Going through the 1934 version of Les Mis for something, and I found some E/R. Whaddya know.
les miserables
ms-digne:
Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk: Tweets from the Barricade — Part 26
Frame #2 is why George knew Alistair was addressing his “good night” to him.
Remember to add 8 hours to the time stamp to get U.K. time.
…Is George the first actor to pretty much livetweet his own death scene?!
thisgreyweather-deactivated2018:
City and Colour – Commentators
I don’t wanna be revolutionary
No, I’m just looking for the sweetest melody
If I overstayed my welcome
I would take my things and leave
‘Cause I’m not trying to be revolutionaryWhat gave you the impression
That your opinion means anything to anyone?
What gave you the right
To bear arms against me… against us?You’re nothing but a bunch of amateur commentators
Who live your lives hiding behind a wall of insecuritiesI don’t wanna be revolutionary
No, I’m just looking for the sweetest melody
If I overstayed my welcome
I would take my things and leave
‘Cause I’m not trying to be revolutionaryImagine it’s already broken
As you hold it in your hand
Think of all the work you’re doing
As work that you can only understandSuppose it’s already faded
As it drapes across your back
Believing all you have is wonderful
Instead of everything that you lackI don’t wanna be revolutionary
No, I’m just looking for the sweetest melody
If I overstayed my welcome
I would take my things and leave
‘Cause I’m not trying to be revolutionary
avagueambitioninyourdirection:
e m’abbia sempre per estimatore ed amico. –
”..and keep me always as an admirer and friend.” (from an autograph letter of an Italian poet, 1820 ca.)
grantaire looks so happy i’m
Les Miserables deleted scenes masterpost
(you know, so we can see what we’re missing and all…)
1. Javert hunting Valjean- from the first trailer and the international one.
2 . dancetaire asked George Blagden this! He also tweeted once about how he wished they hadn’t cut that line.
3. Javert on yet another high ledge – from the first trailer
4. Father Mabeuf! An actor called Michael Sarne is credited as playing him. A brief clip of him waving the flag can be found on the ‘Battle at the Barricade’ DVD extra.
5. “I know who you are. You’re Jean Valjean.” From the international trailer
6. Fantine by a candle (???) – the first trailer
7. Valjean in the sewers- or possibly hiding from Javert’s men as seen in #1? These two scenes were right next to each other in the international trailer, so I wonder – also in the first trailer
8. Eponine saying Cosette’s name with utter bitterness – the international trailer
9. Ghost Eponine. I have no idea what the source is for that image, sorry. And it’s the only image I can find of her in that scene. But look! They did film it!
10. Javert dramatically opens a window – from the international trailer
11. Brother and sister – from this featurette about Sam Barks
12 & 13. Two little snippets of Cosette in her room and in the carriage at her wedding – from the international trailer
14. The beginning of The ABC Cafe, found on the ‘Creating The Perfect Paris’ DVD extra.
15. Anne Hathaway’s stunt that she begged to do and then it got deleted! (I know IMDB isn’t a reliable source, but it’s also referenced here.)
16. The alternate ending! If you’ve read the script you’ll remember it. Here’s a bigger picture of Cosette and Marius at the front of the barricade- they’re tiny but I’m sure it’s them. I am also SURE I once saw set photos of the Thenardiers in this scene, wearing old-age makeup, but I’ve looked for ages and can’t find them anywhere. If anyone knows what I’m talking about, tell me and I’ll add it to this!
Rereading the Corinthe bits of the Brick, for reasons, and I came across this bit about Father Hucheloup (Madame Hucheloup’s dead husband, although you probably already knew that). Bolded for your convenience:
It was Grantaire who had discovered Corinthe. He had entered it on account of the Carpe horas, and had returned thither on account of the Carpes au gras. There they drank, there they ate, there they shouted; they did not pay much, they paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. Father Hucheloup was a jovial host.Hucheloup, that amiable man, as was just said, was a wine-shop-keeper with a mustache; an amusing variety. He always had an ill-tempered air, seemed to wish to intimidate his customers, grumbled at the people who entered his establishment, and had rather the mien of seeking a quarrel with them than of serving them with soup. And yet, we insist upon the word, people were always welcome there. This oddity had attracted customers to his shop, and brought him young men, who said to each other: “Come hear Father Hucheloup growl.” He had been a fencing-master.
…Who wants to bet he’s the one who taught Grantaire fencing?
WIP
OMG nisie is drawing again?!! maybe she will even start drawing well again?!!
(ugh seriously i hate everything i have been drawing lately, maybe i won’t hate this one, we’ll see)
Oh gosh, would you look at his eyelashes. ::breathes out slowly:: This is such achingly lovely work. I mean, Enjolras is not a peaceable person. He’s angelic in the old sense, as a herald nearly too terrifying to look upon; even his beauty can be savage; for a future of happiness, freedom, and equality he stands in a grave where he knows he will drown, a monstrous hero. But it’s really rather impossible for me to think of him as only these things, no matter how marvelously complicated such attributes happen to be. Whatever else Hugo wanted him to be (symbol, allegory, warning) Enjolras’s fuller humanity is where he resonates for me, and what I think when I see Nisie’s WIP here is, yes, he’s a soldier, he will kill as necessary and he will accept his own death; he has given himself up to this cause; and yet. He must also be so weary and, beneath the fierce bravery, in some ways so very heartbroken.
‘I am about to die, and thou shalt be born again with me’ is Enjolras’s (::cough::Hugo’s::cough::) proverbial brand of wrenching optimism — it takes the edge off a little, just a little, to imagine he and Grantaire are having a grand old time on some barricade beyond this mortal coil — but jesus it makes my chest hurt to think they didn’t get to hold each other when they were actually alive (um, alive as fictional people. You know). This drawing is like the best kind of wish fulfillment, and it still hurts like hell and makes me want to weep for an hour or two. LOVE SO MUCH LOVE.
ten day les mis meme: [1/10] favorite male character
Grantaire
nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it; he died
As one that had been studied in his death
To throw away the dearest thing he owed
As ‘twere a careless trifle
Macbeth (I.iv.283)
Lesser-fancasted Les Miserables characters:
╘ Freema Agyeman as Favourite
Favourite having been in England, was admired by Dahlia and Zephine. She had had an establishment of her own very early in life. Her father was an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, who went out to give lessons in spite of his age. This professor, when he was a young man, had one day seen a chambermaid’s gown catch on a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident. The result had been Favourite.