#albert de morcerf

[krokonoko]

what if grown up Albert takes after his parents both in height and handsomeness. as a treat.

[jikenbosan]

was super curious about this anime insider article about gankutsuou's fashion design-- i'd seen it in b&w but not in color. i found the specific issue on mercari so i ended up scanning it today when it came in.

[oroontheheels]

sorry i had to

[animefeminist]

Achieving Whiteness Through Social Mobility in Gankutsuou

SPOILERS: Detailed discussion of the entire Gankutsuou series.

There have been many adaptations of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.  Some have tried to simplify the story to make it easier to fit into a constrained time limit, while others were so faithful to the plot that the spirit is entirely lost. Gankutsuou, by contrast, is arguably the best adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo while also being its own original story.

It’s evident that the creative team behind this series had a lot of love for the source material that they were able to capture the nuances of what made the book a compelling drama to read.  Unlike the previous adaptations of the book, which overwhelmingly cast white actors for all the roles, the anime makes a point of depicting the main characters as people of color, specifically brown characters.

This racial aspect of the main characters is actually a more accurate portrayal of what they look like in the book—Alexandre Dumas goes into detail describing the race, ethnicities, and social status of his main characters. He also goes a step further to complicate this tale of vengeance by depicting the notion that, for these marginalized characters to be able to move up the social ladder, they effectively had to erase any historical ties they had with their respective communities in order to become part of high society.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

[waterlilyvioletfog]

Twice now (I’m at Valentine’s poisoning) twice now someone Dantes loves has shown up at his house and been like 🥺😭☹️😩😫 noooo Count pleeeeaaaassseee you can’t do your revenge on the children of the guy who wronged you. Because I love them!!!! 🥺😩😭🙏🥺 and the Count just goes 😠😤🤬😑 ugh I hate you. FINE 🙄 just this once I’ll be nice! I’ll save their life ughhhhh smh you plan out this big fucking revenge and it goes badly. why? because of stupid emotionsssss I hate it hereeee 🙄🫤 here’s $2 million dollars 💰

[glasscandywitch]

“Rather than creating a simple thrilling revenge tragedy of “It’s been done to me so I’m doing it back!” I was aiming, in this day and age, to create this kind of work. If a person should be faced with hatred from another, what kind of a relationship will be born from the way they act towards them? How should people face one another? It is these things that I felt I should focus on. In the 23rd act, it is not simply a matter of Albert saving the Count with the purity of his heart. Towards a person who will not face him and who his words will not reach, what kind of action will Albert take? And, conversely, towards a person who is attached to him and he must definitely kill in order to accomplish his revenge, can the Count’s will persist? I wanted to see that serious/true/hardcore collision. What that means is that up until the end, Albert is Albert and Edmond is Edmond. The two of them might spend their whole lives running on parallel lines, but in spite of that, can they continue to interact with each other? Can they continue thinking [of each other]? That’s probably the theme. If that’s where the words “Wait and hope” are to be found, then don’t Franz’s words “Feelings of love and feelings of hate both stem from caring about a person” serve as the light of that faint hope? That’s what I think.”

From a Mahiro Maeda Interview (x)

[whalehouse1]

So I picked back up Monte Cristo since I have reading time again, and may I just say Albert being Mercedes’s son is the biggest time screwup ever. Mercedes is 1-3 years younger than Dantès depending if he is 18,19 or20. By his own mention, he’s 20, but then later he’s 19, so who knows. But then we get to him being imprisoned for 14 years which is by far the most “concrete and it is this quantity” in the book. But then we meet Albert (love this lovesick puppy kid, but that’s neither here nor there”. He’s the result of incest between Mercedes and Fernand (who says he’s French, despite being Mercedes, cousin and growing up in the Catalan village and has been given ten more years than he had at the beginning.). Albert then says they have been married for twenty years, but that’s before the novel takes place and since crap goes south at Mercedes and Edmonds’s pre wedding feast, there’s no way that they were married that long. And then Albert I saw ppl saying he’s 20, but then a son out of wedlock? For shame back then. But then if you apply any sort of logic to it, if Mercedes waited to marry the douche 18 months after Dantès was imprisoned (also explicitly stated), and we’ll say that despite all of the issues with pregnancies back then, Mercedes got pregnant ASAP with him, he should only be around 13. So this 13 year old is touring Italy with his friend, trying to bang Italian girls without any escort or parental supervision, and almost gets shanked to death. This timeline makes as much sense as a freaking comic book.

[roseillith]

[full-lifeconsequences]

i’ve been going thru it over on twitter. hakushaku is alive and happy because i said so

[danihelman-art]

“Regardless of what happens next, you mustn’t look away Monsieur Albert.”

don't tag as ship please and thank you

[hoangfngocjnhi]

Beauchamp: *literally doing nothing* Albert: You defame my father's honor lets fight to death.

[simplythingsilikekindoffiltered]

Everytime I read The Count of Monte Cristo I can't help but think that I really would not want to go to the opera or anything similar with Albert.

[jikenbosan]

[rowan-e-ravenwood]

have you got any tcomc playlists? 👁️👁️

OH, ABSOLUTELY I DO

i posted them a while back but i can't be bothered to find the post, so if i do i'll delete it to keep from clogging up the tags...

as i've said before, it's been a hot minute since i've really participated in the fandom (i'd like to remedy that), so some of my views on the characters have changed a bit since i made these? so not all of the song choices are perfect imo anymore... but i am constantly tweaking these playlists so it's whatever.

oh also also, a couple of these are major WIPs, lol. ANYWAY.

putting them under a read-more cut so that nobody hates me for the length of the post, lmao

here's Edmond's:

here's Fernand:

here's Villefort:

here's Danglars (one of the ones i'm less happy with lol):

here's Caderousse (my favourite character heheh):

here's Mercédès:

here's Albert (idk this one's a WIP):

here's Benedetto (another of my favourites!!):

and finally, Valentine! (my beautiful darling sweetheart):

i also have playlists for a couple ships i like, so if you're interested in those, feel free to ask, but they're not quite as good lol

[nullphysics]

[waterlilyvioletfog]

Finally finished the Rome segment (woo 37% of the way through my audiobook!! The loan is due tomorrow 😞) of Count of Monte Cristo and. Dumas. DuMAS. This man is just a vampire I love it. Albert is all “dude don’t be so classist the Count is obviously just a weird eccentric millionaire but he’s totally cool and there’s literally no reason for you to be weird about me inviting him to hang out with me at the bachelor pad my parents pay for” and Franz goes “I mean you give plausible explanations but he still seems sketch” yeah Franz it’s the vampirism. Your brain has noticed that the hot smart misanthropic millionaire asking to be introduced around Paris is also basically just a vampire. A vampire with a legitimate and specific revenge mission, but like. Definitely a vampire.