To this day I will never let go of my bitterness that people managed to turn Les Misérables into LITERALLY THE OPPOSITE of the novel's view of the revolution in question in Les Mis.https://twitter.com/loudpenitent/status/1321168901158309888 …
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Les Miserables: "this revolution, though well-intended, was an ill-prepared & unpopular failure and the revolutionaries are ultimately murderers whose barricade stand is pointless & masturbatory." Les Mis: "CAN YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING YEAAAAAHHH HEAVEN IS LITERALLY A BARRICADE"
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Replying to @loudpenitent
This isn't a great take, considering part of the reason he wrote the novel was asking why the 1830 rebellion, which he was around for, was such a failure while the 1848 rebellion was a success
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent
I mean, yeah, though it is something that the most iconic musical about revolutionary fervor is about a failed revolution, and nobody seems to acknowledge it.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @loudpenitent
It was certainly interesting when the Hong Kong protesters adopted "Can You Hear the People Sing?" as their theme song
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent
Say what you will about the student rebels there, they didn't fail because their composing was too spare.
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Their translation of the lyrics turned the title into "Where Were You On That Day?", which is the kind of phrasing that signals they were already committed to going down as martyrs
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