![]() ![]() That was one of his most common refrains: There’s nothing better than a revenge story.Įdmond Dantes (Jim Caviezel), a hapless and trusting second mate on a merchant ship, spends 13 years in prison after his jealous best friend, Fernand Mondego (Guy Pearce), conspires with a cadre of other morally bankrupt men to frame Edmond for treason so Fernand can steal his fiancée, Mercedes (Dagmara Domińczyk), for himself. He wasn’t much of a talker, so I knew to listen whenever he spoke up. ![]() “There’s nothing better than a revenge story,” my grandpa said. I remember standing in their kitchen and holding the tape in my hands, intrigued by the red and black design and the sword that sliced between the two men on the cover. I’d still take his shitty songs about the Entwives over pre-algebra any day.Ģ002 was also the year my grandparents gave us their VHS copy of The Count of Monte Cristo. For a while there, it got so bad that I was banned from bringing books to school because I chose to slog through the Treebeard chapters of The Two Towers instead of paying attention in math class. The world was in the middle of a three-year Harry Potter drought, so I escaped reality with other fantasies - Artemis Fowl, The Golden Compass, The Lord of the Rings. ![]() My family went to Disney World for the first time - in February! I missed a week of school! - and inexplicably every item of merchandise I bought had Tinkerbell on it. Looking back, it feels like so much of who I am as a person was decided by the things I was obsessed with when I was 12 years old.Ģ002 was a big year for me. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |