The problem is not only not being faithful to the book, but the excess of action scenes that are very unrealistic, in addition to the mediocre development of Haydee's character.
I was expecting a more complex story without action scenes like Cleopatra with Liz Taylor. I hoped that the character played by Anamaria vartolomei wouldn't be as shallow a personality as in the film. That she had a more multifaceted personality like that of the Egyptian river.
It's very unlikely that Haydee would fall in love with the son of the man who killed her father. She would choose to have an affair and marry the count, not only for his charm and intelligence, but for the money and power to be able to regain her social position as Cleopatra did when she was Julius Caesar's lover.
The two had common goals and this made it easier for both of them to develop closeness and become lovers.
Jim Caviziel's film is another nonsense about Albert, the count's son. As if Albert, being the count's son, was automatically a happy family. And this is a guarantee that father and son will be friends. See the story of Alexander the Great and his father Philip. Both had a relationship full of conflicts.
The use of a mask and turning Count into a DC and Marvel character was stupid.
The Count is not a hero, he just wants revenge. Just like Caesar, who with a fleet went to take revenge on the pirates who kidnapped him. Caesar was not a hero who hunted bandits, he just wanted to take revenge for his kidnapping, just like the count wanted to take revenge for his imprisonment.
They are distorting the character and leaving him as a one-dimensional comic book hero.
Types of action scenes like wock Wick and Batman are unreal. When you are going to take revenge, you seek help. When Julius Caesar went to avenge his kidnapping by pirates, he had the support of a fleet. When Mark Antony went to avenge Caesar's death, he had an army. The count is not a one-man army. This concept is unrealistic.
If you want to watch a good adaptation, watch the Soviet adaptation The prisoner of Château D'if (1988) or the French miniseries Le Comte de Monte Cristo (1979) with Jacques Weber.
I was expecting a more complex story without action scenes like Cleopatra with Liz Taylor. I hoped that the character played by Anamaria vartolomei wouldn't be as shallow a personality as in the film. That she had a more multifaceted personality like that of the Egyptian river.
It's very unlikely that Haydee would fall in love with the son of the man who killed her father. She would choose to have an affair and marry the count, not only for his charm and intelligence, but for the money and power to be able to regain her social position as Cleopatra did when she was Julius Caesar's lover.
The two had common goals and this made it easier for both of them to develop closeness and become lovers.
Jim Caviziel's film is another nonsense about Albert, the count's son. As if Albert, being the count's son, was automatically a happy family. And this is a guarantee that father and son will be friends. See the story of Alexander the Great and his father Philip. Both had a relationship full of conflicts.
The use of a mask and turning Count into a DC and Marvel character was stupid.
The Count is not a hero, he just wants revenge. Just like Caesar, who with a fleet went to take revenge on the pirates who kidnapped him. Caesar was not a hero who hunted bandits, he just wanted to take revenge for his kidnapping, just like the count wanted to take revenge for his imprisonment.
They are distorting the character and leaving him as a one-dimensional comic book hero.
Types of action scenes like wock Wick and Batman are unreal. When you are going to take revenge, you seek help. When Julius Caesar went to avenge his kidnapping by pirates, he had the support of a fleet. When Mark Antony went to avenge Caesar's death, he had an army. The count is not a one-man army. This concept is unrealistic.
If you want to watch a good adaptation, watch the Soviet adaptation The prisoner of Château D'if (1988) or the French miniseries Le Comte de Monte Cristo (1979) with Jacques Weber.
