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@@notvicious8793 ok but that makes like a million changes to the source material

The Richard Chamberlain miniseries from 1975 is a classic.

@@menchacism5327 In the book was Edmond Dantes illiterate, Because in the movie he can't read or write? He gets taught how to read and write by the priest, Is this the same in the book?

@@Musiclover-rt1ej i believe so

@David Sadly he (Jay Wolpert) cannot "learn how to write...." anything because he passed away in January of this year. Maybe you should learn to appreciate the difference between screenwriting for cinema, and writing literature. Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings is also not without its own "flawed script" as compared with Tolkien's books, but it remains an undisputed cinematic masterpiece of a film trilogy. Absolute book accuracy when adaptations are made is not the necessary ingredient that source-material sticklers think it is.

I love this comment! Yeah if you don’t like the movie for not bring faithful to the book then just read the book! The movie is never gonna be faithful. That’s its job to be shorter and cut out stuff that might be interesting but will make it too long.

We already had the French adaptation of the three musketeers with Eva Green and Vincent Cassle, which has a much better script than the 1993 and 2011 adaptations. Filming has begun on the 2024 French adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo with Pierre Niney as Edmond Dantes and Anamaria Vartolomei as Haydee. The film is not only mediocre compared to the book, but on its own. All plots in the film were used with immense superiority by Homer in the Odyssey. Like the portagonist's reunion with his son and the protagonist reuniting with his old love.

Alexandre Dumas read Homer (Dumas A., Mes Mémoires, Paris, Bouquins, 2003, p. 590.) and the odyssey influenced the history of the book. But Alexandre Dumas chose not to make Albert a new Telemachus, he would be the son of Edmond and Mercedes because both were not married and virginity was important and he also did not make Edmond return to Mercedes like Ulysses returned to Penelope, because Penelope did not marry the compilers who coveted the kingdom of Ulysses (Ithaca) But Alexandre Dumas took advantage of the Faecians' hospitality and transferred them to smugglers, Edmond uses Albert to enter French high society just as Ulysses uses Telemachus to enter the palace, Mercedes recognizes Edmond as Euryclea does with Ulysses, Edmond returns to prison and finds the Abbot's writings that solve his doubts, Ulysses goes to the world of the dead to consult Thyreseas and hears advice from acquaintances who were there. Just as Edmund punishes those who conspired to usurp everything from him as Ulysses did Penelope's suitors. Ulysses's home was Ithaca and for the earl it became the east. He felt that he no longer had any connection with France after the betrayal he suffered. Haydee would be a synthesis of Penelope with Nausicaa.

Agreed, it ties everything together.

People look before answer Edmond had the same problem

I'm two years late but the backstory of Vampa, which Adam implies was unnecessary in the book, was some of the most engaged I remember being during my read. I love how much Dumas fleshed out him and other "minor" characters. Notably young Morrel and Valentine, both of whom where left out of the film.

I loved this movie when it came out in 2002 (I was 13 at the time). Unfortunately it didn’t age *quite* as well as I had hoped. Still a good movie though.

This is one of my favourite movies. I watch it again and again and always enjoy it.

Great point!

These books war and peace, les miserable, Moby dick, a lot of Charles Dickens novels went on tangents because they wrote for magazines to make money and dragged stories out.

I understand what you’re saying, but was it really “important” to spend so much time giving Luigi Vampa’s backstory? I don’t remember how many pages were dedicated to it but it was an unnecessary amount in my opinion. And Vampa is arguably the most insignificant of all the minor characters. He’s used as a MacGuffin to put Albert in the Count’s debt and only appears again at the very end so Danglars can be put in a cell.

But he his backtory had at least small importance. Without it reader woudn't know in how grave situation Albert got. Also from "inside the story" point of view, they didn't know Vampa before, and without his introduction by the hotelier, they woudn't know that Albert has a big problem

@@huberthepner3754 I think Dumas could have conveyed Vampa’s reputation to the reader more succinctly.

@@AdamWrightReviews yeah Dumas definitely didn't need to go into such detail with Vampa in my opinion but I feel that the detail they went into Bertuccio is more justified considering it ties in well with his pupose being with the Count and also the eventual revenge on Villefort.

