The scene with Villefort always sticks with me, he's so close to being a decent person. He still could have punished Dantes for having that letter, but recognizes his innocent and trusting manner and is pleased to let him go. Until..........he realizes he poses a threat to his own ambition and he casually ruins his life.
Dantes “friend” did the same thing. When Edmond came to him for help after he escaped from being arrested, Fernando could’ve helped his friend escape, and continue to have Edmonds loyalty and friendship which may or may not had benefited him in the future. Instead, he took advantage of the whole situation as a chance to get rid of Edmond, to get everything he wanted. Like the other guy, he had a chance but let greed and jealousy take over.
Most everyone lol. When he popped up in Stardust, I recognized him and started following his career. Which didn't take long to turn into Superman and real stardom.
@vlachyna 100% agree. That has always been the part that made the movie for me. The second one is when you see the realization in his eyes that this is his way out. When he was standing over the priest's body.
I’ve read this book maybe 10x. The book is far superior to the film/films but such a timeless classic regardless. Shame what they did to Edmund Dantes but out of that fire emerged the Count of Monte Cristo, a man of vengeance
The new French adaptation with Pierre Niney, the directors and screenwriters, as well as the producer said that they will not change the ending of the book. It's going to be like the 1979 miniseries with Jacques Weber, the count goes to the Orient with Haydee. She is played by Anamaria Vartolomei.
I first read this book in the summer before my 9th birthday, which falls at the end of August. It set me on a lifetime journey of discovery in great literature.
Dagmara is absolutely stunning in this movie!!! Loved every bit of it. Such a great movie. Has everything in it, suspense, drama, action, romance. What's not to love!
To think, if Dantes had chosen not to say the name Napoleon gave him, he would have walked out of there. It's only because that name was the guy's Bonapartist father that he had to dispose of him.
This is quite possibly my favorite movie. Its got every emotion. Love, hate, rage, jealousy, revenge. His revenge is fueled by love and hate, but it's controlled by his love for Mercedes. He becomes his own hero.
And the cuckold ideology is so widespread in Hollywood. Because in the book the count is an alpha male who rejects his ex-fiancée's slut and marries a beautiful young woman. They demoted the count to a cuckold like Will Smith.
The end of the book was more realistic and masterful due to the breaking of expectations. The story of Napoleon - Josephine - Marie Louise served as inspiration for the story of the Count - Mercedes - Haydee, just as Reza Roustan, Napoleon's servant, served as an inspiration for Ali, the count's servant. Napoleon loved Josephine despite their turbulent relationship and divorced her to marry Princess Marie-Louise. The count, despite loving Mercedes, was hurt that she had married Fernand. He showed concern for her, as Napoleon did for Josephine. And he marries Princess Haydee. Just like Josephine and Napoleon, despite loving each other, never had a child, just like Edmond and Mercedes. Dumas broke expectations in the book and shows us that not everything happens as we want. And that in life not everything has a happy ending.
I liked this adaptation - it made an excellent trade-off of being mostly true to the original source while at the same time compressing a story of enormous complexity into the scale of a movie.
It is not underestimated. Replacing the issues of power, greed and social status reduced the story to a simple romantic adventure. More interesting and complex characters such as Villefort and Danglars had their participation reduced.
I just noticed that shadow from the carriage's bars in Edmund's face when he says "You didn't think I would make it that easy, did you?" Makes his face look more skeletal & ghastly. Probably unintentional, but it invokes the darkness of who is character is at this point in the story. Plus the cinematography for this entire film is amazing.
Yes...the moral of the story is that revenge will leave you in ruin...he could have just lived a life in luxury, but he chose revenge and it cost him so much happiness...But give me a chance to ruin the Joe Briben regime, and I will gladly give my life and all I have to do so...
The movie is weak. Dumas (the author of the book) read Shakespearean tragedies like Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar (in addition to reading Plutarch) to write a story much more complex than this movie. And he doesn't give a Hollywood happy ending, he knows that lovers can't always have a happy ending like Mark Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare's play and in real life. He gives us a sadder ending.
