“ he was captured by the Philistines, blinded, and brought to their temple. However, in a final act of strength, he pulled down the pillars of the temple upon himself and his captors.”
Oh…
You know what, let’s just make this an actual post.
On Tuesday June 30th, 3 days from now, the Les Mis 365 readalong is set to read A Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historic. This is the chapter where the nine member of Les Amis de l’ABC are introduced for the first time! And I’m guessing it’s a chapter a lot of people will be interested in!
If you have any interest in the readalong, I’d like to encourage you to come read the chapter and comment along with us on the tag. Even if you haven’t been participating before, we’d love to have you!
Heck, even if you’ve never read Les Mis but you’re interested in Les Amis, I hope you’ll consider reading just this one chapter and joining in the commentary fun. You can leave us again after if you want! That’s fine! The chapter stands alone nicely; because it’s devoted to introducing new characters you won’t need to know any of the brick-specific details of previous events. (Technically you could read this chapter without any Les Mis knowledge at all – if anyone does that I would love to hear their thoughts.)
I promise that no one will judge you for not having commented every day or at all or for not knowing the book well. There’s no official “membership” in this group that you can fail to be a part of; anyone who wants to post is welcome. The more the merrier, whatever your level of commitment!
You can find an online version of the chapter here if you need one. It’s in Volume 3, Book 4, Chapter 1. (And here’s Volume 3 in French if you want that too)
Grantaire looking at Enjolras
It still amazes me someone assigned to an ensemble role in a movie full of Hollywood actors based on a musical that gives very little opportunity to the ensemblians was so heavily invested in giving a well informed portrayal of the character that in spite of how little screen time he got he worked in as much character building and subtext as he did like wow.
Honestly, first time I saw the Les Mis movie I didn’t know much about it. But when George Blagden as Grantaire came on screen he struck me. No idea why. He’s good looking of course. But there was something in his acting that just kept catching my eye; a sadness, a mischief, a humor. It was incredible to watch coz here was a character I had no idea of, not even his name, but I got so invested in him by the end of the film I had to find out. George did such a great job.
the guys in the 1817 section of les mis are prime examples of like the 19th century french version of lad culture. you can just so imagine a modern au where instead of going off to that restaurant tholomyes is like “right, how about a CHEEKY NANDOS??” and listolier is like “tholomyes, you absolute LEDGE, you archbishop of banterbury” and then they engage in the classic lad pastimes of getting drunk and treating women like disposable objects
