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
(Rumor has it they did want an A-lister for the part, possibly Taylor Swift, but it fell through so they just got the actor who'd played her in the last West End run)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Oh man I guess they wanted Taylor Swift because she can play skinny and androgynous if you put her in the right clothes But seriously
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
She is 100% a Cosette, but I guess she can do ragamuffin if she wanted to. Also, I mean, it makes it fairly obvious what they thought the female lead was.
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Well she's too tall Cosette is supposed to be tiny and to disappear into Marius' strong arms when he embraces her etc Eponine being all gangly is supposed to be one of her unattractive, masculine traits (YMMV)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
You're gonna need a bigger Marius.
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