And he’s not the kind of guy who lets friendship get in the way.
But Dantes’ best buddy, Fernand Mondego (Pearce), a moneyed and amoral libertine, also desires the fair maiden. Once home, Dantes resumes his romance with the beautiful Mercedes (Dagmara Dominczyk). Even more unfortunately, Dantes naively accepts a message from Bonaparte (an authoritative cameo by Alex Norton) to deliver to one of the banished emperor’s friends back in France. Wolpert even manages to clarify for contemporary auds the squabbles of opposing political forces in 19th century France in the wake of Napoleon Bonaparte’s banishment to Elba.ĭrama begins as Edmond Dantes (Caviezel), an idealistic young French sailor, leads a boatload of companions to Elba in search of medical help for their ship’s captain. Scripter Jay Wolpert does an intelligent job of compressing and reconstituting his source material, remaining faithful to the spirit - and, to a surprising degree, the letter - of Dumas’ original narrative.
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