@@Κλεοπᾰ́τρᾱ-ο6ι the movie is never as good as the book. And yes they took some liberties with the source material. But that doesn't take away from the fact that this is well done & truly underrated film. I'm a huge Dune fan. I've read all 6 of Frank Herbert's original novels in the series as well as 2 of the books by his son Brian and Kevin J. Anderson. I can tell you all the things that they changed or left out for the 2 Denis Villeneuve films. But despite those changes or absences, that doesn't change the fact that both films are amazing. You're argument does not much merit on those grounds
Still one of my favorite movies of all time. In context, after seeing a happy Edmond at the beginning, followed by Fernand's betrayal, Villefort's selfish apathy towards imprisoning a naive and innocent Edmond, the horror of the Chateau d'If, surviving the ocean and becoming part of the ship crew, and finally finding the treasure, that scene where he makes his entrance off the balloon has to be one of the most cathartically epic moments in film history.
No one in French high society in the 19th century would go to an unknown nobleman's party; he needed a godfather to open doors for him. And that was Albert's job. Before the count threw his luxurious party, Albert introduced him to French society, and that is the purpose of the Italian plot in the book. If the count had given a balloon like in the film, he would have been seen as a nouveau riche upstart, attracting contempt for him. Dumas draws inspiration from the luxurious banquet that Cleopatra threw for Mark Antony for the count's luxurious party. He mentions Cleopatra in the chapter. Even Napoleon had a godfather in Paul Barras who helped open the doors of French high society when he arrived in Paris.
I read this book in college. It was a neglected set of 2. The librarian was almost in tears when I said I wanted to read it. No one had taken those books for over 3 years!
The same was true when I took out the Patton Biography and Force of Nature about Linus Pauling (the greatest scientist of the 20th century). The latter I took out and reread four years later and nobody had read it in the interim. That was 20 years ago when librarians still cared about their craft. I read TCoMC when I was in my teens. The movie as a standalone was superb and the cast was incredible. Unfortunately it wasn't a romcom and didn't feature superheroes or car chases so it didn't resonate. It is in my Top 10. In no particular order: The Godfather, Taxi Driver, In the Name of the Rose, Platoon, Jaws, Aliens (Alien II), Pan's Labyrinth, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Battle of Britain and Zulu.
The book is one of my favorites along with Caesar: Life of a Colossus, Antony and Cleopatra, both by Adrian Goldsworthy. One of the weakest films you've ever seen. Mercedes is just an ordinary girl Octavia the Younger. She is not cultured and intelligent like Cleopatra and who managed to attract attention. Good wife, but attract attention. Haydee is a more cultured girl who attracts much more attention, a good artist. That wedding ring scene is horrible. rude words. When Cleopatra appeared to Caesar, she caught his attention. Mercedes, on the other hand, doesn't have anything very special.
I much enjoy this movie but that one I won't even utter the name. My mother and sister love that movie and have watched it enough it surprises me the lazer hasn't burned a hole in the DVD reading the data stored on the disc.
The happy ending that doesn't exist in the book. Dumas (the author of the book) read Shakespearean tragedies like Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar (in addition to reading Plutarch) to write a story much more complex than this movie. And he doesn't give a Hollywood happy ending, he knows that lovers can't always have a happy ending like Mark Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare's play and in real life. He gives us a sadder ending.
Haydee is present in the new adaptation of the book with Pierre Niney. She is played by Anamaria and is played by Anamaria Vrtolomei. The director said he won't change the ending of the story, the count will stay with Haydee like in the book and in the 1979 French miniseries, th-cam.com/video/-7SFnhQFrnI/w-d-xo.html
Stupid film full of clichés. Very idiocy to believe that a man would return to his ex-fiancee, even if she had his child. After she married her enemy. There was never a film based on a real story like that. Because a man would never forgive that. There was already a film based on a true story that tells the story of a sailor who abandoned his family for a younger woman. The film Admiral (2008) which is based on. The real story of Admiral Kolchak and his young lover, Anna Timiryova. He left his family for her. Only in Hollywood films does a child have a relationship. But not in real life. The new adaptation with Pierre Niney that premieres on June 28th will serve to show how Hollywood doesn't know how to adapt silly books. It will be good to compare the two adaptations.
@@Denisov-in7ji Allow me to correct you. She did not know that Mondego had betrayed Dantes. And this isn't set today, when being an unwed mother is okay. She had to find a father for her child for either of them to have any life at all.
There is already a trailer for the new film adaptation and Haydee is present in the trailer. She is played by Anamaria Vartolomei. th-cam.com/video/-7SFnhQFrnI/w-d-xo.html And there will even be a miniseries with Sam Claflin.
Caviezel is truly a sublimely understated and soulful performer of authentically nuanced composure, command, confliction, conviction, compassion, control and cadence. At once evocatively earthy and yet also elusively ethereal. Which is probably why he was able to portray the depths of Christ's poise so deftly. Uniquely rare talent for embuing characters with a subtle sensitivity simultaneously with great resonance. There's a certain stir and a searching within his stoic stillness and silence. That's a lot more difficult to convey than just blubbering and blathering, like most actors of accolade.
Agreed, a fantastic movie- acting, the sets, directing, script, and everything else gets the Chef's Kiss. And, for additional joys, read the unabridged version of the novel- more wonderful characters and relationships brought to 3D like reality by Dumas. What a talent! Gloriosky!
As an Irish man proud to see Richard Harris the priest play best role i think anyway a limerick man how he lived for so long as he did with his Battle with Drink. But one of my favorite movies GOD WILL GIVE JUSTICE the whole movie was about revenge and loosing his faith in God only for it to be restored and then goes of and plays Jesus in the passion of the christ his such a good Christian ✝️ 🙏
The antagonists can triumph. Watch Mark Antony and Cleopatra with Charlton Hestion which is based on Shakespeare's play, Octavian won the war, Cleopatra and Mark Antony commit suicide.
Far better than the actual book ending. Alexander Dumas wrote a great story, miserable ending completely punishing Mercedes, the poor girl Dantes' enemy took advantage of.
Unfortunately, because the book is fiction, the story can be changed. But the 2002 movie is also fiction, we would never know how a man in Edmond's position would act. Unlike my favorite story, Caesar and Cleopatra, which exists independently of other people's will and we know how a real person acted. And the movies can even change history, but it would be criticized for historical inaccuracy. Would Edmond prefer a real person to his ex-fiancée? He has money and status as a caesar, and caesar had the young queen of Egypt as a lover.
He's played a killer and a drunk too. He's a great actor! I prefer his PERSON OF INTEREST character, John Reese. Ex- CIA, HERO, that character was awesome. Fit Jim to a T too.
Agreed! I have read the book 5 times now. Every ten years since my early 20s. Same with the Three Musketeers. That way, I get sort of a new read because I've lost many of the smaller points from my memory.
There is already a new French adaptation and the ending will not be the same as that cuckold film. The conut will not return to his ex-fiancee who married his enemy, but to Princess Haydee played by Anamaria Vartolomei, just like in the 1979 French miniseries with Jacques Weber. The directors and screenwriters, as well as the producer, declared that they would not change the ending of the book..
@user-yp9wo2dv9g this film is not so bad either. Sure it got some stuff wrong from the book storyline yet both are historical fiction, so what can one expect in part from that, and not all film adaptations are accurate all the time. Plus, this film and the book it is based on both had helped teach me a lot of things, like how it is that times will come when one must face the choice between what seems to be the right thing to do and what actually is so. Remember these words, “Often Troubling Challenging Times will lay ahead whereat and soon all must face the choice between what seems to be and what actually is the right thing to do.”.
This a great example of a film of what the kind of man you are and who you should become: Nice guys are on bench- soft, meek, harmless (young Dantes). Bad boys play the field- greed, users, women (Guy Pierce). GOOD-MEN leave the bench and field and go into the world-even if they don’t want to go through adversaries, developing skills, confidence, stoicism (The count of Monte Cristo). In the end- nice guys don’t finish last…they just never started; Bad Boys later crash and burn or become villains; GOOD MEN develop nice qualities but FIERCE like a lion. Gentlemen: Choose to become the COUNT.
The end of the book was more realistic and masterful due to the breaking of expectations. The story of Napoleon - Josephine - Marie Louise served as inspiration for the story of the Count - Mercedes - Haydee, just as Reza Roustan, Napoleon's servant, served as an inspiration for Ali, the count's servant. Napoleon loved Josephine despite their turbulent relationship and divorced her to marry Princess Marie-Louise. The count, despite loving Mercedes, was hurt that she had married Fernand. He showed concern for her, as Napoleon did for Josephine. And he marries Princess Haydee. Just like Josephine and Napoleon, despite loving each other, never had a child, just like Edmond and Mercedes. Dumas broke expectations in the book and shows us that not everything happens as we want. And that in life not everything has a happy ending.
