#film: les miserables

[aarontveit]

AARON TVEIT as ENJOLRAS LES MISERABLES (2012) dir. Tom Hooper

[littledozerdraws]

1978 Valvert 💐

[cinelestial]

Tom Hooper’s musical film adaptation ‘Les Misérables’ released in theaters 12 years ago today.

[wouldgaysexfixthem]

would gay sex fix them?

[aaronstveit]

editing challenge vs. @cosettepontmercys ❀ favorite aaron tveit role

"In the first chapter with these guys, two pages are spent on each person, completely describing them. That was like gold for me as an actor. Enjolras' only love was liberty, and he was dedicated to the revolution, but he was a very gentle person. As far as women were concerned, he wasn't like the rest of his girl-crazy compatriots. He was so focused on the ideals of this revolution that anytime a young lady was around, he'd shamefully lower his eyes. Such an eloquent description of him! I literally printed out those two pages of his description of Enjolras and pasted on the front of my script. Every morning I would look it over before we began shooting." —Aaron Tveit

[escapismsworld]

Period films and series 🤎🪞

[zzalina]

Éponine cosplay!

[24601orwhatever]

NICK REHBERGER AS JAVERT

i'll see that justice is done 📷: @medium-observation

[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 🥲

[ferociousconscience]

Javert and his Junior Inspectors / The Mute Pack of Hounds in Les Misérables (1925, dir. Henri Fescourt)

[minusforty]

He was a charming young man capable of terrible things

[lesmisscraper]

Tumblr now got the Cat Boop o Meter but almost 12 years ago, Les Mis already had one.

[czerwonykasztelanic]

La Liberté ou la Mort! Acrylic on canvas. Somehow managed to exceed my own expectations.

[bernard-the-rabbit]

The Italian icon M¥SS KETA dropped a song called "les miserables" and now I can only think about italian!grantaire just running on coffee, a cig, a stale granola bar and M¥SS KETA music

[aaronstveit]

To whom did this anarchical scoffer unite himself in this phalanx of absolute minds? To the most absolute. In what manner had Enjolras subjugated him? By his ideas? No. By his character. A phenomenon which is often observable. A sceptic who adheres to a believer is as simple as the law of complementary colors. That which we lack attracts us. No one loves the light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad always has his eyes fixed on heaven. Why? In order to watch the bird in its flight. Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, upright, hard, candid nature charmed him, without his being clearly aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having occurred to him.

— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables