Re: It's pretty obscure, you've probably never heard of it. Also it's on Netflix Inst
Man, perfect timing, too. Last weekend I attempted to watch a 90s French mini-series version thinking that Dumas' countrymen would have greater respect for the source material even if they didn't have the best production values. Wrong. The adaptation was offensively bad.
I get that you have to cut plot elements because Count is an insanely complicated book, but there is no justification whatsoever to then turn around and insert whole new hackneyeyed horseshit subplots. I guarantee you whatever your screenwriters come up with will not be better than what Alexandre Dumas came up with originally. I guarantee you this.
Also, and this is really a newsflash for all of France, Gerard Depardieu is not right for every part in the French literary canon. He is so atrociously miscast as the Count that even as I type the words my flesh crawls.
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