The entire movie was a great scene. A really underrated flick
The book was even better
@@christiekaye5013 With a few exceptions, like Jaws, that's always the case.
I read this as a comic book when I was a child. I was so fascinated by this story. I must have read it a hundred times. This movie did not disappoint.
@@christiekaye5013 but the book was really different and much more complicated
I've watched it more than a dozen times at least😊😊, great movie, definitely underrated.
A wildly underrated movie. It’s great fun, heart wrenching, and possesses the very, very sweet taste of pure and total vengeance.
Love, Love, Love this movie. I can re watch all day any day. Good actors and actresses.
Indeed a fabulous take on one of the worlds greatest and finest literature’s ever written.
"He's the best knife-fighter I've ever seen."
"Perhaps you should get out more."
So many things to say about those two lines.
It could be one from The Princess Bride!
Best reply ever..
The scene with Villefort always sticks with me, he's so close to being a decent person. He still could have punished Dantes for having that letter, but recognizes his innocent and trusting manner and is pleased to let him go. Until..........he realizes he poses a threat to his own ambition and he casually ruins his life.
the best part is when the old man makes him realize what really happened.... he let you go first and then he burns the evidence... why?...
Greed which led to selfish desires, Revenge is a dish always served cold
Dantes “friend” did the same thing. When Edmond came to him for help after he escaped from being arrested, Fernando could’ve helped his friend escape, and continue to have Edmonds loyalty and friendship which may or may not had benefited him in the future. Instead, he took advantage of the whole situation as a chance to get rid of Edmond, to get everything he wanted. Like the other guy, he had a chance but let greed and jealousy take over.
Favorite line "Who are you? Why are you doing this?"
' Bad men and for the money'
@@dannyobrien8314 My father and I still quote that line all the time. SO simple yet so good.
Cazeviel’s performance is awesome.
Anyone else see young Henry Cavill? Edmund Dante's son, of course.
I was just wandering if that was him. Bravo 👏 for spotting that!
Most everyone lol. When he popped up in Stardust, I recognized him and started following his career. Which didn't take long to turn into Superman and real stardom.
Albert! Rome! always cracks me up that's Superman
Seriously? I didn't know that
I fell for young Henry then!! I told my husband that he would be an amazing force as an actor! I was right ,too bad he didn't live to see it.
"Kings and pawns.... emperors and fools."
LOVE this movie! Thanks!
" I go there. I kill him. I come back. We are rich. How is this not a good plan?"
Bam bam bam bam?
"They must suffer as I have suffered"
So many great quotable lines….
😂
"You didn't think I'd make it that easy, did you?" *Strike up epic score*
The darkness of that score said so much.
Most epic shit in the movie!!!!!😊
@vlachyna 100% agree. That has always been the part that made the movie for me. The second one is when you see the realization in his eyes that this is his way out. When he was standing over the priest's body.
For many years this has been my favorite book. Something wonderful about this time period, as Les Miserables is a close second.
& I’ll add The Three Musketeers & Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea!
Movie very different from the book
Both wonderful
Real humanity...not this cheap version we live with today...the Left is destroying our humanity.
One of the greatest reading experiences of my fortunate life.
It’s time to read the book again.
I’ve read this book maybe 10x. The book is far superior to the film/films but such a timeless classic regardless. Shame what they did to Edmund Dantes but out of that fire emerged the Count of Monte Cristo, a man of vengeance
The new French adaptation with Pierre Niney, the directors and screenwriters, as well as the producer said that they will not change the ending of the book.
It's going to be like the 1979 miniseries with Jacques Weber, the count goes to the Orient with Haydee. She is played by Anamaria Vartolomei.
I first read this book in the summer before my 9th birthday, which falls at the end of August. It set me on a lifetime journey of discovery in great literature.
When you watched this as a kid and watch it as an adult and realize how many amazing actors were in this film lmao wow
One of the all time great movies. Caviezel is majestic!
And literally beautiful.
This is one of the best movies ever! I love all of the actors and actresses.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️
I love in the old days, your man who determined to be loyal to you, will just follow wherever you go without saying a word
Then why all these rebellions happening every 2 months?
I’ve watched this movie at least three times. It’s really good.
Only three? I think I have you beat by 97.
On "Person of Interest," Caviezel goes to a boy's house and see the book on his table. The boy states that Edmund was his favorite character.