I agree with you about the importance of the "not important parts" . There's a reason why this book is considered a classic just as Le Miserables, both long,and complicated at times and filled with "not important parts", but undeniably a true representation of each author's ability to invoke thought ,self reflection and consciousness of the world we live in. Hence, the title classic. Movies and abridged versions of books are reflective of the spectator's need or desire for superficial intellect of the given subject. "Nobody cares about or notices the rose bush till it blooms or pricks your skin with its thorns." Take the time to edify yourself ,you'll appreciate it and enlighten your surroundings. Books are always better than their movie counterparts.

Seriously, the dude is the most senior attorney in France. Besides him never confessing like that, a confession of that kind would never stick against someone like him in a court of law.

I figure they had to find a way to speed up villefort’s downfall, because in the books it takes so much time for his plan to come to fruition.

they had to wrap it and put a bow on top for the movie

One of my favorites; the art style is probably the most beautiful of any anime I've seen. Also, watching the anime is how I learned that the movie made changes to the original story.

Totally respect this, and pretty much agree. Thanks for commenting!

It is not simple love and selflessness that would make Edmond the relationship between Edmond and Mercedes work. Edmond is a bitter and frustrated man, he lost his innocence, he developed another worldview. As much as Mercedes loves Edmond, this is not enough for her to develop a strong emotional bond with Edmond. So many traumatic experiences prevent him from achieving a consistent relationship with her. haydee for being the same as Cpunt, she understands him better, she manages to develop an affectionate relationship, Albert is Edmond's son, but he didn't raise him, hardly only the biological kinship would allow them to have a father-son relationship. fernand raised Albert and Albert's chances of loving his foster father. He never got along with him. I love the movie The Prisoner of Château d'If (Узник замка Иф) directed by Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich for keeping Edmond cooler and more distant from Mercedes. she's like before. He cares about her, but he's changed, he feels closer to haydee who has suffered like him. This is what happened to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and his two wives. Haydee is a purer girl as in romanticism. The relationship between her and edmond happens in the end as a symbol of a new beginning, when the count abandons its revenge. In the movie The Prisoner of Château d'If, Edmond realizes how inputil his revenge is and starts a new life with haydee . . Could Edmond have started a relationship with Haydee sooner? Yes. The director of The Prisoner of Château d'If, Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich, during filming, he initiated an affair with Nadira Mirzaeva who played haydee, despite being married and divorced his wife to marry her, Could haydee have even more initiative with him like Anna tamaryova with Admiral Alexander Kolchak (he was 20 years older when anna tamaryova confessed to him). Dumas wanted to say that hatred blinded Edmond to Haydee's love, how he wasted his life in revenge instead of being happy, but mostly how his forgiveness gave him the right to a second chance. I think Edmond changed his worldview from jena Jacques ERosseau to Thomas Hobbes.haydee and max are one of the few people he trusts. In The Count Of Monte Cristo (2002), edmond acts like an avenging angel who comes to do justice. The Prisoner of Château d'If, the count seems like a man who loses his confidence in institutions, thinks he is above the law to do justice, but wants to delight in their support. even if he hurts his enemies. Eke is not just a rebel who no longer believes in institutions, but a sadist raised by suffering. If Jim Cavizell trusts God's judgment in duels, Viktor Avilov thinks it's right to apply as he does, as well as understand the Old Testament.

The 1964 version is excellent, I also love the French version of 1979 and the Soviet version of 1988. Allan badel is excellent like Edmond. I see that the problem with the 2002 film is not to portray the bitterness resentment that the protagonist would experience after years of suffering. Cinema romanticized everything as the Sissi film with Romy Schneider. The film romanticized and simplified the complex reality.

Sadly, the 1964 version is not available on home video in the United States or on KZfaq.

@@IsraelNowIsraelForever At the time of this comment, the 12-episode 1964 Alan Badel version CAN be found on KZfaq. With the limitations of a 60s BBC production, I'm not sure it's the most entertaining but it is the most faithful of the four or five filmed versions I've seen. Recommended.

@@paintedjaguar thank you.

@@IsraelNowIsraelForever Have fun.

The trailer for the new film The Count of Monte Cristo with Pierre Niney has already been released in French cinemas. Someone filmed and uploaded the trailer. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r5t9g72H26zMhHk.html Producer Dimitri Rassam, director and screenwriter Alexandre de la Pattelierre said in tweets that they wanted to maintain the drama of the story and therefore that there would be no happy ending ending... and that The Count of Monte Cristo was their favorite book and that therefore That's why they wanted to make this film even more than The Three Musketeers. The father of director and screenwriter Alexandre de la Pattelierre, de la Pattelierre was the director of the 1979 miniseries that is the most faithful adaptation of the book. The son will follow his father's path. The Count goes to the Orient with Haydee who is played by Anamaria Vartolomei. The French themselves stated that they do not want the film to have the ending of the 1998 and 2002 versions, which are highly criticized.

