#The Count Of Monte Cristo

[alintalzin]

She's gorgeous.

Anamaria Vartolomei in Le Comte de Monte Cristo (2024)

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word List: The Count of Monte Cristo

A List of Beautiful Words used by Alexandre Dumas in "The Count of Monte Cristo"

Abbé - a member of the French secular clergy in major or minor orders—used as a title

Adroit - having or showing skill, cleverness, or resourcefulness in handling situations

Ascendancy - governing or controlling influence; domination

Beneficent - performing acts of kindness and charity

Benignant - serenely mild and kindly

Clematis - any of a genus (Clematis) of vines or herbs of the buttercup family often having three leaflets on each leaf and usually white, red, pink, or purple flowers

Complacency - self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies

Denunciation - a public condemnation

Encumbrance - something that encumbers; impediment, burden

Eulogistic - pertaining to a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased

Fraught - full of or accompanied by something specified—used with "with"

Furrows - deep wrinkles

Inconstancy - the quality or state of being inconstant (i.e., likely to change frequently without apparent or cogent reason)

Inscrutable - not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood; mysterious

Munificence - the quality or action of great liberality or generosity

Nasturtiums - any of a genus (Tropaeolum) of herbs of Central and South America with showy spurred flowers and pungent edible seeds and leaves

Nothingness - the quality or state of being nothing: such as nonexistence, utter insignificance, or death

Poetical - poetic; being beyond or above the truth of history or nature; idealized

Recompense - to give something to by way of compensation

Repose - a state of resting after exertion or strain; heavenly rest

Speculators - someone who speculates (i.e., to review something idly or casually and often inconclusively)

Surmount - to prevail over; overcome

Tidings - a piece of news

Unpromising - appearing unlikely to prove worthwhile or result favorably

Vellum - a fine-grained unsplit lambskin, kidskin, or calfskin prepared especially for writing on or for binding books; a strong cream-colored paper

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[ralphlanyon]

they included the eugenie/louise storyline in the 2024 count of monte cristo miniseries! 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

[auxpetitsoignons]

Pathetic Evil Kitten Award 2024

[thebusylilbee]

#rarely will an adaptation even attempt to do the execution scene #the scene where all of Rome is gathered to see who's pardoned and who's executed #and the Count gets Albert and Franz to join him on the balcony he rented but then the scene of the execution is so horrifying and graphic #that the boys can't look. Franz literally tries to back away but the Count grabs him and FORCES him to look #meanwhile Albert is pale and has his eyes closed as they can hear the condemned man shouted and begging in the square #and the Count is like. flushed. pupils dilated. he's so worked up excited about this whole spectacle #lmao yeah like. not a scene people usually include in their adaptations! #Counts a little off the deep end!#not entirely sure what Dumas wanted us to get from this scene either because to me the Count really comes across as Out Of It #not a man fighting for justice #but i almost believe Dumas wanted us to interpret that scene as more 'haha look how weak these boys are' #hey sir? so sorry for the life you've lived but please understand that violence shouldn't be exciting or fun! #anyway. unhinged is the correct description #count of monte cristo

oooh okay prev I gotta react to those tags ! first of all the execution scene is exactly one of the scenes I was thinking about when I made that post, it's absolutely a scene that makes you go "oh okay something broke in him he is not normal anymore..." so im glad you're bringing it up

and secondly, because I spent the last two/three months slowly reading the book it's still very fresh in my mind so I feel the need to point out that I don't think it's fair to describe the Count as "excited". I think it's mostly two things : a profound indifference to the pain of others, and a sense of moral satisfaction at seeing people who have betrayed others meet a cruel and violent fate. but "excitement" seems a little much.

we already get a previous hint of his disturbing disregard for the pain of others in chapter XXII, right after Dantès' escape, when he's described as almost completely indifferent to the mortal injury of a custom agent ("He had, moreover, looked upon the customs officer wounded to death, and, whether from heat of blood produced by the encounter, or the chill of human sentiment, this sight had made but slight impression upon him. Dantès was on the way he desired to follow, and was moving towards the end he wished to achieve; his heart was in a fair way of petrifying in his bosom.").

then in chapter XXXV, Franz asks the Count if he takes pleasure in watching executions since he seems to have seen so many and he himself says that he first felt repulsion, then indifference then curiosity at the sight of them. I personally think he's being honest in that assessment, he doesn't "enjoy" the executions, but he's probably trying to actively make himself used to seeing people suffer since that's what he wants to do to the ones who betrayed him. still in that conversation with Franz he makes it clear that he's interested in methods of torture because he does not see death in itself as "atonement" enough for some crimes ("death may be a torture, but it is not an expiation."). he does get unhinged towards the end when he "laughs" but that's because the prisoner - who he explicitly identifies as someone who betrayed his benefactor - shows his selfish nature and goes against the "love thy neighbor" rule by being mad that the other prisoner won't die with him. It's not a laugh of excitement, because it's a laugh over humans' selfish nature, it's made to be a sinister one that indicates a painful past ("And the count burst into a laugh; but a terrible laugh that showed he must have suffered horribly to be able thus to laugh").

So yeah to me when he makes Franz and Albert watch, it's not out of excitement or enjoyment, it's because he wants to confront those rich sheltered young men to his moral reality : there are deeply cruel and selfish humans who allowed themselves to betray others and they don't deserve to be treated better than beasts (he literally compares the execution to that of a rabid dog right as he catches them). It's proof that he's a deeply broken person by that point, as suggested in chapter XXII, but it's more about indifference, a sense of moral - and divine - superiority, a deep-seated hatred for 'betrayers' and a need to watch justice be done.

the count is so much more unhinged in the book than in the 2024 movie adaptation... in the movie he's cold and determined, meanwhile in the book he's also cold and determined but also frankly a little insane

[marthajefferson]

Le Comte de Monte Cristo | The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) dir. Matthieu Delaporte & Alexandre de La Patellière

[ohmovie]

Did I love him? I should've hated him, but who can say why we fall in love? You try so hard to stop it, but it's too late! I made him miserable, and myself as well. What will I do now with the love I didn't give him? With all those words I didn't tell him?

HAYDÉE & ALBERT DE MORCERF The Count of Monte Cristo, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo│2024

[fsacre]

Couverture du roman d’Alexandre Dumas : Le comte de Monte-Cristo (Belin- 2024).

[adaptationsdaily]

Le Comte de Monte Cristo | The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) dir. Matthieu Delaporte & Alexandre de La Patellière

[olympain]

We always find greatness in the dead. In the end, we forgive them. I don't want anyone to forgive you.

[major-knighton]

Edmond Dantès and Jean Valjean are like opposite ends of a spectrum of "how does this 19th century French prison escapee who likes to wear disguises and fake identities a lot deal with his trauma?". And neither of them are doing it well, but they're still doing it in opposite ways.

[kajaono]

The most intriguing thing about The Count of Monte Cristo is that - everytime a new character appears - you look for tiny hints that this is in fact not a new character but just Dantes with a wig

[four-rabbits-in-a-trenchcoat]

men don't sob and collapse into chairs like they used to in classic lit anymore. because of woke.

[cerasifera]

lesbians? in MY copy of the count of monte cristo?? its more likely than you think

[mako-neexu]

The Count of Monte Cristo and Guda (Injured) by Royst | "I hope Gankutsuou is the type to kill in the next instant without any hesitation."

[thebusylilbee]

Le comte de Monte Cristo / The count of Monte Cristo (2024)