>I've just watched _The Count of Monte Cristo_. The movie >is good _qua_ movie, even thought I have some doubts wrt >the conversion book -> movie. Namely: > >(spoiler space) >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. > >IIRC, in the book Mondego's son is really his son, and the Count >refrains from going in his revenge through the end, saving the >boy's life, and becoming a little more heroic than in the movie, >where he only spares the boy _after_ knowing that he is >_his_ son. > >Alberto Monteiro
And in the movie Edmond Dantes winds up marrying his TWUE LOVE, his original fiancee, while in the book he does not. The key differences are, I think, that we are a more romantic and less realistic civilization than nineteenth-century France, and that we also demand greater "tightness" of plot. Brad DeLong "Never believe that a wolfling foe is dead until you have counted and eaten the pieces." -- Galactic Proverbs 184876:23(f)
