Let me tell you about Les Miserables

[girlofprey]

On Saturday, my parents and I went to see Les Miserables.

I really enjoyed it. Also, I did a lot of crying, which doesn't always happen for me, with anything. People had said how good Anne Hathaway was, but man, I was not prepared. I cried pretty much every time she was onscreen. Poor Fantaine.

My other thoughts were mainly:

• Russell Crowe's voice really was the true crime.



• But I kind of liked him sometimes when he wasn't singing.



• Also the idea of ANY of the characters keeping secrets while SINGING AT THE TOP OF THEIR VOICES amused me greatly throughout the film.



• Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen were pretty much the two reasons I wanted to go see Sweeney Todd, so when they turned up as a comedy thieving couple it was an extremely pleasant surprise.



• I have to say, I find it quite weird that we didn't get a scene of them reacting to Eponine's death. I mean, I suppose it would have been hard to do a serious scene with them, but still, it seemed weird to me that they never found out and then we skipped straight ahead to another comedy caper. It was a little bit like we really weren't supposed to take them seriously as humans, or care about Eponine outside of how she felt about Marius. Then again, hanging out in the fandom has revealed to me that quite a lot of their kids died at the Barricade, apparently, so I guess it's not just Eponine that got that treatment.



• Speaking of which, I was distracted throughout the second half of the film by how Eponine was the most beautiful one of them all. Samantha Barks, wow.



• Also I was distracted from caring about Gavroche very much by how much he looked like Belle from Emmerdale:
  
  
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  And all the residual annoyance I have from ever watching her. Sorry Gavroche. You were real brave, though.



• Hugh Jackman <3



• Javert and Valjean: More like Gay Miserables, am I right?



• I've been laughing at that joke all evening.



• Also the students were pretty gay, fandom was pretty right on that score. Or the film stayed true to however gay they are in the musical or book, I guess.



• I kind of can't believe how Jean Valjean was all "no no, you can't handle FACTS" to Cosette, but then told his ENTIRE LIFE STORY to Marius after having barely met him. But that was his choice, I suppose.



• Also, it turned out there were a couple of Les Miserables songs in the pantomime I went to see a couple of weeks ago. So, they were lovely, but I may forever associate them with a papier mache giant, unfortunately.

So yes, I really enjoyed it.

Also, the other day I saw an advert on TV for a new Ministry Of Sound CD called 90s Anthems. I recognised literally every song in the advert. It was a little bit like my childhood compressed into 20 seconds. Then I went and looked at the tracks online. I read the first 6 and knew them all. So I bought that CD. Because having a particularly frantic aspect of your childhood always available on disc seems sort of handy, really.