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    1. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 27 Oct 2020

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      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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      (I know why, because their brains are broken by Les Mis and obsessive devotion to the pseudo-secular Rapture of Marx's heady communist apocalypse narrative and they need to see the FR as the first omen of that.)
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    2. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 27 Oct 2020

      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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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Oct 2020
      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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    4. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 27 Oct 2020
      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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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Oct 2020
      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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    6. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 27 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @loudpenitent

      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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    7. Social Sci-Fi‏ @social_scifi 27 Oct 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect and

      One BIG departure is Fantine. In the book, much of what befalls her is because she borrowed money (Hugo was very "neither a borrower or a lender be"). The musical has significantly more sympathy for Fantine, giving her one of it's most emotionally arresting songs.

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Oct 2020
      Replying to @social_scifi @Nymphomachy and

      Yes, the book is very interested in acting as a cautionary tale and doing a deep dive into exactly what bad decisions and negative social circumstances caused each person's tragedy

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @social_scifi and

      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

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        2. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 27 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @social_scifi and

          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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        3. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 27 Oct 2020
          Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and

          The revolutionaries themselves are depicted as a bunch of dilettantes who go for a grab bag of vaguely lefty reasons. Granitaire is literally only there (and drunk the whole time) because he wants to bone Enjolras, who has actually a lot of creepy cult leader coding to me.

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