It's comical how obvious it is that he is Jesus' son and not the other guys'. He literally looks like they just cloned Jim Cavizeal and de-aged him. I wonder if anyone didn't figure that plot point out.
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Yeah, I caught that, too. Some movies makers think you really have to dumb things down. :-)
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Well, not all of us who read the book figured it out. Because in the book, the real story, ALBERT WAS NOT EDMOND'S SON. Hell, Edmond never even slept with Mercédès. He was arrested before he had the chance to. The idiots who made this silly movie just had to ruin it by, among other things, make Albert Edmond's son. Laughable, a typical lame Hollywood-thing to do.
shareoh come on...it's a good movie. it's not faithful, and i know how disappointing that can be, but it's not like this movie was crap.
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Wow people. So casting a son and father in a movie that look alike is "dumbing down" a movie? Hahaha thats just a laughable interpretation. Most people would call that realistic casting but keep the hate coming.
And keep blaming the movie for not being like the novel because that obviously makes it a bad movie. And btw, it wasnt "hollywood" (which is officially now the most overly used and cliche phrase there is) to make Albert Edmond's son. It made perfect sense for THIS story. Not the book's plot, but THIS plot.
I don't care if Hollywood is responsible for butchering such a great novel or someone else -- the main point is, that this version is awful. They left out so many good parts, and added pointless details that were supposed to make it better. But making Albert Edmond's son did not add to the story, nor did it add suspense. It simply made it cheesy and average.
shareWho cares, I loved that fact that Albert was his son.
shareyep, just keep comparing it to the novel and calling it, "hollywood, cheesy", etc....
Lemme know when you people have real comments about the movie. Notice I said MOVIE, not anything about a novel.
There is nothing wrong with saying "Hollywood" when what you're referring to is that horrible blob which now calls itself "The Industry". The latter is even more affected than the former. Calling them "Hollywood", however, can be a put-down, which is why some of us still use it.
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As much as I hate to admit it, I had a major "face palm" moment when Mercedes revealed Edmond was the boy's father.
I don't know WHY I didn't see it coming with Albert being the right age etc.. There certainly were clues; The B-Day party-16 yrs old, his resemblance to Edmond (I mistakenly credited his looks to his mother), his bravery during the "kidnapping" (much more like Edmond would react VS that devious rat Fernand) etc..
I'm normally a lot better at putting clues together & figuring things like that out. I guess, I was just too into the story & missed it.
Anyway- I don't understand why Mercedes didn't tell Edmond right away that he was the father- you would think she would want him to know asap, I know I would have. It explained a lot, why she married so quickly for one thing.
It bugged me that she waited-
So yea, I was suprised & felt like a dope for not seeing it.
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I don't understand why Mercedes didn't tell Edmond right away that he was the father- you would think she would want him to know asap, I know I would have. It explained a lot, why she married so quickly for one thing.
It bugged me that she waited-
Well fine, suppose they made Albert look more like Fernand only to later reveal that he was actually Edmond's son? People would complain that he should have looked more like Edmond.
Can't win'em all.
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Was it that obvious?
Sure there was a strong resemblance between Edmond and Albert but I actually thought in terms of facial structure that Albert had more in common with Fernand. The only ways that Albert substantially differed from Fernand was the color and texture of his hair which could easily be attributed to Mercedes being his mother.
It's one of those revelations that when it happens you're not overly shocked but I wouldn't have said blatantly obvious either. I attributed his looks to his mother rather than his father.
There's a moral to this story Del Boy but for the life of me I can't find it!
lets take it that Mercedès really was one of those unrealistic girls that loved her first love to the point she wouldn't truly marry edmund, are you seriously telling me she never banged him once?? eventually she would be racked with guilt going with a dude for over 16yrs and not sleep with him once i.e you take up his offer to be with him for safety and security but you don't marry him? eventually she would feel like she's being unfair on him
also i find it hard that fernand didn't find it easy to corrupt the son i.e with booze, women, money and power
upon that why fernand didn't know the son was actually edmonds, who did he think he belonged to then unless they really had sex? i.e fernand and Mercedès
was the ending really plausible? good it happened but not likely, especially since fernand can easily keep playing his son and turn him again edmond i mean you can't forget 16yrs so easily
I don't think anyone is suggesting that the marriage was not consummated; Fernand says that he had understood Albert's birth to be premature.
shareIn the book they certainly did not. Because when someone referred Mercedes as Edmund's mistress, he clearly said:"No sir. She's not my mistress. She's my fiancee."
Besides, let's not forget Edmund's a faithful catholic and that's 17th century.
Did anyone notice Albert is played by Henry Cavill. I had to see the credits to realise who it was I recognised playing him.😳
shareI thought 'oh, thank god he looks like his mom!'
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