#Nick Wilde = Jean Valjean

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Behold my most terrible idea.

#javert #judy hopps #les mis #zootopia #acab #I am not actually writing this I have no plot inspiration #except to let them destroy each other #oh crap now I do have a plot idea #Nick Wilde = Jean Valjean #oh no #I did not actually want to write this I just wanted to make a joke

[bbclesmis]

New Statesman: Les Misérables: this epic of the have-nots is pretty dire

As the BBC’s adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables (Sundays, 9pm) reaches its midway point, let us briefly put aside the man-sized Kleenex and the wild disbelief and consider precisely why this series is so bewildering. I mean, is it (quite) good? Or is it (very) bad? Or, perhaps, both? All I can tell you is that whenever the reformed criminal Jean Valjean (Dominic West), is on screen, I am in its thrall. How I blubbed when he told little Cosette (Lia Giovanelli), the enslaved daughter of the seamstress-turned-prostitute Fantine (Lily Collins), that tonight he would carry her buckets of water. The rest of the time, I’m all eye-rolls. Dear God. The sentimentality. The melodrama. The simplistic division between good and evil. And people have the temerity to slag off Dickens, the velvet lapels of whose frock coat M Hugo is not, in my view, fit even to dust.

What I’m saying, I suppose, is that this epic of the have-nots, boiled down like old bones to six hours of television, is pretty dire, but that West is such a good actor he makes you forget this. I love the hint of South Yorkshire he has added to his voice, and I love the moments when the camera lingers on his expressive, rather simian features, the better that we might register his more fleeting and suppressed emotions. But how little help he gets from elsewhere. I adore Olivia Colman, but both Andrew Davies’s script and the series director, Tom Shankland, have required her here – as the landlady Mme Thénardier, she is Cosette’s torturer-in-chief – to lay on both the spite and the comedy with such dotty alacrity, it’s as if she’s in a pantomime (that, or this is her audition for Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd). Beside this, and the cartoony performance of her Waterloo “hero” husband, Thénardier (Adeel Akhtar), Valjean’s sincerity seems misplaced, somehow, as if he’s wandered in from another production entirely.

The script tells and tells and tells. There are few asides, and no subtext; the plot just unspools, like rope. Every twist is preposterous, the latest being Valjean’s escape from prison, to which he returned having confessed his true identity to his arch enemy Javert (David Oyelowo), the inspector of police, and which took him all of 30 seconds. (What was the thing he spat out of his mouth in his cell? A skeleton key? A saw? A hand grenade?) The poverty and degradation is Monty Python-relentless – replace the cardboard boxes on motorways with old Burgundy bottles in badger sets and you’re there – and while every priest and nun is entirely good, pretty much any member of the establishment is creepiness personified.

We have to take so much on trust. Why, for instance, is Javert so obsessed with banging up Valjean again? This has never been adequately explained, just as Valjean’s conversion to the straight life has never quite been explained (yes, yes, I know it has something to do with the candlesticks he nicked from Derek Jacobi a while back – but was that kindly priest’s refusal to snitch on him really enough to set him on the narrow path?). Abandoned Fantine, having sold her hair, her teeth and her body, is dead now. But did we weep? No, for she was never more than a cipher. As she lay in the convent, gasping for air, I kept thinking how weird it was that, even days later, her mouth was still filled with blood following the extraction of her incisors. If Colman is Widow Twanky with added garlic, Collins seemed to be rehearsing – aargh! – for a role in a forthcoming zombie apocalypse movie.

Now that’s off my chest, let us move on to – yes, more poverty – Revolution in Ruins: The Hugo Chavez Story (16 January, 9pm). Ruth Mayer’s dash through Venezuela’s recent history wasn’t a radical piece of film-making, but it worked brilliantly. How quickly a state can fail. How easily a people can be taken in. How weirdly similar were Chavez’s media tactics to those of Trump. Jeremy Corbyn, incidentally, appeared more than once, swooning at the feet of Chavez like some suburban teenager, two minutes of beard in an hour-long festival of corruption, murder and starvation. He won’t watch it, of course, but everyone else should – even if only through the gaps in their fingers.