Gankutsuou won much praise in France, unlike the 2002 film. The title of the article is: Dumas à l’écran : le comte de Monte-Cristo Signalons encore un film réalisé en 2002 par Kevin Reynolds (La Vengeance de Monte-Cristo) qui n’ajoute guère ou pas grand chose. Ah si, l’abbé Faria devient un expert en arts martiaux et Albert se révèle le fils d’Edmond Dantès. Où va se nicher le puritanisme hollywoodien sous sa forme modernisée. Bref, hum… Monte-Cristo ou Gantkoutsuou Alors est-ce bien tout ? En cherchant bien, nous trouverons les Japonais. Férus de littérature occidentale, ils ont adapté grands et petits classiques sous forme animée, la plupart destinée à un jeune public. Il n’en va pas de même avec La série Gankoutsuou (2004) qui se révèle l’une des plus intéressantes transpositions du roman. Elle montre qu’on peut rester fidèle à l’esprit de Dumas tout en faisant œuvre originale. Son réalisateur Mahiro Maeda a travaillé d’abord au studio Ghibli (Nausicaa, Le Château dans le Ciel et Porco Rosso). Le titre étrange de cette série télévisée d’animation de vingt-quatre épisodes de 25 minutes peut être traduit par le Roi de la Caverne. L’histoire originale est transposée dans un univers techno-futuriste, au 51e siècle. Nous sommes donc en 5053. Ce futur se combine néanmoins avec des éléments (vêtements, architecture, véhicules) empruntés au XIXe ou au XXe siècle français. Chaque épisode s’ouvre sur un prologue récité en français qui offre un petit résumé de l’action. La chanson du générique de début est une adaptation de l’étude « Tristesse » de Chopin par Jean-Jacques Burnel du groupe Stranglers. Chopin chanté faux en anglais par un francophone cela fait tout drôle. La musique classique tient d’ailleurs une grande place dans cette histoire. À l’opéra, le comte, par exemple, écoute « Nonnes qui reposez » du Robert le Diable de Meyerbeer. Originale mais fidèle La principale originalité de cette version tient à son point de vue. Il est centré sur Albert de Morcerf et la jeune génération. Les enfants des crapules et leurs amis sont des adolescents qui regardent d’un œil critique leurs parents. La première partie du roman avec les mésaventures d’Edmond Dantès est ainsi évacuée au profit de la vengeance de ce personnage ténébreux. Mais cette vengeance nous est montrée par le filtre des personnages secondaires du roman devenus ici les protagonistes. L’adaptation suit d’ailleurs plus fidèlement les épisodes de cette seconde partie que bien des adaptations plus conventionnelles. Une intense amitié, et sans doute davantage, unit Frantz d’Épinay à Albert. Elle fait écho à une relation saphique entre Eugénie Danglars et Louise d’Amilli, sa « maîtresse de chant » dans le roman original. Plus sombre que l’œuvre de Dumas, cette série présente un Monte-Cristo en monstre dénué de toute pitié. Dans le roman, il s’arrêtait au bord du précipice. Ici, l’esprit de la vengeance se déploie jusqu’au bout. Aussi, pour reprendre la formule répétée rituellement à la fin de chaque épisode et empruntée au roman : Attendez et espérez !2

The 2002 version looks like a copy of Odyssey by Homer. Count is Odysseus, Mercedes is Penelope and Albert is Telemachus. The traps are very obvious, Edmond using his treasure as bait for a trap was too obvious for someone to fall for the trap. And the way he used to even compel villefort to confess that he had his father killed doesn't really work with an experienced man like him. The film ignores the issue of social class division that existed in France. A rich noble like Fernand would never be friends with a poor sailor ous and marry the poor peasant. The way Edmond rescued a stranger instead of calling the police, it looked like it was all set up and he had a plan. Albert accepts that Edmond is his father when he believed that Fernand was his father. Mercedes lied. Telemachus knew that Odissue was his father and so he accepted Odissue as his father. but Albert for years believed that fernand was his father and later it was revealed that he was Edmond. While Odysseus faces many obstacles to return to Ithaca, Menelaus mustered an army to retrieve Helen in Troy. Edmond never returned to France to pull back Mercedes. Mercedes voluntarily married fernand and Edmond was not obsessed with her. It would be hard to accept that she married his enemy and for years had a relationship with him. Even if Edmond returned to her, nothing would ever be the same. in the odysseus Menelaus used medicine to support the suffering for the years that Helen was in troy with Paris.

