What's the best Count of Monte Cristo adaptation, /tv/?
/v/ for vendetta
>>69601762
Read the book instead.
the anime tbqh
>>69601762
The book.
Gankutsuou is amazing, though.
>>69601762
that 2002 movie is not an adaption
they wrote another story and slapped the name count of monte cristo on it
Read the book, fuck adaptations.
>>69601933
>MUH DOWNER ENDING
Faggot.
The one on the left.
It doesn't stay faithful to the book but who gives a shit?
>>69601912
this.
but it would have been a lot better without the homo subtext and if they would have put franz and cristos meeting before rome in.
1998 miniseries or fuck off.
It's honestly Gankutsuou, which is crazy considering it's set in the future and involves space vampires and shit.
They need to make a big budget mini-series if they want to do anything like a full adaptation that follows the book.
>>69601933
>>69602150
The revenge was the entire point of the novel. The 2002 movie dropped it for more relatable, believable characters. The novel didn't have a downer ending either, new life sprouted, happy and free.
>>69605018
This. We need a BBC One mini series.
>>69605018
>>69605163
Careful what you wish for.
>David S. Goyer will direct an adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo.[26]
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/david-goyer-direct-count-monte-429489
>a "We want the Game of Thrones audience!" Monte Cristo miniseries
christ please no
Just leave it alone, we don't need yet another adaptation. Now look I'm not even one of those >MUH BOOK WAS ALWAYS BETTER fags but people should just read the damn book. It's so damn good and yet still amazingly accessible, even for a today's remedial throwbacks who've never read anything longer than the ad copy on a package of chicken tendies.
>>69605568
Most people have read the book, which is why they want a proper adaptation...
>>69605919
I read the book and I don't want an adaptation because it would be fucking stupid.
>>69605973
Why are you even on the TV and film board if you don't like TV and film?
>>69602150
Haydee > Mercedes
Anyone who disagrees is literally a cuck. Dantes knew this so he bought a slave princess.
>>69605919
>>69605973
>>69601917
>>69602134
>>69601849
But the book is as big as Infinite Jest.
>>69606024
Nice reductio ad absurdum. I like television and film, that doesn't mean I believe they're the best mediums for every single story. There's no way to go but down when you attempt to adapt something that works as perfectly as this one does in its original form.
>>69606119
*best media, whatever
>>69602150
>DOWNER ENDING
>Sailing off in the sunset with a Greek Queen and a stash of gold
I guess it's a downer ending cause I'll never have that in my life.
>>69602514
>1998 miniseries
You mean the one where Depardieu is supposed to have spent decades in a dungeon and still manages to be a fat fuck?
Also that ending was shit because he goes back with Mercedes the whore.
>>69605568
>It's so damn good and yet still amazingly accessible
It's amazing how good it still is. Dumas would have loved cinema for sure.
>>69606046
Force yourself to read at least 5 pages everyday. You won't be able to put it down. You will not regret it.
No doubt about it.
>>69606450
>>69601917
>>69605018
I watched one episode of the anime and thought the style looked cool but I wasn't drawn in that much.
Just I give it another try?
>>69606583
It starts off a little slow, but once the story gets going you wont be able to stop watching.
>>69606737
Gotcha, the book had me in from the get go because Dantes gets sent to prison pretty fast and the whole revenge plot start building up.
The anime seems to start at the Rome carnivale, which is not a bad starting point but doesn't give you as much a desire to know where shit is going.
>>69606854
The anime is generally told from Albert's perspective, which is why it begins where it does.
>>69607037
Interesting perspective, I'll try to stick to it this time then.
>>69607037
I thought Albert was the weakest character in the anime. Not sure why the writers added Homolust between him and the Count when the count already had best girl Haydee.
>>69607677
>Not sure why the writers added Homolust between him and the Count
In the book, there's a form of admiration from Albert towards the Count, and some kind of endearment from the Count towards Albert since he's the child of the woman he loved 25 years before.
It's not really homolust in the book, it's just 19th century love between two hetero men.
>>69601762
The Count of Monte Cristo was the original anime.
![40d849f1cdce0c481bc832b1cae0f169a94939db_hq[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/LlXqBVN.jpg "40d849f1cdce0c481bc832b1cae0f169a94939db_hq[1].jpg")
>>69607677
>best girl
>haydee
That's not how you spell Peppo.
>>69608071
is there also a tranny in the books?
it's kind of weird that they turned franz gay while making danglars daughter hetero
>>69601762
>robots
>vampires
>traps
thank you japan
God tier ED theme. https://youtu.be/OnNd5XVFKOM
>baby's first novel
seriously the book has literally no depth, how many have you read to think it is "good"?
>>69607876
What's albert like in the book? In the anime they make him out to be very dumb
>>69608609
He's real cocky and smug but he's kind at hart. Not dumb in the slightest but a bit spoiled.
>>69608580
>the book has literally no depth
It's an adventure book, not the Republic by Plato.
>>69601762
I dropped the 2002 version when Superman snapped Edward's neck. Can't believe they put that in there.
There's a pretty good miniseries done by the french in the late 70's, early 80's that is the best for me, sadly I've only ever seen it in french and no subs, after that one the animu.
>>69608223
Yes, actually. But he's only mentioned a couple of times if I remember correctly
bumo
>>69606737
>>69606583
>>69606583
I personally got tired of it. The Monte Cristo elements get lighter and lighter and I pretty much dropped it when the Mech fights started and the gay boy stuff got more blatant
