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bottlesandbarricades · 5 years

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BBC Les Miserables (Episode 4) Some Opinions

On the plus side, we're over the half way mark lads

One good thing I have to be thankful to BBC Les Mis for is finally giving me some blog content

Cosette is a cutie pie

Javert finally got the hat™

I think our boi Valjean is part canine. He really likes burying shit so he can dig it back up later

Javert is still bitter 10 years later about the one that got away. Think he needs some therapy

That little Javert speech will never convey as much 'Stars' does so swivel Davies

Marius went off at Grandpa Gillenormand and told him where to shove his royalist bullshit

Sister Simplice hasn't aged a day and it's been literally years. Being on side with God does apparently great things for ya skin honey

Is this Convent in the shadest part of Paris? Cause Cosette and Valjean be out the door 5 minutes and they have already seen beggers, a street fight, prostitutes, police brutality and an actual dead body.

Valjean buys a sweet crib yo

Courfeyrac is cute I dig it 9/10

This fucking bitch again ffs. Is she not dead yet? Better not decline her cooking Marius she'll dob you into the cops for smoking weed or something.

Grantaire is so meh 4/10

Right don't get me wrong I love Joseph Quinn. He gave Arthur Havisham in Dickensian the most bitter gay energy ever and I'm here for it. But would it have been too hard to dye the hair for Enjolras? Or put on a wig? Like he's not even in red? Also not feeling the tash. Actor 10/10. wardrobe and hair -10/10

They did my boy Bossuet dirty. Where was his introduction shot? Everyone else got an introduction shot but him. I'm bitter about this

I'm here for this political debate tho

Where are the rest of my Boys? Could they only afford 4 les amis de l'abc? Did they spend all the money on unnecessary filler extras screaming in French?

This peep hole strip tease makes me feel dirty and I don't like it.

Javert sleeps with his medal next to his bed. That is the sadness, yet cutest thing I've ever seen

Don't make me speak of it. Then processes to speak of it without a word from Cosette

Cosette is very cute like I think she's cute too Marius

Time for a Paris fashion show

Stalker Marius isn't good at sneaky stalking

Marius is a blushy smiley nerd, who sniffs dad handkerchiefs

Cosette is a blushy smiley nerd, who gets flustered when talking to cute boys

Cosette and Marius are wholesome and I'm here for it

Dad Valjean doesn't like or approve of this

I'm here for redhead Eponine

Cosette doesn't know what debauch is. This girl is so pure and good.

Overprotective Valjean needs to chill out

Anyone know a better cure for love? REVOLUTION!!

Enjolras throwing cheese at Grantaire and him eating it is the best thing this adaptation has brought to the table

Why is Grantaire pro revolution? Not very cynical so far

Grantaire wouldn't make crude jokes about everyone shagging Cosette. He isn't straight up gross. I don't like this at all. Unnecessary. Fuck you Davies

Why would Cosette be in a brothel Marius? Use your brain ffs

What is Marius's Weird Cosette/Eponine dream with rapey undertones? I don't like this

Eponine is so over sexualised I hate it

Marius needs to learn to lock his bedroom door like seriously

Knew it had been a while since we had a woman being smacked around on screen

I shouldn't be surprised how quick the Thénardiers go to Murder as a solution but there we go

Heard about a planned murder? Well due to police budget cuts take some pistols and deal with it yourself Marius. We'll wait outside as back up

Why is Thénardier now Fagin from Oliver Twist?

Why did Valjean turn up without his coat? Swear he said he'd get another one?

Burning himself again? Just to say what? My pain tolerance dick is bigger than yours?

Fight fight fight

Nice 5 seconds Montparnasse got there

Why was Cosette under a table?

