viernes, 23 de septiembre de 2011

The story continues

A new story is told in the next part of the book, in which two French friends go to Italy for the festival, and there they met the Count of Monte Cristo. They become friends and one night Morcef (one of the French friends) is kidnapped by a famous bandit named Luigi Vampa. Franz (the other friend) goes to the Count to asking for help and without any petition in exchange of his service the count went to see Vampa. As soon as the coutn was recognized by the bandits Morcef is released and Vampa asks for forgiveness.  In this part in the movie, everything is changed, in the move Monte Cristo pays Vampa to kidnap Morcef and then to release him when he appears. I didn’t like so many changes in the novel and in the movie, they are almost different stories. Going back to the book, the Count goes to France and meets with Morcef to be introduced with all the important French people. There he meets ones more with all the people that was in his past but none of them recognize him. The Count likes the idea of not being recognized and he has a nice life for a while with not much movement, but from here he starts his plans to seek revenge and he then knows that Mercedes was Morcef mother. 

domingo, 11 de septiembre de 2011

About the Author

Alexandre Dumas was a French novelist best known for writing The count of Monte Cristo, The three Musketeers, The Vicomte de Bragelonne and Twenty Years After.  I read a part of his biography and I realize that he had a son with the same and he was also a famous writer, therefore some people confuse the novel´s real author.  I can´t really tell the way he wrote during his career because this is the first book I´m reading. However I can tell that he wrote The Count of Monte Cristo in a fictitiously world where the treasure he found had unlimited wealth. The characters are common people in the 1815 and the costumes they have are based on the costumes of the real life; However Edmon Dantes, the main character, has special attributes such as intelligence and knowledge far more than any other human.