Les Misérables (Movie Reaction)
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2025-06-09 23:01:31 +0000 UTCHey I don’t know if it’s something on my end or just because I’m here so late but the link isn’t working for this reaction. Just incase you weren’t aware.
Susan Deans
2025-06-09 20:54:23 +0000 UTCLes Miserables- Thank you, thank you for such a wonderful reaction for one of my favorite Broadway musicals turned into a movie, Reds! Such a tragic, yet beautiful story, and I am so happy that you enjoyed this movie. I absolutely love Les Miserables. This overall story is so beautiful. It is taken from the classic novel written and published in 1862 by Victor Hugo, then later turned into a hit Broadway show that came to Broadway in 1985. I love the music and all of the acting by each and every one of the actors chosen to play their characters in this movie. So phenomenal. And what's even more amazing... is that this movie was all filmed completely live, which has never been done before in movie musical history. In the stage play it has of course, but never in any movie musicals. All of the actors prerecord the songs they sing beforehand in a studio, so they can simply worry about their acting. But this movie was all filmed live, so the raw emotion shown in each of the characters is absolutely very real. Phenomenal! I absolutely love Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean, and Anne Hathaway as Fantine. Their acting is phenomenal and the songs that they sing, especially hearing and seeing Hugh Jackman sing Bring Him Home, as well as Valjean's Soliloquy in the beginning, and Fantine's very beautiful emotional song... I Dreamed a Dream. Phenomenal and beautiful. I can't help but cry during her song every time I watch this movie. You can absolutely feel her pain and sorrow. And I love the rest of the characters and the actors as well. Another of my favorite characters throughout this movie is Marius Pontmercy, Cosette's love and French revolutionary, played by Eddie Redmayne. I absolutely love Eddie Redmayne as an actor, who is also known for playing Newt from the prequel movies from the Harry Potter Universe... Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, as well as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything for which he won an Oscar for his role. He's an incredibly brilliant actor in everything I have ever seen him in, and I love hearing and seeing him sing his main song from Les Miserables... Empty Chairs At Empty Tables towards the end of the movie. Outside of I Dreamed a Dream, this is my favorite song throughout this musical. Marius' emotion is so raw and so real. So, so beautiful, and again, I can't help but cry every time I listen to him sing as I watch this movie. I Dreamed a Dream and Empty Chairs At Empty Tables both hold a very special place in my heart among the songs I love so deeply in any and all musicals ever made. Les Miserables is such a powerful musical, both on stage and in movie musical form. As for Marius' and Cosette's love... with it being love at first sight, I myself don't really know if such kind of love is real or not. But being a girl who has loved fairytales and true love stories my whole life, I want to believe that such kind of love is real. But more so... back in this time period in history, during the French Revolution, there was so much pain and misery, and the poor suffered greatly. That's what this musical is all about and the title, Les Miserables interpreted, means "the miserable ones." Both Marius and Cosette suffered because they both felt very much alone, in spite of Cosette having a father who loved her, and Marius coming from a rich family... even though he refused to take a time of his Grandfather's money until after their fight was over and Marius and Cossette started a new life together. All of these characters felt very much alone and suffered greatly in their own ways. So, I feel that in the moment Marius and Cosette laid eyes on one another, they both saw true beauty and love in a world where there was none. That is why I feel they clasped onto one another so hard and fought for their love, even if they did just meet. Plus... love back in these days was so much different... like everything else, than love is in our days. It was a different world back then. So yes... I do believe the love Marius and Cosette felt for one another was very real, and to me it's absolutely beautiful. In the original novel, as well as in a non musical movie of this story, Cosette and Marius do actually talk and even date for some time before Marius leaves to fight with his friends against the King's soldiers. But since the passing of time was difficult to bring across in the Broadway production, their romance was shortened and written such as it is. As for the main storyline itself... I love how this musical is all about the strength in these characters as they fight for freedom and love, against the tyranny and hatred throughout France during this tragic time period. And it's why I absolutely love seeing all of those who died fighting for the good against the bad, come back in the end as they sing one final