#jean toulout as javert

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Les Mis Hat Parade Part 1: Javert's Toulon era Hat

Les Mis 1925

Jean Toulout as Javertl

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Jean Toulout as Inspector Javert experiencing the symptoms of a mental illness in part 4 of Les Misérables (1925, dir. Henri Fescourt)

[pureanonofficial]

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Vague Flashes on the Horizon, LM 1.5.5 (Les Miserables 1925)

One single man in the town, in the arrondissement, absolutely escaped this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct kept him on the alert and uneasy. It seems, in fact, as though there existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and upright, like all instincts, which creates antipathies and sympathies, which fatally separates one nature from another nature, which does not hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, and which never belies itself, clear in its obscurity, infallible, imperious, intractable, stubborn to all counsels of the intelligence and to all the dissolvents of reason, and which, in whatever manner destinies are arranged, secretly warns the man-dog of the presence of the man-cat, and the man-fox of the presence of the man-lion.

[ueinra]

If the 1925 adaptation wasn't in your top 5, you're wrong. If Jean Toulout as Javert from 1925 isn't in your top 5, you're DEAD.

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Making this post of my projects and my commonly used tags so that I can pin it; see below the cut for more (although some of these tags might not be currently populated with much content since I have a ton of things in my queue for the next year) 

My translations (movie content, 1862 articles, just all of them)

My general research interests (plus this tag for things I’m still looking into)

The Real Misérables

A Study of Les Misérables

Cham’s Les Misérables

Brick Things

Articles, cartoons, and other content from 1862 reacting to Les Misérables

The brick: the beautiful manuscript, the digressions, the experience

Brick annotations, notes, and meta

Illustrations from various editions of our beloved book

A look at the many many different editions of Les Misérables which exist

Ephemera relating to the book and its various adaptations

Content inspired by Les Misérables (but not direct adaptations)

Notes about translations/translating

Fans through the ages

Les Misérables’s particular influence in America in general

Lee’s Misérables in particular

Les Misérables in education

Les Misérables IRL: people relating hard to Les Misérables

Les Misérables Adjacent Stuff

Victor Hugo: the man, the myth, etc.

Useful references

Napoleon

Napoleon III

Cham

Historical fashion

French Revolution content

Caricatures (from the 1800s mainly)  

Sewers

Nuns

Waterloo

Adaptation Specific Things

Les Misérables, drame — The play adapted by Charles Hugo 

Les Misérables (1909) — The Edison Manufacturing Company film and the Vitagraph Studios film, both believed to be lost

Les Misérables (1912) — The French silent film directed by Albert  Capellani and starring Henry Krauss

Les Misérables (1917) — The American silent film directed by Frank Lloyd, produced by William Fox and starring William Farnum 

Les Misérables (1925) — The French silent film directed by Henri Fescourt and starring Gabriel Gabrio, Jean Toulout, and Sandra Milowanoff

Les Misérables (1934) — The French film directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Harry Baur

Les Misérables (1935) — The American film directed by Richard Boleslawski and starring Fredric March and Charles Laughton 

Les Misérables (1952) — The American film directed by Lewis Milestone and staring Michael Rennie

Les Misérables (1958) — A French, Italian, and East German collaboration directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois and starring Jean Gabin

Les Misérables (1972) — The French TV miniseries directed by Marcel Bluwal and starring Georges Géret

Les Misérables (1978) — The British TV movie directed by Glenn Jordan and starring Richard Jordan and Anthony Perkins

Les Misérables (1982) — The French film directed by Robert Hossein and starring Lino Ventura

Les Misérables, the musical (1985) — Composed by Claude-Michel Schönberg, and the libretto by Alain Boublil

Les Misérables (1998) — The film directed by Bille August and starring Liam Neeson

Les Misérables (2000) — The French TV mini-series starring Gérard Depardieu and John Malkovich

Shoujo Cosette (2007) — The 52-episode Japanese animated TV series

Les Misérables (2012) — The film adaptation of the musical, directed by Tom Hooper and starring Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe 

Les Misérables (2018) — The BBC miniseries by Andrew Davies and starring Dominic West 

Other adaptations (films, books, others)

Other stage adaptations (the many many stage version which have existed) 

Lost media

Film stills

Vintage Advertisements 

General Fandom things

Fanart 

Things that have made me laugh

The Les Misérables Modern AU world

Marisette 

Barricade day

Barricades con

Character Specific Tags: Most characters can be found based on their singular names (Cosette, Marius, Enjolras, Javert, etc.) The exceptions are the following...

