#Les Miserables 1935

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Now that we’ve reached Bread Crime in Les Mis Letters, I think it’s the perfect time to share the funniest shot from the 1935 movie.

[moethh]

just saw the 1935 adaption of Les Miserables

it had quite a few problems but honestly the most atrocious thing i just discovered is that this is Enjolras:

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About to watch Les Miserables (1935). Thoughts from people who have seen it?

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So people even cried over the 1935 movie, hmm?

[thecringefailintherye]

school is shut

les mis marathon???

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The great thing about the shadow bracket is that King Fredric March and King Consort Anthony Perkins both starred, respectively, in the 1935 and 1978 adaptations of Les Miserables, March as Valjean, Perkins as Javert. Both of these adaptations are bad, albeit in very different ways. (1935 is the Red Scare Les Mis and 1978 is just...I don't know how to explain it except that it's bad, insanely paced, and Anthony Perkins is very intense and gay in it -- he's the best part.) Truly, a huge win for lovers of both Bad Les Mis Adaptations and hot sad losers!

this is SO GOOD. Hurrah for the Bad Les Mis lovers and losers!!

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ok so I just saw a post that said 'how come there aren't a bunch of modern adaptations of les mis like other classics?' and I was thinking about this question a lot these days so I have my 2 cents here: I think it's just because of politics

there's a weird dissonance with the way this book is read in the english speaking world and the french speaking world, because nationalism in france is a bit of a hot topic and les mis is pretty tied to national identity and if you are going to properly engage with the legacy of Victor Hugo, poet, you're going to be wounding a lot of egos and touching on complicated messy feelings (the french reviews for the les mis 2000 adaptation are a big case study on this, where they're like 'finally we took back OUR story from the hands of those YANKEES' nevermind that les mis 2000 is like. It's les mis 2000)

they did have a Les Miserables set in contemporary times recently but I haven't seen it, and it seems to be only les mis in spirit and not actually an adaptation of the story (also the main character is a cop) (there's a lion in there? I didn't know that. Will the people in that block use the lion AGAINST THE POLICE???? Now I'm intrigued)

and in the english speaking world people who adapt the story tend to I guess completely miss the politics of it and just turn into 'evil gay cop chases robber around town' because that's the legacy of the 1935 adaptation and also because they're sort of allergic to having a story with an explicit acab message. People with money to make a les mis adaptation will more often than not be people who think the police exist to protect them (true, and also middle class people need to get off their-our- ass cause this is the fucking message here dammit why do people keep missing this????) (studios are so averse to making a story with an explicit political message cause they're afraid of controversy)

there's this distancing that happens when you're adapting a story from a long time ago where you can be like 'damn haha things were crazy back then... anyway, I'm glad all those problems are fixed now and I can cry about these characters then go home and live my life like nothing is changed' and period pieces tend to be escapist media in general, even the english version of the musical premiered in the middle of a political crisis but people who liked the musical didn't even mention that

and that's just the easiest way to adapt the story, and now we're in a media landscape where modern adaptations of old books tend not to get made, they just tend to be period pieces because it's more prestige this way.

(I still want someone to make a les mis set in the USA in the 70s like it's right there bro come ON)

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[listening to the same recording of les mis ive been listening to for months] cant wait to go home to watch a bootleg of les miserables and buy tickets to watch Les Miserables. And watch the fredric march movie. Of les miserables (book adaptation he plays valjean which is INSANE. In 1935 no less when he’s a baby [38])

[pureanonofficial]

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Authority Reasserts Its Rights, LM 1.8.4 (Les Miserables 1935)

Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened it as he would have opened the hand of a baby; then he said to Javert:—

“You have murdered that woman.”

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Fredric March-Rochelle Hudson "Los miserables" (Les miserables) 1935, de Richard Boleslawski.

[scotianostra]

Frank Lloyd, the Scottish film director, actor, scriptwriter, and producer passed away on August 10th 1960 aged 74.

