'hey so what's the plot of Count of Monte Cristo?'
The plot:
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'hey so what's the plot of Count of Monte Cristo?'
The plot:
Thank you to Red from OSP for making a Count of Monte Cristo video. I now finally have the appropriate image to make this meme that has been bouncing around in my head for years
always thinking about the 1840s lesbian elopment
Some of my absolute favorite dialogues in tcomc are when the characters are just barely getting to know the Count and they're instantly seduced by his effortless charisma before the Count, unprompted, gets started on a supervillain fucking joker rant about how humanity is inherently cruel and that he thinks torture is awesome and believes he is an angel sent by God to punish sinners, and the rest of the characters get a sudden revelation that this man's wallet is only the tip of the iceberg of whatever the fuck is wrong with him.
"Have you suffered a great deal, Monsieur?" is only five minutes into their conversation and Franz completely slams the Count with this single sentence.
Modern writing advice: don't info dump! You can write it down for yourself if you need to but don't keep long world building info dumps
Classic authors : I'm going to write 50 pages of info dump for something that will be relevant for three sentences
We always find greatness in the dead. In the end, we forgive them. I don't want anyone to forgive you.
I mean I adore the count of monte cristo for so many reasons but it genuinely still gets me every time that alexandre dumas took the time while writing this story to include a subplot of a lesbian who was about to get arranged-marriage'd disguising herself as a man to run away with her lesbian lover with -and this is the funniest part- the help of the single most psychopathic man currently residing in paris whose sole motivation for being there is to bring pain and suffering to those who wronged him but took the day off to help the nice lesbians escape. nobody's doing it like alexandre dumas fr. eugénie danglars with the butch swag you will always be famous to me.
PIERRE NINEY and ANAMARIA VARTOLOMEI in Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (2024) dir. Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière