"Oh, nothing, just singing with a creeper."

[james_davis_nicoll]

I think a lot of the stuff this guy complains about was explained in the stage version. I take it was cut down for the movie?

As I recall, Marius is worse in the book.

Comments

[botia.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the movie, but from this video, it seems like maybe it was intended that the main target audience be people who are familiar with the stage version and/or book, and that they would fill in these blanks by already knowing the story.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who thinks of an alien, insectile monster when seeing that picture of the blue-eyed girl?

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

No, the film is almost complete, there's a few verses missing here and there but otherwise faithful. There's a few bits that were added - the itinerary line, the whole bit in the graveyard, the protest being specifically at the funeral procession - but otherwise it's the same.

[dagbrown.livejournal.com]

I got a distinct vibe of "I'm mad that those people scored a jackpot out of something that I could have clearly done better if only someone had given me the idea to let me do that myself!"

Yeah, well, you didn't have the idea, even though you had the same history classes. Suck it up. It's a creative work and it takes liberties with history to present its story. That's how fiction works.

I bet he also thinks Jo Walton's Small Change stories are literally raping history for her own profit.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Sometimes though, taking liberties with history is just plain wrong.

Such as presenting a premise that African gods in the era of Revolution -- particularly the San Domingue Slave Revolution -- want to send of their own to save a pocket white European monarchy for the eventual cornation of a blonde Californian girl.

This, particularly when the same white Europeans -- and USians -- are still extracting the island's resources and still exploiting and oppressing the people descended from the people who with fire and blood threw off slavery -- only to be re-enslaved with the help of the U.S. to France to pay for their own freedom.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

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[martin-wisse.livejournal.com]

That was in Les Miserables?

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I'm still stuck on ``the choice to full-justify the introductory captions is a mistake''? Also, ``introductory captions is a mistake''?