#gabriel gabrio (jean valjean)

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Gabriel Gabrio as Jean Valjean Les Misérables (1925) | dir. Henri Fescourt

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Javert (Jean Toulout) helps Valjean (Gabriel Gabrio) get Marius (Francois Rozet) home but his mind is in turmoil and he leaves alone - Les Mis 1925

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LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - To Wit, the Plan of Paris in 1727, LM 2.5.5 (Les Miserables 1925)

Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean’s absorption, his singular gestures, his goings and comings, all had begun to render Cosette uneasy. Any other child than she would have given vent to loud shrieks long before. She contented herself with plucking Jean Valjean by the skirt of his coat. They could hear the sound of the patrol’s approach ever more and more distinctly.

“Father,” said she, in a very low voice, “I am afraid. Who is coming yonder?”

“Hush!” replied the unhappy man; “it is Madame Thénardier.”

Cosette shuddered. He added:—

“Say nothing. Don’t interfere with me. If you cry out, if you weep, the Thénardier is lying in wait for you. She is coming to take you back.”

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Source: The Daily Illini, 18 March 1928

[Actor Gabriel Gabrio] was changing his make-up as Jean Valjean to that required for M. Madeleine when an interviewer questioned him regarding this important part of screen work. "Make-up? Ah, there you are asking a big question! You cannot understand all that these two words mean to an artist. Make-up is at once his safeguard and his danger. A good make-up can improve a role and make a first-class character: but reverse is also true, and the most beautiful part in the world can be spoilt by a clumsy make-up. I think that the art of make-up is an essential part of an actor's training. One might say it is his second trade, and in filming it is of the first importance for, under the relentless eye of the camera, film artists appear, to the public exactly as they are, and there is no chance of tricking. A clumsy make-up will spoil the harmony of a character. You may have the most attractive appearance, the most correct gestures, and the most expressive miming, but if your make-up is bad, everything goes for nothing.

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Hi! Hope its ok to ask, and sorry if its already been answered before: Do you have fav Les Mis adaption? Or a few?

Thank you for asking me!! I've not watched all of them, considering how many there are floating around out there and how many are sadly lost, but. I have spent this year hunting down and watching every adaptation I could. A special thanks to @ueinra for a lot of help in that regard. I recently made a Letterboxd account and a List just for Les Mis. I've plans to go through and review them properly, (Currently I only have Shoujo Cosette reviewed!) but I'd be happy to try to coalesce my thoughts on my absolute favorite for you, that being the four-part silent* Les Miserables (1925) under this read-more! Hiyah!

It's... Hard to grasp my feelings on LM1925, considering how special it is to me. These films really made me love the idea of cinema again. I had never seen a silent movie before, and frankly I thought they were one of those things that were a bit out of reach for me, but wow I am so so happy I watched LM1925. Not only is it a fantastic adaptation of LM, it's also just a fantastic set of movies (miniseries??) in general. The casting, the acting, the sets, the locations, the attention to detail, the quality of the visuals (which often are just frankly stunningly beautiful), the pacing, the atmosphere. Everything just works and is faithful to the feeling of reading the novel. (I will say I watched it without the accompany music at first, but have since gone back and listened to it overtop on a rewatch, and wow what a cool oddity it is. The Sims 1 soundtrack but with a surreal and often nightmarish twist.) I adore Gabriel Gabrio as Valjean. He really captures the idea that Valjean can both be noble, kind, and fearsome all in one. And Jean Toulout as scrunkly and lively Javert...!! I truly love him. I think them and Sandra Milovanoff as Fantine (less so as her playing Cosette, too, wish they would have cast another person) give absolutely amazing performances. This is also a great adaptation for the Gorbeau part of the book, ESPECIALLY Suzanne Nivette as Eponine, wow! What an Eponine! Probably my favorite Eponine. Same with Thenardier, both the Eponine and Thenardier in this one are tied with LM1972 for me. I also just like the... what I'll call "Theater Acting" performances I've seen in this and in the other early films I've watched since. The thick makeup. The funny expressions. The dramatic poses. All this would be considered overacting in the modern day, but to me it just feels alive. It reminds me of a lot of animations, I suppose, and that delights me. I also love love love that they didn't attempt to make big changes to the material at hand (Hell, they even touch on Waterloo in a way I thought was cool!). LM1925 and Shoujo Cosette made me realise that the longer a Les Mis adaptation is, typically the better it is to me. (with. One exception off the top of my head...) I think by the time I had watched all the other adaptations of both the novel and the musical, I had grown fatigued over the different ways films would try to condense things into 2 hours, and leave a lot on the cutting room floor (even if that usually means they focus more on the J vs JVJ aspect that I always have a weakness for), or when they try to cram everything into said 2 hours and turns it into a pacing nightmare. LM1925 avoids all that!

