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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The musical mostly skips all that and just presents them as straightforwardly tragic and noble Mostly notably, as
@loudpenitent points out, the Revolution and the revolutionaries -
Yeah, like, pointedly, *nobody in the main cast actually goes to the barricade for revolutionary reasons!* Marius and Eponine are going to die. Valjean goes to save Marius. Javert is a state spy. Gavroche goes cause it seems fun.
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Also the musical is transparently far more interested in Photogenic Opera Sad Woman Eponine than the book, where she is a sympathetic but selfish creep.
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Yeah everyone gets mad at Marius for picking Eponine over Cosette in the musical, because the musical interprets Eponine's "unfeminine" traits as making her cool and tomboyish and therefore actually more attractive than Cosette by modern standards
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