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Les Misérables 1980

I have already talked about Les Misérables , but I wanted to expand on the subject a little more, by detailing the three French versions as best I can !!

This strange idea of ​​adapting Victor Hugo's novel into a musical came from Alain Boublil after he attended a performance of the musical Oliver! play in London ( he reports having perceived in his mind a resemblance between Oliver Twist and Gavroche )

Carried away by what he considers (rightly) as a flash of genius, he will work in collaboration with Claude-Michel Schönberg and Jean-Marc Natel to compose the music and lyrics for the future album

Fortunately the album will experience its small success with the public, this victory will make the creators grow wings who will launch head first into the torrent of stage creation !

This heavy task will be entrusted to Robert Hossein , an French director, actor, screenwriter, dialogue writer , who will use his fame to the best of his ability to promote the show (which he would be criticized for and mocked , trample his enthusiasm)

The very first production of Les Misérables was created and then performed in Paris at the Palais des Sports in September 1980

Scheduled for a minimum of eight weeks, it will be played for sixteen weeks, with the Palais des sports no longer available beyond that With 107 performances, it attracted around 500,000 spectators

( I don't know how it works in the United Kingdom and the United States at the same time but in France it will be necessary to reach the end of the 90s for the musicals to travel throughout the country + outside of France )

DISTRIBUTION :

Maurice Barrier : Jean Valjean

Jean Vallée : Javert

Rose Laurens : Fantine

Yvan Dautin : Mr Thénardier

Marie-France Roussel : Mrs Thénardier

Maryse Cédolin / Sylvie Camacho / Priscilla Patron : little Cosette

( alternately the little girls also played little Eponine and Azelma )

Fabienne Guyon : Cosette

Marianne Mille : Éponine

Cyrille Dupont / Fabrice Ploquin / Florence Davis : Gavroche

Gilles Buhlmann : Marius

Christian Ratellin : Enjolras

René-Louis Baron : Combeferre

Dominique Tirmont : Mr Gillenormand

Anne Forrez : Mrs Gillenormand

Claude Reva : Storyteller

There remain too few archives of the original shows, unfortunately at the time filming in theaters and performance halls was not a common reflex ...

I did my best to find as much as possible :

Unreleased Javert song, not kept in the album and show ⤵️

The Full Live Recording of the Show :

ANECDOTES :

If I'm not mistaken, this is the only version that uses the character of Azelma , the sister of Eponine and Gavroche

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Cyrille Dupont, one of the three kids who played Gavroche, was known vocally for singing the theme song for Nobody's Boy : Remi

( In French " Remi sans famille " ) :

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Florence Davis one of three actors playing Gavroche was a girl ?!

Strange artistic choice ? Or last-rescue liner ??

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Robert Hossein was so marked by this show that two years later, he made a film adaptation of the original novel !!

Starring the legend Lino Ventura as Jean Valjean and the very young Emmanuel Curtil as Gavroche (this little boy is today an ICONIC voice actor in France : Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Matthew Perry and many many others characters )

The Full Movie :

While I'm writing about the 1990 and 2024 versions, I recommend you take a look at my Masterlist :)

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Bonjour, bonne semaine à tous ☕️ 📰

L.Ventura, J.Gabin, A.Delon sur le tournage du Clan des Siciliens en 1969

Photo de © Jean-Pierre Bonnotte

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Lino Ventura, July 14, 1919 – October 22, 1987.

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Jean-Pierre Melville - Army of Shadows (1969)

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winstonwillow - Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura… French LEGENDS gone

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Almeria Cigar Club

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Michel Serrault, Guy Marchand, Lino Ventura dans Garde à vue de Claude Miller, 1981

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Ok I've been thinking a lot about Saw (2004) since I watched it a few days ago, so here's a post about it:

Some duos I want to see in the bathroom trap (and how well I think they'd do)

Starting off strong- Marty and Rust from True detective (season 1).

Marty would do anything to save his daughters and Maggie, and meanwhile Rust and his existential dread would be going crazy. Would they survive? Probably. Rust is smart enough (and insane enough) to find his way out, and Marty might cut off his foot after a phone call from Maggie.

Marcus and Kevin from White chicks.

They would survive, no questions asked.

Christopher and Paulie from the Sopranos

Would they survive? Absolutely not. Not in a million years. Would it be hilarious to watch? Yes it would.

Paulie does get a bit crazy at times, I can see him cutting off his foot after a few hours, and lying to Chris about the clues he's getting. Christopher would absolutely shove his hand in the toilet bowl instead of checking under the lid first. And he would try to rip out the metal pipes with his bare hands.

Antoine and Leonard from Ne nous fâchons pas.

This may be a niche reference especially for non-french people, but I would love to see anyone trapped in a room with Leonard for six hours straight. Would they survive? Fuck if I know, but I wanna see them try

Larry and Freddy from Reservoir dogs.

Larry finding out through the phone call that Freddy knows him, that he's a cop and was trying to get him arrested when he got kidnapped? Them collaborating so well at first and really doing everything they can to get out? Freddy still being so scared of death and Larry comforting him? Sign me the fuck up.

Would they survive? Nope. They're doomed by the narrative

Veronica and JD from Heathers

Mr. Manipulator JD would be really dangerous in the bathroom trap and would genuinely fuck with Veronica at first. I think ultimately she'd shoot him and win the game.

Another french movie, Hubert and Larmina from OSS 117 le Caire nid d'espion.

Would they survive? Larmina yes, Hubert no. But I think they'd be the kind to accidentally find out the guy in the middle was alive. Hubert would get really offended by the nature of the game and would yell at the camera. He would also be too busy bitching about how dirty the place is while Larmina would be figuring a way to get out.

Guildenstern and Rosencrantz from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead

My head is aching just imagining the conversations they'd hold during those 6 hours. "Do you remember how you got here?" "We were sent for!"

Just like in the movie, Rosencrantz would find all kinds of clues that would help them get out, but Guildenstern would somehow miss all of them or not believe any of them. Would they survive it? I don't think so, but if one of them had to, it would be Guildenstern who shot Rosencrantz

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Lino Ventura, Annie Girardot, Le Bateau d'Emile, 1961.

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Escape to Nowhere (Le silencieux), Gerrman lobby card #10, 1973

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Magdelaine 🎶 Happy New Year

Avec Albin de la Simone, Abba, Depeche mode, Lino Ventura

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Les influenceurs

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Watching

ARMY OF SHADOWS Jean-Pierre Melville France, 1969

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