friendly reminder that when combeferre was philosophizing about the dead, about the remorse of murder, about the necessity of it, joly was thinking of cats
I FOUND IT
“Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the dead, of Jean Prouvaire, of Bahorel, or Mabeuf, and even of Cabuc, and of Enjolras’ sad severity.
‘Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, even in the case of a civic murder, even in a murder for liberation, if there be such a thing, the remorse for having struck a man surpasses the joy of having served the human race.’
Joly,�?perceiving�?a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from it. ‘What is the cat?’ he exclaimed.”
In Which Joly Is Basically The Internet
joly
in their last moments, people show you who they really are.
#can I just cry #because they do okay #But Combeferre! #Killian didn’t get a whole lot of screen time but what there was was just painfully on point #and it was so heartbreaking here #he tries to barricade the door #he’s one of the last up the stairs #and then he holds on to Joly at the end like he can still protect him a little bit #and it’s so freaking upsetting #HE TAKES CARE OF THEM #HE’S THE GUIDE #(and Joly doesn’t even have a gun and he looks so tired and THE HAND ON THE SHOULDER)
Like most people, I want to make a graphic of modern-day Les Amis (race and genderswapped!) but I only have a few fancasts in my head. Wanna hear them? You probably do.
Enjolras: No idea, so I’ll probably stick with Aaron
Combeferre: Richard Ayoade
Courfeyrac: Freema Agyeman, because Courf has to be warm and friendly and fashionable, and Freema is all that, yay
Joly: Hugh Skinner, because of his permanently worried expression
Bosset: Noel Clarke
Feuilly: No idea. I want someone red-haired. (But not Karen Gillan! There’s too many Doctor Who alumni in here already, for a start)
Jehan: Even less of an idea
Bahorel: Gwendolyn Christie
Grantaire: George Blagden (yeah, it could hardly be anyone else at this point.)
Anyone got any comments or ideas? Tell me tell me tell me!
Title: So Ceases And Lights On Borrowed Wings
Author: Me!
Fandom: Les Miserables
Characters: Joly, Bossuet
Summary: Bossuet is shot. Joly must tend to him, but there is not much that can be done. Warning: character death.
Author’s Note: I did take some liberties with Bossuet’s time and manner of death, since in the Brick he did last until the barricade was breached.
joly got to be a doctor before he died
Tommorrow.. WE CRY
STOP
What now? Joly..my baby? staaahpp!
i know everyone’s having feels but can we just take a moment to discuss that this is a moment the majority of people seeing this movie would completely overlook
and yet to anyone who knows the book, this is a moment to me that just shows the sort of dedication they had at parts to including book canon things (especially where the barricade scenes were concerned)
i mean maybe it was hugh’s idea to do that and if so hell yes
but all the same just the little things like this blow my mind about this movie
I can’t tell who’s in the�?background�?but I’m going to headcanon it as Combeferre unless I’m proven wrong.
It’s Jehan (I can’t find the fuller version of the shot at the moment, but I’ve seen previously that it’s him.)
Darn. Oh well, still a great moment.
It is still a great moment. I don’t know, I sort of picture it half as Jehan grieving/trying to accept that the man is dead, and half as him giving a final expression of love and friendship, sending him on into the next life.
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