He maybe and obscure relatively unknown nowadays, but Lloyd has the distinction of being the first Scot to win an Oscar

Lloyd was born in Glasgow on Feb. 2, 1887, and went to Canada at the age of 23 to work as a construction engineer.

He came to Hollywood in 1913 and made his start directing one and two-reel silent movies. He made 50 such pictures in the first year.

He won Oscars for his direction of "Divine Lady" in 1929 and "Cavalcade" in 1933. He was nominated in 1935 for his direction of "Mutiny on the Bounty," and although he lost the award to John Ford, the film received the Academy Award for best picture.

Other films of Lloyd's direction included "Les Miserables" (1917), "A Tale of Two Cities" (1917), "Riders of the Purple Sage" (1918), "The Eternal Flame" (1922), "Oliver Twist" (1922), "Ashes of Vengeance" (1923), "Within the Law" (1923), "The Divine Lady" (1929) and "Drag" (1929). He was also credited as a screenwriter on "Les Miserables," "Riders of the Purple Sage," "Oliver Twist," "Ashes of Vengeance" and a number of other pictures.

Beyond his directing career, he also worked as a producer and acted in a number of his own early films. He also served as the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1934 to 1935.

During World War II, he entered the Army Air Corps as a major and won the Legion of Merit and the Air Medal. He was commanding officer of the 13th Air Force Combat Camera Unit and directed a Pacific airpower documentary.

Lloyd retired from filmmaking in 1945 to live on his ranch at Carmel Valley, but later returned to Hollywood to work on "Shanghai Story" and "Last Command."

He died in 1960 at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif., following several months of heart and lung trouble, at the age of 73.

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From the personal collection of Marilyn Knowlden (young Cosette) in Les Miserables (1935)

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Some fun highlights from Les Miserables (1935)

No wifi so it's time to watch the movies I have downloaded, which are mainly various adaptations of Les Mis. So some impressions from the 1935 one! Shortly: Cosette knows everything and wants to help her crime dad run from the police, Éponine and Valjean are friends now, Marius is all of the Amis in one and therefore much more competent, even Gavroche doesn't exist and Javert is emotional and likes to talk.

Exhibit A: bread

Javert on his first appearance looks like he's about to cry. That sure is a choice

Javert coming to M-sur-M interrupts Madeleine's conversation with the candlesticks so while they talk he's just clutching one of the candlesticks standing on the mantelpiece. Also he looks like he might attack Javert with it any moment

Fantine barges into Madeleine's office threatening to kill him. She got no attention prior to this, she still has her hair and all. Proceeds to almost hit Javert. Amazing

Javert: "Well, monsieur Madeleine seems to have no respect for the law, hehehe :D"

Valjean comes for Cosette before the trial. He sees her when he enters the inn, and leaves with her when she's sent to get water from... The well right in front of the door.

Oh I loved this baby Cosette immediately. She gets right into chatting with Valjean. Zero fear of weird strangers.

"How old are you?" "Eight. I think." "Don't you know? Don't you have birthdays?" "No. The others do!"

"Is that woman your mother?" "(revolted) Oh NO."

"And your father?" "My father's in heaven." Baby he's most definitely not and will not be

He brings Cosette to M-sur-M and she lives there with him and his housekeeper who is Toussaint, somehow, as they wait for Fantine to get better. Valjean beats tiny Cosette at checkers. That's a nice AU.

Javert stop disturbing their board game evening with your resignation

Valjean's "Who am I" moment being disturbed by Cosette's laughter

"Toussaint, order a carriage!" (a minute later) "Cancel the carriage! I'm not going!" (another minute later) "I'll go to Arras."

The trial made me sad :(

He came beck to tell Cosette that he's leaving and Cosette thinks that it's her fault and she's going back to the inn D:

A shot of Javert's boots, which reach the middle of his thigh. Got immediately reminded of Kinky Boots.

