#The Count of Monte Cristo 2024

[romangoldendreams]

The Count of Montecristo (2024)

Sam Claflin as Edmond Dantes & Ana Girardot as Mercedes Herrera

Mikkel Foolsgard as Villefort

Jeremy Irons as Abate Faria

Harry Taurasi as Fernand Mondego

Blake Ritson as Danglars

#the count of monte cristo #the count of monte cristo 2024 #edmond dantes #sam claflin #anna girardot #mercedes herrera #mercedes igualada #edmond x mercedes #le comte de monte cristo #blake ritson #jeremy irons #harry turasi #mikkel foolsgard #villefort #danglars #fernand mondego #revenge #count of montecristo x mercedes

[mzannthropy]

#the count of monte cristo #sam claflin #the count of monte cristo 2024 #(idk i'm just guessing it's this year don't come at me) #sam claflin monte cristo #samblogging #this poster is the best thing i've seen this year so far #mypost

[blake-ritson-love]

Blake being in the Monte Cristo series and not playing Edmond Dantes? We lost!

I agree he would have slayed it as Edmond, or Villefort for that matter, but I bet he'll bring lots of his own flair to Danglars, character. They've also said they'll explore the psychology of all the characters, so I think that sounds like they'll have a more complex take on the villains as well, especially in comparison to other adaptations.

#asks #Blake Ritson #Danglars #Baron Danglars #Bille August #The Count of Monte Cristo #The Count of Monte Cristo 2024

[throwing-roses-into-the-abyss]

Yes hello can I have this suit please. You can keep the man. I just want the clothes.

#the count of monte cristo 2024 #my favourite thing is when it's almost like you can FEEL the clothes when you look at them #look at all that structure. the fabric choices. #not sure about the pants but the waistcoat??? gimme #it looks sturdy and velvety and Old

[highfunctioningflailgirl]

Wait, what?! Why did nobody tell me this was a thing?!😍

Although, after “The Three Musketeers - Milady” never made it to German movie theaters, I’d be surprised if this one made it to the big screen here.

I WANT TO SEE THIS! Pretty please?!🙏

#the count of monte cristo 2024 #alexandre dumas #😍 #Youtube

[mytortoisegotstuckinatupperware]

LISTEN I was gonna start reading dune and accidentally started the count of monte cristo so idk what to tell you

#dune books #dune part two #dune movie #dune 2 #dune #dune part 2 #paul atreides #dune 2024 #count of monte cristo #alexander dumas

[bestmusicalworldcup]

#best musical world cup #2024 best musical world cup #musicals #broadway #musical theater #musical theatre #theater #theatre #polls #next to normal #the count of monte cristo #allegiance musical #wiedzmin

[valiantnomore]

10 books I recommend everyone read at least once:

-The Scarlet Pimpernel

-The Count of Monte Cristo

-Howl's Moving Castle

-A Doll's House (yes i know this is a play)

-The Hobbit

-Persuasion

-Angels in America (shh it's another play)

-The City in Which I Love You

-There There

-Interpreter of Maladies

#there's very little rhyme or reason to these books but as someone with a master's degree in literature i feel at least semi-qualified #to have an opinion #genuinely even if you don't think these would be your cup of tea #even if you don't read very often #give these a try #most of them are relatively quick reads too #(Count of Monte Cristo being the clear exception) #TCoMC is hands down my favorite book of all time though so there's that #anyway #if you're looking for something different to read give one of these a try #2024 mood #book recommendations

[theladysilvermoon]

Just found out today that Danish director Bille August is making a new Count of Monte Cristo miniseries staring Sam Claflin and that it's out coming this year!

I am so hyped!!

#sam caflin #count of monte cristo #bille august #miniseries #mini series #2024 #i'm so hyped

[renegadeguild]

Edible Book Day 2024

the appetizers

A Commonplace Snack by Daemonluna

A collection of tropes and other ephemera, rendered in nori and rice paper. Sewn with a glass sweet potato noodle, ornamented with cilantro and lime.

This is how we roll (bamboo slips) by anonymous

This is the first book I have made since joining Renegade. I didn't think I'd get to make books and eat them too.

The (Not Actually) Matzah Plague Board Book by Noodle and Noodle's Auntie

10 Plagues by Noodle and Noodle's Auntie. Illustration by Noodle and Noodle's Auntie. Writing and Binding by Noodle. Materials: Gluten Free Matzo Substitute, fruit roll ups, fruit by the foot, sour belts, licorice, fruit rolls, sour sticks, cumin, water.

a fluffy breaduation by Sandy Kitty Bindery

i do not regret anything... except maybe the dentist bills ;)

Pancake Scroll by Zhalfirin

This was a lot easier than I had anticipated. A bit bland because I wasn't sure what I'd do the painting with and therefore didn't season the batter. It goes really well with a side of salmon and soy sauce though.

the mains

the iron chef secret ingredient was lasers by Lark

lasers are friends not food.

