. Through it all, D’Artagnan learns the value of friendship and the Musketeer motto of “all for one and one for all.”

This plot resonates well with us here at CPS. We, too, must unravel intrigue in order to do our duty. Our motto is: “all for one and one for all, but more so all for you.” Charmant, n’est pas? Oui.

The photo shoot
I’m kind of a hack job when it comes to photography (I rely too heavily on post-production), so there isn’t a whole lot of refinement in these compositions. I started with the original 1993 movie poster, posed my subjects accordingly, and then morphed their faces to actors’ bodies.

Creating the title
Once I had my actors all lined up and their face lifts completed, I started on the title. I used a yellow 5 gallon 90 ml pail, two gurgle spout lids, two plastic pail lid removers, and a little toy lion. Combining these with a bold heavy-serif font creates a rather regal heraldry crest hearkening back to 17th century France, n’est-ce pas?

Putting it all together
Combining these two pieces yielded an impressionnant poster (permit me to say) of The Three Bucketeers.

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