France has adaptations closer to the book. The book had other adaptations for a movie and miniseries. drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Yh_GtjOpLgOG5AinDFyNBIIe-69uCFWv?usp=share_link

Never read the book, but I did not like the ending of the movie. Just doesn't seem realistic, seems like something from a Disney movie rather than real life.

Real life is not a Disney movie for kids. Solzhenitsyn after his release from prison, abandoned his first wife in solitude and got mixed up with another woman.

@@jeanpierre3103 There are depressing and unfair aspects to life, but that does not mean that good things also don't happen or work out. A lot of people seem to get nihilism, and other grim concepts mixed up with realism in recent times a lot more than before and it is truly something sad to see. Stories and adaptations where things work out and don't end up sad or depressing for the majority of characters are not something that is childish. So many English courses and spaces push this idea that reading stories with a happy ending is something you grow out of and is meant for children and not adults but that would be blatantly ignoring the good parts of the world around us that happen. People can live miserable lives and die happy. People can live happy lives and die miserable. An aspect of life that gets so incredibly overlooked by literature fans and writers alike is that aspect of realism that deals with happy endings because it isn't something restricted to just a children's book at all, and it's incredibly sad to see it be reduced to that. A preference of the book over the movie comes down to just that, a preference at the end of the day. I felt the movie tug more at my strings than you probably did and that is okay, but I don't think it is fair to reduce the movie or any story with a happy ending down to something that is unrealistic and just a children's Disney story because it's not true.

@@purrpuffs What the film did was an idealization. They stripped Edmond's dark laod to be a less cruel character. Becoming a much purer character. Have you read les Miserables by Victor Hugo? I've read and never really liked the book because of the excessive idealization of the character Jean Valjean. It is inspired by Eugène-François Vidocq who was a French criminal turned criminalist. Jean Valjean was a criminal who became someone else because a priest was good to him, but the real Jena valjean, Vidocq was no longer a criminal because it was to his advantage. On 1 July 1809, only a few days before his 34th birthday, Vidocq was arrested again. He decided to stop living on the fringes of society and offered his services as an informant to the police. They created a pure and selfless character when the real jean Valjean was a bully, a womanizer and sought personal advantage. The book created an idealized figure. It's not just the idealized ending, but Edmond's rather cruel revenges, removing his sadistic side. He didn't just want to punish them, he enjoyed making them suffer slowly and painfully. I love Dostoevsky's books for exploring the dark side of being human. He was admired by Niezsche for knowing human psychology well. The good thing about loving a famous book is that it never needs Hollywood to make a good fit. There is The Prisoner of Château d'If (Узник замка Иф) directed by Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich. Nadira Mirzaeva is beautiful like Haydee, I don't blame the director for divorcing his wife to marry her. She looks like Haydee incarnate.

@@jeanpierre3103 And that is where we differ because I personally believe that removing those crueler aspects of his characters worked to the advantage of retelling the story with a different tone and outcome. I heavily disliked the book's methods of having Edmond tediously drive the other characters towards killing themselves and becoming financially bankrupt. I favored the movie in this aspect because the way he sought revenge on them there, was through locking two of them up like he had been, and intending to do the same with the other, but ended up killing him himself. It made it much more to the point and seem way less pretentious and drawn out for the sake of it. The movie also cut our a lot of characters that didn't need to be there because they served very little to the plot, and I am actually quite glad they removed Haydee because the whole storyline of falling in love with the person who bought you as a slave just because they treat you like a person is... less than pleasant to say the least. I also think your comment about the director leaving his wife for the actress who played Haydee in that particular movie is a little bit sad? I feel awful for that poor man's wife... ouch But regardless, back on track. I am prone to depression, I naturally want to see the bad in everything but I have come to realize over all these years that everything isn't always going to be purely negative and even though a story might be overall happy with a happy ending and everything, it doesn't mean that it is unrealistic because these things are achievable in real life. You don't see people complain very often at all about dark stories that border on nihilism be called unrealistic even when there are next to no happy moments in them, but it would be just as unrealistic as the dreaded happy ending then, wouldn't it? Yes but people do not want to talk about it for many reasons. At the end of the day, this comes down to preference again. You enjoy the book because it is depressing and dark, so good for you, that is what you enjoy. I will sit in my corner I think alone and favor the movie because that is what I enjoy.

