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Its too bad that Napoleon didn't work out since both the director and the lead actor had credentials from previous work.

Time to get serious with losing weight- skipping breakfast now while following the plan. (1st meal 12 PM)

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'Fallout' Renewed for Season 2 at Amazon (variety.com)

I think Anna Sawai is the next asian-it girl in hollywood. Her performance in Shogun is great and she is pretty.

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An 8 episode series is more appropriate to the length and complexity of the story. It is interesting how they casted a good looking guy, age appropriate. The other French series was book accurate but they casted an old dude that looked too severe and charmless to me:

Pretty much every major German WW2 movie The Bridge, Stalingrad 1993, Generation War (very hamfisted), etc. plus the films about extremely minor characters in the grand scheme of things like Sophie Scroll etc. The choice of topics is quite obvious that they would never do a serious historically movie/show work from an authentic German army's point of view due to contemporary politics. Outside of Der Untergang (Downfall) which I like the rest are marred with artificial writing. The way the 'German band of brothers' (Generation War) was written compared to "Band of Brothers" is like night & day. American movies from the German POV also have a huge ahistorical distortion and a hamfisted artificial message about 'the Good German vs. the Nazi' due to Cold War era politics and afterwards - All Quite on the Western Front, Valkyrie, Bridge from Remagen, The Desert Fox, Iron Cross etc. In western films they will often put in a 'Good German' vs the Nazi character- eg. Schindler's List & the Pianist to balance things out.

Pretty pathetic and very corrupt- as only 13.8 Billlion of the 60 Billion is for equipment and ammunition for Ukraine. The US 155mm artillery shell has so much price inflation that last time I checked it was an absurd $8,000 a round. $11.3 Billion for continued US support- probably ISR & logistics. Ukraine is rated CC, heading to default on its debt even with all the aid.

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is there a trailer for it? From reading the book, I think the character & appearance of Monte Cristo is readily apparent: 1. The first version of him (pre-prison) is that of an idealistic, hard working young man with a bright future ahead of him. But extremely trusting of the goodness of people and their motives to the point where he is blinded by his 'goodness' and is quite naive. 2. Post-prison version is that of a completely changed man. Dumas did not write much of a transition period for Dantes in his prison chapters so it's almost like a day vs night paradigm shift. 3. The character of the Count is of a man who has become warped and twisted. His physical appearance and his surroundings is a mix of middle-eastern elite & european. Like a Saudi royalty. His ship is decked out like an Arab vessel. In terms of personality he alters between having star power: a charismatic socialite & billionaire but also a super manipulative & at times bombastic villain, who wants to destroy the lives of the people who destroyed him in the most elaborate and slow-drip type of psychological torture. There is also a darkly philosophical and mature side of him in-between. Neither the new film nor the new one has a Monte Cristo that entirely looks like the one in the books. In the 2002 version of Monte Cristo they chose to go with the 'Count Dracula' look which is not book accurate as they don't include the middle eastern personality & tastes. But IMHO James did a good job with the character to make him very interesting. But it's not the complete character of Monte Cristo, which is really hard task for any actor. The new film has Monte Cristo looking like a villain in dark European dress- not what I imagine either. The actress that played Mercedes did a good job and is similar to the one in the book. I do wonder if the films will do a cop-out and give her a happy ending. Her torturous ending in the book is one that 19th century devout Christians would relate to but can be perceived as 'patriarchy'/sexist & too brutal for modern audiences. I also wonder if they will include Haydee his young female slave. This character is as important as Mercedes also not politically correct either. She was completely absent from the 2002 film even though she is critical in the story and the ending.

Alex D. is around my age but she literally does not age. I have 3 deep-ass brow furrows, 2 very small folds undernealth the eyes and I am 'lucky'. I wonder if she gets some kind of treatment like other actresses? Circa 2010 and 2024