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Thoughts on les miserables bbc episode 6 part 2

So i finaly find time to rewatch and to do part 2....this part will mostly be about Valjean, Cosette, Marius and thinks after the bridge(the point that the livestreaming start creating real problems) although there would be some small details that could belong to part 1 from the timeline before the bridge

So starting with the small details I notice in the rewatch and stant out

So Enjolras worries about the people with families but he decides to live the 12 year old kid to die with them!!!

Actual everyone is ok with Gavroche a kid staying at the baricade!!

Why they stay at the baricade if they can escape so easy?! People come and go all the time in this baricade!! At the book even if they live anoticed from the baricade they would be noticed at the roads from the solders and excecuted at the spot so they had to disguise as soldiers and sent only 5 because they didn't have enough uniforms!! Here they just can walk away

Why isn't the the workman Feuilly!!?? I just have create a headcanon that is feuilly with an undercover alias or a nickname or a first extra name davies gave him(it would not be the first time) He sould be feuilly

Why valjean carries a mattress?! I know it was in the book and it was an importan help but in the book the point was that they had to shoot the ropes that held it high at a house window and only he could achive it(because he has perfect aim)and then they should risk to retrive it because it felt outside of the baricade...and they want it because it would block bullets that went through a spot that they had left as a door and they could use the spot if they need(and they use it later)...it would make sense to block a army with some heavy staff...he is valjean he is strong enough to do it...they could do it like in shoujo cosette where he use a whole fucking carriage as a block(but i forgot that we don't coppy the good adaptation here...only the averege at best and mostly the worst and shoujo Cosette is one of the best!! Like top 3 best)

I leave the baricades and i think everyone at the police ships javert with valjean...it the only think that make sense(the first valvert fans)( i have read a fanfic with that consept but it was a small crack one and it was still more subtle and serius at its approach)

And now I move to rest part

Starting with valjean who finally starts to have his epiphany. Good work buddy!! Your are only 17 years late!!! And you only seem to go the half way of it!! Your book version was at the half way after the bishop and all the way after petit gervais!!

And the epiphany is mostly flashbacks of people saying how horrible he is which is totally true!! The tragedy of the book!valjean is that he thinks that he is horrible based of his past(before gervais) and that he diserves misery but he is a really great good man

And i can't understant why he start screaming for javert at the street when he cleary want to kill him at the baricade some hours ago(it doesn't make sense in this version)

And(like i said at part 1) the police doesn't react to the fact that valjean is free!! They know!! They saw him!! And with javert suicide they wouldn't forget that case!! Did they all talk with Rivette and agreed to forget it?! They all agreed to let it pass?! No one thing to arrest valjean for the glory of arresting a dangerius criminal?! They where more than 10 with javert!!! Is valjean free?!

And lets talk about Cosette who is a worst sleep lover than even me!! Seriusly!! She sleeps in a dramatic pose in her nice dress which means she woke up, get dressed and then disaded to take a nap at the morning...and she needs an army to wake her up from her nap!! And at the night not only she doesn't hear valjean(a little far fetch consider she sould be woried but i can understand that) but somehow she doesn't smell him!?!?! How is that posible?! Javert smelt him and he was used of the gutter! Even thernadier notice the smell in a fucking sewer because it was too strong!! How she stayed asleep?! Is she the new sleeping beauty?!

And she just rush into the soldiers lines screaming for marius and trying to find him...I'm pretty sure there was plenty room for her to walk at the sides of the marching soldiers but we want to make her look badass for the trailer and we want a pointless scene of her in the middle of the action where a woman just cries for her boyfriend and don't give a fuck for her missing papa but with this valjean i don't blame her

The Gillenormand household remains one of the best parts og the series....I really crack when the police left marius at the freaking stairs but a laughed when the gillenormand decided to move him after they realized he was alive! How long they would have lived him at the stairs if he was dead?! Because the stairs apparently are bad place for a wounded but a perfect for the corpses of your beloved once!!

Gillenormand is perfect!! He is the only character that is like his book version! A asshole and jackass and stubborn but deep down he loves and cares for his family and can be a funny man. Just perfect

It's only me or did they use the same bed for wounded marius they used at the 2012 movie/musical(that horrible version acording to davies) The scene looks really similar!!

And back to valjean he tells the truth to marius before the wedding(and not after like the book in this perfect adaptation)

But he actually tells the whole truth...like that the original crime was bread stealling

But because we need marius to stop valjean for seeing Cosette not only he would not say to marius what happen to javert( marius ask him if he came to the baricade to kill javert) but he is gona mention that he went to kill marius!! And that he is a wanted criminal(although the police doesn't seem to bother and he isn't afraid of his arrest)He also says about cosette reaction to the prisoners but it was his fault on the first place that he saw them

And ofcourse marius wants him away after that it make sense...this man is dangerous!! But that way it miss the point! In the book valjean goes to a lawyer and says that he went to prison for 19 years...Marius as a lawyer knows the law and he would thing that the original crime was very serius for that sentence...and even more tragic is that valjean mention that everyone thinks him dead and there is no really a risk for him to be around but he is still want to do the sacrifice for the safety of his daughter...and he makes it clear how difficult it is to him to loose her so he convinces marius to let him see her one hour a day