6/10, at least I chose turkey this year.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Thunder (Dragon's Thunder Press)

This was my first book bind ever. The case is French toast. The 2 signatures are each made of 3 omelet folios, and they're sewn with mozzarella string cheese strands. The end pages are each a slice of prosciutto, and they're pasted in with raspberry fruit syrup. Finally, the titling was done with black icing.

Sandwiches (And Books) Are Beautiful by Velvetwastaken

The ‘book’ ultimately failed to be readable as such due to a betrayal by the onion binding. But it tasted amazing, and thus I think still encapsulated the spirit of edible book day: good books are meant to be devoured.

and of course… … the desserts!

Mistakes were Marbled by anonymous

I baked a strawberry cake with buttercream icing. The buttercream set a bit too quickly for the marbled effect to work, and attempts to fix it caused structural damage, resulting in ... this. I would like half-points for retaining good flavor, despite appearances.

Brandy Snaps by Lottie

Brandy snaps for the pages, strawberry laces for thread. Complete with two weaver’s knots to tie the strawberry laces together

Book Cookies by six

Sadly not fully functional books - the cases are rigid sugar cookies baked into various open forms. The pages are edible wafer paper marked up here and there w/ an edible ink pen and the frosting quite tasty! Experimented with two different sizes and various page configurations. Fed some of them to various Renegade members. There were no fatalities.

Titles are overrated by Zhalfirin

I'm still baffled this turned out the way it did.

It's a delicious little baumkuchen chonker (app. A6 in size and about 6cm thick) cased in chocolate powdered marzipan.

Don't forget to vote for your favorite! And check out last year's winners here.

#edible book day #fanbinding #bookbinding #renegade guild #renegade events

[literary-illuminati]

2024 Book Review #8 – The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham James

This has been on my tbr for long enough that I entirely forget what originally put it there – the only thing I actually knew going in was that the author was ‘the My Heart is a Chainsaw guy’ (I have not read My Heart is a Chainsaw yet either). Given the genre, that was honestly probably ideal. As was the fact that a blizzard hit a couple days after I started it and I’ve been reading it looking out on a frozen snowscape – it’s very much a winter sort of story.

The story’s told in five parts of wildly varying lengths, each with it’s own endearingly cheesy b-horror movie title and each following a different protagonist. The first four each follow one of a friend group who, as a bunch of fuckup teenagers, trespassed on hunting grounds that were really supposed to be reserved for elders and shot a bunch of elk they had no right to – including a pregnant young cow who was for one reason or another special. Ten years later, the Elk-Headed Woman drags herself back into the world, and begins getting her vengeance for the death of her and her child on each of them (and everyone they care about) in turn.

I have a longstanding opinion that a full-length novel is just too long to sustain a real horror story – by 300 pages things have fairly reliably collapse into urban fantasy or action or farce. The breakup into different parts solves this very well – they’re all very much connected and interwoven, but each feels like its own distinct narrative unit with its own tension and rising action.

And this is very much a horror story in the classic, just barely short of shlocky sense. A trespass against vague but understood sacred laws that leads to horrific and bloody retribution against everyone involved is as close to archtypal horror as you can possibly get, after all. The last section is even focused on a Final Girl! Specifically, it’s a subgenre that I can’t really name but feels very familiar to me – and one I’ve always been a huge fan of, anyway. It’s somewhere downstream of The Count of Monte Cristo, a story where the agent of supernatural doom spends the majority of the story consciously working in the background, manipulating events and exacerbating the protagonist/victim’s flaws to lead them to a contrived but tragic end? Think the netflix Fall of the House of Usher, but like about the exact opposite end of the socioeconomic spectrum.

Class is very much something the book cares about. All four protagonists grew up poor on a reservation with little in the way of wealth or opportunity, and by the time they’d turned eighteen all four of them were the kind of young asshole who made life just a little bit worse for everyone around them dealing with the same shit. Ten years latter the three of them who’ve survived that long have gotten over themselves and matured in their own way (and to their own degree), but none of them are exactly flush with cash or living lives of bourgeois respectability (though Lewis comes close). The precarity and only tenuous connections to the society around them just make them better prey for what’s hunting them, of course – in every case, death comes after the (either metaphorical or very viscerally literal) destruction of the few close ties they have, and the only one to survive is also the only one who could really expect people to come rushing to their rescue.

Speaking of close ties the protagonists have – the book’s conception of gender is fascinatingly weird, or at least fascinating in the sense that I’m not at all sure how intentional it is. Of the four main victims, one dies alone at eighteen, and the other three who survive the next ten years are all pretty much explicitly saved (or at least improved and uplifted) by a relationship with a woman who, if not flawless, is basically strictly his moral and practical better. Even the most consistent fuckup of the group has a redeeming feature of being willing to do just about anything for his daughter (despite having lost the chance to really be a big part of her life several times over). With one exception, these women all then die, messily, entirely and explicitly to fuck with and ruin the lives of their men. It’s like someone read Women in Refrigerators and went ‘well there’s an idea...’. It’s blatant enough that I feel like it’s got to be making a deliberate point, but (unless it’s just genre emulation) what the point is does escape me slightly.