Which episode is this?
I am not sure, nut it is the one where a student of the mob boss, named will, is questioned by Burton
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@@millayyy125 season 1 episode 7
@@Kisambrus Ah, thank you!
He was fantastic as Mr. Reese! Fine looking man!
Dagmara is absolutely stunning in this movie!!! Loved every bit of it. Such a great movie. Has everything in it, suspense, drama, action, romance. What's not to love!
The arrival on the Balloon. EPIC.
That Ballon part was filmed in Powerscourt House in Wicklow, Ireland.
@@annmarieelliott6717 Great info. I’m checking that out right now.
To think, if Dantes had chosen not to say the name Napoleon gave him, he would have walked out of there. It's only because that name was the guy's Bonapartist father that he had to dispose of him.
Jim should have got an award. A great actor.
One of my favorite movies
The Count of Monte Cristo
Such an underrated movie!
This is easily one of my favorite movies, I never tire of watching it.
One of my favorite films-- loved that Easter eg in PERSON OF INTEREST!! ONE OF MY FAV TV SHOWS!!❤❤❤❤❤
This is quite possibly my favorite movie. Its got every emotion. Love, hate, rage, jealousy, revenge. His revenge is fueled by love and hate, but it's controlled by his love for Mercedes. He becomes his own hero.
And the cuckold ideology is so widespread in Hollywood. Because in the book the count is an alpha male who rejects his ex-fiancée's slut and marries a beautiful young woman.
They demoted the count to a cuckold like Will Smith.
The end of the book was more realistic and masterful due to the breaking of expectations.
The story of Napoleon - Josephine - Marie Louise served as inspiration for the story of the Count - Mercedes - Haydee, just as Reza Roustan, Napoleon's servant, served as an inspiration for Ali, the count's servant.
Napoleon loved Josephine despite their turbulent relationship and divorced her to marry Princess Marie-Louise.
The count, despite loving Mercedes, was hurt that she had married Fernand. He showed concern for her, as Napoleon did for Josephine. And he marries Princess Haydee.
Just like Josephine and Napoleon, despite loving each other, never had a child, just like Edmond and Mercedes.
Dumas broke expectations in the book and shows us that not everything happens as we want. And that in life not everything has a happy ending.
Loved every second of this movie and I always will!
One of the best movies of all time. And one of the most under-rated actor of all time. See.
Persons of interest
Sound of freedom
Villefort just created a vengeance machine.
I liked this adaptation - it made an excellent trade-off of being mostly true to the original source while at the same time compressing a story of enormous complexity into the scale of a movie.
It is not underestimated. Replacing the issues of power, greed and social status reduced the story to a simple romantic adventure.
More interesting and complex characters such as Villefort and Danglars had their participation reduced.
also Dontes was lucky to have a great firend in yakapo. we should all be so lucky in life to have that firend
It wasn’t luck, but his wise handling of their “fight”
Hang around in El Paso, you can have your own Yakapo for $20. US...
I just noticed that shadow from the carriage's bars in Edmund's face when he says "You didn't think I would make it that easy, did you?" Makes his face look more skeletal & ghastly. Probably unintentional, but it invokes the darkness of who is character is at this point in the story. Plus the cinematography for this entire film is amazing.
Yes...the moral of the story is that revenge will leave you in ruin...he could have just lived a life in luxury, but he chose revenge and it cost him so much happiness...But give me a chance to ruin the Joe Briben regime, and I will gladly give my life and all I have to do so...
The movie is weak.
Dumas (the author of the book) read Shakespearean tragedies like Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar (in addition to reading Plutarch) to write a story much more complex than this movie.
And he doesn't give a Hollywood happy ending, he knows that lovers can't always have a happy ending like Mark Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare's play and in real life. He gives us a sadder ending.
@@Κλεοπᾰ́τρᾱ-ο6ι the movie is never as good as the book. And yes they took some liberties with the source material. But that doesn't take away from the fact that this is well done & truly underrated film. I'm a huge Dune fan. I've read all 6 of Frank Herbert's original novels in the series as well as 2 of the books by his son Brian and Kevin J. Anderson. I can tell you all the things that they changed or left out for the 2 Denis Villeneuve films. But despite those changes or absences, that doesn't change the fact that both films are amazing. You're argument does not much merit on those grounds
Still one of my favorite movies of all time. In context, after seeing a happy Edmond at the beginning, followed by Fernand's betrayal, Villefort's selfish apathy towards imprisoning a naive and innocent Edmond, the horror of the Chateau d'If, surviving the ocean and becoming part of the ship crew, and finally finding the treasure, that scene where he makes his entrance off the balloon has to be one of the most cathartically epic moments in film history.
