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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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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @social_scifi and
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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Replying to @loudpenitent @social_scifi and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Whereas in the novel we get a physical description of her and how she's emaciated, covered in lice, has patchy falling-out hair, is illiterate and has a street accent so thick Marius can barely understand her, etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Is there a trope name for "you can only make characters in a visual adaptation modestly horrible looking, especially if they are prominent actors"?
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Replying to @social_scifi @arthur_affect and
I guess this is why they don't make more musicals of Dostoevsky
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @social_scifi and
Hell in the 2012 movie Eponine isn't even really "tomboyish", you just know she's supposed to be the less hot one because she's played by a B-list actress (Samantha Barks) rather than an A-listerpic.twitter.com/ew1NP9atHy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
She's also a singer, which seems like weighting the dice even more than the rest of it.
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Yeah getting actors who aren't known for singing and having them sing "for real" on set instead of doing a studio dub is just... not good Tom Hooper's directing style for musicals just screams "I'd rather not be directing a musical"
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