#random les mis

[elinordash]

Other foreign productions [of Les Misérables] included [...] a memorable Italian version (1947) directed by Riccardo Freda [...]. This extremely expensive film included several thousand extras, and to give the barricades scenes greater realism, Freda pitched 'armies' of real-life Italian workers against squads of real-life students, some of them right-wingers. The mostly left-wing workers displayed considerable revolutionary zeal, and in the filmed mêlée, which got completely out of hand, sixty five extras were wounded.

— The Complete Book of Les Misérables, Edward Samuel Behr ...now that's authenticity

#les mis #les miserables #les mis text #les miserables 1948 #my text #random les mis #the complete book of les misérables #i LIVE for this kind of stories #there's something about all things hugo that summons the weirdness #now i want a movie about the making of the italian film with parallels drawn between early 19th century france and fascist/post war italy

[secretmellowblog]

Another issue I have with Les Mis adaptations is how the horror of prostitution is always made the Central Focus of Fantine’s story, instead of the horror of poverty. Idk when you’re used to the musical it’s almost a bit surprising when you read the brick and find out that most of Fantine’s chapters are about ......the mundane horror of living paycheck to paycheck, and giving up everything that makes you happy in order to make ends meet.

Even when book!Fantine does become a prostitute, the horror of it is more like “because of her job the police are Not on her side, she is stigmatized/considered inherently illegal, and so she has no legal way to defend herself when she’s attacked.”

Most of Fantine’s chapters center on her slowly descending deeper into poverty over the course of years, learning to live on less and less and less, and gradually being forced to give up control over every little thing that gives her any joy. She’s initially living an austere but somewhat stable life— and then she unexpectedly loses her job at Valjean’s factory. She’s forced to return all her rented furniture piece by piece because she can’t afford it, she can’t keep a rosebush in her window because she doesn’t have the time to water it; in order to pay rent she has to sew all day and into the night, using the candlelight from a neighbor’s garret. The only thing that brings her joy is brushing her hair; and then she's forced to sell her hair, and then forced to sell her teeth.....

The tragedy of Fantine's plotline in the book isn't that she became a sex worker, it's that poverty ripped away her autonomy in the same way it ripped away Valjean's. And I think that tragedy really deserves more focus in adaptations, because it's such an important part of the book.

#les mis #fantine #;___: #random fantine emotions tonight

[thecandlesticksfromlesmis]

truly the most egregious part of the 2012 Les Mis is that they changed Valjean’s line from

“It’s the story of those who always loved you, your mother gave her life for you then gave you to my keeping.”

to

“it’s the story, of one who turned from hating. The man who only learned to love when you were in his keeping.”

LIKE?????!! How dare they remove Valjean specifically mentioning Fantine’s sacrifice and putting that before he mentions his own part in the story?? How dare they make Valjean imply that it was only when Cosette came into his keeping that he stopped hating everything and learned to love WHEN THE FUCKING BISHOP IS THE REASON FOR THE GODDAMN SEASON????

Like OF COURSE Cosette softened Valjean, of course he became a better man when he became her father, of course their relationship is important.

But this story would not have happened without the love of the bishop and it was his love that rekindled the love that was dormant in Valjean’s heart. And it was Fantine that fanned that flame, then Cosette’s that kept it steady.

I just hate how flat it makes Valjean’s story seem. “It’s the story, of those who always loved you.” Is THE answer Cosette has been searching for her whole life. I wish they’d kept it in instead of feeling like the audience would only feel fulfilled by Valjean’s story if he only mentioned his direct relationship to Cosette.

