Edmond Dantes

First of all this movies is one of my all-time favorites. It has a great story line filled with vengeance, romance, and a little comedy spread throughout. Set in 1815 it begins with two friends Edmond Dantes and Ferdinand Mondego. Edmond was a humble, virtuous son of a clerk who had the interest of the beautiful Mercedes. Mondego, the son of a noble man, and extremely spoiled but still very jealous of Edmond because Mercedes wanted Edmond and not him. When they seek shelter on an island for the captain of their ship, they happened to run into Napoleon ballpark, the French general. During this time on the island of Elba, Edmond agrees to take the letter back with him from Napoleon. When he gets back home, he reunited with his true love, Mercedes, but is quickly betrayed by Mondego and several other people who would have great

These men who framed him were mostly powerful people who were upper-class… which is why they could do this and Edmond could not fight for his innocence. Edmond is taken to the rotten, and almost eternal Chateau D’If (which in all honesty makes Alcatraz seem as if it was a resort). Here one couldn’t even tell in someone was upper, middle, or lower class…everyone looked homeless. He was sentenced to spend the rest of his life although he was just an innocent piece of a much larger game. Edmond ultimately spends 14 years in this hellhole, and during this time he fills with the lust for revenge and a burning anger. When he was in this prison he met a man named Faria, who becomes his friend and teaches him how to tunnel under his cell, swordfight, and tries to get him right with God. Eventually Faria dies and Edmond cleverly hides inside of his body bag and makes his great escape. After escaping, some vagabonds find him and have him join their ship. After sailing with these men, he sets out to go back home. This is when he finds the treasure Faria told him about while in prison…he finds himself extremely wealthy within a matter in