Jean Valjean

Jean Prouvaire

Myriel

Simplice

Gillenormad

Momes

Petit Gervais

Patron-Minette

Les amis generally

[kaaaaaaaaaearl]

some pics of my unhinged and favourite Javert :)

[mu-mumie]

[ID: a pastel drawing of a man from the waist up. The man is wearing a top hat and a black uniform with a black cloak around his shoulders. The man has also thick whiskers on his round face. The man is looking at the viewer from above with a sneer, his bushy eyebrows raised in disapproval. The shadows on his face are purple. The imposing shadow behind him is also purple. ...The man is holding a gun. End ID.]

A bit theatrical Inspector Javert for @acemisweek inspired by Jean Toulout and N. Plotnikov's Javert cosumes :'3

[melancholyarchivist]

Hello! If you feel like rambling about Javert to another Javert fan, I'd like to know who's your favorite and least favorite (s) Javert from any adaptations!

Aahh yes!! God, ramble icoming then. I'd love to hear yours, too.

Brick Javert is forever my light but to be honest I have very few standards for Javert, he’s such a fun archetype and great character that he tends to shine through even with poor writing. He’s also already a pretty horrible person so he’s easier to get right even when they make him worse. That being said I hate the “not all cops” route most les mis adaptations go where hes literally the only problem in the whole system and its all because he’s uniquely evil or sadisti, or breaks the law. Smarter minds have probably said stuff about it but his problem is not being a bad cop, his problem is that he is a “good cop” but cops are bad, so, he’s bad. (pet peeve but also hate post seine stuff where hes still a cop please my man died for acab let him keep that single W in life</3) Another aside is that all of these are whitewashed but as no lm adaptation has ever casted this role right. So we have to keep making noise about it til someone with half a rain picks up the reigns. But yeah.

Okay. Loveislove for all Javerts, but I’m personally less drawn to those that emphasize his poise+power and make him seem cool and am interested in the ones where he’s absolutely neurotic. I think he should be an insane guy trying to keep it together. Okay, so my faves:

1964′s TINO CARRANO *is* Javert. absolute unmatched king. I love how much of a intensely weird but still capable guy he is. You really get the sense he has his own life outaide of the plot, he keeps to himself just cause he feels like it but he can speak with people fine-- just hates ‘em.I like how much he laughs and makes impressions when he talks. absolute 1-1 brickvert, no doubt in my mimd your honor. There’s a clip of him talking about champmathieu(no subs im sorry, just, his energy, Gah.) that’s just the best. Here:

Shared fave spot is Anthony Perkins’s unbeated old nerotic queen energy. Absolutely fantastic inspired performance and wow, his insane line reads! My God. Him aging through the years and becoming more pathetic and behind the times as he follows Valjean ending up alone in the chase is not particularly unique, but damn is it done best here. Peak gayvert. I do like when a Javert isn’t necessarily obsessed with Valjean but finds him incredibly annoying á la brick BUT who am I to disagree with a good psychosexual chase. Love it.

1925′s Jean Toulout is another super fave. I love this guy! He rocks. His energy and physicality is so fun and he just has the perfect Javert posture and mannerisms on lock. He made me laugh out loud many times at how funny and brick-esque he acts. Plus lipstick! Absolute queen.

Other faves are shojo Cosette Javert, gah. One of the best adaptations out there real ones know! I love his design, his voice, aura, all of it. Plus fix it end for our guy<3 1948′s Hans Hinrich’s Javert is also real fun. Suffers from bad adaptation, but he’s so smug and fun look at him making fun of Madeleine!

Ulhas in 1955′s Kundan is also particularly great. Amazing Javert physicality and energy, and his face is super close to how imagine Javert. He nails that sweet spot between fanatic devotee, authoratative monster and confused really sad guy. 

I will say I also like Oyelowo, Rush and Malkovich, but they all suffer greatly from their adaptations being especially awful too. Particularly Rush and Oyelowo bring the heat with their performances! I love Rush’s wet greasy sad envy and Oyelowo’s righteous arch angel radiance coupled with how petty he is.

