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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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Does Adult!Cosette even get a single significant singing part?!
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
She has "A Heart Full of Love," but Eponine steals that scene, too.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
oh man Les Mis is like if
@Nymphomachy pulled an "Ascendant extra/second-tier character" plot to such a successful degree in pop cultural memory the actual protagonist got almost wholly condemned to extra status, thereby demanding a second take1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
It happened to the Homestar Runner.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @loudpenitent and
I mean, the ways in which Eponine is "trans-coded" aren't exactly subtle
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Ironically, I'm not sure that would work, if only because Eponine's whole childhood relies on her being one of the Treasured Cis Daughters? but then again Les Mis wants very badly to pretend Eponine isn't even one of the Thénardiers' children.
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Treating Eponine's current situation as a justified comeuppance for her childhood of being one of Cosette's Evil Stepsisters (which we never actually got to see, and which Cosette gets rescued from as the beginning of her backstory) is kind of awkward yes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
I mean I'm not even actually saying that as such - though it does emphasize the sheer evil of her parents, that she started out in the lap of privilege and due to their mendacity and incompetence is reduced to THIS. The book emphasizes it a lot more with actual depiction.
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