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If there's any character in this world who suffers from literary Ken-ification it's Patroclus. Especially in the zeitgeist of today (thanks tsoa), it's always Achilles AND Patroclus, never just Patroclus. Who is he? Why does he exist? He is Achilles' boyfriend! What's his job? Death! In the sense that he just. Dies. That's just his job now. Death. Death and Achilles' boyfriend. That's it.
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incredible how victor hugo created the whole thing of grantaireās name being one of those that āis only written preceded by the conjunction āandāā as a reference to the barbie movieās iconic āand kenāā¦ā¦.... sheās such an influenceš
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the thing they don't tell you about getting into les mis as a teenager is that there is no point at which you gain the capability of being normal about enjolras and grantaire. bc here's the thing folks. grantaire asked for enjolras's permission, to give him the honor of dying next to him. enjolras smiled and took his hand. and then they died. holding hands. and then there's "you believe in nothing" / "i believe in you", the sun/moon imagery, the comparisons to achilles/patroclus and orestes/pylades etc, and dont get me started on george blagden. it's insane
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*me, staggering up to the next set of people doing a Les Mis adaptation* listen. LISTEN. Cosette is the future and the Republic, the Republic is the daughter of the Revolution, Fantine is the actual Revolution, her whole life is a protest, she is not a speedbump on Valjean's plotline, there's a reason that he comes into conflict with Authority the second he decides to take up her cause , there's a reason he starts seeing the bigger picture again, past bourgeois charity, when he's dedicated to helping her! She and Enjolras get described in almost exactly the same physical terms for a reason, so anyone can literally see they are the same! Symbolically! She is one of the three main figures of the story and one of the main themes, hey, no listen--- * I am forcibly removed from the group making the adaptation*
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the amis as things my friends have texted me
Enjolras:
Combeferre:
Courfeyrac:
Grantaire:
Jehan:
Bahorel:
Joly:
Boussuet:Ā
Marius:Ā
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my favorite thing about seeing les mis live tonight was just watching grantaire in the group scenes:
iāll explain
during red and black when enjolras confiscated the bottle R just reached down??? and had another one??? ready to go??? like this happens a lot??? how cute .
also whenever they were being shot at on the barricade, R just hid behind a barrel??? with no gun or defense whatsoever. wine in hand. staring directly into the face of god from the safety of a barrel. *chefs kiss *
just like so iconic. some great character work was done with this one šš«”š©
#enjoltaire#me when heās agog and aghast#les mis#les miserables#enjolras loves grantaire pass it on#grantaire#exr#west end#victor hugo#theater#les amis#les amis de l'abc#les miz
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Youāre in his dms I am his last moment of hope and proof that all he did was not in vain. Yeah weāre dying while holding hands rn
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this is what my tattoo means
im def jmping off a roof tonight
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Exactly 10 years ago lives were changed, brains altered and souls saved. Happy 10th anniversary to the best cover ever!
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finally saw the show live in london tonight and might i say that moment is incredible and so true and also
donāt they know theyāre making love to one already dead
goes so fucking hard
okay thatās all š©ā¤ļø
say what you will about les misĀ but the moment when āto love another person is to see the face of godā fades out and the ensemble coming in really softly withĀ ādo you hear the people singā is one of the most beautiful moments in theaterĀ
#that is truly one of the most magical moments in a theater production#i love this show so much#yeah this guy fucks#enjoltaire#lesmis
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Ok decided im going to talk about my last post because its been bouncing around the four corners of my little brain for like two days! so hugo refers to enjolras as orestes quite a few times, and similarly refers to grantaire as (an unwanted) pylades. i believe hugo paralleled them like this because when orestes and pylades are captured by the artemisā women pylades is to be set free to deliver a letter while orestes is to stay behind and be killed ā they refuse this obviously and insist on dying together should they not be parted, similarly to how when enjolras is going to be executed by the national guard, grantaire, who could have easily escaped and lived, willingly took his hand and died by his side. unlike enjolras and grantaire, o & p live.
