#Thénardier

[nortism]

fuck it, fan casting the les misérables muppet movie:

fozzie bear as jean valjean - idk it just feels right

sam the eagle as javert - just look at him, that’s javert

any human as fantine and cosette. i deliberated over who should be the human but i think this is the right choice so there’d be at least one person present throughout most of the story

kermit and miss piggy as monsieur and madame thénardier - i considered them for marius and cosette but i feel like it could be interesting to have them in a villian role. also having a human child being abused by miss piggy is very funny to me

miss piggy and kermit’s children from a muppets christmas carol as éponine, gavroche and azelma - it writes itself. also i find the idea of éponine being a really sad pig to be very funny

beaker as marius pontmercy - i want him to only say meep meep meep throughout the whole film and i want human cosette to be incredibly in love with him regardless.

bean bunny as enjolras - yeah i don’t have an explanation for this one

gonzo and scooter as courfeyrac and combeferre - courfeyrac as gonzo feels so right to me in a way i can’t explain. also combeferre is there idk

rizzo as grantaire - idk it just felt right

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

I suspected it as I read, but I didn't realize until I got to 5.3.8 how very obviously Thénardier makes JVJ pay for the privilege of taking the fall for him re: Javert.

[ratmanrulerofrodents]

"you've got a beard like a man, mother, but i have claws of a woman." -Javert GUYS ITS CANON JAVERT WEARS ACRYLICS (he was talking to madame Thénardier btw rude)

[landfilloftrash]

the zoned out word association game

[meet-the-thenardiers]

"The one where I created a very CURSED Les Misérables AU"

So, I was in my usual routine of doing nothing, and then decided to do the following request to an AI chat:

AND THIS MY FRIENDS, THIS WAS THE RESULT ☠️

1. Kendrick Lamar as Jean Valjean

2. Nas as Javert

3. Nick Minaj as Fantine

4. Rapsody as Éponine

5. Chance The Rapper as Marius Pontmercy

6. Doja Cat as Cosette

7. Lil'Wayne as Thénardier

8. Cardi B as Madame Thénardier

9. Lil Nas X as Gavroche

(This last one caught me COMPLETELY off guard)

And I really wish I had saved that chat page now, because additionally, the AI ​​made second suggestions for some roles, they were: J. Cole as Jean Valjean / Kendrick Lamar as Javert / 21 Savage as Thénardier and also...

AUBREY "DRAKE" GRAHAM AS MARIUS PONTMERCY ☠️

[dncingthrghlife]

Ideally, you should use the 25th Anniversary or any stage adaptation as a reference. The actual book or the many adapted miniseries productions are fine too. But if you so much as mention the 2012 Tom H**per atrocity in the notes, I will sentence you to 19 years on the chain gang for heresy.

[dolphin1812]

And Marius’ obsession with debts is back . . . 

As for the Thénardiers, this paragraph is interesting:

“The gulf of the social unknown had silently closed above those beings. On the surface there was not visible so much as that quiver, that trembling, those obscure concentric circles which announce that something has fallen in, and that the plummet may be dropped.”

It brings to mind the image of Valjean drowning from the beginning of the novel. Like the suffering convict from then, the Thénardiers have disappeared, with no sign from society of their loss. Mme Thénardier’s fate is only even recorded because it happened in prison, under official supervision. There is no care shown for them.

“A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of imagination”

Marius relies on many official networks and narratives in his searches, and while the lack of information is easily explainable to us as readers (there were four people in and around the sewer that night, and one was unconscious and another is dead), the biases of these narratives is also an issue. Here, for instance, we see that the coachman is looked down on (as if he’s only occasionally capable of imagination) and made out to be self-interested and greedy (he can imagine if it gets him paid) at once.

And knowing that Marius’ speech is to the man that saved him is so sad! I wish Cosette’s money were her own rather than Marius’, but I also think that’s a consequence of 1830s French gender norms for people of their class. But Valjean is right there! And he won’t say anything!

[expired-applejuice]

[24601orwhatever]

MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER

(restaged ver)

[wiverly]

I just finished watching “Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette” and I didn't expect it but it's literally a fanfiction. I love it, 10/10. 👌🏻

Spoilers below.

Gavroche is saved and is adopted by Jean Valjean and Toussaint together with two other adorable street children and a giant dog.

Marius is a badass who carries on the wishes of Les Amis de l'ABC by becoming a lawyer who helps the poor and needy. Besides, he never repudiates his father-in-law.

Cosette, on the other hand, carries on her father's will to do good to others and is also a very tough one who takes to the streets during the revolt to go and look for Jean and Marius, saving Gavroche's life.

At the wedding of Cosette and Marius there are all the people they have met during their lives who have helped or have helped them and it is wonderful to see how much good everyone has done.

JAVERT DOES NOT KILL HIMSELF BUT IN FACT, he decides to redeem himself and dedicate his life to perpetrating a more charitable justice considering Jean the angel who saved him and who gave him a second chance. Furthermore, when Thénardier shows up at the family home to harm them, he intervenes to arrest him, with the help of Marius, and reveals the truth about the good man that Jean is. He also shows up at his funeral. I cry.

