Overall the movie was good, there were a few places where the accents were off, sounded more like oliver or nicholas nickleby, an english accent more than french. Book summary jean valjean, after spending nineteen years in jail and in the galleys for stealing a loaf of bread and for several attempts to escape, is finally released, but his past keeps haunting him. The strange power of les mis, the book the new republic. Originally written in book form by victor hugo, les mis. How does les miserables the musical differ from the book. In the novel eponine is a secondary character, and shes also jealous. I average 2 to 3 visits to the movie theater a week. Most importantly of all, to quote the west side story essay, a movie screen is filled out differently than a live stage is. After its great success, hollywood has now decided to take on the difficult task to bring this beloved play to the big screen.
I went to see the scorch trials last week and here are some of my thoughts. This famous musical has been produced in 40 countries and been interpreted into 21 different languages. The scorch trials the latest maze runner movie succeeds well enough as derivative survivalhorroraction thrillers go, but makes for an unsatisfying, confusing. The stage version of les mis is usually performed on an abstract unit set and the libretto is full of what i like to call theatrical suspension of disbelief, or tsod. There are some small spoilers for the plot in here, but nothing too detailed.
While enjolras is a very interesting person and one of my favourite les mis characters, he is not the leader of the revolution. The nostalgia chick referred to les miserables as les coincidences, because of the way the characters lives all intertwine, and this is all the more true in the book. Starring dylan obrien, kaya scodelario, ki hong lee, thomas brodiesangster, jacob lofland, rosa salazar, giancarlo esposito, allan. A lot of the introduced characters encounter other characters, so we get an increasingly complex net of relationships.