song together upon the barricades... singing the Epilogue. And I love that both Jean Valjean and Fantine are among them, because they too died in their fight. This song and moment is meant to inspire those who live beyond them to keep fighting and to live and to love in spite of the difficulties in life. Such a beautiful story and everything about this musical couldn't be any more beautiful. In regards to Javert, played by Russell Crowe... I don't see him as an evil man. He was a man devoted to upholding France's laws no matter how corrupt they were. Not because he necessarily liked always having to arrest the wrongdoers, as we see a hint of remorse from him in the end when he gives the young revolutionary boy, Gavroche, his medal when he pins it on his chest upon finding his body among the rest of the dead boys. However, as a soldier, it was his duty. And he lived, breathed, and died loyal to upholding the country's laws. In his eyes... there was no gray. It was all black and white. This is why he was so devoted to hunting Jean Valjean down for so many years of their lives in order to bring him to justice. In Javert's eyes, Jean Valjean was a thief and nothing more. Until the very end once Valjean shows him mercy and spares his life, when Javert knew he had every reason to kill him in order to be a free man once and for all. And Valjean didn't only show him mercy by sparing his life, but he also proved himself sincere in being willing to turn himself in when he gave Javert his address where Javert could later arrest him while pleading for mercy long enough to save Marius' life. Javert knew he could no longer turn in or kill a man he knew without a doubt to be a good and innocent man. And yet letting Jean Valjean go destroyed him, because Javert finally began to see the gray in the crimes committed. He couldn't accept it, nor his own guilt upon having lived his life as he did and imprisoning others who were undoubtedly just as good and innocent as Jean Valjean. So he committed suicide. And it's very sad because while Javert is the antagonist in this film, he was also still a good man striving to make France a better country by ridding his country of those who make it corrupt. I've never really been a fan of Russell Crowe as an actor, yet I really enjoy him throughout this movie. And boy... was I shocked to hear him sing and so powerfully as well. Cosette is played by actress... Amanda Seyfried, well known for playing in a couple of other movie musicals... Mamma Mia! and its sequel... Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. She's also known for many roles in various movies. Her eyes are absolutely stunning and I really do enjoy her as an actress in a number of her roles. Her voice is beautiful too. Eponine's story is absolutely tragic as well. It's so sad that her parents never truly loved her and were so cruel and unfeeling towards her, yet she loved a man who only ever saw her as his closest friend. It's no fault of Marius' that he couldn't give her the love she longed for in the end, but he did truly care about her, and loved her when she needed him most as she lay dying in his arms upon saving his life. Samantha Barks plays Eponine beautifully. Also... Samantha Barks is one of the only two actresses within this movie who also were in this musical on Broadway as well, reprising her role as Eponine. Other than Empty Chairs at Empty Tables sung by Marius, and I Dreamed a Dream sung by Fantine... my other favorite songs are Bring Him Home sung by Jean Valjean when praying to God to spare Marius' life in their coming fight for Cosette's sake, and Do You Hear the People Sing sung by the movie's entire ensemble at different times throughout the movie. And as for my least favorite song... it's Master of the House sung by the Innkeeper, Thenardier, and his wife, Madame Thenardier played by Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter. While I normally love Helena Bonham Carter in a number of movies I've seen her in, I really don't like these characters she and Sacha play at all. I understand their roles within this musical and I appreciate their characters. And I know we're not meant to like them, but I don't even find them to be funny. They're just not very good characters, although they do make sense. And their song is just cringey more than anything else. And lastly... I absolutely love that the actor who plays the priest who spares Jean Valjean's life and turns him over to God... Colm Wilkinson, played Jean Valjean in the original Broadway stage production of Les Miserables back in 1985. It's wonderful to see him return to this musical after so many years, now in the role of the priest in this movie. Thank you again for another great reaction, Reds! As always, I truly appreciate you reacting to this movie and many more that I love so much too! I am so happy you really enjoyed this movie musical such as you did. And until next month for my next movie choice for you... I am looking forward to many more reactions from you to come for all the shows I love as well. :) Thank you, thank you! Sincerely, Heidi
Heidi Elizabeth Marcum
2021-08-26 03:32:29 +0000 UTC