Whatever idk. It’s a good Les Mis for a lot of reasons, but a bad one for a lot of reasons too 🥲

#I also have beef with the pacing of the whole dang thing #and SUDDENLY my god what a horrible song #I also will get into direct hand to hand combat over the tiny random songs they added in #Anne killed it tho she’s the best #also Mr Crow is such a good actor I wish he didn’t sound like a plate when he sang #I have new thots about his performance too #I ALSO HAVE BEEF WITH THE TRANSITION IN THIS FILM #okay I am done #les miserables #les mis 2012 #oh wait also I have beef with the entire musical over something Valjean does constantly but I can’t get into that in the tags

[hamlet-not-hamnet]

apollo is not impressed

#idk something had to be my first post so have this random enjolraire sketch #i told you im gonna have to join the les mis fandom ;-; #les mis #grantaire #enjolras #exr #enjoltaire #my art

[blueeyessynchro]

Enjolras is banned from IKEA for repetitively stacking furniture to form impromptu barricades

#les mis #les miserables #enjolras #les amis de l'abc #random thoughts #shitpost #les mis shitpost

[alicedrawslesmis]

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#valvert #javert #les mis #les miserables #marius #cosette #random basque cameo #asterism #my art

[fruity-pontmercy]

guysss i hate being this person but does anyone know where a poor desperate soul can watch 1972 Les Mis?!?!?!?! I NEED more Amis content its not even funny i’m gonna throw a fit

#les mis #les miserables #les miz #les amis de l'abc #the brick #musical theatre #les mis headcanons #enjolras #enjoltaire #courfeyrac #les mis 1972 #les miserables 1972 #i see from random clips on here that it has the archives ina watermark but :( camt find it

[ross-nekochan]

Ho appena speso quasi uno stipendio intero per il viaggio della vita ad Aprile/Maggio:

Tokyo - New Delhi - Seoul - Tokyo

CANNOT WAIT 🔥🔥🔥

#aoh raga si guadagna pure per spendere #sti stronzi di giapponesi non mi avranno #userò altre ferie pagate e quanto le finisco vaffanculo stronzi #random #viaggio

[popcornoncemore]

I just wrote this poem and it came out so Grantaire coded:

Take me apart with your hands, your voice, your confidence Let me raise your up, let you raze the person that I am Build me back up, make me your empire Make it so there is only "after you" and "the moment I came to" When I happened upon you and you showed me that you Are good.

#popcornwithnate #random #poetry #writing #grantaire #les mis #enjoltaire #les miserables

[for-the-love-of-javert]

What are everyone's thoughts on Javert unaliving himself & his reasons for doing it?

I'm asking mostly out of genuine idle curiosity. But, I have seen numerous opinions on this and yes I have my own which I will publish soon. I'm just interested in whether anyone has any other ideas to add to the act itself and reasoning behind it other than whats written in the book. Earlier I watched a video of an interview with a Les Mis star who gave a different set of ideas for why Javert takes himself out of existence. As someone (meaning myself) who is studying mental health I look at Javert's ending from a number of angles. What do you guys think?

Footnote: I'm going to buy the novel next payday and read it again as it's been years since I last read it. However, I have read the chapter of Javerts ending online and it's one of the most beautifully written chapters I've ever read in any novel/book imo. I know it's a bit naughty to read a later chapter before the earlier ones but, well, errrrm........................never mind, I did it so bit me!

#les miserables #les mis #javert #javerts ending #javert unalives himself #what are your thoughts on Javerts ending and his reasons for unalicing himself #idly curious questions #me being an utterly random bitch lmao

[mayhemlovesenvy]

Buuu 👻👻👻 owed en tu dash (CW MUCHO TEXTO)

Qué son estos cositos? Son los owed. Están chikitos pateenlos

También es una prueba con Fred- ese es más o menos su outfit para el arco de los muelles; el señorito también les quemó planchó el pelo y se medio maquilló 💧. Los ojos también los modifiqué un poco, en vez de ser como en la serie cuando Fred toma el cuerpo, quiero que sea un poquito menos obvio(?)

La forma de las pupilas cambian con respecto a Freddy y el detalle rojo no es por drogado sino porque tiene fotofobia y la luz natural/artificial le caga un montón los ojitos, y como es como tú y como yo está en el celular leyendo cosas curiosas hasta tarde...

