Awwww, Courfey.

[tenlittlebullets]

For those curious about the scene I mentioned earlier:

Courfeyrac is agog, also aghast.

Look, ma! It's on YouTube!

(if the embedded video doesn't work)

Comments

[shenth.livejournal.com]

The embedded doesn't work, but the YouTube is so many different kinds of awesome. XD

[jean-le-cric.livejournal.com]

...brilliant. XD

[duck-killer.livejournal.com]

Lovely! And I don't even know these people.

[zachary-evans.livejournal.com]

I just came ; ;

and that one with the glasses better not be Joly or I'll cry.

[josiana.livejournal.com]

That is all kinds of adorable. Poor Marius. XD

[toi-marguerite.livejournal.com]

How squishily squee. Courfeyrac is a darling.

I think the one with glasses was Combeferre, actually. Then the one standing up was Enjolras. Er... letitallgo? Clarification?

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's Combeferre. *squishes him*

[jehanthespork.livejournal.com]

*giggles and watches it again* Aww. Those silly, silly boys. Combeferre's bad hair amuses me.

[duva.livejournal.com]

... oh my, how terribly IC. XD What else is shiny about this version?

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Well, let's see, the casting is 289028532 times better than the Depardieu miniseries. Everyone still has the wrong hair color, but there are no trainwrecks on the level of John Malkovitch or Steffen Wink. Eponine's filthy, the Thénardiers are weasels, there are no stupid additions to the plot like Fauchelevent running off to the barricades or Valjean perving on Cosette, Gavroche sings to the tune of Little People, Javert's suicide is very nifty and creepy, and the whole thing is terribly atmospheric and period-accurate. Probably the most Dickensian portrayal of 1820s Paris I've seen to date, heh. In fact, at times the adaptation's a bit too grim--I thought Valjean was supposed to die peacefully, dammit!

I think the biggest problem with it is that if you haven't read the book you'll have no bloody clue what's going on, who all these minor characters are, why the fuck Eponine's crawling into Marius' arms to die, how the fuck Valjean got into the convent, etc. But since we've all read the book it's not really an issue, it's just disconcerting sometimes when the transitions are choppy.

Oh, and the scenes with the Amis are shiny. Most of them get introduced and you can guess who the rest are, and they're bouncy and hyperactive and run around the Luxembourg like six-year-olds on too much sugar. And at the barricade, when Valjean's about to let Javert go, you can hear Enjolras off-camera giving his "He who dies here dies in the light of the future" speech. And their death scene made me wibble. So much ♥.

[duva.livejournal.com]

.... okay, yeah, I need to get that.