![]() Villefort kills his father by conspiracy in the movie, but the book was much better because he used his father to play political games to stay on top. Villefort’s story line was sadly shortened. Danglars has a career change in the movie – he’s a shipper instead of a banker.Īfter how long it took in the book, the revenges seem to come one right after the other in the movie. In the book he just gets to join when they see how good he is at sailing.Īfter that, we go straight to Paris and then they go to Italy later which is reverse from the book. I loved how the movie added a fight to the death to join the smugglers. And the Warden falling in after Dantes was strange. They also notice Dantes is missing when he escapes a lot sooner than they did in the book. The prison stay at Chateau D’if and escape was pretty accurate with the book, though they added whipping so that SOMETHING at least is happening. How cool is that?! I don’t know if the movie was filmed here, but I think it’s awesome that this prison is still around so I googled it, of course. Dantes doesn’t find out in the book who betrayed him before he went to prison because, as I’ve said before, he was dumb as a rock.Ĭhateau D’if was a real place. He even gets away and goes to his “friend” Mondego’s house for help! Oops he’s the one that sent him there. In the movie he’s much more active in fighting against his arrest because he’s smarter apparently than he was in the book. Poor Book Dantes was a victim of his own idiocy.ĭantes gets unjustly arrested. He’s definitely not dumb after he gets out of prison, but he was to start with. I’m just realizing as I’m writing this that Dantes was kind of dumb in the book. ![]() This makes him look more like a victim and less like an idiot that would carry a letter from Napoleon when he’s been exiled. ![]() The motive behind Dantes carrying the letter that dooms him to prison was to save his life and not as a favor to a dying captain. But I missed the story line of Mondego in the book becoming a Count (he already is one in the movie) by questionable means and then having it come back to haunt him. This added some interesting drama because it made the betrayal by him even more awful and they probably took away the cousin thing because ew. Mondego is Dantes’ friend and not Mercedes’ cousin. The relationship changes are quite drastic from what they are in the book. I think I would pick the book over the movie on this one. I felt like the book had much more depth and the revenge was better. I wish it had stuck a little more to the book, but a lot of the overall story lines stayed the same and I think it was a great, fun movie worth watching. If my husband who hadn’t read the book really enjoyed it, I think that’s a sign of a good movie regardless of how faithful to the book it was. I also think the changes made it so you could enjoy the movie on it’s own without having read the book. There’s also a few scenes added to amp up the action – like a really cool sword fight – but I think overall, the changes that were made to the movie added to the entertainment even if it wasn’t a very faithful adaption. They did bug me a little since I knew what they were supposed to be, but having these new relationships really amped up the drama which is always good for a movie. Some of the relationship changes were so drastic that it might bug you if you’re a purist to the book. In the movie, some of the motives and some of the relationships changed, but the theme of revenge stayed the same. The long version might be kind of spoilery of either the book or the movie but I’ll keep the short version spoiler free. Since I love to over analyze things I’ll give you a short and long version about which was better. There were, of course, differences from the book ( Read my book review of The Count of Monte Cristo). ![]() I thought this was a great and entertaining adaption of The Count of Monte Cristo. :) I love that he said “actually” as if he were surprised. You have good taste.” I mean, I think I have good taste but it’s always nice to get validation. Here’s what he said when the movie was over: “That was actually really good. When I asked my husband if he wanted to watch The Count of Monte Cristowith me, he groaned and said something about English assignments and high school and “all over again.” When I told him it was a recent adaption (2002), he stopped acting like he was being tortured but didn’t seem convinced that he would like it.
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