Nice bit of exposition for Marius about his dad there. Glad Thénardier brought that up randomly

Gavroche is a sweetie who deserves so much better

Conclusion: This episode made me want to die. Tune in next week for episode 5

#bbc les misérables #bbc les miserables #bbc les mis #bbc #les amis #les mis #les misérables #les miserables #jean valjean #enjolras #gavroche #grantaire #i hate this

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bbclesmis · 5 years

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The Independent: Les Misérables review, episode four: A few misjudged moments trip up an otherwise impressive episode

As the BBC's six-part drama jumps ahead a decade, it ramps up the tension but makes some bad decisions in the process

While doing the press rounds for Les Misérables (BBC1), Dominic West appointed himself as Jean Valjean’s official hype man. Speaking to various publications, he referred to the hardened, humane protagonist of Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel – whom he plays in this six-part adaptation – as “a true hero”, “a proper hero”, and “the greatest hero in all literature”. “Valjean is not just a good guy,” he said “he’s an amazing guy! Like Spider-Man!” In tonight’s fourth episode, though, Valjean is less Spider-Man, and more overprotective dad.

We’ve jumped a decade on from last week, which saw Valjean once again escape the clutches of Inspector Javert (who may or may not, in West’s view, have a crush on the escaped convict that’s manifesting in the form of obsessive hatred), finding refuge for himself and his ward Cosette (Mailow Defoy) in a convent. As far as Valjean is concerned, they’ve found their forever home – but Cosette, now a teenager played by Ellie Bamber, has other ideas. The plan is for her to take the veil and commit to the convent for life, but she’s having second thoughts about becoming a “bride of Christ”. As most teenagers would.

Cosette wants to see the world. Valjean distrusts it. It is the same world, after all, that imprisoned him for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread, and that drove Cosette’s mother Fantine (

Lily Collins

) to poverty, prostitution, and an early grave. “Lies, violence, cruelty – that’s the world,” he tells Cosette, whose only experience beyond the convent’s walls was a brief spell with her loving mother, and then in the abusive care of the Thénardiers. “I don’t believe it’s all like that,” she says. Bamber plays the part with a dose of doe-eyed innocence, but she lacks the presence of the doyens she’s acting alongside.

Eventually Valjean, though terrified that he might be discovered and rearrested, relents. They leave the safety of the convent, and immediately amble into what appears to be some sort of tunnel of terror. There is begging, fighting, leering, and sleazy soliciting. A woman is arrested. A man lies dead on the floor. As far as “we’re not in Kansas anymore” moments go, it’s a little much.

Marius (Josh O’Connor) has grown up too, and had his eyes opened to the poison he was fed by his staunchly conservative grandfather. “I’m not a royalist anymore,” he announces, with the self-congratulatory air of a university fresher who has just joined Marxist Soc. “I’m a Bonapartiste and a democrat.” But he’s soon distracted from his newfound radicalism when he bumps into Cosette, and is immediately smitten.

To distract Marius from his all-consuming crush, his fellow revolutionaries take him out on the town. They enter a red-lit lair, full to the brim with the kind of people – men in dresses, men kissing other men, sex workers going about their business – that seem to horrify pure, sweet Marius. Presumably to ramp up the nightmarish atmosphere, it’s filmed from woozy, disorienting angles, and soundtracked by screeching strings. The whole thing feels misjudged and outdated.

Still, the episode gets its mojo back in its climactic scenes. Valjean is unwittingly led to the home of a poverty-stricken, but no less loathsome, Monsieur Thénardier by Thénardier’s daughter Éponine (clearly too good for this family, and played with impressive subtlety by Erin Kellyman). After managing to overcome about a dozen men, Valjean loses his cool, quite literally, and presses a hot poker onto his arm.

Javert, having been tipped off by Marius (who had only good intentions in doing so), pounces, missing Valjean by a hair. He will not rest “while that man is free”. After watching this chaos play out, though, I certainly need to.

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#les mis bbc #bbc les mis #articles #reviews #episode 4 #the independent

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bonhcmme · 7 years

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VERY LONG CHARACTER SURVEY.

RULES. repost; do not reblog! tag 10! good luck! TAGGED BY: @zoophagist TAGGING: @marblebelow @dottiexe @deliiverus @deathrcflected @malmaisn @mirabilixcreuit @margueritestjust @bountyman and/or anyone who’d like to!

BASICS.

