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JOSEPH QUINN as ENJOLRAS BBC Les Misérables 1.04, dir. Tom Shankland

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JOSEPH QUINN as ENJOLRAS BBC Les Misérables 1.05, dir. Tom Shankland

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JOSEPH QUINN as ENJOLRAS BBC Les Misérables 1.05, dir. Tom Shankland

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JOSEPH QUINN as ENJOLRAS BBC Les Misérables 1.06, dir. Tom Shankland

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Enjolras, pierced by eight bullets, remained leaning against the wall, as though the balls had nailed him there. Only, his head was bowed.

Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt.

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Thoughts on BBC Les Mis portrayal of Courfeyrac? (He's so cute ugh)

I only watched the series once when it first aired in January, so my memory is a little faded, but I think I mostly liked their Courfeyrac, although I wish they had shown more of his friendship with Marius.

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Catch up on #LesMisPBS - the premiere is now streaming! The entire six-part series is also now available to binge-watch on PBS Passport. [x]

For all you US fans out there, BBC’s Les Misérables premiered on Sunday, April 14 on PBS.

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Another thing I was thinking about re: BBC Les Mis, is how Andrew Davies uses brutality? Because like. We see Thenardier beating Madame Thenardier in front of others, which frankly is a weird use of brutality even though he IS brutal (I mean, dang, he makes his daughter break a window with her hand later on, like, damn), and we also see Madame Thenardier chasing Cosette around with a belt, which while totally a thing I’d believe, there’s also a jeering crowd? AND we had to see Fantine’s teeth removal in this awful, gory detail. AND we had to see a convict get executed. Don’t get me wrong, there’s so much brutal stuff that happens in Les Mis, the brutality of society is a big part of the point, but I often feel like Andrew Davies isn’t trying to show us the common brutality of society at the time, but more like he’s just trying to shock us? Like brutality for brutality’s sake, instead of using it to hit and drive the deeply emotional beats of the novel. 

Like, for instance, when Valjean goes to Arras, you see the convicts getting the iron collars put around their necks. This has almost no significance other than to be brutal, but you know would have really driven it home emotionally? If he maybe had shown us for instance, the bit where Valjean first gets the iron collar put on him and cries like in the brick! Cause it’s the last time he cries for a REALLY LONG TIME, and then him seeing that later on would be So Much. Like sure, we see him with the iron collar in Toulon, but it still just doesn’t resonate the way I feel like something like that might have? 

I dunno, I just feel like if you’re going to show brutality, make the brutality matter to the larger theme and point of the text you’re adapting or the story you’re telling. Andrew Davies seems to get that yes, there’s lots and lots of brutal stuff in Les Mis, but he doesn’t seem to understand the core of WHY, and also that the themes of the novel are fighting against that brutality. It’s why he’s gotten Valjean so wrong at so many points (other than his scenes with little Cosette this episode). Because Valjean has seen and experienced SO MUCH brutality, and yet because of the bishop, and because of who he was before prison, who he is at his core, he’s a quiet, kind, sweet man, and not this Shouty Weirdo who kicks a desperate mother out of his factory. It’s like Davies is trying to say “oh, he falls prey to the brutality he experienced” but the point of the book is that HE DOES NOT DO THAT. Anyway, that’s my slightly incoherent Ted Talk. 

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bbc les mis ended a while ago, but I never posted this here so enjoy all the meme-ness that I managed to put in my greatest masterpiece

link to my original tweet (where you can see it is archie approved as well)

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comic reliefs in various Les Mis adaptations

The musical: The Thénardiers

The book: Marius “I’m gonna give myself a concussion on this tree” Pontmercy

BBC series: Inspector “take me to your leader Jean Valjean” Javert

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Les Mis BBC Ep. 6, A Summary

I’m back for the last time, very very late because I was away. As always, here’s the tag with the rest of the summaries and other notes of importance. Other additional notes will be at the end, now let’s get to it, the grand finale. Oh boy, I wonder if someone will die! 

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In my quest to actually sort out my feelings re: BBC Les Mis, I decided I should rewatch the 1998 movie, since I got constant flashbacks to it while watching the miniseries.

And I’ve already run into a crucial revelation:

The font really does look a lot better WHEN IT’S NOT BRIGHT RED.

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“That’s because I’m going to die soon” he says confidently, knowing there are only five minutes of the show left

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I’m sorry

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Hi! Sorry to bother you, but could you post the link to the 6th episode to download again? Unfortunately I can't find it on your dash

It’s not me who shares the links actually, it’s @bbclesmis, but anyway, you can find them all here!

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ok i’m not mad at bbc if it’s realistic but did they call each other comrade??? like was that a thing?