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Don Sezar de Bazan (1989)
A great movie
I loved Anna Samokhina as the beautiful gypsy maritana in this movie classic.
Uznik zamka If (1988)
The best Version
Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich made an excellent version of the story.
"Thou wast right. For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance. " - The Brothers karamazov by Dostoevsky
Edmond used to live to become a vengeance, the vengeance that made him want to continue living, but only vengeance, his life lost meaning to exist and then with the love of Haydee, he had a new meaning for his life.
Monte Cristo (1922)
A horrible and poorly written film
Edmond Dantes is not a generic fox as Homer simpson believe. He is a dark, powerful, unforgiving figure, but he can be generous. Here he looks like a generic fighter and sme his dark charm as in the book.
Lower than the French version of 1929.
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Ruining Mina harker
The film simply ruined the character Mina Murray. She is like Margarita in Master and margarita, a woman with strong values and who protects the man she loves and not an idiot who would be seduced by a psychopath.
The screenwriter ruined his character.
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Terrible
This version is the worst of all the adaptations in the book.
Screenwriter Jay Wolpert behaved like comprachicos in The man who laughs by Victor Hugo and disfigured the story. There is no excuse for the time limitation, because the 1975 version with Richard Chamberlain and the Argentine version of 1953 with Jorge Mistral had the same problems in relation to time, but remained much more similar to the book than this terrible fanfiction. Without the qualities of grandeur, sophistication of the character and the whole story in a generic adventure without sophistication.
While Viktor Avilov in the film The Prisoner of Château d'If, a Soviet adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' novel played Edmond Dantes in someone closer to Woland in Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, someone very powerful, great, cynical, relentless, but generous , Jim Cavizell played a count of monte Cristo, without the grandeur, cynicism of the character. He looks more like a clown who keeps jumping like a monkey and screaming like a crazy idiot with no intelligence. A street bully and unsophisticated.
Mercedes had her tragic heroine personality altered to be a more active woman, but she lacks the qualities of Margarita who fights bravely to protect her beloved in Master and Margarita by Bulgakov or has the devotion of Dea in The man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo , to prove someone worthy of Edmond. She is not someone who is worthy of his love. She doesn't have the quality to arouse a new love in Edmond, she is useless to him.
Revenge is the worst, they forgot the brilliance of the count in using the vices of their antagonists to destroy them. Showing how much nothing has changed internally and remain the same scoundrels. They replaced it with generic struggles without greatness.