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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Does Le Mis, the musical, have the same politics as Hugo's novel? I'm asking as somebody unfamiliar with both.
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In theory yes but it's a musical
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The novel is 2,700 pages long (one of the longest popular bestsellers ever written) so obviously a great deal was lost in translation
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