Edmond et Mercédès: Young and Beautiful

I'm a Lady and it was True Love with Them All, I'm not the unfaithful type. I keep loving them all

Like... If you notice someone is strangely prone to murder, tell them how easy it'd be to kill people with a gun, and then give them a gun and ignore people dying from gun wounds later on, I'd say you're responsible. It doesn't mean that the murderer is not at blame, or that the corrupt law force is innocent.

Inducement to crime by providing information about a weapon, and how to use it,

Provision of that weapon

Necessary collaborator and cover-up of the crimes

Of course Héloïse is attainable for her crimes but MC did commit crimes related to hers.

People who doesn't see this are probably the same people that don't see the grooming of Haydeé. People inadvertently romanticize the protagonist, which is what Dumas intended.

Production stills

If you can’t write an essay or an email without ChatGPT, you don’t deserve a diploma or a job. If you can’t make art without GenAI, you are not an artist.

Part of being human is learning to solve problems and communicate in order to foster our intelligence and creativity. As soon as you outsource that, even on a small scale, you deprive your brain of regular exercise, which is only going to compound into larger and larger problems that you sure as hell won’t know how to solve.

Music: Edmond et Mercédès - Jérôme Rebotier

Just a quick animatic of little Edmond and Mercedes, living their best life in southern France. Hope nothing bad ever happens to them 🥰

He's the most delicious interesting funny despicable of the three mechants when they are together. I think he deserved a César nomination too but votes were divided, of course it always happens in those categories, the same as I think Delaporte and De la Patellière should have been together in the nomination and thus have more votes

Okay, I love the juxtaposition of these two scenes. Obviously Danglars doesn't physically assault Edmond in the book. But in a film, this is an incredibly efficient way to visually communicate to the audience that his personality is aggressive and reactionary (which is authentic to the text, both in his scheme to sabotage Dantès as well as later in his financial ambitions). Meanwhile, our first impression of Edmond is his softer, passive nature. What I love about flipping the script and letting this confrontation play out again with the count at the end of the movie is that despite how deeply broken he is, it shows us that Edmond hasn't fundamentally changed. He's retained his innate temperament and learned how to use it to his advantage. I think that's key to the preservation of his humanity. He may not know exactly who he IS anymore, but he knows who and what he IS NOT, and that's ultimately what enables him to step back before he completely loses himself. But I digress.