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Count Of Monte Cristo Accuracy

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Historical Movie Analysis: The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) was written by Jay Wolpert and directed by Kevin Reynolds. It was based on the novel of the same name written by Alexander Dumas and Auguste Maquet in 1844. The movie was met with moderate financial and critical success making $75.4 million dollars off a budget of $35 million and receiving a 73% on rotten tomatoes. But statistics aside how historically accurate and relevant is The Count of Monte Cristo? That is the question I will be answering in this short paper but before I go over the historical accuracies and inaccuracies let me give you a brief summery of the movie to give you a better idea of the world and time period this movie tries to portray. …show more content…

Surprisingly to me I couldn’t find too many historical inaccuracies in this movie. The settings of scenes match up well with 1800s France and all of the architecture is generally similar to French architecture of the time period. Where I found the most inaccuracies was in the clothes that the characters wore. Doing a little research on the fashion of the 1800s, specifically 1815-1844 when the story takes place, I found that the style of clothes that the characters wear would be nearly half a century old, the clothes worn in the film being more reminiscent to late 1700s fashion. Not to mention the total negation of hats in the film which were a staple of men’s fashion throughout the 1800s. But the most glaring inaccuracy, concerning fashion of the time, are the clothes that are worn by the Count of Monte Cristo himself, Edmond Dantès. In what I assume to be an artistic design choice to make the count seem more regal or foreign, as he tries to appear as if he’s not from France, only comes off as odd and off putting for the time period. Unfortunately since the story of The Count of Monte Cristo is a fictional story there isn’t a lot more that I can compare to real world events that took place during the time period, however I can go over some events that the film

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