{"id":27718,"date":"2011-11-05T17:04:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T21:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=27718"},"modified":"2011-11-05T17:04:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T21:04:20","slug":"frye-at-the-movies-the-count-of-monte-cristo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/11\/05\/frye-at-the-movies-the-count-of-monte-cristo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Frye at the Movies: “The Count of Monte Cristo”"},"content":{"rendered":"

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sPRbH03Mn48<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the sources for\u00a0V for Vendetta <\/em>(here<\/a> and here<\/a>) is\u00a0The Count of Monte Cristo<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0Frye saw the movie on a double bill with\u00a0The Barretts of Wimpole Street<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>on November 1, 1934 with his friend Roy Daniells (CW 8, 375). The entire movie after the jump. Above is a traditional fireworks display in London celebrating Guy Fawkes Night.<\/p>\n

Here also is an interesting passage in one of the late notebooks on the relation between opera and romance, including a surprising declaration to rehabilitate the melodrama. Walter Scott and Alexandre Dumas and other authors of the genre are cited:<\/p>\n

Scott was the source for the 19th c. opera — Donizetti’s Lucia <\/em>& Bellini’s Puritani<\/em>, the latter very loosely adapted from Old Mortality<\/em>. I think not Verdi, though Verdi drew from a Romantic tradition that Scott did a lot to solidify: Hugo, Dumas, Schiller, etc. Nobody could imagine an opera of that period based on Jane Austen. If I try to rehabilitate Scott as a romancer, I should also try to rehabilitate melodrama. That term is usually used with contempt, & I’ve used it myself, because of the way it approximates lynching-mob mentality in its hiss-villain setup. But there’s a legitimate type of melodrama where characters and plot outrage “probability,” yet seem to live in a legitimate world. I find Scott very hard to read now, but there are a lot of important critical principles extractable from him. (CW 5, 245-6)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7ZkWnLfiiw4<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 1<\/p>\n

\"\"httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K4sIjk2tO4I&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 2<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h1NTaqE7cWk&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 3<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WTvqyhzGhvw&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 4<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=srrfnzd-I30&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 5<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TFfxxr8YjIs&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 6<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b-xlgmkC8WM&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 7<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QmAV3qpDn0I&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 8<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BXbefgtY4yI&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 9<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wsPA9O4_RsA&feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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