#barricade scenes

[alicedrawslesmis]

my mom (set designer) just got a call from a guy being like 'I'm working on an opera for the Municipal Theatre (huge theatre) and we want to do a big showstopping set for it, have you seen Les Miserables?'

[hydravns]

TRANSFORMERS (2007) Dir. Michael Bay

[secretmellowblog]

It’s odd how lots of writers basically turn Inspector Javert into Claude Frollo?

In the original novel Javert is not obsessed with Jean Valjean. It is not his life’s goal to capture him. He is a police officer who is bad because he is a police officer; he’s bad because he’s just doing his job, and his job is to enforce cruel violent bigoted inhumane laws. He reunites with Jean Valjean by coincidence and just seems mildly annoyed by it. He doesn’t care at all about Jean Valjean any more than he would care about literally any other criminal in the world (until the barricades, which is the first moment when he does develop complicated emotions for him.) Javert isn’t bad because he is obsessed with Valjean— he is bad because he is a cop, and as a cop it is his duty to be mindlessly cruel. He is indifferent to Jean Valjean on a personal level. He is not obsessed, he’s an authoritarian.

But Frollo!

Frollo is a character who has a deep personal obsession with someone, pursues them relentlessly out of that personal obsession, and then uses the law as an tool to abuse them. Frollo is the one who makes it his life’s mission to capture some random person who did nothing wrong and use the full power of the law to torture them for his own gratification.

I kinda don’t understand why it’s so common for Les Mis adaptations and stuff to turn Javert into Frollo by making him ~personally obsessed with Valjean~ and ~making it his life goal to catch him.~ It severely undercuts the novel’s political message about the evils of the prison system, and also just makes Javert a far shallower and less compelling character. It makes him evil in a way that isn’t even interesting to read and has nothing very valuable to say.

[lesmisscraper]

Jean Valjean shooting the mattress to the ground. Volume 5, Book 1, Chapter 9.

Clips from <Il cuore di Cosette>.

[statementlou]

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[pilferingapples]

as a big les mis fan, i have loved your blog for ages but recently you have especially piqued my interest - in your recent explanatory amis post, you referenced historical metacontext around jehan's death being first. i have a theory about what that metacontext is, but i am FAR from certain and hoping you could offer me some clarification

(also do you have any other pieces of interesting historical metacontext to share with the class)

OK you gotta tell me your Theory too!!! if it lines up or it was something totally different , I wanna hear it alllll

anyway! it's pretty solid that Prouvaire as he finally appears is largely an homage to Hugo's old friend Gérard de Nerval, who had died in 1855; a LOT about Prouvaire's description overlaps with how people talk about Gérard, and the conversation where he's arguing with everyone about the old gods still existing lines up EXTREMELY with conversations that other people remembered having with him ; there's THIS :

Jean Prouvaire was in love; he cultivated a pot of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied woman, wept over the child, confounded God and the future in the same confidence (LM 3.4.1, Hapgood)

“God is dead, perhaps,��� said Gerard de Nerval one day to the writer of these lines, confounding progress with God and taking the interruption of movement for the death of Being.(LM 5.1.20)

(Hugo still trying to still have this conversation with his friend via novel guts me more than a little!! People are people and we never stop wanting to find the right thing to say oh geez I'm crying for real)

Bahorel , who dies in the same first-charge attack that takes Prouvaire, is also a (even more obvious) homage to a friend; Petrus Borel , who had died in 1859.

They're considered pretty minor figures today, but they were both really noteable names in their day, which is to say...about the late 1820s/early 1830s; they were two of Hugo's most trusted lieutenants in the battle of Hernani, held in French Romantic memory as a breakout event for the movement. And, importantly, they were the first of that core group of more radical Romantics to die.

So while i think there is a lot going on character- and symbol-wise with them being the first two Amis down, I also think there's definitely an Acknowledgement in them being the first of the named group to go; they get the sort of heroic deaths they'd have liked, and maybe the closest thing to Good deaths on the barricade until OFPD? and agh I'm emotional, QUICK tell me your theories before I start crying harder

[150699]

Arcane S2 predictions bingo!

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[genderfeel]

there is not necessarily a right answer but there Is a wrong answer and you probably know what that is already

[anglerflsh]

I had a dream that you were getting to work on an animated adaptation of Les Miserables and posted a short animatic of an important scene between Javert and Valjean followed by an extremely in-depth explanation of every artistic decision you made and why it was THE most important scene between the two of them in the adaptation. The entire dream was just me being transfixed by this post. It was delightful, thank you for infecting my dreams 👍

I want so deeply to have actually made that Life if anglerflsh dot tumblr dot com from your dreams was real! I alas haven't made animation work in a long while but oooh life if I could do just that

[lenievi]

bbc les misérables is like showing javert coming home to his empty apartment, being all sad, eating alone, sleeping alone, being unhappy in a montage together with valjean coming back home to cosette but also looking really sad and unhappy

okay

[faroucheflowers]

“Be easy” - Volume IV, Book First, Chapter VI

[hydravns]

TRANSFORMERS (2007) Dir. Michael Bay

[ueinra]

LES MISÉRABLES (1912)

ATTENTION ALL OF YOU!!!!

Give this badass Enjolras with this plaid trouser the appreciation he deserves!! He literally puts up a paper ordering Javert’s execution when the barricade falls right over Javert's head.

I love how Javert looks so fishy yet simply sits down and orders a drink in there lol.

Btw Marius is the one who realizes Javert and tells Enjolras about him here, His reaction is so aggressive and even tries to kill Javert on the spot as well, and this is understandable because in this adaptation Marius doesn’t meet Javert before.

But what I don't understand is how Marius could recognize him.. which is hilarious because it just makes it so that Javert is really bad at disguises.

[pbpsbff]

trying to look up which way library doors open and the first result is the wiki for the fucking roblox game doors

[lesmisscraper]

The Iconic Battlecry, the Iconic Scene.

[humanmorph]

"We are coming home not to conquer but to build. Our doors are open. Send your envoys. Send your theologians. We are eager to talk."

(girl who is always thinking about 'no value in a closed door') wow nice no value in a closed door reference