les miserables

aromantic-enjolras:

alicedrawslesmis:

remember when BBC les mis made Enjolras say Napoleon was a ‘step in the right direction’ and Courfeyrac say their group are not really into politics or dying for the cause, they’re just goofing, twice

Davies do you understand that they’re an articulated group planning to take down the government and this is a plan they will execute, to death? What do you think this is

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god I hate that show

bockanalian:

So I learned the most BEWILDERING thing today, which is that back in 2004 Queen Elizabeth II invited French President Jacques Chirac to a banquet at Windsor Castle and someone (presumably not either of them) got the idea to invite the West End Les Mis cast and have them perform the show’s greatest hits in a room of powerful Europeans.

While a protest was going on outside the castle gates. (Unfortunately it was not a protest in favour of anything good, but that’s another story.)

Someone then made a documentary about it feat. the rageful songs of Les Mis set to the backdrop of banqueting at Windsor Castle, which is accidentally FANTASTIC social commentary, and a very bemused Michael Ball.

(You can watch it here. The non-Les Mis parts are very pro-monarchy and incredibly cloying.)