Thénardier finally pays for his crimes and is arrested in a scene that is fantastic. Azelma doesn't go away with him but with her mother, who is alive, and they decide to change their lives and no longer be criminals, reopening the inn.

Furthermore, even if Jean unfortunately dies there, the citizens of Montreuil-sur-Mer still consider him their mayor and await his return, and the city does not fall into ruin thanks to Alain and Sister Simplice.

Alain. Only Alain, because just saying his name is enough.

Ah, Fantine's ghost watches over them the whole time.

[le-loup-et-lion]

The patrons of the Sergeant de Waterloo inn after watching a half-starved, threadbare, anxiety-riddled little girl who is clearly the equivalent of a child slave get repeatedly abused right in front them by her obviously neglectful caretakers on Christmas eve:

[nortism]

there’s an alternate universe out there in which the thénardiers are the Serious Villians in the les mis musical and javert is played purely for laughs and i want to live there tbh

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

One improvement on the 2012 movie vs the book: Marius slugging Thénardier instead of paying him was an excellent creative choice. 10/10, no notes.

[crazyhappycat]

A Les Mis AU idea came into my head.

We know A Serie of Unfortunate Events, Violet, Klaus and Sunny is sent to live with Count Olaf who hunts them down to Get their fortune.

Imagine that story Line, only instead of Violet, Klaus and Sunny, it’s Eponine, Azelma and Gavroche instead.

Eponine-Violet

Azelma-Klaus

Gavroche-Sunny

And Then maybe Monsieur Thénardier could be Count Olaf and Patron-Minette could be Olaf’s troupe

Then maybe Valjean could be Like Jacques Snicket and Fantine could be Kit or something.

Cosette and Enjolras could be the Quagmires with Feuilly as their missing brother(He’a an orphan so Enj and Cosette parents adopted him)

Just a funny idea

[landfilloftrash]

the gorbeau house incident

[meet-the-thenardiers]

Disney X Les Misérables

1. Jean Valjean - I imagine two characters "playing" him. In his younger years (before he was arrested, and sent to the galleys) I imagine him as Aladdin. And when he is older, I imagine him as Cassim.

I don't know how many people will remember this character (or this movie) but he is Aladdin's father and first appears in Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996)

2. Fantine - I know that many people relate the character of Cinderella to Cosette (which is fair), but her appearance in the Disney films really reminds me of the Fantine, and how she described in the books:

"She was called Fantine because she had never been known by any other name [...] She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but the gold was on her head and the pearls in her mouth."

3. Euphrasie "Cosette" Fauchelevent - Okay, for Cosette I imagined these three characters for each "stage" of her life. The first two images are of Penny from The Rescuers (1977), and would represent her around the time she was rescued by Jean Valjean. The third is Princess Eilonwy from Black Cauldron (1985), who would represent Cosette at 12-14 years old, when she left the Petit-Picpus convent. And lastly, Princess Aurora would be her at 16-17 years old.

Also, I just noticed that while in the novel her hair is described to get darker over the years, here it seems like it has gotten lighter.

4. M. Thénardier - Dr. Facilier as Monsieur Thénardier, that's it! I could list a few reasons why I think these two fit together perfectly, but I think the decisive one for me is Facilier's expression in the masked ball scene (that would be the second image). It reminds me of the part of the novel where M. Thénardier sees Marius and Cosette's wedding procession during the Mardi Gras.

5. Bishop Myriel - The Archdeacon from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). Yeah, I don't think there's much to explain about this one. Besides the two (in a way) being part of a work by Victor Hugo, their personalities and appearances fit together very well.

I also thought of Friar Tuck from Robin Hood, and more specifically, the anthropomorphic version of him that appears in the 1973 film.

6. Fauchelevent - For Fauchelevent I imagine Amos Slade from the movie The Fox and the Hound (1981). I remember that I didn't like this character when I was a kid, not necessarily because he was a hunter, but because of his "obsession" with capturing Tod. But looking back today, I believe it was because we were seeing the movie from the poor animals' point of view (I mean, his dog was hurt too).

But like Fauchelevent, I believe he is not necessarily a "bad guy" – perhaps a lonely, grumpy old man.

7. Monsieur Gillenormand and Mademoiselle Gillenormand - For Monsieur Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, I imagine his appearance to be similar to that of Georges Hautecourt from Aristocats (1970). And although the lawyer seems to be much more lively, pleasant and fun than M. Gillenormand, I really imagined his appearance to be something like that.

And for Mlle. Gillenormand, I picture Aunt Sarah from Lady and the Tramp (1955). Although I don't think Marius's aunt is as old as Aunt Sarah appears to be, so I picture her hair starting to turn gray, not completely white.

8. Toussaint - Last but not least: Nanny from 101 Dalmatians (1961) as Toussaint, the maid of Jean Valjean and Cosette. Let me tell you, to this day I find Nanny to be the most adorable female Disney character, the way she loves and cares for the Dalmatian puppies is just so cute, even in the live-action version.