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Torture | Loss Of Loved One
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Budget 35,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 75,400,000 USD
Screenwriter Jay Wolpert came up with the idea, not present in the novel, that Fernand Mondego (Guy Pearce) and Edmond Dantes (Jim Caviezel) started out as best friends. His logic was that it would work better as a "buddy" film that turned sinister. Wolpert believed that when a friendship soured, the hate generated was both more terrible and more believable.
The Count of Monte Cristo was one of Mark Twain's favorite books. When Twain toured Europe in 1867, he made a special stop to see the prison, Chateau D'if. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contains a humorous spoof of Monte Cristo.
The encounter with Napoleon on Elba is a sequence created specifically for the film. Since the book begins with the Pharaon's return to Marseilles and Edmond recounting what happened, the filmmakers felt that actually showing the events was more cinematically interesting than Edmond just talking about them.
The movie was filmed in Malta and Ireland. Powerscourt House in County Wicklow stood in for the Parisian estate Dantes buys.
The location of the Chateau D'if is actually an old castle in Malta, and is now used by the Maltese military as a communications and weather station.
"Edmond: Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you: as Albert Mondego, the man!"
"Fernand: What happened to your mercy? Edmond Dantes: I'm a count, not a saint."
