ENTERTAINMENT DAILY: ENT3- COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

(1 Nov 2000) English/Nat
Title: Count of Monte Cristo bts
Date: Recent
Location: Ireland
"THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO", the classic novel by ALEXANDRE DUMAS about love, revenge, and redemption is once again being made into a movie.
There have already been over 10 productions of the story, dating all the way back to 1908, and none of the films have been a tearaway success in the same way as the book.
However, all that is set to change - or so hopes KEVIN REYNOLDS, the director of "Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves", who has cast JIM CAVIEZEL ("The Thin Red Line", "Frequency") and GUY PEARCE ("LA Confidential", "Memento") in the principal roles.
The story focuses on the trial and tribulations of Edmond Dantes (JIM CAVIEZEL), an earnest young sailor, who at the beginning of the story is living a wonderful, blessed life.
However, his life is soon turned upside down when his closest friend, Fernand Modego (GUY PEARCE) secretly covets his fiancee Mercedes, played by newcomer DAGMARA DOMINCZYK.
After a string of misfortunes and deceptions, Dantes finds himself incarcerated without trial on an island fortress for many years.
When he finally escapes, he returns to seek out his lost love, search for the legendary treasure of the Island of Monte Cristo, and plot revenge on those that wronged him.
APTN caught up with Pearce, Reynolds, Dominczyk and Caviezel as they were filming scenes in Ireland.
The film also stars veteran Irish actor RICHARD HARRIS, as well as LUIS GUZMAN, who has starred in a string of hit movies, including "Magnolia", "Out Of Sight", and "Boogie Nights".
Guzman stood out like a sore thumb on the day of the filming as he was the only actor out of period costume - instead he was quite content wearing jeans and a baseball cap.
However, he wasn't quite content putting up with the Australian Guy Pearce on set, who he told in no uncertain terms to 'work on that accent'.
JIM CAVIEZEL never really wanted to be an actor, instead putting all his ambition into being a basketball star. However, after a severe sports injury, he decided to become a Hollywood actor.
Since making this decision, he has starred in various films, including the World War II drama "THE THIN RED LINE" and Ang Lee's "RIDE WITH THE DEVIL". He has also appeared in "Frequency" opposite Dennis Quaid, and is currently appearing in American cinemas in "Pay It Forward", alongside Kevin Spacey.
GUY PEARCE began his acting career in the rather hammy Australian soap "Neighbours" and since then he has proved his acting talent by making an international splash as a drag queen in "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert", and since then it appears there is no stopping the actor.
After appearing in the Oscar-winning "LA Confidential", he has gone on to play roles in "Rules of Engagement" and is currently enjoying critical and box office success in the film "Memento".
Director Kevin Reynolds is hoping to achieve the same success with his version of "The Count Of Monte Cristo" as he had with "Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves" almost ten years ago.
The film is due to be released some time next year.
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[@pratyushkaran]

One of the best movies I have ever seen.

[@monalisa2662]

This is the best movie made in the last 40 years. Jim Caviezal takes my breath away...

[@gulyaswift1503]

Yes

[@cowboybeboop9420]

@@gulyaswift1503 It`s in the mix. The last 15-20 years had shit movies but there are good movies in the early 2000s and before that. "Master and Commander" and "Gladiator" are up there as well.

[@carlossartre8030]

Jay Wolpert read how many classics to write this film? He doesn't look like he read many great books to develop this terrible film. From the classics that Dumas read, he realized that it would not be a well-written ending. He read Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (Dumas A., Mes Mémoires, Paris, Bouquins, 2003, p. 590.) and it may have crossed his mind that perhaps he would resolve Edmond and Fernand's situation with a duel like Paris and Menelaus in chap. 3 of the Iliad. Both would duel for Mercedes and the count, like Menelaus, would give Fernand a beating. And the count recovers Mercedes just as Menelaus recovered Helen. Dumas may have gone to read the odyssey. In chapter 4 of the odyssey when Telemachus goes to Sparta and talks to Menelaus to find out news about his father. Menelaus recovered Helen, but needed to use drugs to erase the bitter memories of his wife's stay with Paris in Troy. So Dumas thinks that Edmond would never be happy with Mercedes and would always be haunted by the memories that she was married to Fernand. He may have rethought that maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to do the Count's ending with Mercedes because he would be haunted by the fact that she was married to Fernand. So he wanted to offer hope to his protagonist after the journey of revenge like Homer's odyssey. So he thinks that if he had another love at the beginning of the journey for revenge, he could be happy and the character would give up on revenge. It would have to be like Ulysses, after his revenge, he would reunite with his new bride. And the candidate would be Princess Haydee. She, like the count, was betrayed by the same person, experienced the loss of her freedom and lost everything she had. The two would have a lot in common. There couldn't be a love triangle, because it would take the focus away from the protagonist. Haydee would remain faithful and awaiting the earl's love as Penelope waited for her husband's return. Odysseus was so focused on returning to Ithaca that he didn't realize Nausicaa's love for him, the count thought so much about his revenge that he wouldn't notice Haydée's love. As Penelope turns down her suitors, Haydee says she is not interested in anyone else. As Achilles in the Iliad saw that his revenge was empty, so did Edmond. He saw in faithful Haydée the chance to be happy, a new beginning.