Also on the note of stuff I’m quite sure is going over my head at least a bit – basketball! It’s a pretty vital thread running through the entire book, to the point that one of the big set pieces of the final act is literally a basketball game with the monster. Which, like, I watched enough bad anime as a small child to find contrived game-playing under unclear mythic rules with things that really want to kill you instinctively endearing, but I can’t really do anything with this except just point at it.

So as the title might imply, this is a novel that’s concerned with race – all but I believe exactly one character is either is either Blackfeet or Crow, more than half the book takes place on a reservation, and a chunk of the rest is spent having to deal with racist assholes of varying severity. Now, I admit that I have at this point a probably overly cynical view of books that end up on breathless ‘socially conscious horror’ or ‘s/ff from diverse creators you NEED to read’ lists online, but I was still rather pleasantly by how matter-of-factly this was handled? I suppose the best way to put it is that culture, upbringing and racialization deeply inform everyone’s characters, but it never feels like the book is preoccupied with providing some assumed naive and impressionable audience any Important Lessons or provide Good Representation to valourize or emulate? Which is probably just a sign I need to raise and re calibrate my expectations, but.

The monster doesn’t exactly work as, like, a coherent character in terms of her skills and abilities, but as a monster the Elk-Headed Woman is great. But then I love contrived fucked up tragedies and am a longstanding partisan of Spooky Deer Horror, so I suppose I would say that.

So yeah, fun read!

#book review #sff #horror #the only good indians #stephen graham jones

[mzannthropy]

First teaser for new The Count of Monte Cristo film with Pierre Niney! It's coming much sooner than I expected.

#the count of monte cristo #the count of monte cristo 2024 #tcomc 2024 #pierre niney #pierre niney monte cristo #mypost

[blake-ritson-love]

Blake Ritson is cast in an upcoming 8-part adaptation series of Count of Monte Cristo as Danglars, one of the main antagonists. The series is currently in production and will air in 2024. Sam Claflin will be playing the main role of Edmond Dantès, and the internationally produced series is directed by Bille August.

Blake is also likely to appear (not fully confirmed yet) in season 2 of Interview with the Vampire as Morgan next year.

16 days to go till the premiere of season 2 (October 29) of The Gilded Age on HBO, starring Blake as Oscar Van Rhijn.

#Blake Ritson #news #2023 #2024 #Count of Monte Cristo #Sam Claflin #Bille August #Interview with the vampire #The Gilded Age #Someone needs to take new photos of Blake because I'm recycling all the old ones #Not that it really matters because he doesn't age #Why does he have to torture us with all the period dramas #Reason to stay alive till next year #The hyperventilation #baron danglars #Danglars

[jesstasticvoyage]

LILLE, FRANCE - MARCH 19: Sam Claflin attends the "The Count Of Monte Cristo" By Mediawan : Photocall during the Series Mania Festival on March 19, 2024 in Lille, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

#sam claflin #the count of monte cristo

[gavroche-le-moineau]

My plan for this blog in 2024 is to follow along with Les Mis Letters again in both French and English (I think I may try a different English translation!) but I will not be reading as closely as I did in 2023. I will still be posting and reblogging about Les Mis and les mis letters, though!

My goal for the start of the year is to make decent headway with my Original French Concept Album translation & annotation project! I have a lot of the translations on the back burner and this seems like a good time finish annotating them.

I'm also planning to read more French classics this year! (I hope nobody minds if this les mis blog branches out into a 19th-century-France-but-mostly-still-Les-Mis blog). I'm going to start with Notre Dame de Paris because 1) it's still Hugo 2) it's relatively short and 3) I'm interested in comparing the language with the French musical!

After that I think I will read and blog about Le Comte de Monte Cristo because it won in the poll I made about what I should read next, and I'm familiar with the story, having read sections in French courses. I hope to eventually get to every book on that list but I think I have to start with small goals for the year.

If anyone is interested in reading these books along with me I would be overjoyed. I saw some interest in a Count of Monte Cristo daily email letter and honestly if there's enough interest I would be willing to start one.

I'm really excited to get started on these projects in 2024 and I hope it continues to be interesting to all those who follow me even if it's not strictly Les Mis!

#les mis letters #original french concept album #victor hugo #notre dame de paris #le comte de monte cristo #the hunchback of notre dame #the count of monte cristo #personal

[trash-kaiser]

Alright everyone its 2024 so you know what that means. It's time to Pokémon Go to the polls. We're gonna Digimon Survive this election cycle. Yu-Gi-Oh my God it has never been more important to cast those ballots. It's time to get active before our civil liberties are Baku-gone. We need to be the Cardfight Vanguard of Democracy, and Yo-Kai Watch out for misinformation spread by Medabots on social media. So be a Dinosaur King, stay Megaman Battle Networked, and make your vote Count of Monte Cristo

#election 2024 #2024 presidential election #voting #pokemon go to the polls