Fantine dies and nuns circle her immediately, they creep me out

Valjean: "Your very presence killed her." (yeets Javert through the door)

Wild carriage ride to Paris! Cosette on top of the carriage, screaming! An army of policemen on horses chasing them! Dramatic music! I'm pretty sure the same shots were used like 5 times! Also the carriage has "M. Madeleine" written on the side. So intense

Cut to some small room. Someone knocks to the door. Valjean jumps on the bed and covers himself with blankets. Tiny Cosette opens the door.

Cosette has 0 issues with Valjean being hunted by police. I'm pretty sure that she's ready to fight them

Valjean got into the convent because he handed in a recommendation letter from Madeleine

So many convent girls dressed in bridal clothes

How did the nuns never learn about what happened to Madeleine that I don't know

A now mustached Valjean and an older Cosette exit the convent and immediately see convicts, conveniently passing through there. Cosette is sad about how they're being treated :(

Valjean: "Has anyone told you that you're beautiful?" Cosette: "No! But I hope that it's true! Many have told me that I have a handsome escort, though!"

Ah yes, Les Amis are "not revolutionary" and "not into politics" and it looked like police attacked them for handing out leaflets. Also Marius being Enjolras

Valjean decided to give money to Marius for The Cause and Cosette went to deliver them personally to the cafe

Marius is not Pontmercying very much. Javert is stalking his secret dates with Cosette.

Both Valjean and Cosette noticed Javert stalking around their house. Cosette is still 100% supportive of her dad being on the run from the police. I love her.

Éponine is SO bitter

"We're moving to England" "... I love Marius"

VALJEAN SUDDENLY SEEMS AGGRESSIVE. WHY. WE WERE DOING SO WELL. Also please don't tell me that was a Valjean/Cosette undertone. A bad scene.

Cosette promised to go to England and forget Marius because of Valjean. Valjean promised to "make inquiries" about him from England. This scene is still weird

Éponine falls through the door! Valjean catches her! She brought a letter from Marius to Cosette! She is very hysterical about that and Valjean gave her brandy. They're buddies now

Her eyebrows scare me

Valjean hanging out with Éponine and plotting about Marius and Cosette. Love it. A nice pair of besties.

Javert is still randomly standing in the corners, now also shouting "Valjeeeean!"

Valjean and Cosette running around the city together looking for Marius!

Javert comes after them and just. A revolutionary looks at him. "Who are you? A spy?" "I might be a spy and I'm certainly the police!" THE REVOLUTION JUST STARTED LIKE 5 SECONDS AGO

Valjean takes him away before they even tie him up, why is everything happening so fast

Javert is hysterical and Valjean completly ignores him

Éponine and Marius were together, looking dead and Valjean checked Éponine's pulse before taking Marius :(

Javert's boots are now a bit shorter.

Also he went into the sewers after Valjean

Love the random human skull in the sewers

Valjean takes the wounded Marius straight to Cosette, without meeting Javert or anything?

Then his JAVERT SENSES start TINGLING

"Javert. Javert. You're here. I know it. Where are you? Where are you?" that's deeply disturbing

I don't know if he was going to be handcuffed, it just looked like they were holding hands

Marius is conscious by now, knows that Valjean had saved him. Tbh I love how this adaptation deletes 100% of people now knowing things

Valjean goes to say goodbye to Cosette, then goes outside and steps on handcuffs

He sees Javert walking into the Seine right across his house and runs to him and I'm sad again :(

That's where the movie ends so I have no reason to believe that he doesn't fish him out

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Happy Birthday To Gorgeous Forgotten American Actress

Rochelle Hudson (Born 6th March 1916)

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Thoughts on Javert's first name?

1) Emile/Etienne: Source is the 1935 film adaption with Charles Laughton as Javert.

2) Nicu: From C. A. Shilton's barricades. Romanian name meaning 'Victor of the People'.

3) Inspector: Enough said (≧▽≦)

I love the idea of Javert's mom giving him a gypsy name to recall his Roma heritage, so #2 is the winner for me. Let me know what y'all think!