Do you permit it?
WHY THOUGH
THE IMPLICATIONSNO THAT IS NOT WHAT IS HAPPENING
They are just going to…play basketball…or something.
I AM NOPING THE HECK OUT OF THE IMPLICATIONS HERE.
you did it, hammy. you’ve killed your own character.
and you didn’t need my help at all.
This is simultaneously adorable and tragic. Adoratragic.
Just think, Enjolras probably had no idea that Grantaire actually loved him-
I mean, he knew there was something there I imagine, he knew Grantaire sought to be an accepted Pylades. But I don’t think he knew the depths of it and that it was actually love rather than lust, I don’t think he guessed that til right at the end. Most people probably wouldn’t: it would be like, I dunno, knowing some guy who’s the loud clownish kid at the back of the class, who’s always making what he thinks are subtle passes at you but badly flirting with everyone else as well, who always drinks too much at parties and you wish he’d sort himself out-
-and then he, well, gets up after a battle and offers to die with you. It would really mess with your head…
Because them standing next to each other in heaven is a big deal to me okay
But think about this, okay? Their heaven (all of the barricade boys) is what they wanted most- a France that is free. So heaven is what you want most. It’s obvious what Grantaire would want: to be someone Enjolras could be proud of, respect, and love, and that’s what he is here, waving a flag at the top of the barricade. But look at Enjolras’s heaven: standing atop his barricade, looking out over his beloved land…with Grantaire at his side.
He didn’t just permit Grantaire to die at his side, but to live there for eternity.
Reblogging my own gif because this comment describes exactly why it’s such a big deal to me
will you take your place with me?
Grantaire is the first—and in this shot, the only—one to follow Enjolras up the stairs. Grantaire, “incapable” of believing, thinking, willing, etc, is the first one to follow him when he asks.
Maybe he just likes the view?
WAIT I NEVER NOTICED THIS BECAUSE IT’S SO IMPORTANT
in the dvd commentary tom hooper talks about ascending stairs being a running theme for approaching goodness or whatever, most notably because valjean always leaves javert at the bottom of a flight of stairs (once when he’s carrying fantine away, once when he’s carrying marius away)
and grantaire is the fucking first to follow enjolras up the stairs of morality every time even though he’s a cynic he cares so much about everything and tries to hard not to and enjolras thinks he’s incapable of believing, thinking, caring, etc. but the movie disagrees
i wish i had good meta to write about this but i’m just sobbing on my keyboard
Pretty much everything there is to say about E/R has already been said, but:
Sometimes I go through my tags for it and I’m just reminded of how much I adore the whole thing. In a book that’s around 85% about how people can be changed by love or lack thereof, I really really like that one of the loves celebrated is that of a man for another man. And we’re told it’s the main thing that pulls Grantaire out of darkness, makes him ‘someone once more’, and eventually totally transfigures him.
So basically, an (albeit one-sided) gay relationship presented as a source of goodness and purity and change for the better? There’s a lot of literature etc can’t manage that now…
