les miserables

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drammma-queen:

i love that les mis quote where grantaire’s like “who has been unhooking the stars without my permission” because 1. it’s poetic and pretty and 2. it implies that, were someone to defy all laws of the universe and unhook the stars, they would have to run that idea by this fuckin drunk-off-his-ass rando and make sure he gives them the thumbs-up on it

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sarah531:

mayleavestars:

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

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mayleavestars:

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?

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prudencepaccard:

prudencepaccard:

just-french-me-up:

I’m laughing my ass off right now . You know how we like to joke about Jean Valjean’s name cause it’s repetitive? In his first drafts, Hugo had named him Jean Tréjean… LITERALLY JEAN VERYJEAN

MUCH JEAN
VERY BREAD

Which, when you think about it, is even weirder than “Valjean,” because at least there there’s a plausible origin story for that name, like, “You were too poor to afford a surname so everyone just called you voilà jean and that got changed to vlajean and that became valjean because no one can read.” But how would a name like “Tréjean” come about?

P.S. It’s truth in television though, if you look through my “matricules” tag you’ll see there were convicts in Toulon named Jean Mejean, Jean Jacques Emmanuel Dejean, Jean [probably originally Johann] John, Pierre Grandjean, and even Jean Jean.

Shit there’s more: Étienne Bonjean, Jean Petit-Jean, Michel Grosjean, Jean-Jacques Jean.

JEANS OF ALL SIZES AND QUALITIES

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