Le Comte du Monte Cristo
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keilexandraLe Comte du Monte Cristo
Starring Gérard Depardieu
400 minutes (NR)
French w/ English subtitles
The original Bravo mini-series, and no, I didn't watch the whole 6 hours and 40 minutes at once. I saw about three-fourths of it during French class and only now got around to checking it out from the library to finish.
Overall, I found this adaptations relatively faithful to the original novel. A few minor differences are present, such as Haydée's method of proving her identity (gorgeously suspenseful in the film and not quite so dramatic in Dumas's version). The only major deviations were in specific relationships with the count, the addition of a mistress to distract him from Mercédès, and the ending. The film ends with pure happiness, as the main couple is finally reunited. Whereas in the end of the book, Monte Cristo gives a lavish part of his fortune to Maximilian and Valentine, then sails off into the distance with Haydée, his "second Mercédès."
More on comparisons in the next post...
A list of related links is on the novel review.
Starring Gérard Depardieu
400 minutes (NR)
French w/ English subtitles
The original Bravo mini-series, and no, I didn't watch the whole 6 hours and 40 minutes at once. I saw about three-fourths of it during French class and only now got around to checking it out from the library to finish.
Overall, I found this adaptations relatively faithful to the original novel. A few minor differences are present, such as Haydée's method of proving her identity (gorgeously suspenseful in the film and not quite so dramatic in Dumas's version). The only major deviations were in specific relationships with the count, the addition of a mistress to distract him from Mercédès, and the ending. The film ends with pure happiness, as the main couple is finally reunited. Whereas in the end of the book, Monte Cristo gives a lavish part of his fortune to Maximilian and Valentine, then sails off into the distance with Haydée, his "second Mercédès."
More on comparisons in the next post...
A list of related links is on the novel review.