As for my sadgirl Javerts. Gah, crazy about them! Not how I see the character in the brick, but as I said, I just love all Javerts so much. This version rocks too.

Russel Crowe can’t sing these notes, yeah, but God it does not matter to me in the slightest in fact it enhances it. Genius performance. He revolutionized the meta. His javert balancing on the roof during stars being like “teehee oh, I’m gonna jump<33 ahh I’ll do it one day watch me<3″ was absolutely lethally good. Him having a crush on Madeleine may be less fun than the Brick’s 2 year spying campaign but god, the drama. This girl is a Mess.

1935′s Charles Laughton has to be seen to be believed, just a sobbing mess from his first scene where he explains about his parents to his superiors. Is it very Javert, who is repressed to hell and back? No, but see, it kind of owns. Where else will you get a Javert patting down Madeleine and complimenting his physique? Where will you get him gritting out “The law. It is the law that wants you, not I.” Greatness. (Terrible Hayes code wash of a film though, not worth it. Cameron Mitchell’s Chadius Pontmercy is hilarious however.) -> (said first scene)

My favorite musical Javert is Terrence Mann!!! I’m also a drunk stars truther. Javert is psychotic #girl representation and he GETS it. He brings the cats energy that Brick Javert has and more. My next musical fave is Norm Lewis,  I love that he has this just under the surfance bubbling emotions that are almost constantly overflowing, but he keeps them in check with a stiff dignity closer and closer to cracking under pressure that I associate w Javert. Flawless.

I also adore Earl Carpenter, I have a real soft spot for Hayden Tee.Tam Mutu is ugh next level too👌👌👌Kunio Murai makes me see red he’s so good as well... I like Bradley Jaden too though I’m not 100 on him cause he sounds so tiny, but I really like the fanatic vibe he brings out. You really do get the feeling he’s a brainwashed insane person.

I don’t think i have any Javert I hate.... maybe dallasvert. I’m not a fan of LMDallas in general apart from having one of the best Marius and Cosettes of all time(not cause of the modern concept it’s just... not good I don’t think) but Wattsvert in particular produces an emotion in me i can only compare to being repeatedly stabbed in the stomach and then contracting anthrax from the wound. I think a lot has to do with his visual presentation(his glasses make me so sick), but his entire presence is just too much wayyy too bad. I mean that’s part of the point but damn take him away from me I don’t wanna see him!

Far, far from hate but I’m not crazy about Quast, perhaps from over-exposure. I think he’s an amazing singer and performer but he just doesn’t embody the part to me as he does for a lot of people. Usually I tend to find him too monotone, and kind of an authorative mask without any of the tasty emotion underneath except for rage. Like all I get from him is poise and anger. I know Javert in the books is a stone wall who doesnt show when he’s upset— but I think the medium of musical exists to externalise that huge emotion inside! It’s silly and cheesy and big! And he doesnt bring that energy for me, just anger and pettiness. Carpenter and Lewis both serve that brand too, but with more nuance added to it…. in my opinion they perfected his formula, so Quast to me is going back to just cake without frosting. That being said, man is that basic cake the groundwork for the rest, and it is great.

I actually made a fancam of sorts for some of my fave javerts haha (mostly musical-- I made this about my favorites from way back, so it’s not very updated either. Anyway:)

ALL OF THIS TO SAY AHH I’d love to hear your takes as well:) Javert fans unite.

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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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I'm watching this tonight.

Well starting on it since there are several parts to it. I'm not a watcher of silent films so this will be a relatively new experience for me. Its been years since I last watched on, but there's something about this Javert, I had to see the the whole lot (that's to say every part of this series) for myself.

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A deeply troubled Javert (Jean Toulout) returns to the police station, where he resigns from his job and tries to decide what to do next - Les Mis 1925

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Javert, makes his way to the Pont de Change Bridge on The River Seine. After spending some time thinking, and unable to make sense of anything anymore, or even know who he is, whether he is good or evil. He climbs onto the parapet of the bridge and throws himself into the river.

R.I.P. Dear Inspector

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Gavroche (Charles Badiole) recognises Javert (Jean Toulout) at The ABC Cafe

Gavroche outs Javert to Enjolras (Paul Guide)

Javert is taken hostage

and tied up

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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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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.