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Troy (2004)
this adaptation is garbage
This adaptation was made not for those who read Iliad, but for those who did not read Homer, but is used to disney films, HQs marvel, films of action generic
The action scenes are horrible, important characters like Diomedes and Nestor are excluded, changes in the story to meet the demands of an audience that has not read Iliad and has no culture.
Romance between Helen and Paris is generic and contradicts odyssey and Iliad when she was influenced by Aphrodite, but despised the coward of Paris. Historical anachronisms.
Helen of Troy (1956)
Mediocre film for those who read Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
Very pathetic the attempt to make Paris a romantic hero, when he is just a cowardly playboy who was despised by the Greeks.
These hollywood films are very naive and suitable for the normal audience that has never read Homer.
Troy: Fall of a City (2018)
It's not a perfect series
Despite the changes in history and having a black achilles, this series can be superior to the 2004 version that is garbage,
Anna Karenina (1935)
We Live Again is better
In addition to the story of we live again being more profound, with social criticism and a history of redemption, this film flirted the parallel of the relationship between anna and vronski with Kitty an levine, who are the ideal couple model for tolstoy.
Tolstoy criticized hedonistic love for lustful love based on companionship, compassion and charity.
We Live Again (1934)
A masterpiece along with Les Misérables
While Anna karenina is just a story about adultery, We live again and Les Miserables is a powerful social critique of social inequality, the situation of prisons, retreat and the redemption of individuals for past failures.
Frederick March was excellent in this film and in the classic based on the book by Victor Hugo.
These are two very profound stories.
Tolstoy was a genius
Little Women (2019)
Horrible movie
I am happy that Greta Gerwig did not adapt Les Miserables and War and peace which are very complex classics for her to understand and destroyed them in a mediocre adaptation.
It is enough to have destroyed The count of monte cristo and The hunchback in mediocre adaptations.
Les Misérables (2018)
Less than 2000 version with Gerard Depardieu
Simply mediocre version of a great classic.
Horrible version along with the count of Monte Cristo (2002), the man who laughs, Les Miserables (2012)
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Generic adaptation
''... legislators and leaders of men, such as Lycurgus, Solon, Mahomet, Napoleon, and so on, were all without exception criminals, from the very fact that, making a new law, they transgressed the ancient one, handed down from their ancestors and held sacred by the people, and they did not stop short at bloodshed either, if that bloodshed--often of innocent persons fighting bravely in defence of ancient law--were of use to their cause.'' - Crime and Punishiment by Dostoevsky
The count of the movie does not have the sinister charm of the book count who was a cruel person who thought he was above the law and who was in the right to break the rules to punish those who in the past harmed him, without initially thinking of the innocents who would be. affected. The movie has a generic character.
The romance between Edmond and Mercedes is forced.
"Frailty, Thy Name is Woman" - Hamlet by Shakespeare
Like Hamlet with Ophelia, Edmond had Mercedes' heartache at marrying Mondego. He didn't ask for it, he still had affection, but there was hurt in his heart.
Turning Albert into Edmond's son is not enough for Edmond to stay with Mercedes. Author of novel, Alexandre Dumas had several children with other women and was not enough to marry one of them.
As for the age difference between Edmond and Haydee, this was never a problem for Alexandre Dumas. He had a daughter with Emélie Cordier. who was 38 years younger than him. No problem in the age difference, because Dumas had younger lovers than him.
Haydee was a slave, referring to the origins of Alexandre Dumas, he was the grandson of a slave. It was his preference for a girl who had the same origins as him.
The Musketeers (2014)
The Social Justice Warriors have made a horrible adaptation.
This script is simply weak and with a badly developed story. It was one of the worst versions of the book.
The feminism to try to victimize the milady was terrible. As if women were men's victims and not just someone who ambitiously shoved another way.
The 70's version may not be perfect, but far better than this horrible feminist version of the Dumas classic.
Gankutsu-ô (2004)
A reasonable adaptation, but with flawed
A good anime, but I don't see it superior to the book or the Soviet version of 1988.
Edmond Dantes is closely associated with Gwynplaine from The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, who was a victim of the greatest injustices and losing everything and abandoned in misery. Both symbolize suffering in the face of powerful groups and that these groups create the monsters that will destroy them, multiplying them.
In this the count is just a one-dimensional villain, not the one tormented by their suffering, wanting to destroy those responsible for their misfortunes, punishing them, but able to do good and realize when their revenge has gone too far.
I liked to emphasize a lot marriage, but no love; family, but no no family love; riches, but no conscience; justice, but no equity; order, but no equilibrium; authority, but no right; power, but no intelligence; splendour, but no light. These attacks on society
I miss the Edmond and Haydee relationship. They were beyond the pale of hope, and had reached the depth of possible calamity; they had sunk into it, both of them. An observer who had watched them would have felt his reverie melt into immeasurable pity. What must they not have suffered! The decree of misfortune weighed visibly on these human creatures, and never had fate encompassed two beings who had done nothing to deserve it, and more clearly turned destiny into torture, and life into hell. They were in a Paradise. They were in love. Their love and care and care kept them from falling into the abyss of despair.
They turned the story about a madman who just cause disaster without any compassion. When he still had human feelings and capable of noble deeds, he realized that he went too far.
The ending was a disaster when in the book Edmond realized it was the wrong way. Just a monster dying in the anime, in the book he's a bitter person.
What was destiny? A snare. Situation? Despair. Society? Hatred. And himself? A defeated man. (He felt remorse for his revenge). Society is the stepmother (only hurt him), God is the father. Society is the world of the body, God is the world of the soul. The one tends to the coffin, to the deal box in the grave, to the earth-worms, and ends there. The other tends to expanded wings, to transformation into the morning light, to ascent into the firmament, and there revives into new life. That demon with the count was terrible when the divine providence that gave him help. As if he were a demon, not someone who got a second chance and went too far.
It is not money, revenge or glory, social status that will make you happy, but Haydee's love that gives you new hope with your pure heart.