#Tcomc

[fictive-gerard-de-villefort]

Good addition from @simplythingsilikekindoffiltered. He has forsaken protecting people around him, and in a way, kind of justified his own lack of protection.

I wish I was a good writer, I have so many thoughts about it.

Okay look, I don't usually make lcdmc takes but. I really wish there was more focus on Danglars in the book. It's such a perfect demonstration of the fact that Monte-Cristo isn't against torture, or solitary confinement, or starving people.

He is against those things happening to him, the official "good guy".

Danglars can be such an interesting parallel to Monte-Cristo.

[fandom-sailor-of-ships]

The villefort children in a nutshell:

[lukasadss]

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

The plot:

[eleancrvances]

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

[piierogis]

always thinking about the 1840s lesbian elopment

[austinanimates]

Forgot that I could post memes here lmao

[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

[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.

[the-evil-skull]

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

[dysislament]

The book begins with Edmond Dantes sailing back home, coming back ashore in Marseille, and ends with the Count of Monte Cristo sailing away from his island.

[satlun]

If I can't be with you—

[chateau-dilf]

who gave him that

[vickyvicarious]

It showed a young woman of twenty-five or twenty-six, dark in colouring, her burning eyes veiled beneath languorous lids. She was wearing the picturesque costume of a Catalan fisherwoman, with a red-and-black bodice and her hair held back with gold pins. She was looking at the sea, so that her elegant figure was outlined against the two blues, of the sky and the waves.

Oh man. I didn't notice this detail the first time through. This portrait, that Mercedes had commissioned while Fernand was away, depicts her in her old status of Catalan fisherwoman. Of course, it's idealized somewhat, made into just a costume - she certainly didn't seem to have the funds for gold hairpins back in the day - but she deliberately depicted herself in the life that they've left so far behind by now. And what's more, she's looking out to the sea... perhaps towards the island where Edmond was imprisoned.

This completely explains why she had it done without him around to say no, why she can't look at it without weeping. Why Fernand hates it so much. Why Edmond is frozen staring at it for so long.

Albert's oblivious comment that the painting is the only conflict he's seen between his parents takes on a completely new light as the only time Mercedes expresses her own regrets and former love openly, even if in a fashion that still wouldn't be understood except by those already in the know.

[salubriousbean]

"will you be my Valentine" except it's a Count of Monte Cristo themed valentine and its Maximilian to Valentine <3

[lukasadss]

Count of Monte Cristo eating up my brain

[inprnt | RB]