The story this time revolves around the Gypsy Man by the name of Joseph Balsamo who's childhood was met with much turmoil as his mother was killed as being perceived as a witch who foresaw the death of the baby.
His mother is sentenced to death and the boys sentence to hundreds upon hundreds of lashes until he faints at which time another man poke out his eyes so that he may spend the rest of his days blind. All this happens at the hands of Viscount de Montagne.
The boy is saved by his local Gypsy family who then vows Revenge , that one day he shall get Montagne and see that Justice is done.
As the years have moved on he's gone into the ''miracle cure'' business . Providing various people with antidotes for diseases they may not have.
Only to discover after a freak accident involving a woman drinking poison , that he has a rare form of hypnotism that he uses to convince the woman that she is fine.
It must be said that this hypnotism has some real-world effects as the woman does not die from the poison she has swallowed. He later on he then takes this gift and rebrands himself as Count Cagliostro . The great miracle worker of Europe who provides cures to all those peasants and all the people of the world for a small price.
Essentially the same thing as he was doing before but on a bigger scale.
His travels put him in contact with the very man he had wished to kill all those years ago. de Montagne only knowing that this is a doctor and not the boy who bit his hand so many years ago gets him to look at his patient a young woman who has been seeing unconscious. Count Cagliostro uses his hypnotism powers to bring the girl out of a coma for a mere minute to inform him of her current predicament. It seems she was a wealthy well-to-do woman who resembled the then soon-to-be Queen Mary Antoinette . because of the similarity and looks a group of hoodlums decides to kidnap her.
As it turns out our dear Count Cagliostro wishes to give his Nemesis all the power he can, so that when he destroys him in the end it'll be utterly humiliating. Now Count Cagliostro we'll take the girl to Paris still in her comatose state and awaiting proper treatment.
It seems our plot is thickening . As our great count tries to hypnotize the very girl he's trying to cure into convincing her that she loves him ! that's making him just as big a creep as the people he's trying to fight against.
Now we get straight down to the main conspiracy. It seems a high amount of the upper French Nobles wish to use this woman who resembles Mary Antoinette to impersonate the real life woman and manipulate the king of France.
With this our great count gets invited to meet the king himself. And upon doing so is asked to demonstrate his amazing power on a group of peasants who are supposedly overcome by various diseases. But unbeknownst to him every peasant brought within the king's chamber is in fact an actor The second he wishes his magic words to cure them they all get up and Proclaim; ''One word from you and we are already cared'' to which they then decide to dance with much gaiety and laughter. This causes an uproar in the court and everyone starts laughing and mocking this charlatan of a musician. And I love this to showing off of a which doctor for being nothing more than a glorified fraud. It is easily the best part of the film.
The film goes on in the situations grow more dire the count decides to marry his impersonating woman so that she may not be taken away by others. He froze away the love of the Gypsy girl he was with for so many years. and attempts to save the life of a Dying King but is too late to do so. Now the newly crowned Queen Mary Antoinette (the real) banishes him and various other people from her Court.
Now the count has to escalate things further. He does this by embroidering the queen in a conspiracy involving a million Frank necklace. He's eventually caught and put on trial as you can imagine going against the queen in an absolute monarchy in a court system designed by the Royals and ruled by the Royals doesn't really work out . but at least he gets an interesting death on top of a very large building.
There's also this whole idea that the French Revolution was started by a French hypnotist Gypsy man. Can't be any worse than Anastasia.
You have a French hypnotist who thinks he's God, Gypsy murderers and thieves, the French royalty on its last legs. There really are no good protagonist in this movie. The closest you get is the woman who's pretending to me Marian and the man she's in love with but both of them are embroiled in a conspiracy to.
His mother is sentenced to death and the boys sentence to hundreds upon hundreds of lashes until he faints at which time another man poke out his eyes so that he may spend the rest of his days blind. All this happens at the hands of Viscount de Montagne.
The boy is saved by his local Gypsy family who then vows Revenge , that one day he shall get Montagne and see that Justice is done.
As the years have moved on he's gone into the ''miracle cure'' business . Providing various people with antidotes for diseases they may not have.
Only to discover after a freak accident involving a woman drinking poison , that he has a rare form of hypnotism that he uses to convince the woman that she is fine.
It must be said that this hypnotism has some real-world effects as the woman does not die from the poison she has swallowed. He later on he then takes this gift and rebrands himself as Count Cagliostro . The great miracle worker of Europe who provides cures to all those peasants and all the people of the world for a small price.
Essentially the same thing as he was doing before but on a bigger scale.
His travels put him in contact with the very man he had wished to kill all those years ago. de Montagne only knowing that this is a doctor and not the boy who bit his hand so many years ago gets him to look at his patient a young woman who has been seeing unconscious. Count Cagliostro uses his hypnotism powers to bring the girl out of a coma for a mere minute to inform him of her current predicament. It seems she was a wealthy well-to-do woman who resembled the then soon-to-be Queen Mary Antoinette . because of the similarity and looks a group of hoodlums decides to kidnap her.
As it turns out our dear Count Cagliostro wishes to give his Nemesis all the power he can, so that when he destroys him in the end it'll be utterly humiliating. Now Count Cagliostro we'll take the girl to Paris still in her comatose state and awaiting proper treatment.
It seems our plot is thickening . As our great count tries to hypnotize the very girl he's trying to cure into convincing her that she loves him ! that's making him just as big a creep as the people he's trying to fight against.
Now we get straight down to the main conspiracy. It seems a high amount of the upper French Nobles wish to use this woman who resembles Mary Antoinette to impersonate the real life woman and manipulate the king of France.
With this our great count gets invited to meet the king himself. And upon doing so is asked to demonstrate his amazing power on a group of peasants who are supposedly overcome by various diseases. But unbeknownst to him every peasant brought within the king's chamber is in fact an actor The second he wishes his magic words to cure them they all get up and Proclaim; ''One word from you and we are already cared'' to which they then decide to dance with much gaiety and laughter. This causes an uproar in the court and everyone starts laughing and mocking this charlatan of a musician. And I love this to showing off of a which doctor for being nothing more than a glorified fraud. It is easily the best part of the film.
The film goes on in the situations grow more dire the count decides to marry his impersonating woman so that she may not be taken away by others. He froze away the love of the Gypsy girl he was with for so many years. and attempts to save the life of a Dying King but is too late to do so. Now the newly crowned Queen Mary Antoinette (the real) banishes him and various other people from her Court.
Now the count has to escalate things further. He does this by embroidering the queen in a conspiracy involving a million Frank necklace. He's eventually caught and put on trial as you can imagine going against the queen in an absolute monarchy in a court system designed by the Royals and ruled by the Royals doesn't really work out . but at least he gets an interesting death on top of a very large building.
There's also this whole idea that the French Revolution was started by a French hypnotist Gypsy man. Can't be any worse than Anastasia.
You have a French hypnotist who thinks he's God, Gypsy murderers and thieves, the French royalty on its last legs. There really are no good protagonist in this movie. The closest you get is the woman who's pretending to me Marian and the man she's in love with but both of them are embroiled in a conspiracy to.
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