Les Misérables (BBC One) (x)

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@yasminoliveira534 obrigada querida!! ^///^

Gender: Female

Star Sign: Aquarius 

Height: 165cm

Sexual Orientation: Really don’t know

Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw

Favorite Color: turquoise, blue, purple and pink.

Favorite Animal: Cats and bunnies

Average Hours of Sleep: 5 or 6 hours 

Cat or Dog Person: Both 

Favorite Fictional Characters (here goes “THE” list): Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde (Zootopia), all disney princess, Nani Pelekai (Lilo & Stitch), Fiona (Shrek), Cosette (LesMis), Fantine (LesMis), Gavroche (LesMis), Jean Valjean (LesMis), Javert (LesMis), Marius (LesMis), Eponine (LesMis), Elphaba and Glinda (Wicked), FIYEEEEEROOOOO (Wicked), Eliza Doolittle (My Fair Lady), Edward and Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist), Milo Thatch (Atlantis: The Lost Empire), Jane (Tarzan), Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story), Ellie and Carl Fredricksen (Up), Wall-e and EVE (Wall-e), Bolt (Bolt), Dory (Finding Nemo), Roz (Monster Inc.), Sullivan and Mike Wazowski (Monster Inc.), Remy (Ratatouille), John Silver (Treasure Planet), Anastiasia (Anastasia), Princess Peach (Mario Bros.), Princess Zelda (The Legend of Zelda: Bafo do Selvagem), Anna and Elsa (Frozen), Kenai and Koda (Brother Bear), Clementine and Lee (Telltale The Walking Dead), Bigby Wolf (Telltale The Wolf Among Us), Usagi Tsukino (Sailor Moon), Yona (Akastuki no Yona), Poppy and Branch (Trolls), Poo (Kung Fu Panda), Hiccup and Toothless (HTTYD)

Favorite Singer/Band: Tiago Iorc, Natiruts, Ivete Sangalo, 2NE1, EXO, BTS, The Chainsmokers, Coldplay, Chorão (Charlie Brown Jr.), Pitty, Clarice Falcão, Maiara & Maraisa, Anavitória, Grupo Revelação, Maroon 5, Paramore, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Sia, Sam Smith, Jessie J, Katy Perry, Shawn Mendes, Zedd, Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars, P!nk, Nando Reis, Legião Urbana.

Dream Trip: I always wanted to go to some South America countries, I also think about Europe and South Korea.

Dream Job: Well…I think about it a lot, sometimes I think about working for a animation studio like Disney or Dreamworks as an animator or character designer, but I also think about be an actress here in my country and even an voice actress.

When was this Blog made: 08/11/2016

Number of Followers: 21

What Made You Decide To Create This Blog? Because I wanted to post my art here, but every time I try to post I get “A LITTLE” nervous for some reason. But I see that I’m making some progress, even if it’s slowly.

And now I’ll tag @worldmadeofart and @moonlightstarrynight !!

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[londontheatre]

West End Producer

Social media star, columnist and masked-man of Theatreland, West End Producer, has a new book called Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Going to the Theatre (But Were Too Sloshed to Ask, Dear), published by Nick Hern Books.

The book starts with preparations (what to see, how to book, who to take, what to wear, etc.), before guiding you through your trip itself (how to find the theatre / your seat, how to beat the queue for the ladies’ loos and bar at the interval, how to behave – and what to do with fellow audience members who aren’t doing the same!), and then how to share your experiences and stay engaged (whether that’s blogging, joining a forum, taking part in your local am dram group, and so on). It also includes lots of backstage insights and gossip, and show synopsis that lay bare the secret (and definitely true) histories of some of the most popular West End shows.

