#danglars

Danglars: why is that?

Count of Monte Cristo: *storytelling mode: ON* you see, something dark happened between these walls-the murder of a newborn baby-

Gérard de Villefort, looking in the direction of a very distressed-looking Hermine Danglars: *quickly* I think we should refrain from speaking about such difficult topics around the ladies, it is not good for their sensibilities-

i suppose it's sort of a plot device but i wish it was more elaborated than it is, actually the more i read monte cristo the more i wish this book was just 5000 pages long and dumas had really taken his time developing his characters.

THIS MOVIE ISN'T TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH OMFG

Something that I really love about Monte Cristo 2024 is its villain trio. I love how each of them is different in every aspect from the other.

(first of, the pictures are gonna be shait)

They all have a different hair color, black, blond and brown/gray. But the hair cuts are also never the same. Villefort (Laurent Lafitte) 's hair are a bit messy, still taken care of, but not neatly put together. And Morcerfe (Bastien Bouillon)'s hair are long, straight, and or messy, or just tucked behind his ears. While Danglars (Patrick Mille)'s hair have two very different state between the first and second half ; first he just does not give a fuck about them, they're long, dirty, tied at the back of his head and then everyone can fuck off, but then they're neatly trimed, brushed, with pretty curls, they look like the softest hair ever.

This is also the case with the facial hair : Vi has a zappa beard, a mustache, and then a soul patch beard, Mor has nothing, completely beardless, and Dan has a full on grown beard, it's Santa Claus.

Those hair also change between the first and second half of the movie, but the change is, again, different for the three. Vi's don't change one bit, maybe a few white hair here and there (I think his soul patch beard is gray in the sh), but that's really just it. Mor's completely lose their volume, they seem almost greacy , full of gel, but they're still the same length, and color obv. Now Dan's, it's a complet Disney-Chanel-Makeover, the color is totally different, gray to brown, they're cut short, they're not dirty anymore, they're the silkiest hair ever observed on earth, and damn he takes care of his curls.

Those changes are of course here to show the change of the character himself ; Vi's been through nothing, he was just chilling in his house, ordering executions here and there, you know, nothing crazy. Mor went from a happy young man to a war veteran, sent his best friend to jail for life and betrayed half the planet (and lost an eye). Dan got rich, crazy rich, he was a captain, so a working man, and became one of the, if not the, richest man of France.

Now the color palette of each character!

Let's start with Mor. Mor's main color is red, obvously because he's a soldier, he's in the army, and the uniform is this bright red, but per extetion it's also browns and beiges. "But the jacket in the third pic is some sort of green!" stfu. Let's say it's khaki. Even the eye patch is a warm brown. The white suit is a light beige, the black suit is a dark brown. (at the end of the movie, the duel, he's in blue, no clue why)

I think the red is also linked to all of the people he killed, with his own hands, at war. Red like the blood he shed.

coincidence : Bastien Bouillon's eyes are brown.

Blue and Black are the colors of Vi. He's often in black, but when light hits the cloth, it has a blue sheen to it. That's because his prosecutor uniforme (fifth image) is black. But quite often he's dressed in a very dark blue.

The black could also be linked to all of those executions he ordered. Like Mor, he killed people, but not with his hands, he did it from the comfort of his office. Black like the robes of death.

coincidence : Laurent Lafitte's eyes are a very dark brown, almost black.

and Dan is more in the green and turquoises, which is logical since he spent most of his life on the sea and got rich thanks to it. So green and turquoise like the sea and the money.

coincidence : Patrick Mille's eyes are blue/green.

And finally, the words they use to speak about Napoleon.

Dan doesn't care about politics, he calls Napoleon "The Emperor" even tho he isn't anymore, even tho he's exiled and the most hated man in France at the moment. Mor is a soldier, he fights for France, so Napoleon is "The Usurper" and his followers are "traitors to their country". Vi's the King's Prosecutor, he thinks he's untouchable, above all else, so he calls Napoleon by his name and his followers "Napoleonic agent", he's not afraid of the name, he isn't dramatic, just simple, straight to the point, like an execution.

Also last point ; one's a Count, one's a Prosecutor and one's a Baron.