No one in French high society in the 19th century would go to an unknown nobleman's party; he needed a godfather to open doors for him. And that was Albert's job. Before the count threw his luxurious party, Albert introduced him to French society, and that is the purpose of the Italian plot in the book. If the count had given a balloon like in the film, he would have been seen as a nouveau riche upstart, attracting contempt for him. Dumas draws inspiration from the luxurious banquet that Cleopatra threw for Mark Antony for the count's luxurious party. He mentions Cleopatra in the chapter. Even Napoleon had a godfather in Paul Barras who helped open the doors of French high society when he arrived in Paris.
This is one of my favorite stories and this movie represents it well!
I read this book in college. It was a neglected set of 2. The librarian was almost in tears when I said I wanted to read it. No one had taken those books for over 3 years!
The same was true when I took out the Patton Biography and Force of Nature about Linus Pauling (the greatest scientist of the 20th century). The latter I took out and reread four years later and nobody had read it in the interim. That was 20 years ago when librarians still cared about their craft. I read TCoMC when I was in my teens. The movie as a standalone was superb and the cast was incredible. Unfortunately it wasn't a romcom and didn't feature superheroes or car chases so it didn't resonate. It is in my Top 10. In no particular order: The Godfather, Taxi Driver, In the Name of the Rose, Platoon, Jaws, Aliens (Alien II), Pan's Labyrinth, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Battle of Britain and Zulu.
The book is one of my favorites along with Caesar: Life of a Colossus, Antony and Cleopatra, both by Adrian Goldsworthy.
One of the weakest films you've ever seen.
Mercedes is just an ordinary girl
Octavia the Younger. She is not cultured and intelligent like Cleopatra and who managed to attract attention. Good wife, but attract attention. Haydee is a more cultured girl who attracts much more attention, a good artist.
That wedding ring scene is horrible. rude words. When Cleopatra appeared to Caesar, she caught his attention. Mercedes, on the other hand, doesn't have anything very special.
This was the best version of this movie !
My top two all time favourite movies. This, and Pride and Prejudice.
I much enjoy this movie but that one I won't even utter the name.
My mother and sister love that movie and have watched it enough it surprises me the lazer hasn't burned a hole in the DVD reading the data stored on the disc.
@@erikwilliam1254have you tried swapping it out with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? Perhaps they won't notice
@@worm413 I actually got my sister to watch something like twenty minutes of that movie and we both agreed to watch something else.
Are you g a y?
What a great movie, one of my favorites for sure. I never understood why it didn't get more attention.
The happy ending that doesn't exist in the book.
Dumas (the author of the book) read Shakespearean tragedies like Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar (in addition to reading Plutarch) to write a story much more complex than this movie.
And he doesn't give a Hollywood happy ending, he knows that lovers can't always have a happy ending like Mark Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare's play and in real life. He gives us a sadder ending.
One of the greatest movies ever made, a morality play of the highest order!
Luis Guzman is a timelessly great actor. He has a tremendous range from comedy to tragedy
In the book, he doesn't return with Mercedes. He sails into the sunset with Haydee. ;)
Which was great. Fresh start. Learn to let go of the past.
Haydee is present in the new adaptation of the book with Pierre Niney. She is played by Anamaria and is played by Anamaria Vrtolomei.
The director said he won't change the ending of the story, the count will stay with Haydee like in the book and in the 1979 French miniseries,
th-cam.com/video/-7SFnhQFrnI/w-d-xo.html
Yeah but it was 14 years in the book, here its 7 and in this movie, Mercedes is smoking hot hehe xd
I read the unabridged nearly 20 years ago, then enjoyed this movie sometime later... was totally caught up in Dantes' story ❤
Forgot how phenomenal this film was. Thank you algorithm.
One of my favorite movies 😎🤙🏽🫡
Loved this film. I’d have watched a longer version
Fantastic movie and very good rendition of the book. Most movies aren't even close.
Stupid film full of clichés.