FULL NAME: Jean Valjean NICKNAME/S: none; but Jeannot would be really cute?? AGE: 50s-60s BIRTHDAY: August 27, 1769. ETHNIC GROUP: white. NATIONALITY: French. LANGUAGE/S: French. SEXUAL ORIENTATION: demisexual ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: panromantic RELATIONSHIP STATUS: single. CLASS: born into poverty, becomes wealthy though his lifestyle shows little sign of it. HOMETOWN / AREA: Faverolles, France. CURRENT HOME: Paris, France. PROFESSION: 'pensioner’ (formerly owned a successful factory)

PHYSICAL.

HAIR: dark in his youth, lightens to iron grey then abruptly turns white after Arras. It’s thick in texture, surprisingly soft and slightly wavy. EYES: hazel, average size and between almond and round shape. NOSE: the larger side of average, straight, neither bony nor plump, with small nostrils FACE: broad, almost square features but with rounded edges LIPS: average size, slightly darker than his face, often cracked COMPLEXION: tanned from a life spent working in the sun. (This means later in life he acquires age spots more easily.) BLEMISHES: callouses on hands. SCARS: around wrists and the right ankle; after 1823, a brand on the shoulder. TATTOOS: none. HEIGHT: 5′7″ WEIGHT: 170 lbs. BUILD: robust and stout, well-muscled with broad shoulders tapering slightly to the waist. ALLERGIES: none. USUAL HAIRSTYLE: fairly long for the period to make up for his unfashionable lack of curls— it grows past his ears. Otherwise he doesn’t spend a lot of time styling it, just runs a comb through. He keeps his beard trimmed neatly but not particularly sculpted. USUAL EXPRESSION: melancholy but thoughtful USUAL CLOTHING: nearly always simple; he often shows little sign of his current wealth, but on special occasions— which can include visiting the wounded Marius, given the kind of environment the boy is in— he’ll wear something of finer quality though still tending towards solemnity. Darker colors if not black. But in an AU where he’s lovingly strongarmed by Cosette and/or Javert, they can get him to wear something a bit richer... for them, of course.

PSYCHOLOGY.

FEAR/S: prison, losing (or failing) Cosette, not living up to the bishop’s expectations ASPIRATION/S: to live quietly, do what good he can, read what he can; to raise Cosette as he promised her mother to do; to not tarnish her name by association with an ex-convict POSITIVE TRAITS: generous, compassionate, self-sacrificing, pacifist, hard-working, responsible NEGATIVE TRAITS: jealous, impulsive, petty, melancholy, unconcerned for self to excess, reserved, overly serious with most people MBTI: INFJ ZODIAC: Virgo TEMPERAMENT: melancholic SOUL TYPE/S: caregiver (helper & spiritualist very close seconds) ANIMAL: owl VICE/S: pride, envy, anger; self-denial FAITH: Roman Catholic. GHOSTS? yes. AFTERLIFE? yes. REINCARNATION? no. ALIENS? not something he’s thought about. POLITICAL ALIGNMENT: Has his own private views but partly out of a reserved nature and partly forced by the precariousness of his situation he doesn’t involve himself. That said, he’s broadly liberal, in some ways even socialistic, and due to his own experiences is deeply suspicious of the system, seeing it as susceptible to corruption at best. ECONOMIC PREFERENCE: he feels uncomfortable with the amount of wealth he has once he’s made it, but at the same time is relieved by it, given all that poverty led to for him. SOCIOPOLITICAL POSITION: in M sur M, wealthy businessman and then mayor; in Paris, appears to be a former officer living on his pension. EDUCATION LEVEL: illiterate until the age of forty, when he learned at the school for convicts in Toulon. After he arrived in M sur M he was self-taught and studiously so— he read widely and improved his speech.

FAMILY.

