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It is easy to see that the "Count of Monte Cristo" plot itself as a glove fits into a series of themes precisely raised by the cultural community: the cult of personality, Stalinist arbitrariness, the Gulag, mass hysteria. denunciations of the pre- and post-war years ... So Edmond Dantes was no wonder then another victim of repression, but decided not to wait for rehabilitation, but to restore his good name on his own, at the same time punishing his whistleblowers and doing justice late.

The film erred in insisting that the count was still in love with Mercedes. He cared for the memory of an old love, Mercedes was just a memory. In Uznik Zamka If, the film did not make that mistake. The count sought revenge without realizing that happiness was to move on and forget the past. For long enough he did not realize he could be happy again with Haydee. "We frequently pass on to happiness without seeing, without regard to it, if we do not see it, yet without recognizing it." (Ch 31).

Dantès declares himself an exile from humanity during the years in which he carries out his elaborate scheme of revenge. He feels cut off not only from all countries, societies, and individuals but also from normal human emotions. Dantès is unable to experience joy, sorrow, or excitement; in fact, the only emotions he is capable of feeling are vengeful hatred and occasional gratitude. It is plausible that Dantès's extreme social isolation and narrow range of feeling are simply the result of his obsession with his role as the agent of Providence. It is not difficult to imagine that a decade-long devotion to a project like Dantès's might take a dramatic toll on one's psychology. Yet Dantès's alienation from humanity is not solely due to his obsessive lust for revenge but also to his lack of love for any living person. Though he learns of his enemies' treachery years before he escapes from prison, his alienation from humanity begins to take hold only when Abbé Faria dies. Until Faria's death, Dantès's love for Faria keeps him connected to his own humanity, by keeping the humanizing emotion of love alive within him. When Dantès learns that his father is dead and that Mercédès has married another man, his alienation is complete. There are no longer any living people whom he loves, and he loses hold of any humanizing force.

This humanizing force eventually returns when Dantès falls in love with Haydée. This relationship reconciles Dantès to his humanity and enables him to feel real emotion once again. In a triumphant declaration of emotion, he says to Haydée, "through you I again connect myself with life, through you I shall suffer, through you rejoice." Dantès's overcomes his alienation, both from society and from his own humanity, through his love of another human being.

Cinema has to remember what feelings may change and after so many years apart from Mercedes, Edmond's feelings have changed. Haydee for having a past similar to Edmond's is the ideal person to understand him and not Mercedes.

The five best adaptations Le Comte de monte-Cristo (1979) The count of Monte Cristo (1964) Uznik Zamka If (1988) El Conde de Montecristo (1941) Gankutsuou (2005)

They turned a bitter, resentful person into an irritated person, losing the depth of Count's character, making him a banal clueless cliche.

Eat by the edges. Informing himself of his rottenness, Monte Cristo destroys his enemies by making them face their own evil, avoiding at the most confronting them directly. In life, stuck your finger in the nose of someone speaking what we consider to be the truth, will only bring us more problems and certainly an enemy. It's best to stay in the shadows. They turned the count and a Machiavellian man into a generic punisher of HQ. From well-crafted revenge using cunning to action and fights idiots. Omitted that Count's revenge had unexpected effects and affected innocent. A stupid clichéd romance that forgets that people change, their feelings change, Edmond's feelings for Mercedes have changed and he does not love her anymore, he has affection, but there is no passion. It was an immature end not recognizing that people and your feelings change and we can rather love other people. Edmond and Mercedes were separated for many years and obviously their feelings would change. Aydee is the ideal person for Count, she has an equal past and understands the suffering and feelings of the Count much better than Mercedes who only has the favor of being Count's first love, but whom he does not find for many years while he was close to Haydee and of course he fell in love with her. The end taught me that if we lose a person we love, we can find another than to live the illusion of regaining our first love when people change.

Most of the adaptations retain the original ending and do not hold Hollywood's immature ending.