Very idiocy to believe that a man would return to his ex-fiancee, even if she had his child. After she married her enemy.
There was never a film based on a real story like that. Because a man would never forgive that.
There was already a film based on a true story that tells the story of a sailor who abandoned his family for a younger woman.
The film Admiral (2008) which is based on. The real story of Admiral Kolchak and his young lover, Anna Timiryova. He left his family for her.
Only in Hollywood films does a child have a relationship. But not in real life.
The new adaptation with Pierre Niney that premieres on June 28th will serve to show how Hollywood doesn't know how to adapt silly books. It will be good to compare the two adaptations.
@@Denisov-in7ji Allow me to correct you. She did not know that Mondego had betrayed Dantes. And this isn't set today, when being an unwed mother is okay. She had to find a father for her child for either of them to have any life at all.
@@jackwells8107yeah, she tricked her husband, a guy who she believed was her former fiancé's best friend into raising another man's kid for 16 years
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U do not comprehend being an unwed mother then
There is already a trailer for the new film adaptation and Haydee is present in the trailer. She is played by Anamaria Vartolomei.
th-cam.com/video/-7SFnhQFrnI/w-d-xo.html
And there will even be a miniseries with Sam Claflin.
I am also a fan of the Richard Chamberlain version. Another favorite from this genre is The Scarlett Pimpernel.
Played by Daffy Duck?
@@allhopeabandon7831 You really are a twat. Daffy Duck played the Scarlett Pumpernickel.
Great performances - a great movie.
Caviezel is truly a sublimely understated and soulful performer of authentically nuanced composure, command, confliction, conviction, compassion, control and cadence. At once evocatively earthy and yet also elusively ethereal. Which is probably why he was able to portray the depths of Christ's poise so deftly. Uniquely rare talent for embuing characters with a subtle sensitivity simultaneously with great resonance.
There's a certain stir and a searching within his stoic stillness and silence. That's a lot more difficult to convey than just blubbering and blathering, like most actors of accolade.
This is my favorite movie of all time
Agreed, a fantastic movie- acting, the sets, directing, script, and everything else gets the Chef's Kiss. And, for additional joys, read the unabridged version of the novel- more wonderful characters and relationships brought to 3D like reality by Dumas. What a talent! Gloriosky!
In two months the new French adaptation will premiere and this poorly written copy of the return of Ulysses will go to the trash can.
As an Irish man proud to see Richard Harris the priest play best role i think anyway a limerick man how he lived for so long as he did with his Battle with Drink. But one of my favorite movies GOD WILL GIVE JUSTICE the whole movie was about revenge and loosing his faith in God only for it to be restored and then goes of and plays Jesus in the passion of the christ his such a good Christian ✝️ 🙏
The antagonists can triumph. Watch Mark Antony and Cleopatra with Charlton Hestion which is based on Shakespeare's play,
Octavian won the war, Cleopatra and Mark Antony commit suicide.
@Κλεοπᾰ́τρᾱ-ο6ι strange how they never found her tomb or they have and the simthatoneins are keeping something from us again 🤔
This was an awesome movie. The book is even better.
"Perhaps you should get out more." 😂
Far better than the actual book ending. Alexander Dumas wrote a great story, miserable ending completely punishing Mercedes, the poor girl Dantes' enemy took advantage of.
Unfortunately, because the book is fiction, the story can be changed. But the 2002 movie is also fiction, we would never know how a man in Edmond's position would act. Unlike my favorite story, Caesar and Cleopatra, which exists independently of other people's will and we know how a real person acted. And the movies can even change history, but it would be criticized for historical inaccuracy. Would Edmond prefer a real person to his ex-fiancée? He has money and status as a caesar, and caesar had the young queen of Egypt as a lover.
From a Count to Christ . . . Jim Caviezel has definitely played a range larger than life figures!
He's played a killer and a drunk too. He's a great actor! I prefer his PERSON OF INTEREST character, John Reese. Ex- CIA, HERO, that character was awesome. Fit Jim to a T too.
In my opinion, the best book ever. I read it + - once a year.
Agreed! I have read the book 5 times now. Every ten years since my early 20s. Same with the Three Musketeers. That way, I get sort of a new read because I've lost many of the smaller points from my memory.
There is already a new French adaptation and the ending will not be the same as that cuckold film.