There are many other adaptations besides the 1934, 1975, 1998 and 2002 versions. There are adaptations, including the end of the book. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibiZea6a3dvOiKc.html

In the book, the revenges are much better elaborated, the count has the help of people who also want to take revenge like him. The count's history with Haydee is very similar and what makes them very similar and ideal for each other than an old love. The revenges in the 2002 film are so quick and its dialogue is so cheesy, especially between Edmond and Mercedes. It's very difficult that the count could reconcile with his ex-fiancée, at least so easily after she married the man responsible for him spending 13 years in a dungeon. Revenges are such obvious traps that it is difficult for anyone to fall into them. There are actually two French miniseries, the 1979 miniseries with actor Jacques Weber as Edmond before and later as the Count and the version with Depardieu. The 1979 miniseries is much more complete, it adapted all of the book's subplots and kept the ending with Haydée. There is an English-language miniseries, the 1964 BBC version with Alan Badel. It is a more complete adaptation, but it suffers from its low cost. This year we will have an English-language French-Italian miniseries with actor Sam Claflin as The Count and a French film with Pierre Niney.

Real life is not a Disney movie for kids. Solzhenitsyn after his release from prison, abandoned his first wife in solitude and got mixed up with another woman.

@@jeanpierre3103 yes I’m aware, and just because you live a sad little life doesn’t mean all of fiction has to represent that

Natalie Portman's husband, who is French, despite the couple having two children, had an affair with a French woman. You will never see someone wanting to fight to win over their old love, but you can see real stories of men who left their families for another woman. The film Admiral (2008) is based on a true story whose protagonist abandoned his wife for his beautiful lover. Is there a film based on a true story about a man who struggles to win back his old love? Is there a story for such a film? The Illusionist with Edwrad Norton distorted a true story. The film grossly altered the history of the Mayerling incident. The prince and his lover committed suicide.

The trailer for the new film The Count of Monte Cristo with Pierre Niney has already been released in French cinemas. Someone filmed and uploaded the trailer. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r5t9g72H26zMhHk.html Producer Dimitri Rassam, director and screenwriter Alexandre de la Pattelierre said in tweets that they wanted to maintain the drama of the story and therefore that there would be no happy ending ending... and that The Count of Monte Cristo was their favorite book and that therefore That's why they wanted to make this film even more than The Three Musketeers. The father of director and screenwriter Alexandre de la Pattelierre, de la Pattelierre was the director of the 1979 miniseries that is the most faithful adaptation of the book. The son will follow his father's path. The Count goes to the Orient with Haydee who is played by Anamaria Vartolomei. The French themselves stated that they do not want the film to have the ending of the 1998 and 2002 versions, which are highly criticized.

Good to know, thanks for sharing!

I was thinking an audiobook might be a good idea for the full novel. I have the abridged version but on average don't prefer them.

In the book Albert is Fernand's son and Edmond became interested in a younger woman like Natalie Portman's French husband and left Mercedes behind.

just so hard to pack all that in a two hour movie--it's quite impossible

Does Edmond have a lot of inspiration from ex-criminal Eugenie Vidocq? Where do you think Alexandre Dumas relied on the count's disguise skill as abbé Busoni. Where do you think Dumas drew on Dantes' Escape skill? Vidocq was constantly escaping prisons and was a master at disguise. In addition to a great detective who had a personal file on several criminals and prominent figures in France. Did you ever catalog your enemies' crimes based on Vidocq? I don't remember Thomas Alexandre Dumas being an expert on escape or disguise. only Vidocq was. The 2002 version as a historical adventure and revenge film doesn't compare to the French film On Guard by Philippe de Broca. And as a revenge story it is inferior to the film The Prisoner of Château d'If or (Узник замка Иф) by Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich . The writer Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn in a situation similar to Edmond with mercedes in the nobel, acted exactly as the protagonist acted with Mercedes and married a young woman who was from a family of political prisoners instead of being a slave and whose father was betrayed. It is very unlikely that there was any reconciliation between them. The film failed. What would stop Edmond even having a child with Mercedes from getting a young lover? The History of the poet Fyodor Tyutchev and Elena Denisyeva inspired Tolstoy to develop the relationship between Anna and vronsky The dramatic love story of Tyutchev is the young mistress Elena Denisyeva, a pupil of the institute where Tyutchev's daughters studied. To meet with her, the poet rented a separate apartment and, when the secret connection became apparent, he practically created a second family. For 14 years, Tyutchev, as it already happened once, was become between two beloved women - a legal and "civil" spouse - unsuccessfully tried to make peace with the first and could not part with the second. But Elena suffered from this destructive passion much more: her father dela, friends dela abandoned her, it was possible to forget about the maid of honor's career dela-all doors were closed to her from now on. Under the yoke of human disapproval, Denisyeva developed morbid irritability and irascibility. She came to religion but could not reconcile its principles with her position. Elena Tyutcheva loved passionately, madly and demandingly, so she suffered when her lover went for weeks without visiting her.