Like WEP’s popular first book on acting, it’s knowledgeable, funny and brilliantly wry – here are some of the celebrity endorsements received so far:

Craig Revel Horwood: ‘West End Producer is back. His book is full of all the crucial facts, naughty wit and insider knowledge that every theatregoer needs to have. Hysterically accurate, bitingly savage. Read this before buying your theatre ticket. Fab-u-lous, darling!’

Meera Syal: ‘This book had me snorting prosecco out of my nostrils, dear. Hilarious yet chock-full of insider tips – and some stuff we all think about the theatre we know and love, but wouldn’t dare say whilst sober. Glorious.’

Paul O’Grady: ‘Sober or drunk, this book is a hilarious, invaluable education into all things theatrical!’

Kerry Ellis: ‘Entertaining and funny – I loved it! That’s showbiz #dear!’

Jamie Lloyd: ‘I always have problems working out the difference between backstage and front of house, the wings and the flies. Thanks to this very funny book, I have found the solutions to all my theatrical problems.’

Reece Shearsmith: ‘West End Producer goes to the theatre so you don’t have to. But if you find you do have to, then this is the book for you. From what sweets to take to leaving discreetly in the interval – this important guide is a vital addition to your theatrical bookshelf.’

West End Producer recently answered a few questions that we put to him.

Q: Was there a catalyst for you sitting down and writing your new book? WEP: Yes – seeing an audience member attempt to eat some fish and chips during a matinee of Matilda. It was absurd and downright rude. Particularly as he didn’t offer me a bite.

Q: How does writing a book compare to being a producer of West End shows? WEP: Well, it’s a lot harder as it is quite a solitary sport. Whereas putting on a show means you are surrounded by wonderful, camp and sometimes wonderfully camp collaborators, sitting on my own staring at a blank computer screen can be quite lonely. So I always make sure my Jean Valjean teddy is there to keep me company (and I’ll occasionally ring Lloyd Webber and get him to tell me some jokes).

Q: If you were all-powerful, what would you change about the modern theatre experience? WEP: I am – and I intend to make it less expensive.

Q: What was your most entertaining theatre experience? WEP: There have been many. But possibly seeing Patti Put-Your-Phone-Away-Lupone shouting at an audience member halfway through Gypsy. Marvellous! Everyone loves a good diva, dear.

Q: How about your most embarrassing theatre experience? WEP: Seeing a rather drunken Ugly Sister fall offstage, run down the aisle, rip off her costume, and start vomiting at the back of the auditorium. These X Factor celebs are a liability, dear. Oh, and witnessing Oscar Wilde: The Musical. Good God, dear.

Q: What is your ‘must have’ item when visiting the theatre? WEP: A cattle prod, for using on naughty audience members who can’t seem to put their mobile phones down for two hours of drama. In fact, I’ve launched a scheme to help address the recent alarming slide in auditorium behaviour. It’s called the Theatre Prefect Programme, and will see an army of wonderful, noble, heroic vigilantes on patrol in venues across the West End and beyond, protect audience members, ushers and actors alike from all manner of scandalous, etiquette-breaching crimes. Noisy eaters, snorers and over-enthusiastic couples will be ejected from the theatre, and if necessary, banned for life. I encourage everyone reading this to sign up now – together, we can Make Theatre Great Again, dear!

Q: If you could take anyone to the theatre with you – who would be your two guests? (one either side) WEP: The inventors of British Theatre: Laurence Olivier and Louie Spence (with Judi Dench within arm’s reach so I can nick some of her champagne).

Q: What makes theatre so special? WEP: It is a place where you go to escape, to forget, to glimpse into another world. Witnessing a live performance is truly uplifting – and if done well can move and make us change.

Q: Why should EVERYONE buy your book? WEP: Because it is THE theatre book of the year, if not the decade! Anyone who loves theatre needs this book on their theatrical bookshelf. It’s cheaper than a ticket, even in the balcony – and it will last a lot longer, dear.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Going to the Theatre (But Were Too Sloshed to Ask, Dear) by West End Producer is out now, published by Nick Hern Books. Get a free Theatre Prefect badge with every copy when you order at http://ift.tt/2CrFD7d.

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