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bill_mchale · 12-12-2008, 02:43 PM

I haven't actually read them yet (Though I did start War and Peace and get a few pages in back when I was still a teenager). Thats why I suggested them as ideas to read after the CMC

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Basically, I am convinced that few novels can be given a decent treatment by a 2 hour movie. IMHO, the best novel adaptation of the last decade was the Lord of the Rings Trilogy... and it took three movies each pushing three hours long. I figure it would take that to give a decent treatment to the Count of Monte Cristo as well.

The only Dumas novel that ever had a film adaptation that seriously tried to follow the novel seems to have been the Three Musketeers and that took two movies to get the whole book in.

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Bill

12-12-2008, 02:43 PM	#29
bill_mchale Wizard Posts: 1,451 Karma: 1550000 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Maryland, USA Device: Nook Simple Touch, HPC Evo 4G LTE	I haven't actually read them yet (Though I did start War and Peace and get a few pages in back when I was still a teenager). Thats why I suggested them as ideas to read after the CMC . Basically, I am convinced that few novels can be given a decent treatment by a 2 hour movie. IMHO, the best novel adaptation of the last decade was the Lord of the Rings Trilogy... and it took three movies each pushing three hours long. I figure it would take that to give a decent treatment to the Count of Monte Cristo as well. The only Dumas novel that ever had a film adaptation that seriously tried to follow the novel seems to have been the Three Musketeers and that took two movies to get the whole book in. -- Bill