Thanks! What did you think of the abridged book?

@@AdamWrightReviews I bought it but haven't read it yet. I'm sure I will enjoy it because I suppose the foundational story of it is much like the movie. The scenes that you mentioned from the movie that weren't in the book aren't important. Especially the balloon dropping the Count into his party scene was quite a bit much.

@Laurence Svetlov Yeah, I'm not sure what I think about that aspect of the story, yet. In both versions, Mercedes was told that Edmond was dead. Is she supposed to be a nun for a dead man? That makes no sense to me. The only thing I could think of was The Odyssey, were Odysseus was whoring around, yet expecting his wife to be chased. Was Mercedes supposed to wait around, just in case he wasn't actually dead? And, yes, I get the whole "women are wonderful" aspect of Hollywood and society these days.

@Laurence Svetlov I saw "The Illusionist" once, but don't remember it. I thought "The Prestige", which was released around the same time, was a better movie. The book sounds way more interesting, though. I might check that out. I agree with your assessment that, in the book, Edmond and Mercedes could not have a functional relationship after what transpired. It was a good and fitting conclusion. The movie gives Mercedes the excuse/motivation of a pregnancy, which is completely understandable, in that time. (Not saying it's good, because it's fraud. If Fernand had been an innocent person, then Mercedes would be quite a villain for doing that to him. Since he's not, the audience is okay with her actions. I mean beyond, that society already accepts women doing this.) I don't think the comparison between Edmond and Solzhenitsyn is apt. Again, Mercedes was told Edmond was dead. Was Solzhenitsyn's first wife told the same? Was there an expectation that no one returned after being arrested? If it's just the expectation, then you can probably say: "wait and hope". If she's told: "he is dead", what is there to wait for? It seems to me, there's nothing wrong with moving on after a death. Mercedes waited 18 months after she was told he was dead, which seems like a decent period of mourning. If one's husband is imprisoned, but alive, then yeah, I expect her to wait. I think if Mercedes had not been told he was dead, then I could understand the story/Edmond's reasoning. As far as I can tell, book Mercedes did nothing wrong, so I did not understand why she was judged to have sinned. I have not read Madame Bovary. Sounds depressing. xD Thanks for the recommendation. I've been trying to figure out what I want to read next. I think I'll go with that.

I think the 2002 movie is very, very naive. It feels like one of those romantic books that Emma Bovary read and raised expectations about a romance. Believing in eternal love and all that and many women will end up getting disappointed when the man ends up being interested in another woman. Have you seen the 1975 version? The ending has a dramatic air of separation and never forgetting the first love, forgets and overcomes. Emma Bovary created expectations that didn't live up to reality. The movie was in a kind of romantic fantasy. Dangerous Liaisons by Chordelos de Laclos how we can be manipulated by malicious people and there is no Hollywood ending. Showing all the dangers of malicious people, showing the emotional wounds that are caused.

@@pierre7958 I have not seen the 1975 version. Is that the version that is mentioned in "V for Vendetta?" I'll check that out, too. Always hunting for something good to watch/read. Agreed. This makes me think of "A Streetcar Named Desire", specifically Blanche. She is always portrayed as a victim. The author thought she was. Hollywood says she is. She is a manipulative, drunk, pervert. Or "The Great Gatsby" and it's message about "the one". I see it as a: "don't do what this dummy did. (I haven't gotten to start "Madame Bovary" yet. QQ Been reading "The Madness of Crowds." )

@@mechelemede4579 This is the 1934 version.

