Book Les Miserables tickets at the Sondheim Theatre. This is your last chance to be a part of history, and revel for a final time in this classic staging by Trevor Nunn and John Caird. More than years later, it remains a consummate love letter to the temerity and tradition of the French people, and has been translated into dozens of languages.
It is true that Jean Valjean Jean Gabin has a criminal past, but actually this derailment is caused by a crooked society. And when Valjean is converted by a priest, he remains an angel for the rest of his life. What kind of fun does a priest have? In addition all love is pure. When the adopted daughter of Valjean meets a young man, it is love at first sight.
In addition the political situation is fascinating. We see how street battles put aside the remnants of the royal rule. So there is plenty of romance, and this is of coarse what made Les miserables so appealing to the adolescent that I was. And I suppose that the film may still be attractive to people in developing countries like China. For, as Confusius said: war does not determine who is right, war determines who is left.
On the other hand, the contemporary postmodern Westerner may take offense at the lack of nuance and psychological depth. Not withstanding this flaw, the film remains highly recommendable.
Don't forget to leave comments. I love it. There are so many fantastic adaptations of this book out there. This is not one of them. The majority of the English adaptations have the confidence to condense and take creative license with the story - in order to make it more appropriate for the film format - whereas the French adaptations stubbornly put all pages onscreen.
This results in ponderously boring films of 4 hours duration. Whichever you prefer depends on personal preference, but I would recommend giving this one a miss. This film, generally faithful to Hugo's novel, was the first full-length, wide-screen, color Technirama theatrical epic version of Hugo's story. No subsequent screen presentation of Les Miserables has displaced the film as a full-length theatre epic.
Through the story of Jean Valjean, Hugo sought to demonstrate that every soul contains a "divine element. His character is largely shaped by the Bishop of Digne, who befriends him when no one else does, and saves him from another prison sentence after Valjean steals the bishop's silverware.
An oddity in this film is that, when he first sees Valjean, Javert is the young son of a prison official. In fact, this departure from Victor Hugo's novel is confusing and unnecessary.
When they encounter each other in Montreuil, Javert is about 40 years old, and Valjean is about In other words, the age difference between Gabin and Blier was almost exactly that between Valjean and Javert.
Remorseful after he robs a young boy, Valjean decides to turn his life around. He assumes a new identity "M. Madeleine" , but he is pursued by police inspector Javert. The conflict between these two men is the central theme of the novel. Javert is not cruel. But, born in prison to a fortune teller mother and a convict father, he is ashamed of his origins, and compensates for them through an exaggerated respect for authority and hatred of rebellion.
He is devoted to the literal letter of the law in today's terms, a "textualist," or "strict constructionist" , whereas Valjean seeks to abide by the spirit of the law. Troubled by the fate of Fantine, a young woman unjustly fired from his factory, he promises to assist her and her daughter Cosette, who is with the Thenardier family a situation explained in a flashback. Later, Valjean provides assistance to this family, but M.
Thenardier responds by attempting to rob Valjean. Applying the letter of the law to himself, Javert, having denounced "Madeleine" to authorities as the real Valjean, demands that Valjean dismiss him, because an innocent man Champmathieu has been mistaken for Valjean, and is about to be sentenced.
Valjean feels compelled to sacrifice his successful new life in order to save this innocent man. In the subsequent trial, Gabin plays both Valjean and Champmathieu. Valjean soon escapes from jail, rescues Cosette from the Thenardiers, and flees to Paris, where he and Cosette live in a convent.
After she graduates from its school, Cosette meets Marius and they fall in love. Marius is then living next door to the Thenardier family. Perhaps the various Les Miserables films differ most in their treatment of the Thenardiers' daughter Eponine.
Hugo may have created her as a foil to Cosette who was a very different person , or to demonstrate that good can emerge from depraved circumstances. Eponine has scarcely any food or clothes, is periodically pursued by the police, beaten by her father, and perhaps to avoid him occasionally sleeps in ditches. On the other hand, she travels around Paris soliciting money for her father, she is educated, is fascinated by books, adjusts her appearance in a mirror, attends theatrical shows, sings love songs, worries about Marius' hair and clothes, and, even as she is dying, fears that he did not pick up a coin she dropped.
The film, like some others, emphasizes her unrequited love of Marius; but neglects the rest of her story. Marius does not return her love, or even sense it, but Eponine adopts a surprisingly protective attitude toward him. The film largely overlooks this part of the story. It fails to reveal that it is Eponine who guides Marius to Cosette's house. And it omits Eponine's admonition to Marius, as she is guiding him, to pretend that he is not with her, because "It won't do for a fine young man like you to be seen with a woman like me.
In view of their childhood antagonism, a conversation that grown-up Cosette and Eponine might have had if they recognized each other would be interesting. In the film unlike the novel they do meet. Valjean and Cosette provide a big meal for Eponine in their home, and arrange to take food to the Thenardier family.
Cosette even gives Eponine a new dress. But the young women never recognize each other. In the film as in the novel , when Marius shows up in her garden, Cosette never asks, "How did you find me?
And, after he has survived the barricade battle, he never tells Cosette how Eponine saved his life there. In each of these situations, Hugo could have given more depth to Cosette's personality. When Valjean plans to move, Cosette writes a note for Marius with news about the move and her new address, and hands it to Eponine then disguised as a boy to deliver to Marius.
In Hugo's improbable narrative, Eponine, driven by jealousy, plans to separate Marius from Cosette and lure him to the barricade so they can die there together.
So Eponine withholds Cosette's note from him, and yells to him to join his friends at the barricade. Thus, in one paragraph, Hugo makes it appear that Eponine's actions send Marius to the barricade.
PG min Drama, Musical, Romance. In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever. PG min Crime, Drama, History. Valjean, a former criminal, has atoned for his past and now finds himself in the midst of the French Revolution, avoiding a law-obsessed policeman hell-bent on capturing him. Approved min Adventure, Drama, History. A parole violator in early 19th Century France is relentlessly pursued and persecuted by an obsessive policeman.
Approved min Drama, History, Romance. In early 19th Century France an ex-convict who failed to report to parole is relentlessly pursued over a 20 year period by an obsessive policeman. Votes: 3, Not Rated min Drama. The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.
Votes: 1, R min Drama, History. A variation on Victor Hugo's classic novel by means of the story of a man whose life is affected by and somewhat duplicated by the Hugo story of the beleaguered Jean Valjean. Not Rated min Drama, History.
Jean Valjean Richard Jordan , convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for several decades by the relentless and cruel Policeman Javert Anthony Perkins. The scene is set during the French Restoration at the beginning of the 19th century. Jean Valjean, a galley slave who was sent to prison for stealing food, is now released after serving See full summary ». Votes: 4, Unrated min Drama.
The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert. Votes: Jean Valjean, convicted of a minor crime, spends the rest of his life being pursued by a cruel and unrelenting policeman, Javert. Jean Valjean, pursued through the years for a minor infraction by the implacable policeman Javert, attempts to create a life for himself and for his adopted daughter Cosette amid the The fourth, and last, of the famous scripts de luxe derived from incidents from Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables.
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