Qué más es? Los iba a usar para un llavero! Porque necesito llevar a mis blorbos conmigo físicamente o me muero

PERO quedaron muy grandes, y ya perdí a Fred xp

Igual hice el llavero, solo que con estos dibujitos que hice a mano con boligrafos con brillitos ✨️

Yyyy estos cosos!! Como dije no soporto no tener representaciones físicas de mis blorbos y de paso los dibujos de las fichas tienen más usos(?)

Oasis de colada... terminé su ficha pero ando teniendo un sufrimiento muy específico con ella...

También me sirve de merca 🔥 (funfact a veces participo en ferias...) Pero planeo compartirlos en formato pdf o algo similar para que puedan imprimirlos y usarlos si quieren!!

#owed #escribir tanto owed me enoja honestly. rabia. #fredwynn #suena mejor pero ns. #igual mi nombre para ellos en mi cerebro es silverfangs 💔💔 they cute #voy a tratar (si me acuerdo) sacarle foto a los pines que les hice (sí también hice pines) #espero que me recuerden no solo como una random que habla mucho del owed sino como LA random que habla mucho del owed #y de vincent. te amo vincent #fnafhs #owynn #fred #chispop #fred venegas andrade #owen abston #secret silly project

[ghafaslight]

being a les mis fan in 2023 in places other than tumblr and ao3 is so isolating. wdym no one else cares about french students fighting for their rights during a revolution no one cares about or remembers. anyways this is me promising myself ill get back to writing and publishing les mis content.

#les mis #the brick is taking over my life #i actually never left the fandom #ades random thoughts

[azeriairis]

I'm just going to go on a rant right now for no clear reason.

I really hate it when people look down on stories for having Villains of the Non-morally complex type. Because Hot Take, some stories are best when the Villain has a simple moral structure, or is just an unapologetic evil bastard.

For one not all stories need to be in-depth discussions of the meaning of the human condition, some stories can just be mindless fun, and a simple Villain/Antagonist can absolutely work for that.

But also morally complex villains necessarily make your story more complicated and demand a lot more attention in the narrative, as in order to pull off a morally complex villain you need to ensure the reader understands their motivations and morality, and not all stories have the space for that. It's possible for a story to be too complex, and by making your villain simple that frees up space to dedicate to other things.

Take Lord of The Rings, Sauron in many ways is a simple Pure-Evil Villain, at least during the main story, he does horrible shit and causes immense suffering because that's just what he does. Now imagine LOTR if Sauron was a more complex villain and Tolkien spent a bunch of time diving in-depth as to why he does what he does and how he morally justifies his actions, it'd quickly gum up the narrative, so the story is served better rendering him as a more simple villain so Tolkien could focus the narrative on other themes.

Additionally sometimes simpler Villains/Antagonists serve the purpose of communicating themes better.

I'll use Les Mis as an example of this. One of the main things Victor Hugo tackles in Les Mis is the relationship between the Law and Justice/Morality. In order to make this easier to understand, he writes the Antagonist Javert as a strict legalist Police Inspector whose moral code can be simply described as "The Law is always right, no matter the circumstance" and who never strays in his behavior from what the Law expects of him (at least until the end), this means that in the narrative Javert is depersonalized and instead of being a character in his own right, serves as the personification of the Legal System, his actions are not his own, they are the actions of the Legal System. This means that when Javert does something Unjust, Immoral, or generally harmful the negative consequences of his actions cannot just be assigned to him, but to the system as a whole.

Victor Hugo critiques the Legal System by literally just having a character with power and authority who does precisely what the Legal System expects of him at every turn cause a bunch of harm through his actions. And it works.

