Concept: Enjolras/Grantaire modern AU fic but written as Victor Hugo would have done
Example: Chapter III: In which Enjolras and Grantaire encounter the crowd at the Louvre
Enjolras, striding imposingly up stairs with Grantaire at his heels, exited the Tuileries métro onto the rue de Rivoli. They followed the road east, alongside the Jardin des Tuileries, past the statue of Jeanne d’arc, then crossed through the Jardin…[etc]…and finally arrived in front of the Pyramide du Louvre.
‘It is no less busy than usual,’ remarked Enjolras, his youthful beauty striking even in the crowd of hundreds.
‘That is what I said; even on a Tuesday morning on such an ugly day the tourists will flock to this grand triangle for the purpose of a single photograph. To have such motivation! Had I but an ounce of it for such a thing, my own portrait would be smiling on the wall alongside Mona Lisa herself,’ replied Grantaire. ‘But no matter, we are here for the heart, not the skin. And which is more important? Let us enter. If it is alright with you.’
Enjolras gently clasped his hand with a smile. ‘It is.’
Aha! The good thing about Les Mis is that potentially you can change it in adaptations. Speaking of-
1) Remove the people in charge of the current adaptation, make me showrunner instead
On a slightly more serious note
2) Make Eponine a bit more… Eponine in the musical. She gets portrayed as the perfect tragic heroine and that’s really not her. (Also, I really hope one of these days a production or an adaptation has the guts to make her ugly)
3) Include Azelma in the musical. She doesn’t even need to have lines! I just want her in there somewhere
4) In the novel: Fauchelevent’s death is dealt with in like two lines and that’s terribly unfair. He helped Valjean! He helped raise Cosette! He deserved better, a proper death scene or something
5) Also in the novel: Less sexism would have been nice, obviously, although I gather that considering the era it was written in it could’ve been a lot worse
javert: let the old man keep on running
javert: i will run him off his
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javert: everyoneaboutyourbusinessclearthisgarbageoffthestreet
