"Mad World" - (The Count of Monte Cristo - 2002)

Please read: (Lyrics below)- ever since I heard this song, (with General Hospital featuring parts of it 1-2 days every week during this past month for their new suspense storyline) - I've wanted to use it. And I've wanted to start vidding The Count of Monte Cristo- another of my fave period dramas and felt this song was perfect for it. After searching through my old VHS tapes, I found the movie last night and made the vid today. lol Yeah, I was that inspired. It's a bit simpler than I usually do, but this felt like it needed "simple".

Told in Edmond's POV. It starts in the present, then takes us back to the past, telling what happened, flashes to the present, during the birthday party for her son- then he remembers the past and how he got there- flashing back to the present when he walks from the balloon- then the future, where minus his disguise, he reveals his true identity. :)

For those who've never seen this movie, it's the story of two childhood best friends- one who betrayed the other- mostly because of desiring the love of a woman they both wanted. Edmond is sent away to the worst prison in France, and there meets another prisoner who teaches him to read, to write, and to become a master swordsman. So much more happens before one day he finds himself back in the home of his best friend-turned-nemisis- during his son's 16th birthday party. Edmond is out to seek revenge on all who betrayed him (no one recognizes him since it's been over 15 years- also they think he was executed- but Mercedes, the woman he's always loved, feels she knows it's him from the start.) A love triangle, a melodrama, an adventure, and more- I highly recommend this movie, based on the classic by Alexandre Dumas père. Starring Jim Caviezel as Edmond Dantes, Guy Pearce as Fernand Mondego, Dagmara Dominczyk as Mercedès Iguanada

Mad World - sung by Adam Lambert

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places
Worn out faces

Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere
Going nowhere

Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression
No expression

Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow
No tomorrow

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very very
Mad world
Mad world

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy birthday
Happy birthday

Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen
Sit and listen

Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me
No one knew me

Hello teacher, tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me
Look right through me

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very very
Mad world
Mad world
enlarged in your world
Mad world

(no copyright infringement intended. This falls under the Fair Use act of 1976.)

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• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Jim Caviezel
• Period drama
• Period film
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[ProfessionalWidow83]

favorite movie ever ever ever. I broke down and got the book. only 1400 pages to go haha. Nice video. Jim, you are fucking amazing.

[honeyphan2]

@ProfessionalWidow83 - thank you! :)

[CBoneSImWolf]

i just saw the movie recently and i fell in love with it!! let's just say i've come every day to watch your vid for the past to weeks it's AMAZING just like that!! thanks 5* ;))

[honeyphan2]

@CBoneSImWolf - thank you!! :) Glad you enjoyed it so well! And yeah, the movie was great! :D

[LalaXxmusic]

Nice job on the video! One of my favorite flicks.

[honeyphan2]

@LalaXxmusic - thank you!! :)

[honeyphan2]

@vxphsycoxv - thank you!! :)

[vxphsycoxv]

That is excellent and it's also my favourite movie.

[Sanitized2]

Yes, you got the "sung by Adam Lambert" right, I was referring to the "Mad World (lyrics by Gary Jules) " part since he didn't write the lyrics. Roland Orzabal wrote the lyrics and the music as well.

[honeyphan2]

@Sanitized2 - no offense intended. :) Actually, it's Adam Lambert who is singing it. Gary Jules version I decided not to use. Didn't realize Tears for Fears sang this also. I'll change the credits- written- to lyrics SUNG by Adam Lambert. thanks.