I read this for the first time this year. Took me much longer t get through. Glad I read it. A different experience reading such a long book dwelling on things. Best wishes and happy reading to you.
Excellent video, man! I never did read this, but I think I saw the beginning of the same film adaptation you had mentioned. Sounds like it could be good-I may need to try this out, sometime. Great review, as always, and keep up the great work, pal!
In the 2002 film adaptation and the 2024 French adaptation with Pierre Niney (we will still have the series with Sam Clalfin), the screenwriters transformed the revenge story into an action film. Why didn't Dumas make an Edmond and Mercedes ending together? Alexandre Dumas read Homer (Dumas A., Mes Mémoires, Paris, Bouquins, 2003, p. 590)) and The Odyssey influenced the book The Count of Monte Cristo. In Book IV of The Odyssey, Telemachus visits Menelaus who won Helen back after his elopement with Paris. Helen was sorry for what she did, but still Menelaus needed to use drugs to forget his painful memories like Helen's union with Paris. This influenced Alexandre Dumas. Edmond would never be happy with Mercedes and would never forget her marriage to Fernand. This would always make him have painful memories. Their marriage would be deeply unhappy. Haydee does not bring the count the painful memories that Mercedes does. More realistic for him to be happy with Haydée. The worst thing is the attempt of current adaptations to try to "update" the story In the adaptation with Jim Caviziel they had Albert being the count's son, the count with Mercedes and Albert forming a happy family was one of the stupidest and most simplistic endings I've ever seen. Just because two people discover that they are father and son does not mean that they will form a happy family together. History shows this. Albert discovers that The Count is his father, but they don't have any coexistence, he grew up thinking that Fernand is his father. It would lead to shock and possibly rejection. In history we had the relationship between father and son having shocks like Philip of Macedonia and Alexander the Great. In the film adaptation with Pierre Niney (there will still be a series with Sam Clalfin) they will make the Count have an abusive relationship with Haydee and she will fall in love with the son of the man who killed his father. Romatimso is a literary current that has many stupid and shallow clichés, but Dumas fortunately avoided them. As much as many writers like to embellish their stories with narratives in which love and forgiveness overcome anger and hate, in real life this is not the case. Anger and hatred are not easily overcome feelings and sometimes they will never be overcome. I always saw the Count as Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. They share a common history and have the same goals and that is why they form an alliance against a common enemy. And they end up developing a strong attraction and the story ends with both being lovers. If Cleopatra saw her father suffer a coup d'état and need an alliance with Rome to regain power, then was the victim of an archiettao coup by her brother's advisors, Cleopatra saw what the power structure is like and life is full of betrayals . She was anything but a naive teenager. Haydee saw her father betrayed and her sold into slavery. She is no longer a naive teenager, she is a mature woman who has seen how the world is cruel and full of betrayals by greedy people. The adaptation I liked most was the 1988 film The prisoner of Chãteau D'if (uznik zmaka if) and the anime gankutsuou
Okay we will trade, you can borrow my abridged version and I'll try reading yours. You did spoil the ending by saying it wasn't a happy ending lol. I'm intrigued to read (or hear from you) more of the insightful "religious" aspect you speak of.
I read this for the first time this year. Took me much longer t get through. Glad I read it. A different experience reading such a long book dwelling on things. Best wishes and happy reading to you.
Good review
Excellent video, man!
I never did read this, but I think I saw the beginning of the same film adaptation you had mentioned. Sounds like it could be good-I may need to try this out, sometime.
Great review, as always, and keep up the great work, pal!
Thanks bro!!
In the 2002 film adaptation and the 2024 French adaptation with Pierre Niney (we will still have the series with Sam Clalfin), the screenwriters transformed the revenge story into an action film.
Why didn't Dumas make an Edmond and Mercedes ending together?
Alexandre Dumas read Homer (Dumas A., Mes Mémoires, Paris, Bouquins, 2003, p. 590)) and The Odyssey influenced the book The Count of Monte Cristo. In Book IV of The Odyssey, Telemachus visits Menelaus who won Helen back after his elopement with Paris. Helen was sorry for what she did, but still Menelaus needed to use drugs to forget his painful memories like Helen's union with Paris. This influenced Alexandre Dumas. Edmond would never be happy with Mercedes and would never forget her marriage to Fernand. This would always make him have painful memories. Their marriage would be deeply unhappy.
Haydee does not bring the count the painful memories that Mercedes does. More realistic for him to be happy with Haydée.
The worst thing is the attempt of current adaptations to try to "update" the story
In the adaptation with Jim Caviziel they had Albert being the count's son, the count with Mercedes and Albert forming a happy family was one of the stupidest and most simplistic endings I've ever seen. Just because two people discover that they are father and son does not mean that they will form a happy family together. History shows this.
Albert discovers that The Count is his father, but they don't have any coexistence, he grew up thinking that Fernand is his father. It would lead to shock and possibly rejection. In history we had the relationship between father and son having shocks like Philip of Macedonia and Alexander the Great.
In the film adaptation with Pierre Niney (there will still be a series with Sam Clalfin) they will make the Count have an abusive relationship with Haydee and she will fall in love with the son of the man who killed his father.
Romatimso is a literary current that has many stupid and shallow clichés, but Dumas fortunately avoided them. As much as many writers like to embellish their stories with narratives in which love and forgiveness overcome anger and hate, in real life this is not the case. Anger and hatred are not easily overcome feelings and sometimes they will never be overcome.
I always saw the Count as Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. They share a common history and have the same goals and that is why they form an alliance against a common enemy. And they end up developing a strong attraction and the story ends with both being lovers.
If Cleopatra saw her father suffer a coup d'état and need an alliance with Rome to regain power, then was the victim of an archiettao coup by her brother's advisors, Cleopatra saw what the power structure is like and life is full of betrayals . She was anything but a naive teenager.
Haydee saw her father betrayed and her sold into slavery. She is no longer a naive teenager, she is a mature woman who has seen how the world is cruel and full of betrayals by greedy people.
The adaptation I liked most was the 1988 film The prisoner of Chãteau D'if (uznik zmaka if) and the anime gankutsuou
Thank you for the informative comment!
Okay we will trade, you can borrow my abridged version and I'll try reading yours. You did spoil the ending by saying it wasn't a happy ending lol. I'm intrigued to read (or hear from you) more of the insightful "religious" aspect you speak of.