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 @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Eponine also gets the big song.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Yeah nothing else in Les Mis hits *nearly* as hard as Little Fall of Rain.
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Replying to @IgneousSigil @mssilverstein and
Though I will say I am a sucker for Feuilly's part in Do You Hear The People Sing... You can, at least see *why* the fervor pulls then along. The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of frooooooonce
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Replying to @IgneousSigil @mssilverstein and
But I mean. THAT'S IT THAT'S THE WHOLE THESIS, THE ENTIRE POINT the entire goal of the Friends of the ABCs is to die gloriously, they have no fucking plan whatsoever. Enjolras has spellbound them into this fever-dream of martyrdom!
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Replying to @loudpenitent @mssilverstein and
Which the musical then turns into it's unironic show-stopper. of course "Can you hear the people sing" is deeply underwhelming in the Hooper film, but that's not because of directorial insight. It's because it's not a very good musical film.
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His insistence on trying to give every musical number a "realistic" staging, even when it's fatal to the tone of the song, is again why he clearly would rather not be directing musicals and why he shouldn't be allowed to do it
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