#javert's suicide

[alphazed]

My friend dared me to draw this and i couldn't refuse BECAUSE BAHAHA HOW COULD I IT'S GENIUS

He asked me to 'draw him like, how beginner swimmers hold their nose and close their eyes for the water?' AND I COULDN'T REFUSEEE

I had great fun especially with @gewoonaardig2 next to me oml

Without background & ref picture my friend send me under the cut

[nezoriy]

when i saw les mis in antwerpen, i was really inspired by the visuals for javert's suicide and wanted to do my take

[mondschein14]

One of my favorite performances of Javert's Suicide by Christian Alexander Müller (from the 2004 Berlin production)

Also do you hear that electric guitar at 01:47? It reminds me of the Symphonic recording

[overthinkingbelle]

MB RANTS # 10

As much as I love his role as Javert in the 2019 staged concert of Les Mis, I just couldn't take him seriously because he's just like an angry teddy bear with dimples pursuing Jean Valjean. Not until the robbery scene and he showed up to intervene. And I was like, "Yeah, he's Javert and Marius no more."

And his take of Javert's suicide scene just blown me away. Wow, this guy never stops to surprise me.

[a-e-s-c-h-y-l-i]

If Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote "Javert's Suicide", it would be this song, 100%

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

Victor Hugo in 1861:

[iambecomeahamburger]

hmm. i need to (remembers the man i have chased down for years has overthrown my entire worldview, proving that the law is not infallible and that convicts can do good) kill myself

[stellar-secrecy]

Les Mis has been one of my favorite musicals for twelve years and after all this time I still maintain that Javert should be in the finale along with all the others who've died, and furthermore, the fact that he's not is actively antithetical to the themes of the show.

this is a very "in this essay I will" kind of take, I know, but seriously. Javert does choose to save Marius and let Valjean go in the end. He gets a reprise of Valjean's changing-his-mind-about-the-world song. Why is his redemption invalidated in the end? Because he kills himself? Valjean isn't perfect even after his redemption (e.g., what happened with Fantine, his secrecy with Cosette), but the narrative doesn't punish him in the end for his mistakes. And the barricade boys also threw their lives away — for a cause, yes, but they chose to stay and die even after the point at which they knew it wouldn't change anything.

Anyway. All this to say, I am desperate for a production of Les Mis in which, during the finale, Javert pushes through from the back of the crowd, police coat and hat gone. He and Valjean stare at each other for a beat or two, and then Javert bows to him, stiffly but genuinely. Valjean claps him on the shoulder, and he melts back into the crowd and joins the final chorus.

The Thernadiers can stay in hell though.

[genderfeel]

saw the musical again, had some notes

[lesbianslugreaction]

Canon era Valvert getting married. That's it, that's the post.

[moonyjulian]

[alphazed]

Part 1/2 Aftermath

The stars reflect in the river. He would have enjoyed seeing it.

Hsjwzgkwhsks this couldn't get out of my head and has been in the works quite some time. There will be a part 2 of this! Wich will probably look better because I'm not that happy with the way i drew Valjean in this one lmao.

I hope you enjoy this sweet sweet angst

[symphony-in-a]

The audio cut out in the middle (I tried taking video - didn’t turn out well so just audio) so we have two parts - almost the full song but not quite! Javert is truly getting his world ROCKED here

[shamedumpster]

28 or 32 for Javert?? 🥺

That's a very fitting palette for him!

(Both you and @kittycattscathy asked for the same thing, so here you go!)

[montypng]

so i finally got to see les mis

[deathanddogs]

Someone in the Les Mis Letters discord said that this scene with Gillenormand's porter sounded like Disco Elysium dialogue and I blacked out