And even more tragic is that on the book marius acts like an idiot...he start do reserch and starts to creat a completly wrong senario...he starts thinks that valjean kill javert(although anlike the series he doesn't mention it to valjean and on the book marius wanted to save javert because he saw him in action and find him awesome) and that he gave madeleine to the police a saintly exconvict and stole madeleine's money

Even more tragic he creates this senario while it could be easy with a little more reserch to find the whole truth(he is a lawyer a baron with money) and because of this senario he starts to hate valjean and makes it clear he is unwelcome which cause valjean to stop visiting and eventually to his death!! He tries to separate a father for his child in the same way his grandfather separate him from his father which is a great tragic irony

In the book the death of valjean is fault in small part of valjean who is too self sacrificing and has too little self esteem and mostly marius fault who makes the reach to the completly wrong conclusion and acts with prejudice

But in the bbc version they trie to make it as little as they can not marius fault

Amd when thernadier cames to tell the truth he doesn't have any proofs(just his world because his so trust worthy)...he doesn't have newpapers that say about javert and madeleine(who in the book makes you wonder who a wanted criminal find them and a fucking rich baron couldn't) he doesn't have the piece of the jacket...he just say that he looks like marius but he didn't realize it was marius(but he recognise valjean)

In this versio thernadier hates valjean but he still is willing to defend him when it cames to javert death while in the book he doesn't hate valjean and he is like "I'm a criminal but lets not start wrongfully blaming people we have some dignity...i will only blame the rightfully" which is hillarius!!

In this version we have cosette in the scene for some reason but she only acts scared and shocked(strong intresting woman..not like th book)and acts as an opportunity for thernadier to be an asshole like we didn't had figure that his is bad

And if you aren't sure that he is bad he start up says he want to be a slave trader!! And marius still gives him the money...no objection here? Cosette? Your ok with him mistreating people worst that he mistreat you? Your just ok with that?

And after that they go to find valjean and they find him immediately in Digne... and what a shock his hair are whiter...not completely white(i'm not sure they are to short to understant)and they act so sock that they get light gray in 6 weeks...it's not like the should turn completely white in one day like 10 years agoooo...o wait they should(my god with how much delay is this valjean working)

And when we see him they try to make him look miserable but he looks with this haircut like he would canonicaly look in the book and in reality at the prison and Digne...because in reallity the prisoners in Tullon would be with no hair and no beard....and valjean acts like the way he should had act with the bishop and gervais(if they had follow the book)!!?!?

But wait it seem that he is sick...we don't from what but he started at paris...and he works in the garden so he is get ise to it...so he doesn't die for broken hurt...its not marius fault....he just happened to get sick when they where at holidays...its just unfortune

It's not like in the book where the separation from his daughter make him loose the will to live and he wasted away and basically he starves himself and just waits in his miserable apartment writing his last words in which he tries to conviense marius that the dowry money are lawfull so he would use them for making cosette happy and he just waits for his death because at this point death would be a relief...no here he is ill and just enjoing his last moments with his garden and his nice cottage

And this version has cosette be his side for hours...and she now everything so he knows that she forgave him for everything so he dies much happier than this version diserves

In the book they barely make it in time to see him and he is just happy that he sees his daughter again and he keeps asking if marius forgave him even if he did nothing wrong and is even sadder because the doctor says that if they ccame sooner he would definately survived...and he is still happy because is with him and he calls him papa again and that is all he needs(the final parts of the book with valjeans end and what lead to it is one of my favourite parts and the second most sad for me and its a shame that i could not have it)

And after that the bbc desides to close with more misery because they don't care at all about the message...they just gone show hungry kids be ignore...they could save it if they had cosette give them money...the book is not that miserable

This was a tough run...they completely misportate almost all the characters especial the main ones and they didn't had time for the others...this versions of the characters could not pass the message of the book but the bigest mistake was that along with the characters they miss the whole point.

The message of the book was not"the world is cruel the world is wicked"(yes i'm quotting frollo and to be fair even the 'notredome de paris'another hugo novel was not that miserable).

The message was that will there is misery to the world we must not be ignorant...there is hope for a better future! Our biggest enemy is ignoranse and indifgerence but we can make the world a better place...and it's hard and many will be lost in the way and the fights but there will be always life and with life there is hope. At the baricades Enjolras says "The 19o century is glorious but the 20o will be happy" because that is the what hugo believed. When the book published France was a republick. People make mistakes but they can change and they can be improved with love. Romantic love, parental love, friendship,family love,agape,love for the country, love for our fellow man thats the love that it is in the book...that is where hugo focus...the book is more about love than it is about misery because where is life there is love and where is love there is hope and a promice for a better less miserable future and where is sadness injustice and misery books like "les miserables" will always by useful and relevant

Here is the link for part 1