>on 4/5/02 2:22 pm, Brad DeLong at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> 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) >>> . >>> . >>> . >>> . >>> . >>> . >>> . >>> . >>> . >>> . >>> . >>> . >>> . >>> . >>> . >>> . >>> . >>> . >>> . >>> . > >> >Even the most recent TV mini-series version hacks up the plot mercilessly , >*adds* a completely new character as a love interest whilst relegating >Haydee to a minor plot device and puts Edmond and Mercedes back together at >the end. > >But what to do with a story featuring 'a female serial poisoner, two cases >of infanticide, a stabbing and three suicides; an extended scene of torture >and execution; drug-induced sexual fantasies, illegitimacy, transvestism and >lesbianism' ? > >-- >William T Goodall
???? This *is* Alexander Dumas we're talking about, right? Not S.M. Stirling? Brad DeLong "If there is an Epesiarch on stage in Act I, the entire audience must be expelled into intergalactic space through a rip in the continuum by Act III." -- Galactic Proverbs 5728:11(f)
