Un uomo ingiustamente imprigionato riesce a fuggire e a trovare un tesoro nascosto, con il quale finanzierà la sua vendetta contro coloro che lo hanno accusato.Un uomo ingiustamente imprigionato riesce a fuggire e a trovare un tesoro nascosto, con il quale finanzierà la sua vendetta contro coloro che lo hanno accusato.Un uomo ingiustamente imprigionato riesce a fuggire e a trovare un tesoro nascosto, con il quale finanzierà la sua vendetta contro coloro che lo hanno accusato.
- Partygoer No. 2
- (as Maireid Devlin)
- Jacopo
- (as Luis Guzman)
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- QuizScreenwriter Jay Wolpert came up with the idea, not present in the novel, that Fernand Mondego (Guy Pearce) and Edmond Dantes (Jim Caviezel) started out as best friends. His logic was that it would work better as a "buddy" film that turned sinister. Wolpert believed that when a friendship soured, the hate generated was both more terrible and more believable.
- BlooperEdmond's eye color fluctuates between brown and blue throughout the movie.
- Citazioni
Edmond: Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you: as Albert Mondego, the man!
- Versioni alternativeThe UK release was cut, the distributor chose to remove two shots of a man hanging to avoid giving children the impression that a person can hang for some time with no ill effects and in order to obtain a PG classification. An uncut 15 classification was available.
- ConnessioniFeatured in The Count of Monte Cristo: An Epic Reborn (2002)
Edmond Dantes (Caviezel) is a honest young sailor working out of 19th Century Marseilles. His best friend Fernan (Pearce) secretly craves the hand of Dantes's fiancee Mercedes (Dominczyk), so he informs to the authorities that Dantes is a conspirator plotting to aid in Napoleon's escape from Elba. Dantes is sent to a terrible, inescapable island prison, while Fernan takes Mercedes to be his wife. After many years of hardship, Dantes makes an audacious escape and, having acquired a fortune by solving a cryptic treasure map, slowly plots his revenge under the new identity of the "Count of Monte Cristo".
Caviezel was a relative newcomer when he did this film, but he really catches the eye as the innocent man driven to despair by his terrible and unjustified punishment. Pearce is good too, perfecting his arrogant sneer as the deplorable Fernan. The prison scenes are well shot, with the hopelessness and horror of the place captured in considerably believable detail. It's quite surprising that The Count of Monte Cristo was a relative disappointment at the box office, since its dramatic storyline, and the themes of revenge, betrayal and loss, are usually guaranteed crowd-pullers. This film deserves to be seen by more people, and the more people that see it the more its reputation will surely grow.
- barnabyrudge
- 28 mar 2004
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- Budget
- 35.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 54.234.062 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 11.376.150 USD
- 27 gen 2002
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 75.395.048 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione2 ore 11 minuti
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- 1.85 : 1