I feel I'm rambling on, so I'll rapid fire some stuff off. I love that they filmed in the actual msurm. I love that they kept things really grungy when the film calls for it. I love the scenes of the barricade, especially the scenes with the national guards spilling in. I love the subtle changes to the valvert side of things, it's truly one of the better adaptations for the shippers. I need to get on making some gifsets. If you love Les Mis, or just film in general, I think you owe it to yourself to watch LM1925. It's free! It's on the Internet Archive! There are download buttons or you can stream it! Please do! And tell me your thoughts on it!

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On exiting the sewers Valjean (Gabriel Gabrio) encounters Javert (Jean Toulout) who is ready to arrest him. But Valjean persuades Javert to help him get Marius (Francois Rozet) home.

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Les Miserables 1925 Part 4: Valjean (Gabriel Gabrio) encounters Javert (Jean Toulout) after he exits the sewers and persuades The inspector to help him get the severely wounded Marius (Francois Rozet) home to his family.

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LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - A Nest For Owl and a Warbler, LM 2.4.2 (Les Miserables 1925)

“Yes, madame!” cried Cosette, waking with a start, “here I am! here I am!”

And she sprang out of bed, her eyes still half shut with the heaviness of sleep, extending her arms towards the corner of the wall.

“Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!” said she.

She opened her eyes wide now, and beheld the smiling countenance of Jean Valjean.

“Ah! so it is true!” said the child. “Good morning, Monsieur.”

Children accept joy and happiness instantly and familiarly, being themselves by nature joy and happiness.

Cosette caught sight of Catherine at the foot of her bed, and took possession of her, and, as she played, she put a hundred questions to Jean Valjean. Where was she? Was Paris very large? Was Madame Thénardier very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, “How pretty it is here!”

It was a frightful hole, but she felt free.

“Must I sweep?” she resumed at last.

“Play!” said Jean Valjean.

The day passed thus. Cosette, without troubling herself to understand anything, was inexpressibly happy with that doll and that kind man.

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Valvert in sepia tones.

For all you Valvert shippers/fans

Javert finally gets his hands on Valjean not giving a f**k if he's dirty and stinks after trudging through the sewers with Marius over his back. He's even doing a moob feel.

Screenshot from Barricade/Les Miserables 1925

Gabriel Gabrio as Jean Valjean & Jean Toulout as Javert/Touvert

I think I've posted this pic before but Idc.

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Les Mis Hat Parade Part 1: Valjean's hat after he is paroled

Les Mis 1925

Gabriel Gabrio as Jean Valjean

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Les Miserables 1925 (Part 2) - Little Cosette (top) and Valjean (Gabriel Gabrio) bargains with the Thenardier's (Georges Saillard & Renee Carl) over Cosette (Andrée Rolane)

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Les Miserables 1925 (Part 2) - Valjean (Gabriel Gabrio) escapes from prison

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Les Miserables 1925 Gabriel Gabrio (Jean Valjean), Jean Toulout (Javert) & Sandra Milovanoff (Fantine)

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Valjean continues his journey through the sewers with Marius (Francois Rozet), (Gabriel Gabrio) where he bumps into Thenardier (Georges Saillard) who helps him get to the exit.

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LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - The Solution of Some Questions connected with The Municipal Police, LM 1.5.13 (Les Miserables 1925)

When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said to her in a deliberate voice, like a serious man who does not wish to weep and who finds some difficulty in speaking:—

“I have heard you. I knew nothing about what you have mentioned. I believe that it is true, and I feel that it is true. I was even ignorant of the fact that you had left my shop. Why did you not apply to me? But here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go to her. You shall live here, in Paris, or where you please. I undertake the care of your child and yourself. You shall not work any longer if you do not like. I will give all the money you require. You shall be honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all is as you say,—and I do not doubt it,—you have never ceased to be virtuous and holy in the sight of God. Oh! poor woman.”

This was more than Fantine could bear. To have Cosette! To leave this life of infamy. To live free, rich, happy, respectable with Cosette; to see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of her misery. She stared stupidly at this man who was talking to her, and could only give vent to two or three sobs, “Oh! Oh! Oh!”

Her limbs gave way beneath her, she knelt in front of M. Madeleine, and before he could prevent her he felt her grasp his hand and press her lips to it.

Then she fainted.

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Les Miserables 1925 Part 4 - Valjean (Gabriel Gabrio) encounters a captive Javert (Jean Toulout) at the ABC Cafe