haydeetebelin Review of Monte Cristo

Monte Cristo (1929)

Despite the simplifications, it is a more dignified adaptation than hollywood.

[8/10 · 5 July 2020]

Hollywood adapted the book 3 times (1922, 1934 and 2002) and France adapted it (1918, 1929, 1953, 1954, 1979 and 1998), No hollywood adaptation was satisfactory. This adaptation despite simplifying the stories, and maintains more of the book than the Hollywood adaptations. And it was a more dignified version of the book and deserves to be called adaptation