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2020年12月6日发(作者：徐净武)




Movie Report
The Count of Monte Cristo




















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The Count of Monte Cristo

Introduction
The Count of Monte Cristo is a 2002 adventure film directed by Kevin Reynolds,based on
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) ,an adventure novel by French
author Alexandre Dumas (père). He completed the work in 1844[1].
The film is the tenth adaptation of the book of the same name by Alexandre Dumas, père
and stars Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Luis Guzmán, Richard Harris, and Dagmara Dominczyk.[2]
The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book. An adventure story primarily
concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy and forgiveness.

Summary of the movie
Edmund Dantes' rise from a lowly sailor to the famed Count. Edmund is hopelessly devoted
to Mercedes, but lacking money, he feels he is not in a position to marry her until he's able to
afford a ring. She loves him no matter what his financial status (it's not about the money). In love,
Mercedes is blissfully unaware of Edmund's best friend's lust for her. Jealousy rears its ugly head
as Fernand, out of his mind with desire for Mercedes, schemes to get Mercedes no matter what the
cost.
Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, torn away from his family and his fiancée,
Edmund spends 15 years locked away in a damp prison, most of which is spent learning fighting
and survival skills from a wizened old criminal, played with gentle humor by Richard Harris.
Meanwhile, Fernand and Mercedes marry despite the fact that she never got over her love of
Edmund. The plot thickens with Edmund's escape from prison and his secret reemergence as the
dashing, and wealthy, Count of Monte Cristo.
Then he arrange a series of traps to accomplish his y, he makes it,reuniting his
fiancée and the brave son,living in peace then.

Theme analysis
Revenge
When Dantes is unfairly given a life-prison sentence by his enemies (Villefort, Danglars,
and Fernand), he spends every waking moment planning his revenge. As soon as Dantes
miraculously escapes and returns to the world with riches, he sees it as a sign that God has opened
for him the door of revenge.
No longer does the reader recognize the pre-prison Dantes. To reinforce this change, Dumas
refers to Dantes as the Count of Monte Cristo once he returns to society. Though he rewards those
who treated him and his father well, most of the story is devoted to Monte Cristo's desire for
vengeance. Throughout the story, Dantes changes disguises in order to deceive those around him
and further his own agenda of punishment for his enemies.
At first he hopes to punish himself by committing suicide, but when Haydee admits her love
for him, the count takes it as a sign from God that he is forgiven. Monte Cristo concludes the
book with these two parting quotes:
Count:
like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that
supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.

Comment on the performance
The fight scenes are amazingly fluid, swordplay seeming to come naturally to both Guy
Pearce and Jim Caviezel. The film also features a humorous performance from the talented Luis
Guzman as a man devoted to the CountEdmund. While some of the lines used in both the prison
scenes and the scenes between Guzman and Caviezel are a bit unbelievable (there
occasionally seems to be a tad too much of the new millennium in the way they speak), most of
the scenes are true to the times and the scenery and sets are authentically breathtaking.
Ignore the fact that the posters for the film bare a greater resemblance to Antonio Banderas
in
the romantic leading manaction hero. He emerges as a first-class romantic leading man, and his
action sequences are equally thrilling. Guy Pearce makes a wickedly good villain, the kind you
actually want to hiss at while he's on the screen. Dagmara Dominczyk is perfection as the love
interest, growing from an innocent young woman into a resigned wife and mother.

Conclusion
“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered
on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.[3]”
Reference
[1]The Count of Monte Cristo(2002 Film).Wikipedia.
[2]The Count of Monte Cristo (2002). IMDb Pro.
[3]The Count of Monte dre orth Editions Ltd,1999.