If Javert was more individualized and had a more complex moral system that sometimes caused him to stray from the Legalist Route then the consequences of his actions could be attributed to the results of letting a Rogue Cop stray from what he was supposed to do, instead of the system as a whole; making the critiques Victor Hugo has of the system less obvious.

#random ass thoughts #les mis #les miserablés #lord of the rings #lotr

[rosemary-rothlorein]

Enjolras will not survive the revolution, not to mention to be corrupted by power. He will have to die for his cause. His fate is sealed by something like a divine plan, and he himself is aware of that. The only matter is how the divine plan will be carried out. Sometimes I would imagine at a critical point of the revolution, Enjolras decides to lay his life down for Combeferre, so they can triumph, and Combeferre, symbolizing philosophy and civilization, will lead the future.

#enjolras #combeferre #les mis fanfic writing random idea #enjolferre

[dolphin1812]

Bossuet is hilarious and, even in just his second chapter, has made so many funny comments:

“Day before yesterday, I entered the school, by chance. You know, one does have such freaks sometimes.”

Bossuet, you’re a student, what do you mean “by chance?”

“He [the student] is an honorable idler who lounges, who practises country jaunts, who cultivates the grisette, who pays court to the fair sex, who is at this very moment, perhaps, with my mistress. Let us save him.”

His reasoning

I’d say I’m done with the jokes, but as we learned in the last chapter: “Puns are sometimes serious factors in politics.” Marius thinking “Lesgle” is “L’Aigle” not only prepares him to understand the “Bossuet” pun at the end of the chapter, but may be a reference to his own Bonapartist politics. “The eagle” might be a “fine name” because eagles were one of the symbols of the French Empire under Napoleon.

I love how awkward Marius is throughout this chapter. Aside from his general lack of experience socializing with people his age, his slow and short responses at the beginning reflect his distraction; after all, he was just cast out. He even seems a bit rude at first, with “I do not know you” coming off a bit abrupt. Still, their shared status as “students” allows him to trust Bossuet a little, and the name “Lesgle/l’aigle” really convinces him to open a bit more (his praise of his name) before he finally reacts emotionally to the story (with “mortification” and apologies). By the end, then, he’s polite and fairly open. He’s still not the best conversationalist, of course. While Bossuet’s speech is peppered with jokes about student life, jokes in French and in Latin, and jokes at his own expense. Marius, in contrast, is to the point, mostly just reacting to the “big picture” of the story and not adding jokes or details of his own. He’s not experienced with this kind of conversation or this kind of humor, but Bossuet gives him the space to respond even as he continues adding jokes to his own words. Bossuet doesn’t provide a distraction, exactly – Marius can’t ignore that he’s in a cab as he has this conversation – but his good humor is still helpful. Of course, he does help Marius actually find housing in a way, but his general openness really helps compensate for Marius’ lack of that. And in the best way possible! Marius now has two friends!!

Poor Marius must be very overwhelmed, though. Friends are good, but that’s a lot of experiences in one day, and these are rather chaotic friends. Bossuet basically introduced himself with “I got kicked out of law school for you and I’m happy enough to take you in because of it, but I actually don’t have anywhere to stay myself,” and Courfeyrac offered his home before he even introduced himself to Marius! Then again, their chaos may be reassuring, as it suggests that the tumults of his day are just part of being a student, and if these two are working through it, maybe he can as well.

#Les mis letters #lm 3.4.2 #marius pontmercy #bossuet #lesgle #I never know how to tag him #Courfeyrac #I’m not over Courfeyrac offering his place before introducing himself #He really just heard his friend Bossuet say he has no place to say #And skipped him for this random guy #He’s so funny

[fillsta]

Somewhere in an alternate universe, Enjolras fell asleep on his back on the couch and Bossuet is filming Grantaire, Courfeyrac and Bahorel giving him a fake funeral

#based on a random tiktok I saw somewhere #bossuet #les mis #les miserables #les amis de l'abc #les amis #enjolras #grantaire #r #courfeyrac #bahorel