This is the worst adaptation of the book. Much more realistic than Edmond had a young and beautiful lover like Julius Caesar had Cleoopatra. The movie has a fictional love story that would never happen. Revenges do not involve direct duels, as Caesar was avenging the pirates or Mark Antony avenging the death of Caesar. It is death and suicide. The book is good for no stupid action scenes. Americnae writers need to read the history more hits to improve limited reperior.

@GaiusJuliusCaesar-dx9nl I don't think you read my comment. I was not speaking as to the effectiveness of the film's historical or even literary accuracy. I was speaking as to the film's ability to convey a deep philosophical theme that impacts the lives of nearly everyone in the western world, to this day. It seems you just want to argue that my opinion is invalid. Not a fan of philosophy? "God is dead and we killed Him. And there is not enough water in all the oceans to wash the blood from our hands."- Fredrich Nietszche (post-modern philosopher). No one with any historical knowledge could argue that the French Revolution was not an anti-Christian revolution (the symbol of the revolution was Hercules bashing the hydra, with the hydra representing religion). Oh well. Have your opinion.

This fanfic is the worst adaptation of the book. The story does not talk about the touch of God bringing justice, but the megalomania of a man who believes he has the right to judge and control people's destinies. The count's main inspiration was Napoleon. Ali is inspired by Reza Roustan.

Can you name the book in it's original name? I try to but I can't find it anywhere

@@thecasul1524 I just found out that the novel is actually mistakenly attributed to Alexandre Dumas and it was written in fact by Alfredo Hogan in Portugal. The original title is "A Mão do finado". My bad, the book I have actually had Alexandre Dumas as author on the cover. The book is still great tho, but I guess it is not translated in English sadly.

@@sergiuosan8674 so basically it's a glorified fanfiction? Interesting. A shame it isn't translated.

@@thecasul1524 Yeah, something like that. And it's pretty good considering the fact that I enjoyed it at least as much as the book of Dumas. Maybe one day it will appear in English also. It's pretty weird that it is translated in Romanian but not in English.

The classics are classics because they are above any cheap moralism. These moralistic preachings that have no practical effect. In real life nobody really acts following this superficial moralism. In the Soviet film adaptation of the novel "The Prisoner of Château d'If" in 1988, we have the beautiful actress Nadira Mirzayeva as Haydee. This is exactly how I pictured Haydee when I read the novel. And she really does look like a concubine in her revealing translucent clothes. And immediately you can easily understand the count: is it possible to refuse such a woman if she asks for your love? It is known that the director of the film, Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich could not resist Nadira and even left the family and married her. "But I honestly just chalked it up it to one is an ending for 19th century audiences and one is an ending for 21st century audiences." That film was a box office failure outside the United States. In Europe this film was widely rejected. See box office numbers. In Europe, the French adaptations of 1943, 1954, 1979 are preferred. France is about to launch a new adaptation.. Europeans are used to reading classics like The Iliad and The Odyssye by Homer, Metamorphoses by Ovid, Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. It's not a little movie with a superficial moralistic little show that's going to make the story interesting for them.

Box Office DOMESTIC (71.9%) $54,234,062 INTERNATIONAL (28.1%) $21,160,986 WORLDWIDE $75,395,048 Budget $35,000,000 The film had an international box office far below budget. Hollywood's cheap morlaism did not have worldwide repercussions, being much more restricted to the domestic audience. Remembering that nothing this film did is groundbreaking. It's just an attempt to imitate the odyssey in which he developed the story with immense mastery.

Natalie Portman's husband, French choreographer Benjamin Millepied, was unfaithful to his wife The French ballet dancer and choreographer, had an affair with Camille Étienne, The couple had children and yet he had an affair. It seems that hollywood moralism has no practical effects. People in real life are different. Having children and a wife does not prevent a man from having another family and another relationship. French President François Mitterrand was married to Danielle Mitterrand with whom he had children and that didn't stop him from having an affir with Anne Pingeot.

These fictional Hollywood dramas are the biggest joke. And why would a rich and powerful man like the count return to his ex-fiancée, regardless of having his child when he can have a young and beautiful lover? Just like THE REAL STORY OF JULIUS CAESRA AND CLEOPATRA. Why don't Hollywood clichés appear in films based on true stories? Reading non-fiction stories shows us how reality is and not how we want it to be.

There are many other adaptations besides the 1934, 1975, 1998 and 2002 versions. There are adaptations, including the end of the book. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibiZea6a3dvOiKc.html