![]() With a fortune at his command, he sets in motion his plans for revenge. He frees himself and is picked up by a smuggling ship.ĭantès later follows Faria's directions and finds the treasure on the uninhabited island of Monte Cristo. The body is sewn into a shroud, but while the undertaker is away, Dantès substitutes himself for the corpse undetected. Before he dies, he bequeaths a vast hidden treasure to his protégé (Faria's enemies had tortured and imprisoned him in an unsuccessful attempt to extract its location). ![]() However, as they near their goal, a cave-in fatally injures the old man. In the meantime, he starts educating Dantès. The two join forces Faria calculates it will take five more years to finish. Heggie), a fellow prisoner, breaks into his cell through a tunnel he has been digging. Deceived, she gives in to her mother's deathbed wish and marries Mondego.Įight years of solitary confinement follow for Dantès. When Napoleon returns to France, giving Dantès' friends hope for his release, de Villefort signs a false statement that he was killed trying to escape, which Mondego shows to Mercedes. De Villefort consigns Dantès without trial to a notorious prison, the Château d'If, on the false testimony of Danglars. However, he, Danglars, and de Villefort all stand to gain from keeping Dantès imprisoned: Mondego is in love with Dantès' fiancée, Mercedes (Landi) Danglars wants to be promoted captain in Dantès' place and the man who accepted the letter turns out to be de Villefort's father ( Lawrence Grant). ![]() (Calhern), is tipped off by an informer, the second officer, Danglars ( Raymond Walburn), and has both men arrested after the exchange.ĭantès' friend Fernand Mondego ( Sidney Blackmer) accompanies him to the jail. However, the city magistrate, Raymond de Villefort, Jr. Before he dies of a sickness, the captain entrusts the task to his first officer, Edmond Dantès (Donat). A letter from the exiled Napoleon is given to the ship's captain to deliver to a man in Marseille. In 1815, a French merchant ship stops at the island of Elba. There is a 100% chance he watches anime.Robert Donat and Elissa Landi in The Count of Monte Cristo If Evey had rejected him he would have typed an 11-paragraph post on r/theredpill. He is like a college freshman that doesn’t shower enough but read The Art of War so he thinks he understands everything there is to know about human nature. Literally everything V says to Evey is the most cringey stuff I have ever heard. Remember when V sends Evey to pretend to be a prostitute for the old creepy priest guy and she’s wearing a short, flouncy dress? Did… did V just have that dress, and makeup, and a curling iron for her? I’m not saying V spent 19 years flirting with a mannequin in that dress, but I’m not not saying it. He just did that for his own enjoyment, in the shape of his own name, probably while he had Evey hostage, bald and starving half to death in a makeshift prison he concocted for his own weird control games. It’s not like you were recording it and putting it on YouTube. Hey, V, did you have fun with your little domino circle that you spent hours on for only you to enjoy? No one else was there with you. Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.”Ĭan you imagine how excited he was that he finally had the chance to give the speech that he had been practicing along in front of the mirror for the past 4 years? ![]() The only verdict is vengeance a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the ‘vox populi’ now vacant, vanished. “Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. If it’s been a while since you saw the movie, here is the speech he gives when he rescues Natalie Portman’s character from some thugs:
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