[@andrewwitchell2708]

Favorite movie of all time. It gets better every time I watch it. How is that even possible

[@eddarby469]

I enjoyed this film a great deal. It has such a timeless theme and they captured the mystique of the Count splendidly.

[@tirzahlibert6379]

I love this 'old fashioned style with charm and poise Saw the movie 6x and can't get enough of it. 💕🙏👍🏼🥰

[@MrsRanchoFiesta]

Young Henry Cavill looks like he could be Jim Caviezel's son!

[@debbiecurtis4021]

Jim is only 14 years older than Henry, but they both have the body of a Roman god, and the face of an angel.

[@mcqueen5588]

I used to believe they were actually father-son, that's how much their looks impacted me 🥰🥰🤭

[@missisfreddiemercury]

This movie was so great.

[@bettyjones7739]

A favorite movie of mine

[@himalaynview9722]

I like this movie...

[@albaflecha1473]

Me encanta detrás de las cámaras 😊📽🎬🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🇵🇾

[@mariaespinosa3999]

i have watch this 10x

[@XLB6060]

2:19 😍😍😍

[@tiyopaenguin]

Zatara!

[@gulyaswift1503]

Brilliant actor

[@barbarablue2571]

THE BEST VERSION OF THE COUNT. JIM CAVIEZEL IS EDMOND DANTES AND DAGMARA DOMINCZYK IS MERCEDES, HIS LOVER.

[@barbarablue2571]

@user-qe6oc9gb4f but look now Sounds of the Freedom with Jim. He is opening the eyes of everyone

[@clareching7752]

Real one react what year is the first place or two place ? ? ? ?

[@sharanyanaidoo]

Work on that accent for me. 😂

[@NS-wj6kl]

🤨

[@sharanyanaidoo]

@@NS-wj6kl I'm quoting him :)

[@NS-wj6kl]

Oh

[@kolokotronis84]

Zatara...

[@Thizlamic]

Sounds Fearsome.

[@davidcabreonmunoz6258]

@@Thizlamic It meants driftwood.

[@rebelj3sse992]

@@davidcabreonmunoz6258 aahahahahhahaa

[@debbiecurtis4021]

Driftwood was Edward's smuggler name.

[@elchappo1320]

They dont make women like Mercedes anymore

[@debbiecurtis4021]

I've read the novel, cover to cover. It's rather tedious in many sections. Far too much unnecessary description of irrelevant information. For example details about carriages, weapons, horses. In the novel, Edmond was far more vengeful than in this adaptation. I do like this adaptation. I like Jim Caviziel, he's a great actor, and so dashing handsome. Henry Cavill looked so sweet and innocent. Dagmara was much older than teenaged Henry, and seduced him. Guy Pearce played a good part as the bad guy, he was throughly unlikeable.

[@carlossartre8030]