FATHER: Jean Valjean (or Vlajean), tree pruner MOTHER: Jeanne Valjean née Mathieu SIBLING/S: older sister Jeanne, younger brother Mathieu EXTENDED FAMILY: sister’s children, and before his death her husband NAME MEANING/S: Jean is one of the most common French names and is the French form of John, itself from the Hebrew name meaning “God is gracious.” Valjean is an elision of the epithet “voilà Jean,” meaning “here’s Jean.” Jean is also a homonym of “gens,” “people,” so that his surname also sounds like “here are the people” making him a walking metaphor for mankind in general. HISTORICAL CONNECTION: none for Valjean, since it was created for his father. John the Baptist prepared the way for Jesus; it was also the name of an apostle and the author of a gospel as well as numerous popes and saints.

FAVORITES.

BOOK: the Bible. 5 SONGS: Ave Maria (Schubert), Nocturne op. 9 (Chopin), Entre le boeuf et l’âne gris (Christmas carol), À la claire fontaine, the Four Seasons (Vivaldi) DEITY: Demeter MONTH: April SEASON: Spring PLACE: Garden WEATHER: sunny and moderately warm SOUND/S: harsh rasp of iron chains, the terrible laugh of a convict, screams of a soul in hell, lark’s song, hymns in an angel’s voice, distant piano music SCENT/S: salty ocean air, wood fire, fresh turned earth, sweat, flowers (marigolds, lavender, roses), rosemary & thyme TASTE/S: iron tang of blood, stale bread and beans of the government, water from a clear mountain stream, tears of happiness and of struggle FEEL/S: warmth of sun on skin, soft fur of the wild beast tamed, rough grain of wood, smooth curve of silver candlesticks ANIMAL/S: owl, butterfly, lion, beaver, dog NUMBER: 3 COLOR: green, yellow, blue

EXTRA.

TALENTS: strength, agility, inventiveness, improvisation, compassion. BAD AT: trust, self-love, not being impulsive. TURN-ONS: neck kisses, being wanted; affection, thoughtfulness TURN-OFFS: sex without emotional ties, pain (though it is complicated), lack of trust from (or for) a partner HOBBIES: reading, gardening. TROPES: Badass Bookworm(/Grandpa), Cardboard Prison, The Caretaker, Chaste Hero, Consummate Liar, Death by Despair, Earn Your Happy Ending, The Everyman, Felony Misdemeanor, Heel-Face Turn, It’s All My Fault, Justified Criminal, Messianic Archetype, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, Overprotective Dad, Rags to Riches, Secretly Wealthy, What You Are in the Dark AESTHETIC TAGS: idk what this means.

FC INFO.

MAIN FC/S: Hugh Jackman, Ron Cephas Jones ALT FC/S: David Strathairn, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rufus Sewell, Anson Mount OLDER FC/S: lol no YOUNGER FC/S: Dylan Schmid, Malcolm David Kelley, Aml Ameen, Chiwetel Ejiofor VOICE CLAIM/S: Gino Quilico, Maurice Barrier GENDERBENT FC/S: none.

#&& chose ni vue (HEADCANON)#&& un caractère pensif (META)#[ queue ]

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a-book-dragon · 5 years

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Javert and Jean Valjean rap battle

Today, the main characters meet eye to eye

And who is the better man they have to decide.

Valjean, sighing because this stupid fanfic writer makes him argue while he hates to:

I’m capable of anything, cause God is by my side!

I’m too kind to kill, but I will fight!

And, Javert, you can be sure -

I’m the best dad in history of literature!

And though I’m Mister Nice Guy, I’m rather flawed -

anxious, overprotective and a little proud.

PTSD, paranoia and low self-esteem -

quite imperfect, do I seem.

I have big ass muscles and also brains.

They help me, cause selfless goodness drains!

But human relationships are not my fury,

Though for my loved ones I would get burried!

Cuz it’s nothing to die, it’s frightful not to live.

Now bring yourself home, if you don’t believe.

Javert (or probably the uninspired writer of this stupid poem) needed one day to answer.

#jeanvaljean #javert #lesmis #les mis #lesmiserables #les miserables #valvert #poem #rap #fanfic #rap battle

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ao3feed-lesmiserables · 7 years

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dad of the year

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2f8Nwoa

by bi_lovely

Jean Valjean is what you might call an overprotective father, so when he finds out that his children have been sneaking around behind his back, dating and getting into trouble, he's less than pleased. His solution is to make his children and their boyfriends sit through an awkward dinner so that he can get to know the boys his children are dating.