orestes pretty famously went insane under the torment of the eumenides (though he also claims itās his conscience punishing him) after committing matricide, guided by apollo, in which pylades aided him. which is where theĀ āitās rotten work / not to me not if itās youā quote comes from ā pylades vowed to take care of him when he underwent fits of mania (i believe he has seizures, i havent read the orestia in a while) while they escaped argos.
this is absolutely a stretch furthered along by my extreme knowledge of greek plays, but enjolras is also described as apollo during the orestes fasting/pylades drunk chapter before his and grantaireās death. i think this facilitates a narrative in which enjolras and grantaire live, but enjolras, tormenting himself with the blood he believes is on his hands from his friendsā deaths, falls to insanity, or i guess more likely just fits of a deep depression and grantaire, previously an unwanted pylades is now a needed pylades. enjolras is too torn up to overly protest it, but grantaire happily cares for him as long as he needs to, facing his own grief as well, they heal each other. bla bla bla
i dunno. orestes and pylades are kind of like bywords for life long faithful love in greek myth and i like enjolras and grantaire a lot. so thatās what the āitās rotten work / not to me not if itās youā drawing was about
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i feel like the last addition is such a weird niche reference but i love it
One day I should show you the gigantic statue of Napoleon in my city on which he's got abs and is RIPPED
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weāre all here asking how Cosette knew ghosts never wear round hats when the real question we should be asking is how Hugo knew ghosts never wear round hats
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Les Mis should be more like Lord of the Rings
This might sound crazy but I feel like Les Mis adaptations need to learn how to use France the way the Lord of the Rings films use Middle Earth
Ā Like: the setting/its history shouldnāt just be there, it should be an integral part of the story
Bear with me for a minute but hereās the kinda storytelling I want from a Les Mis adaptation:
After Gandalf is killed in LOTR, the grieving heroes take shelter in the land of Lothlorien. But Lothlorien isnāt ārandomā- the land is a metaphor for the liminal space of grief.Ā Itās melancholy and moonlit, ancient and sad. Time passes strangely. Its magic is unfamiliar and often horrifying, itās like nothing theyāve ever seen, and its funeral music is in a language they donāt understandā¦reflecting how many of the heroes are experiencing loss for the first time.Ā
And Lothlorien itself is dying. Weāre told that the Elves are all leaving Middle-Earth,Ā this kingdom will soon be abandoned, and the elves are grieving for how they will soon lose their old home.
The filmmakers didnāt just make an āāaccurateāā Lothlorien, they understood whyĀ Tolkien wrote this specific place into the story at this specific time.Ā They connected the characterās internal struggles (grief at the death of Gandalf) to the the struggles of the world at large (grief at the death of Lothlorien, and the civilization of the elves.)
I feel like thatās the kind of Empathetic Environment we need in a Les Mis adaptation.Ā Like after Valjean adopts Cosette, they escape to a convent. I donāt think an adaptation should grind to a halt to give us Victor Hugoās 20-million page Convent Digressionā¢. BUt-
In that Convent Digressionā¢, Hugo contrasts the joyful innocence of the conventās schoolgirls with the brutal self-denial of the conventās nuns. Thatās a crucial part of the setting, because it mirrors the relationship between Cosette and Valjean. Her joyful innocence on one hand, his unhealthy obsession with āatonementā on the other, both of them sheltered and imprisoned by the convent walls. The conventās history of Only Women Can Enter is relevant to Valjean taking on a traditionally feminine role, with Hugo describing his feelings for Cosette as āmotherlyā rather than fatherly.
Most adaptations use the convent asā¦. a background propā¦.but thereās so much potential to use it to establish the Themes of Valjean and Cosetteās relationship, and tie it to Themes that apply to France as a whole
And thatās true for every location in the book. You can say a lot without wordsĀ just by showing us the environment that the story takes place in.Ā
TL;DR: Your setting is as much a tool for storytelling as anything else. Environmental storytelling is dope and more Les Mis adaptations should take advantage of it
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