The conut will not return to his ex-fiancee who married his enemy, but to Princess Haydee played by Anamaria Vartolomei, just like in the 1979 French miniseries with Jacques Weber.
The directors and screenwriters, as well as the producer, declared that they would not change the ending of the book..
@user-yp9wo2dv9g this film is not so bad either. Sure it got some stuff wrong from the book storyline yet both are historical fiction, so what can one expect in part from that, and not all film adaptations are accurate all the time. Plus, this film and the book it is based on both had helped teach me a lot of things, like how it is that times will come when one must face the choice between what seems to be the right thing to do and what actually is so. Remember these words, “Often Troubling Challenging Times will lay ahead whereat and soon all must face the choice between what seems to be and what actually is the right thing to do.”.
Love this movie!!!
If Edmunds son knew he was Superman, things would have gone differently 😂
Top Favorite Films of all time.
Loved this movie!!!!
Guy Pearce is phenomenal
One of my fave actors❣️
My favorite movie of all time.
Impressive visual fidelity
Just two words: Henry Cavill 💗😍
This a great example of a film of what the kind of man you are and who you should become:
Nice guys are on bench- soft, meek, harmless (young Dantes).
Bad boys play the field- greed, users, women (Guy Pierce).
GOOD-MEN leave the bench and field and go into the world-even if they don’t want to go through adversaries, developing skills, confidence, stoicism (The count of Monte Cristo).
In the end- nice guys don’t finish last…they just never started; Bad Boys later crash and burn or become villains; GOOD MEN develop nice qualities but FIERCE like a lion.
Gentlemen: Choose to become the COUNT.
The antagonists can triumph. Watch Mark Antony and Cleopatra with Charlton Hestion which is based on Shakespeare's play,
this movie was really good
Very different than the book but very good.
"No doubt, but you said "almost" the entire time..."
I watch this movie once every year
The scene were the count himself walking back home amazed me..is like showing who dares robbing me am in a bad mood..
My favourite childhood storybook
Awesome movie yet, those that haven't seen it get little from these...edits. Go watch the film, it's Fantastic.
One of my favorite film
Every time I see Henry Cavill I think of this movie
He was GREAT in the Thin Red Line too...
That weasel was the perfect depiction of a full blown narcissist!
"It means 'Driftwood' ".
Lol
Perfect. I gotta make the time to watch this whole thing sometime.
Jim would’ve made a damn great Batman.
So many say that!
Or Jesus...oh wait.
My favorite book of all time. Got me here today. Ps. The villain is Mercedes
"God will give me Justice" ❤
The deleted scene right after that is him saying... "And my son will form the Justice League!" 🤣
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@@5thGenNativeTexan 😂😂😂
A great book by Alexandre Dumas and really a great movie
The end of the book was more realistic and masterful due to the breaking of expectations.
The story of Napoleon - Josephine - Marie Louise served as inspiration for the story of the Count - Mercedes - Haydee, just as Reza Roustan, Napoleon's servant, served as an inspiration for Ali, the count's servant.
Napoleon loved Josephine despite their turbulent relationship and divorced her to marry Princess Marie-Louise.
The count, despite loving Mercedes, was hurt that she had married Fernand. He showed concern for her, as Napoleon did for Josephine. And he marries Princess Haydee.
Just like Josephine and Napoleon, despite loving each other, never had a child, just like Edmond and Mercedes.
Dumas broke expectations in the book and shows us that not everything happens as we want. And that in life not everything has a happy ending.
Guy Pearce too…this is epic!
Love this movie
Today is no different…..!? Perhaps you should go out more ❤😂
“Don’t rob me of my hate, it’s all I have” 😮💨
This is one awesome movie ❤
And the moral of the story is...Don't make Jesus mad!
And I knew Henry Cavill was gonna be a great actor after seeing him on the great movie.
Bellissimo ❤
OMG...superman in the end.
I loved this video. But the book is soooo much better. It is like you are living every moment❤😊
Wow! The young Superman
Love this book and the movie
The stairway scene is badass
this is top 100 films of all time
DDDDUUUUDDDDEEEE Edmond's kid is SUPERMAN 😳🤯
15:18 this is the scene where you see Henry Cavill's face
Hermosa versión de el conde de Montecristo, caviezel memorable
Superman was there the whole time and just let them duke it out
I forgot Cavil was the son in this movie.