Dantes then goes off with his new girlfriend. Finally, Dantes bankrupts Danglars, who is a millionaire banker. Villefort goes insane when he finds his wife has killed off his whole family, with Dantes working behind the scenes to do so. In the book, Dantes hacks at each nemesis indirectly, nailing Fernand first, forcing him to commit suicide when his son Albert and wife Mercedes run out on him. In the book, their destruction requires separate operations. Edmond Dantes' struggle for revenge is also cut down to exposing his three adversaries in a tighter and linked manner. They also tightened a complicated plot, eliminating the subplots of Maximilian Morrell and Villefort's murderous wife. There was a good deal of fiddling done with the plot and characters to condense a lengthy book into a two-hour picture.
Henry cavill the count of monte cristo movie#
It's been re-done as a movie a few times, and I was interested to see how it would be adapted through modern eyes.Īs it turns out, Mike Reynolds, Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, and the rest of the cast do an excellent job. I always liked the book of "The Count of Monte Cristo," which plays to two of my favorite subjects, "revenge," and "power," and does them well. Here we are talking about one of my favorite books. What does that say about us as a culture, that we don't want everyone to have a happy ending, unless we can have sword fights and righteous indignation, and alot of suffering, along the way? I know, there are no sword fights and it would never sell. He escapes and spends the rest of his life helping others who have been wrongly accused, having rejoiced in the happiness his former lover and best friend have been able to find. He meets the wise old man, who counsels him to tame his anger and teaches him compassion. Edmond Dantes is wrongly condemned to prison. I speculate what the story of the Count of Monte Cristo would have been, if written by a Buddhist. If we accept the law of cause and effect, that all actions have consequences, won't our hurtful actions also have negative consequences to us? However, I would assert that we make our own lives harder when we take violent action to hurt others in return for injury we have recieved. When government does not function to protect the citizens, when social institutions fail, often we take matters into our own hands. The Count of Monte Cristo was written at a time when life was very hard and very harsh in many ways, not unsimilar to our own times. Rather than grieving our loss when we are harmed, we vow vengence and take action. Righteous anger assumes that there are not consequences to all of our actions that eventually balance things naturally. Revenge assumes that we must put things right, balance the scales of justice. Righteous indignation is an exciting feeling, and has become one of the few acceptable public emotions. I think some of this can be attributed to the national addiction to anger. There have been at least 4 or 5 remakes in the last decade, each reasonably popular and successful. But watching this version made me think about why our culture is fascinated with the story. I've always been bothered by the protagonist's obsession with revenge.
I am not a fan of the story, having read the book as a youngster.
I rented this movie because a client wanted a coat made like the one Napoleon wears. Obsession with Vengence: A Paradigm for Modern Life
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