The Count of Monte Cristo (2002 film)

The Count of Monte Cristo is a 2002 action/adventure film, about the life of Edmond Dantès, a Frenchman falsely accused of collaborating with an exiled Napoleon Bonaparte and sent off to prison in the infamous Chateau d'If, where he concocts a plan to seek revenge on those responsible. Directed by Kevin Reynolds, screenplay by Jay Wolpert, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

Edmond Dantès

• 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!

• Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

• You didn't think I would make it that easy did you?

• If you ever loved me, don't rob me of my hate. It's all I have.

• I'm a Count, not a saint.

• How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

• You've only got one shot, and it will take more than that to stop me

• Why? In God's name, why?

• Because death is too good for them. They must suffer as I have suffered.

Jacopo

• Why not just kill them? I'll do it! I'll run up to Paris - bam, bam, bam, bam. I'm back before week's end. We spend the treasure. How is this a bad plan?

• Once again, Zatarra, God sees you out of the corner of His eye.

• I swore to protect you, even if it means I have to protect you from yourself.

Count Mondego

• It's complicated

• Take your vengeance. But know that the blood you spill is noble. Blood that will never run through your veins. You are no more a count than I am a commoner!

• Because you are the son of a clerk! And I am not supposed to want to be you.

Abbe Faria

• Ah! he burned the letter ...

• With two of us, we could dig in the opposite direction. And with both of us together, then of course we could possibly do it in um...oh...8 years. [Edmond laughs] Ohh... and does something else demand your time? Some pressing appointment, perhaps? YouTube (0:45-1:30)

• I'm a Priest, not a saint

Napoleon

• We are all kings or pawns.

Dialogue

Edmond: There are seven thousand, five hundred and nineteen blocks in my walls. I have counted them many times.

Abbe Faria: Ahh! [laughs] But have you named them yet?

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Jacopo: What you want to buy ?

Edmond: Revenge.

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Edmond: Monsieur, I know you must hear this a great deal, but I assure you, I am innocent. Everyone must say that, I know but I truly am.

Warden: Innocent?

Edmond: Yes.

Warden: I know, I really do know.

Edmond: You mock me?

Warden: No, my dear Dantes, I know perfectly well that you are innocent. Why else would you be here? If you were truly guilty there are a hundred prisons in France where they would lock you away. But, Chateau d'if is where they put the ones they're ashamed of.

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Monsieur Clarion: Young Mondego, why? (After being shot by Mondego)

Mondego: Because your son lacked the courage!

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Mercedes: Why did you not come for me?

Edmond: Why did you not wait?

External links

• The Count of Monte Cristo quotes at the Internet Movie Database