Is this something you have to record, or is it streaming somewhere? The PBS app?

We purchased it straight through Amazon.

FWAppraiser said:

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My favorite book. Thanks for the heads up!

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Pretty sure it started off as a film in 2002 with the guy who played Jim Caviezel? Dude Pierce, I'm pretty certain was his arch-nemesis.

Bruce Almighty said:

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Is that the book written by some French dumbass that eventually got made into a movie featuring Jesus?

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yeah, jim played jesus and jesus played jim

I thought Haydee was Arab or something. /shrug

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agdoc2001 said:

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So Haydee is African now? What happened to Ali Pasha?

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Please tell me this a joke, I've been waiting for so long for a proper adaptation(at least one where Edmond doesn't end up with Mercades but instead Haudee at the end.) Of course the stupid DEI crowd would go after this, they're hell bent on distorting historical fiction and turning it into the same diverse slop we see everywhere else. Hell Alexander Dumas was mulatto and he would be pissed on this miscasting crap. Ali Pasha and Haydee are Albanian, ALBANIAN.

Crap like this is why I can't wait for AI to replace the film industry. The art is the novel, the filmmakers' job is create a faithful adaptation of that art, not provide their own artistic interpretation of it because quite frankly their interpretations are always for the worse not better.

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Film is also art. Adaptation is art. You're not going to find an art museum in the world that's not chock full of differing adaptations of the same story or event.

I don't doubt you, I was mostly just shrugging at the casting choice (or whatever it is, reinterpretation). I remember him telling folks that she's his slave, and people kinda nod along like it's a quaint foreign thing. So I don't think I'd be very bothered.

That said, the Amazon Three Musketeers changes were bothering me left and right, so I get wanting a straight adaptation, for sure.

Are we really doing this **** again?

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AgFrogfan said:

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Written by Alexander Dumbass...

Just took a nap watching this movie this afternoon...

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lame joke or freudian slip?!

Sapper Redux said:

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hunter2012 said:

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agdoc2001 said:

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So Haydee is African now? What happened to Ali Pasha?

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Please tell me this a joke, I've been waiting for so long for a proper adaptation(at least one where Edmond doesn't end up with Mercades but instead Haudee at the end.) Of course the stupid DEI crowd would go after this, they're hell bent on distorting historical fiction and turning it into the same diverse slop we see everywhere else. Hell Alexander Dumas was mulatto and he would be pissed on this miscasting crap. Ali Pasha and Haydee are Albanian, ALBANIAN.

Crap like this is why I can't wait for AI to replace the film industry. The art is the novel, the filmmakers' job is create a faithful adaptation of that art, not provide their own artistic interpretation of it because quite frankly their interpretations are always for the worse not better.

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Film is also art. Adaptation is art. You're not going to find an art museum in the world that's not chock full of differing adaptations of the same story or event.

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Adaptation by itself is not art. A great many adaptations never made it to the museum and were discarded because they don't meet the standard. Would anyone compare the huntsman or the most recent Snow White to the original? I'm aware of three pride and prejudice interpretations with varying degrees of accuracy (there are probably more). One stands above the other two, but one is so far removed from the novel and other two movies, that it never merits mention. Adaptation - so what?

And while art released into the wild becomes its own thing that its creator cannot control, it can also become a cultural relic or icon that isn't just 'adapted' but demeaned or devalued with a poor retelling, to the point that it doesn't connect with the audience or pulls them out of the work by disconnecting them from it (casting, music, interpretation). Movies on the whole come and go, and one generations memorable or quotable set largely doesn't survive.

This is a hard story to tell. If you take it on, you need to do a good job, so why set up roadblocks to buy in? It doesn't make sense.

hunter2012 said:

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Sapper Redux said:

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hunter2012 said:

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agdoc2001 said:

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So Haydee is African now? What happened to Ali Pasha?

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Please tell me this a joke, I've been waiting for so long for a proper adaptation(at least one where Edmond doesn't end up with Mercades but instead Haudee at the end.) Of course the stupid DEI crowd would go after this, they're hell bent on distorting historical fiction and turning it into the same diverse slop we see everywhere else. Hell Alexander Dumas was mulatto and he would be pissed on this miscasting crap. Ali Pasha and Haydee are Albanian, ALBANIAN.

Crap like this is why I can't wait for AI to replace the film industry. The art is the novel, the filmmakers' job is create a faithful adaptation of that art, not provide their own artistic interpretation of it because quite frankly their interpretations are always for the worse not better.

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Film is also art. Adaptation is art. You're not going to find an art museum in the world that's not chock full of differing adaptations of the same story or event.

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An original script is art for it is created with the intent to be seen on screen. An adaptation is not, it's a transmutation from something intended to be written to something intended to be seen. Now there is artistic expression in things like the camera work, lightening, tempo, the visual production of the transmutation. Beyond that the source material is either adapted faithfully to the intent of the original author as best as feasible(appropriate runtime and continuity) or it is rewritten to fit agendas or to satisfy the writer, director, or producer's hubris.

There's nothing wrong with a reimagining, but it's distasteful to have the same setting, location, time period, and general storyline then intentionally miscast key characters just to fill the d*mned DEI quota, it changes the context of the story for no purpose other than modern political agenda. Ask yourself "if we didn't live in this DEI era would this actress really be cast as Haydee?"

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lol

I found it a poor adaptation, especially since they had an entire series to get it right and not just two to three hours. I think quite a bit of it was miscast. If you haven't read the source material then maybe you could see it as somewhat entertaining. Otherwise, I feel like it was poorly done.