#les mis 78 liveblog

[alicedrawslesmis]

les mis 78 is like 'hmm. there are way too many female characters distracting people from anthony perkins. cut them out'

[vapaus-ystavyys-tasaarvo]

Blog recap post for 2017

Or whatever it was that I’ve been calling these.

It’s been kind of a quiet year for me, I haven’t done as much as usual. Some general notes first: I’ve been in two readalongs this year but didn’t finish either of them. The first one being the new Brick readalong and the other one the Count of Monte Cristo one. I really do want to finish the latter at some point! (For the record I’m leaving my CoMC posts out of this list because I’m a bit lazy but you can check the CoMC17 tag if you’re interested.)

I’ve also still more or less kept the Les Mis group watch going although it’s been a bit more difficult this year because we kinda ran out of adaptations that already had subtitles and because I’ve been busier on weekends lately. I already posted about it earlier.

I made a back up blog which I should definitely update again one of these days: https://vapausystavyystasaarvo.wordpress.com

Anyway, onto the posts! (apologies for the length, I’m kind of trying to prove to myself that I’ve been productive this year despite the major slump I’ve been having for the last few months, so I ended up including a lot of stuff that probably isn’t really worth including)

Brick Locations / map posts:

Faverolles, Valjean’s home village

Some houses in Faverolles that could be Valjean’s home

Valjean’s sister’s apartment in Paris

Meaux, Lesgle’s home town (as in “Lesgle de Meaux”)

The Necker Hospital (where Combeferre interned) (also check out this post)

Montreuil-sur-Mer (not really mine but I just found this video)

Real life barricades in the Les Mis barricade area and some map nerdery

Cour des Miracles and the Saint-Merry barricade (reply to an ask)

Late night rambling about Lutetian limestone aka the main building material in Paris

Why you can’t find Café Musain in Assassins Creed Unity

Saint-Merry:

- The church (videos)

- Saint-Merry map posts (sorry, I’m getting too lazy to list them all separately... apologies to mobile users)

Map resources:

- Petit Atlas Pittoresque de Paris (1835)

- Catacombs of Paris

- Fan-makers in Paris in 1829

- (see also this post with a link to the addresses of the printers and this one about the Société d’Horticulture)

Other Research:

Canon era letters and addresses (this is not a great post but I decided to include it anyway since it is informative at least)

On the significance of colours in Les Mis from The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables By David Bellos

A translated excerpt from the Saint Merry trial transcript

Combeferre, the dictionary definition of “polytechnique”

Charles Jeanne resources post

Les Mis Adaptation stuff:

Le Théâtre de la Jeunesse and its Les Mis episodes:

- About the adaptation & first episode recap

- TdlJ clip: the Gorbeau affair (subtitled)

- TdlJ clip: Éponine and the Triumvirate visit Marius (subtitled)

- related to above: an explanation of the Marius/Cosette plot in this series

- TdlJ clips: Montparnasse scenes (no subs)

- TdlJ clip: Corinthe (subtitled)

- TdlJ clip: Preliminary Gayeties p1 (subtitled)

- TdlJ gifs: Les Amis

- TdlJ gifs: Montparnasse [p1] [p2]

Les Mis ‘82:

- Myriel’s intro from Les Mis 1982: part 1 & part 2 (Greek subs)

- The “yellow” passport in Les Mis ‘82

- The colour palette in Les Mis ‘82

- Les Amis death scene from Les Mis ‘82

Other French adaptations:

- Guillaume stanning for Thénardier from Les Mis 1995 (subtitled but not by me (the post includes my commentary tho))

- Les Amis in Les Mis ‘34 (this was supposed to be a series of posts but... uh... it didn’t happen)

- Les Amis in Les Mis 2000 (I guess this is almost like a continuation of the series... kinda)

- Actors who have been in multiple Les Mis adaptations: Dominique Zardi & Lucien Nat

- liveblogging the 1979 cartoon

- some ‘72 silliness

- more of a parody than an adaptation but here’s “Les Miséroïdes” with subtitles

English language adaptations:

- Les Mis 1978 covers and their weird obsession with ~Vengeance~

- Monsieur Madeleine’s office in English language adaptations

- The Basic Anglophone Les Mis Adaptation Formula (+an addendum about the ‘78 film)

- Vampire Commie Enjolras from Les Mis 1935

- Gifs from Les Mis 1935 (Marius and Enjolras comparison)

Other adaptations:

- The translated character names from the 1950 Japanese movie

- List of film adaptations that are online and where to find them (I should update this post btw NOTE TO SELF)

- My ideal adaptation (I need to work on this too)

- Original 1980 French version of the musical (link post)

- The original duet between Marius and Éponine from the above and some discussion about it

Hernani:

La Bataille d’Hernani subtitles 

My review (or something) of Hernani

My not overly serious descriptions of Hernani characters

More Hernani “commentary”

More Hernani nonsense

Fanfiction (ish):

Trailing the Awkward Bonapartist (a Fallen London / Echo Bazaar AU) [p1] [p2] [p3] [p4] [all parts together]

Feuilly and Grantaire apartment hunting

Art (?):

Les Mis in Space

Random Hijinks:

Chalk graffiti in front of the School of Life

Toto

The Sock Debacle [p1] [p2]

[canadian-combeferre]

God Javert do you hate fun or something

[alicedrawslesmis]

ignore my snort in the video but this cut is magical

[alicedrawslesmis]

did they actually brand prisoners or is this a movie thing

[alicedrawslesmis]

I think I understand the trouble with most les mis adaptations. People just love Javert and want him to be more important in the movie. It's just not deeper than that

[alicedrawslesmis]

General final thoughts on 78?

just what I already said tbh. Like. This Was Definitely The 70s. Anthony Perkins carried the movie. Someone give poor Richard Jordan an acting coach. Things were cut. What even are women? Anthony Perkins is still here

[alicedrawslesmis]

ok so hum. final thoughts. Did Anthony Perkins have back pain from carrying this whole movie on his shoulders

[alicedrawslesmis]

oh heLL YEAH SOMERSAULT INTO THE SEINE LET'S GO

[alicedrawslesmis]

ANTHONY PERKINS!!!!!!

[alicedrawslesmis]

not to be one of Those but Anthony Perkins could step on my foot wearing stiletto heels and I would say thank you

[alicedrawslesmis]

I'm sorry they alREADY BUILT A BARRICADE AND STARTED FIGHTING OFF SCREEN???? IT'S BEEN LIKE 5 SECONDS

[alicedrawslesmis]

the soundtrack choices in this movie are amazing

valjean is sad on a cell: sad violin music

*song immediately gets turned off in an abrupt jump cut*

also guys ffs its been like 20% of the movie by this point we didn't need to see every single prison escape attempt. We get it.

[alicedrawslesmis]

WE WERE ROBBED OF AN UNDERWHELMING 1970S CONVENT COFFIN ESCAPE PLAN.

[alicedrawslesmis]

Javert's collar is crooked, I'm completely taken out of it now

[alicedrawslesmis]

oh... Valjean doesn't die in this one. It's one of Those.

Cosette like. Did not matter.