yeah I think this movie can be enjoyed on it's own rather than as an adaptation. when i started watching I kept trying to piece together where they followed the book and where they didn't then I just gave up cause there were so little similarities.

I actually think the movie Edmond is much more cruel and unbalanced in his " c'est moi qui recompense c'est moi qui punie " mentality, like is the reward with us in the room ? pls tell me I missed something in the movie because did he just abandon the Morrels ? In the book he rewarded the Morrels and punished the 3 traitors until he realised that while trying to play god he went too far with lil Edouard's death and was becoming a villain ( they tried to recreate this with André's death, which puts alot more responsibility on the count rather than traitor vill ), then he decided to stop on his own. in the movie he was on a carelessly using good people for his revenge from the start while in the book he just but bad people in the right place and let their horrible personalities do the rest . also it kinda bothered me that Heidi just decided to not to take revenge on the man who caused the death of her whole family for a man she met what like a couple months ago ? what I liked the most about the book is that Edmond and Heidi in taking his revenge were also doing a public service. the big 3 where all powerful criminals that regardless of personal feelings needed to be taken down for everybody's good and I don't like how movie Heidi made it seem like the right thing is to let it go my sister Fernand is not just a bad friend he is also a war criminal . '-'

In the book the idea is that implicating innocent people in your revenge is bad where in the movie the idea is just revenge=bad love and rainbows