modern les mis and associated songs part I

• Shawn Mendes as Marius - “Everybody loves me” by One republic
• Emily Lind as Cosette - “Kings and Queens” by Ava Max
• Mats van Snippenberg as Enjolras - “Achilles Comes Down” by Gang of Youths
• Jorge Lopez as Grantaire - “Everybody Gets High” by MISSIO
• Hannah Kleit as Eponine - “Death of Me” by PVRIS
• Rome Flynn as Coufreyrac - “Count on Me” by Bruno Mars

To anyone willing to blow $25 on the Les Miserables Hardcover Collectable Leatherbound Omnibus from Barnes & Noble (It’s totally worth it!)

I Watched a Les Mis Parody at my Local Theatre and Now I Can’t Stop Guffawing

Highlights

• Javert and Valjean have a telepathic connection
• Victor Hugo, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Cameron Macintosh (in a kilt) all make an appearance
• Terrible french accents
• Valjean rescues Fantine from the cart
• Javert thinking that nobody will be able to recognize him in his ‘generic blue face-mask’
• Little Cosette = grown ass woman
• Les Amis threatens to burn Javert at the stake
• Jean Valjean dies by firing squad (A.K.A a nerf gun to the chest)
• Lots of LDS jokes
• Flamboyantly gay Javert referencing 'don’t ask don’t tell’ at the barricades
• Valjean knocks Gavroche out with chloroform
• Javert yelling “I’ll get you my pretty, and your little Cosette too!” before leaping into the sewer
• Valjean sings the Forbidden Broadway parody “Bring it Down”
• The Phantom of the Opera makes a brief appearance
• Valjean ultimately pushes Javert to his death
• Fancy hat contest between Cosette, Eponine and Fantine’s ghost (with garden gnomes)
• Bishop Myriel: “You can kiss a nun, just don’t get in the habit!”
• Javert waving his cheeks in your general direction

Overall, probably worth the $30 ticket

When your obsession starts bleeding over into work..

peoplearescary:

diversity win! The police spy at your barricade had been tempted a score of times to fling himself upon Jean Valjean, to seize him an devour him, that is to say, to arrest him

lydiardbell:

I get up early, I go to bed early, I work [on Les Miserablés] all day. I have a sort of natural armchair in a rock for writing at a beautiful spot called Firmain Bay; I do not read the seven hundred and forty articles published against me during the last three months.

— Victor Hugo on self-care and ignoring the haters

“SI UN ALMA ES DEJADA EN LA OSCURIDAD, COMETERÁ PECADOS. NO ES CULPABLE EL QUE PECA, SINO EL QUE CAUSA LA OSCURIDAD.”

- VICTOR HUGO.

aximili:

honestly no matter how faithfully you adapt les miserables to stage or screen, nothing can really quite replicate the effect of hugo being like “so valjean got to this convent…. btw, just briefly, i don’t normally do this but bc it’s relevant, im gonna take 45 pages to tell u the history of the convent, all the significant nuns & their daily routines, & this is my opinion of organised religion in general - it fucking blows! - do you believe in god btw? we actually are god. philosophy and religion are both right. actually, convents are quite noble sometimes when u think about it. idk, anyway, as i was saying valjean got there” and u know he’s gonna do t again on some other topic in like 6 pages time

Me trying to study:

My brain: I Am wArNinG yOu JAVERT

Grantaire meeting Enjolras for the first time: Do you know how comfortable it is if you sleep on the floor and hug the mattress instead?

Enjolras: Maybe you could hug me instead.

Grantaire:What?

Enjolras, nervously: Nothing. I just said maybe you’re called Hugo instead…?

Grantaire: *confused and gay noises*

Grantaire, gazing lovingly at Enjolras: He could kill me and I’d thank him.

Eponine, who’d heard this for the millionth time: I’d thank him too

Priest: Repeat after me.

Grantaire: After me.

Priest, turning to Enjolras: Are you sure you want this one?

Combeferre: What’s the first thing you notice when a person approaches you?

Enjolras: The audacity.

Enjolras, trying to flirt: You are the membrane to my osmosis.

Grantaire:

Enjolras, panicking: you know? How osmosis must always have the partially permeable membrane to occur?

Grantaire, smirking: And so are you the key to my heart.

Courfeyrac: I know you think my judgement’s clouded because I like Combeferre a little bit.

Enjolras: You doodled your wedding invitation.

Courfeyrac: No, that’s our joint tombstone.

Enjolras: My mistake.

Enjolras: I think I’m in love with you.

Grantaire: But you hate me…?

Enjolras: That… is my love language.

Combeferre: Enjolras is at that age where there’s only one thing on his mind.

Courfeyrac:Revolution?

Combeferre: That’s what he wants people to believe. But, actually…

*Both look at enjolras staring at grantaire*

Combeferre, whispering: it’s the cat boy.

bruciare-al-suolo:

È quel mare che ho dentro che mi crea forti tempeste.

-Victor Hugo.

bruciare-al-suolo:

È quel mare che ho dentro che mi crea forti tempeste.

-Victor Hugo.

I am hoping that people [while they are in the verge of shooting excitement because of the new Les Miserables trailer] are capable of apprehending what Victor Hugo meant to expose in his masterpiece. It is more than just a romantic novel [or a musical or a film, whatever you like] set in haywire France. Within every word, every metaphor, every allegory, and every conversation behind the barricade, Hugo intends to convey his political criticism. I hope people would get that.

sadsongsandwaltzes:

The real personality test is who you first think of when I say the word “Waterloo”

• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Stonewall Jackson
• Abba

this is three? years old but i dont think i ever posted it on my old acc. was for an assignment to pick a book and redesign a cover - i chose les mis bc i want to see a cover for it that treats it as relevant to modern day and not just a dated classic to read for academic clout

theweefreewomen:

quotesfromthebrick:

image text from Les Mis: England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth wonderfully; she distributes it badly. This solution, which is complete only on one side, leads her inevitably to these two extremes: monstrous opulence, monstrous misery. All the enjoyment to a few, all the privation to the rest, that is to say, to the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, feudality, springing from labour itself, a false and dangerous situation which founds public power upon private misery, which plants the grandeur of the state in the suffering of the individual.

ITS BARRICADE DAY. IT IS TIME TO LOVE AND APPRECIATE LES AMIS DE L'ABC. AND IT IS DEFINITELY TIME TO CRY ABOUT “permets-tu?” AND GAVROCHE’S DEATH. THIS IS OUR TIME. LAMARQUE, HIS DEATH IS THE HOUR OF FATE, THE PEOPLE’S MAN, HIS DEATH… IS THE SIGN WE AWAIIIIIIT (TO CELEBRATE BARRICADE DAY)!!!! HAPPY BARRICADE DAY EVERYBODY! VIVE LA FRANCE!

I absolutely HAD to make one of these…

ADHD Adventures #15

We watched Les Misérables in French class and I feel a hyperfixation coming on. Funny thing is, it’s kinda motivating.

Law homework that I hate?

Knowing the law might be useful in overthrowing the government!

A really hard set at swim practice?

Gotta be in good shape to defend the barricade!

Vive la France

@ government people stalking me: don’t worry, I’m not actually building any barricades

gene-forrester:

Willweevermeetagain?

Les Misérables (2012) dir. Tom Hooper