]part of the common population is not used to reading classics like war and peace by Tolstoy, just low quality books. Jay Wolpert read how many classics to write this film? He doesn't look like he read many great books to develop this terrible film. From the classics that Dumas read, he realized that it would not be a well-written ending. He read Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (Dumas A., Mes Mémoires, Paris, Bouquins, 2003, p. 590.) and it may have crossed his mind that perhaps he would resolve Edmond and Fernand's situation with a duel like Paris and Menelaus in chap. 3 of the Iliad. Both would duel for Mercedes and the count, like Menelaus, would give Fernand a beating. And the count recovers Mercedes just as Menelaus recovered Helen. Dumas may have gone to read the odyssey. In chapter 4 of the odyssey when Telemachus goes to Sparta and talks to Menelaus to find out news about his father. Menelaus recovered Helen, but needed to use drugs to erase the bitter memories of his wife's stay with Paris in Troy. So Dumas thinks that Edmond would never be happy with Mercedes and would always be haunted by the memories that she was married to Fernand. He may have rethought that maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to do the Count's ending with Mercedes because he would be haunted by the fact that she was married to Fernand. So he wanted to offer hope to his protagonist after the journey of revenge like Homer's odyssey. So he thinks that if he had another love at the beginning of the journey for revenge, he could be happy and the character would give up on revenge. It would have to be like Ulysses, after his revenge, he would reunite with his new bride. And the candidate would be Princess Haydee. She, like the count, was betrayed by the same person, experienced the loss of her freedom and lost everything she had. The two would have a lot in common. There couldn't be a love triangle, because it would take the focus away from the protagonist. Haydee would remain faithful and awaiting the earl's love as Penelope waited for her husband's return. Odysseus was so focused on returning to Ithaca that he didn't realize Nausicaa's love for him, the count thought so much about his revenge that he wouldn't notice Haydée's love. As Penelope turns down her suitors, Haydee says she is not interested in anyone else. As Achilles in the Iliad saw that his revenge was empty, so did Edmond. He saw in faithful Haydée the chance to be happy, a new beginning.

[@josephwall429]

Who are you, why are you doing this? We are bad men and for the money.

[@debbiecurtis4021]

Creepy how Dagmara was photographing teenaged Henry Cavill on set. She seduced him whilst they filmed The Count of Monte Cristo.

[@clivealbert1646]

Why don’t you use the real black man to do Monte Cristo because he was a dark man you using European this is not a European story this is a story of a fantastic black man

[@marias.durans.421]

Because Jim Caviezel is a very talented actor and we love him. 😍 I love him in this role, he's perfect💕

[@Dapryor]

He's French, dude.

[@bonzodog67lizardking15]

Just because the book's author was French/Afro-Caribbean it doesn't follow Edmond Dantes was too. You might as well bitch about Othello being black while Shakespeare was white.

[@lucialu833]

Jesus dude.Did you ever read the book? Well I did.It happens in France.All characters in the book are franch.

[@lucialu833]

@@bonzodog67lizardking15 :So lets say like this Romeo and Juliet are Italians.So Shakespeare is Italian too? Hamlet is Princ of Denmark so Shakespeare is from Denmark? 😂Thats not how it works . So stupid I cant.🤦

[@Charles-ly3js]

What a horrible movie. Dialogues, development, revenge and outcome. But that's for the average audience that isn't used to more complex books Never that a writer like Dostoevsky would write something so superficial.

[@rebelj3sse992]

This is the best movie I have ever seen

[@debbiecurtis4021]

Written by Dumas

[@ekaterinaalexandrovnashche3416]

Script is very weak. Yungvald-Khilkevich and Georgi Mark Zakharov did not turn the story into a generic adventure but into a somber vengeance and maintaining a dark count, in the novel he is a Byronian hero. Jay Wolpert did a mediocre job turning a story of revenge into a generic adventure. While Yungvald-Khilkevich and Georgi Mark Zakharov moved the subplots, but kept the main one, Jay Wolpert did a horrible job, removing the Byronian essence of count;

[@esmeralda1703]

A bad actor like Victor Mature and a mediocre movie. The worst adaptation of the book.

[@SPC17]

😯

[@NS-wj6kl]

You need to watch more movies then

[@kangaroo3708]

Then why are you here? Maybe you like it more than you’re letting on 😉

[@clivealbert1646]

Why don’t you use the real black man to do Monte Cristo because he was a dark man you using European this is not a European story this is a story of a fantastic black man

[@lion-o848]

Oh shut up racist. Jim Caviezal did a perfect job. Also we prefer a white french man in these adaptation rather than any other race. (and im black myself)

[@ekaterinaalexandrovnashche3416]

In the novel, the count is French, but the actor made a terrible count, Victor Avilov was the best, maintaining the Byronian count's assistance. Jim Caezel looked like a simple adventurer.

[@ELgeneral-pl9yg]

Probably because having a white guy play the main character has the most appeal and therefore captures a larger audience.

[@lucialu833]

@@ekaterinaalexandrovnashche3416 :I think Jim Cavizel was great! But this version is diffrent,movie cant be like book.Also you should blame movie producers not actors.

[@ekaterinaalexandrovnashche3416]

@@lucialu833 the actor is good, but the script is terrible. This Americanization of a French history that ruins everything. The story takes place in France in the 19th century and not in the USA in the 21st century. All the way of thinking and values do not reflect the ethics and moral of the French, much less the author of the book. That he was a person who acted differently. Very opposite to the film. When a story is adapted, it has to remain close to the culture, ethics and values of the time.