#Count of Monte Cristo
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megalasaurus-rex · 5 months ago
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Love it when guys with dark hair die or go through some other sort of trial and come out of it with a cute little streak of white in their hair. Favorite trope <3
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autismmydearwatson · 8 months ago
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Men will be like "it's my favorite book!" and show you 19th century Batman
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oof745 · 2 months ago
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I’m so obsessed with this movie omg
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pulusional · 7 months ago
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lamuradex · 4 months ago
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Okay. Here are the things about The Count of Monte Cristo I adore, but I am certain adaptations will get wrong without having watched any adaptations.
Edmond's father being a major motivator for his revenge. Films, for brevity, mainly seem to focus on Mercedes and his ruined marriage. Thanks Hollywood.
Villefort having no connection to the other people who betrayed Edmond. One of the most tragic elements is that Villefort is actually about to save Dantes, right before he sacrifices him to save himself. I'm aware of at least one musical that has Villefort conspire together with Danglars and Fernand. I love the songs but that bothers me.
Caderousse. I can imagine some versions cut him out as superfluous. The musical seems to replace him with Villefort. But he's the fourth conspirator! And the first to fall.
A whole bunch of the subplots. Do the films need all the stuff with Monsieur Noirtier? Maybe not. Is Monsieur Noirtier the best character in the book? I think so. He's the most magnificent bastard in the plot.
The Morrels. Again, is it strictly necessary? I don't know. But, again, is there the scene where they reveal Monsieur Morrel's last words were to remember Edmond Dantes, making it my favourite scene in the book? You bet your ass!
Seriously, so many subplots I can see them cutting, but each one pays off in some way. Vampa, Franz, Eugenie Danglars, the Abbey Fariah's book
That scene at the end where The Count goes back to the Château d'If is beautiful
Adaptations will try to give it a happy ending, getting him back with Mercedes or something. But that isn't the point of the book.
Only a handful of characters get out of the book happy. And most of them have gone through hell first.
Also, The Count never actually fights anyone with a sword. He could, he's apparently lethal, but he never does. He's about to once, but then Fernand fucking panics when The Count puts on a sailor suit.
He literally leaves the room, gets changed, and then comes back in a sailor's uniform. It's so extra and I love it. And Fernand loses his shit! Understandably.
The whole revenge plan is so extra, so complex, so convoluted, there is no way you could adapt it all into a film.
And all because Edmond knows the Abbey Fariah wouldn't want him just killing them. Because that would be against God.
So instead he unleashes hell on them!
It's classic "No, I didn't kill them. They're just trapped in never ending misery for the rest of their days. So it's fine."
Bleed them dry of money, out them as a criminal, introduce poisons to his wife and introduce his illegitimate bastard to society.
I can see why you could never truly adapt this book.
Doesn't mean I have to be happy about it.
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careyfell59 · 19 days ago
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Oberon and Dante
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hanakihan · 2 months ago
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tbh it’s been long ago I watched count of Monte Cristo adaptations but clearly from childhood I remember how I was frustrated with portrayal of his time in château d’if
like most adaptations loosely or briefly go through his imprisonment time to quickly move to meat of his revenge and while I understand such moves, many adaptations just miss the importance of his time here
it’s not only crucial to his development, it’s pretty much what also motivates him on his revenge quest
his imprisonment time is what breaks his psyche and moral compass, it’s what created fundament for count of Monte Cristo
even if adaptation does touch on his time here, it’s honestly more filled with melancholic feel and quickly jumps into his conversations with abbe faria
but everyone forgets he spend years here before even meeting with abbe faria and by time of it his psychological state was already yeeted the fuck out
because after watching several adaptations with my friend who didn’t read the book, said friend asked me what stopped Dantes from simply taking the treasure and start his life anew without getting involved into revenge that hard. like yes he started his revenge quest to make sure people involved in his demise get what they deserve and suffer as much as him, but most importantly ‘suffer as much as him all these years’ is literally the hell that was solitary prison cell for decades for him. it’s half about ruining his life and mostly about hell he went through, but adaptations make it appear as if he’s executing revenge with sound mind. he’s not, he’s clearly psychologically unstable and his goals and explanations are shifted despite what narration and he himself tries to make us believe
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goldendrizzle-art · 1 month ago
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Me when I'll go see The Count of Monte Cristo for the 4th time
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rowan-e-ravenwood · 1 year ago
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normalize Edmond Dantès being weird. like. we've had enough adaptations where he's cool and suave, it's time for us to embrace the side of him that's just a strange freak that makes everyone uncomfortable but is still part of the local nobility so they have to hang out with him.
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kosmic-autokrat · 8 months ago
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merlin. dantes. oberon. nightmare blunt rotation.
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tambourineman · 4 months ago
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Je suis en train de relire Le Comte de Monte Cristo parce que je l'avais lu au collège mais je me rappelle de rien à part que c'était trop bien, et apparemment j'avais oublié que Dumas n'aime pas la précision c'est ultra drôle
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On est sur de la très bonne stratégie d'évitement pour pas avoir à faire une chronologie précise dans son bouquin mdr Alexandre donne les chiffres putain
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andreai04 · 5 months ago
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All he had were: his own past, which was so short; his present - so sombre; and his future - so uncertain: nineteen years of light to contemplate, in what might be eternal darkness!
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autismmydearwatson · 4 months ago
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psychologicalwarclaire · 4 months ago
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Is this piece of classic literature actually gay or is the author so misogynistic that he wrote the men as characters who actually think and feel and make decisions, never considering that he could do the same with women, so of course we're going to see chemistry between the men because the women are nowhere near as deeply written?
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goldenwitchmami · 8 months ago
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felagund-fiollaigean · 2 months ago
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it is a beautiful day in marseille and you are a horrible procureur du roi
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