Words: 12196, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables (2012)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, M/M

Characters: Enjolras, Cosette Fauchelevent, Grantaire, Marius Pontmercy, Eponine, Jean Valjean

Relationships: Enjolras/Grantaire, Cosette Fauchelevent/Marius Pontmercy

Additional Tags: jean valjean is dad of the year every year, Cosette And Enjolras Are Siblings, i really love this enjolras and cosette being twins trope, they’re sibling goals honestly, grantaire is a pure bean, marius is dumb but we love him anyway, marius is also rlly insecure, grantaire and marius are confused and scared boyfriends, Humor, Coming Out, Siblings fighting, Les Amis - Freeform, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - High School, grantaire the matchmaker, Angst, let’s play who can catch the hello dolly reference, grantaire and enjolras are happy and in love, enjolras is not bad at relationships for once, References to Sex, boys kissing in their underwear, Happy Ending

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2f8Nwoa

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #les miserables #les mis

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lesmisscraper · 10 months

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A few days later...

The Result of Stalking.

Clips from <Il cuore di Cosette>.

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lesmisscraper · 2 years

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A Day at Jardin du Luxembourg, Aka. The Infamous Handkerchief Scene in <Il cuore di Cosette>.

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lesmisscraper · 3 years

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I’m sorry, I had to

This is the post ispired by this post made from Italian TV cartoon show and remade with the 2012 film's cutscene.

#Les miserables #les mis #My Post #Jean Valjean #M. Leblanc #Cosette #Mlle. Lanoire #Father and daughter #Owl and Wren #The Robbery #Overprotective Dad Valjean #When I saw the original image of this post I thought that funny post!#I Memed a Meme #2012 film #Meme

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lesmisscraper · 4 years

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Brick... with animation!

29. Result of Awkward Stalking

This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. Marius knew nothing about this beautiful child,--neither her family name, her Christian name nor her abode; these two letters were the first thing of her that he had gained possession of, adorable initials, upon which he immediately began to construct his scaffolding. U was evidently the Christian name. "Ursule!" he thought, "what a delicious name!" He kissed the handkerchief, drank it in, placed it on his heart, on his flesh, during the day, and at night, laid it beneath his lips that he might fall asleep on it. "I feel that her whole soul lies within it!" he exclaimed. - Vol 3, book 6, chapter 7

After Marius had an unpleasant encounter with M. Leblanc, he changed his action: sitting near them and watching Mlle. Lanoire. And she also replied at Marius with her eyes.

But then, her father also changed their action. If Marius was near them, they would walk away and spied on him if he was following.

Then again, Marius used another trick. He hid behind some of the statues, and kept his eyes on Lanoire. Still, they secretly talked with their eyes.

Of course, M. Leblanc also noticed Marius was behind a statue, and he moved their seats a lot, and Marius was trapped. And sometimes, he didn't take his daughter along, and when he did this, Marius turned away quickly more than usual. Since Marius deeply fell in love, he didn't care about what M. Leblanc did.

One day, Marius saw a handkerchief initialed U.F. dropped to where Leblanc and Lanoire sat on. He believed this was Lanoire's so he thought about name started with 'U'. Probably Ursule, and he kept it as if it was a part of 'his Mlle. Ursule', and kissed on it, smelled it, and put on his lips during sleeping.

Finally, he traced back where M. Leblanc and Mlle. Ursule lived 'secretly', and asked their porter about those father and his daughter.(Marius, what are you doing? That's stalking!) The porter thought Marius was a weirdo or a spy from the police. And Marius returned.

Next day, he went to meet Ursule again. But she never went to Luxembourg again. When Marius visited Ursule's home on Rue de I'Ouest again, and the porter told him her family moved house and never told him where they moved. Marius was in a gloomy state again, and did not know about some bad guys later tried to rob and harm Ursule's family.

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