#tcomc

[salubriousbean]

you know what reblog with your favorite musical overtures. I'll start

DRAMATIC. LATIN. DRAMATIC. great for blasting 100/10

I may be a bit biased since I arranged a dance to this but. classic. sets the stage. courageous. banger.

all the good tunes! it's like the musical in a nutshell and it sounds so good and it's got the good songs yessssss tsp my beloved

ok this one is interesting, I think it's basically an overview of the musical. starts out piercing and intense and relentless, and then it gets soft and gentle, and then ends back in the intense. despite the relentless world they live in, despite the relentless fear of Cladwell and the cops, Bobby and Hope found each other, found love, found softness. and then, the world won in its cruelty, and Bobby died, and it went kaput.

banger intro but also putting it here because this is what I wake up to every day (it's my alarm)

gotta include the show I'm doing next! I really like this one because it is gentle and almost hopeful, kind of like one of the underlying themes of the musical, being gentle and loving. also it's got more Latin and I like the tone it sets before the banger first song :)

honorable mention:

the drums that play at the beginning of Something Rotten! before the curtain opens. it's not on the playlist and that makes me really sad. we would always pantomime the drums while waiting onstage and it got me so hyped up before the first song started.

rb with your additions! :D

musical overtures my beloved

[lukasadss]

'hey so what's the plot of Count of Monte Cristo?'

The plot:

[piierogis]

always thinking about the 1840s lesbian elopment

[olympain]

We always find greatness in the dead. In the end, we forgive them. I don't want anyone to forgive you.

[cerasifera]

lesbians? in MY copy of the count of monte cristo?? its more likely than you think

[the-evil-skull]

Men will be like "it's my favorite book!" and show you 19th century Batman

[perhapsblues]

LE COMTE DE MONTE-CRISTO (2024) dir. Matthieu Delaporte et Alexandre de La Patellière

[chateau-dilf]

who gave him that

[pulusional]

[eleancrvances]

not a reviewer saying they "added a lesbian" to the count of monte cristo... my girl eugénie has been there since 1844

[gifharbor]

LE COMTE DE MONTE CRISTO (2024)

[when-the-pawnn]

The Count of Monte Cristo has bad adaptations and that’s due to filmmakers not understanding the novel.

The first thing is the films downplay his suffering in the château d’if. He spent years in solitary confinement and decides to starve himself to death before he met Abbé Faria. Something they clearly don’t understand was that Edmond Dantes essentially died there and the man that left was the Count.

Filmmakers also make the story about him and Mercedes’s romance and have them get back together by the end and live happily ever after. Edmond’s motivations are not about Mercedes - he was a young man, 19 years old, that lost 14 years of his life suffering and paying for a crime he never committed. His lost romance with Mercedes was only a part of the tragedy, but his love for her died with Edmond Dantes in the château d’if. Their romance is just a part of the tragedy of what his life could have been, but they are not supposed to end up together.

Old Dantes (his father) is also ignored a lot, and the spotlight is given more to Mercedes. His father dies during his improsinment, and this is one of the main motivations behind Edmond’s revenge.

Removing Haydee and not understanding her relationship with the Count. Haydee is the one person in Edmond’s life that understands him, since she has been wronged by the same person. There is clear affection displayed by Edmond/the Count whenever he’s with her. Is the relationship problematic by modern standards? Yes, but filmmakers could take creative liberties such as aging her up. If filmmakers can make changes such as making Albert Edmond’s son instead of Fernand’s, they can easily tweak a few things to Haydee. She is important to the plot as proven by her testimony exposing Fernand.

Overall, filmmakers need to understand the complexities of Edmond’s character and the storyline without reducing it to a star-crossed lovers situation with Mercedes.

[lukasadss]

Count of Monte Cristo eating up my brain

[inprnt | RB]

[satlun]

I HAVE A TYPE.

[olympain]

As I write to you, I live my last moments with you. Everything after will be just memories. I will carry them with me across the sea, the only place on earth where everything is horizon and where there are no traces left by men. Live and be happy. Never forget, until the day when providence may reunite us again, that all human wisdom is contained in these two words: wait and hope.

[migalerie]

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 2024

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