in honor of our worries of how the davies les mis adaption will go down, let’s remember a few moments in les mis adaptions throughout history that sound fake but really aren’t:
- before falling asleep for ofpd and stuff, grantaire has a heart-to-heart with javert while the latter is captured at the barricades
- gavroche is rescued from the barricades by cosette’s magic dog
- javert jumps into the seine because robert, valjean’s overprotective boyfriend business partner, threatened him
- eponine is marius’ secretary and also enjolras is a villain
- marius moves in with enjolras, whose hobbies include running around the room in his pajamas and gushing
- the thenardiers corrupt santa claus
- courfeyrac sells les amis out to the national guard
- jean prouvaire, a married man with three children, stabs javert with a medieval broadsword he casually stole from a museum earlier
so like, if it’s any consolation: if this adaption does some ridiculous things then it’ll be okay because every les mis adaption has done ridiculous things; if it’s terrible, then it will be something for the future generations of les mis fandom to laugh over twenty years later
Almost all of those sound terrible, but what’s the first one from?
I just realised the Santa Claus one is from the 2012 movie