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No no no 
no 
ALAS no 

okay here’s the thing 

in the 1998 film, THIS was Enjolras: 

HEY YEAH HELL YEAH, right?   Like, maybe a little older than the role really calls for but YEAH LET’S SEE WHERE THIS GOES–
…except it goes nowhere. Because Marius gets, like, ALL his plot, except for the whole “dying” bit. Marius is the effective leader of the revolutionary group, the main organizer and leading hero, AND he has the romantic lead plot. 

I don’t remember if Enjolras even had any lines? But I remember Younger Pilf, already solidly Team Revolution, barely being able to realize he was supposed to be Enjolras.

Oh, and this is Marius: 

So. Yeah. 

1998 Les Mis is a weird darn movie. 

This poor Enjolras. He did have lines, but they were mostly to remind Marius of his duties as leader… if I remember correctly.

I try not to think about this adaptation too much, though.

#Les Mis 1998#is a travesty#Valjean HITS Cosette in it and also watches and does nothing as Javert drown (via @oilan)

OH YEAH THAT’S RIGHT, this is the one with Valjean hitting Cosette! My brain keeps trying to forget that happens.

So basically it misses every single aspect of the actual point of the book and I hate it.

It’s also the one where, IIRC, Enjolras is like, “Hey, Marius, we only have like three guns for the entire barricade, how is this supposed to work?” and Marius is like, “~Cosette~” and doesn’t care.

OTOH, Grataire, or “Grantier” as the credits call him, is actually really good for the ten seconds of screentime he has. 

I mean “Marius is like ’ Cosette’ and doesn’t care” is at least ACCURATE

and works fine

if an adaptation isn’t forcing him to LEAD THE REVOLUTION

ah yes “Grantier” , thanks movie

MST voice: They Just Didn’t Care

(whoops, misspelled Grantaire while complaining about misspelling his name)

OH! I almost forgot about the best Did You Even Read The Book characterization. So. The credits for this movie list a “Courfeyrac.” 

“Courfeyrac?” I say. “I don’t remember any character who that might’ve been. Let me look up the actor on IMDB to see if I recognize his face. So I looked him up. And I recognized him. Guess who he is. 

Go on. 

It’s the man Javert hires to spy on Les Amis for the police.

I can’t even. I mean, the personality is there if you tilt your head and squint, but everything else…just..no.

Y’all, Marius was both Marius’ and Enjolras’ characters in this. Literally Enjolras had no role except for one line towards the end which, I kid you not, is:

“Tomorrow you shall sleep with your woman a free man.”

Yeah. Don’t even try to start with that one.

how does EVERY NEW COMMENT on this movie make it sound WORSE? 

Honestly the worst part about this adaptation is that it has SUCH A GOOD CAST. And they just…totally missed the point of the story. Like you’ve got Geoffrey Rush as Javert (who despite all the problems with this version, I actually really like in the role), Liam Neeson as Jane Valjean (one of the WORST characterizations for that character, and it’s a shame), Uma Thurman as Cosette, where until the end of her storyline, was great, and freaking Claire Danes as Cosette and the above mentioned Lennie James as Enjolras. IT COULD’VE BEEN GOOD. Like it’s a damn good cast, and YET

Honestly the character that gets butchered the most is Jean Valjean. It just makes no sense.

Is this the one where Valjean punches the Bishop in the face? I think my expectations dropped after that moment. And it was the first Les Mis film I ever watched as well.

 Wait, what?? I don’t remember that, but as I said, I’ve been trying to forget this trainwreck movie:P  . I would totally believe it, though!

Yes, this is the one where Valjean punches out the bishop after the latter catches him stealing the silver. It is also the one where:

-Valjean beats the SHIT out of Javert when he tries to arrest him at Fantine’s bedside. Like he grabs him and slams his head into a wall until he passes out. It’s brutal

-Valjean slaps Cosette after Javert has sent him an anonymous letter telling him Cosette is screwing (?) some dude in their garden and he’s like “so what’s the skinny on this” and she’s like “IDK” and he’s like “DON’T LIE TO ME”

-Javert jumps into the Seine right in front of Valjean and Valjean just walks away, roll credits

and lest you think Valjean is the only one with really fucked up characterization:

-Javert sets a trap for Cosette and leaps out at her and puts a gun to her head while yelling “DID YOU KNOW YOU’RE A BASTARD CHILD? DID YOU KNOW THAT YOUR MOTHER WAS A WHORE???!!!”

…WOW. I mean, I don’t think Javert would have any hesitation about telling Cosette her mother was a whore , at that, because he’s pretty much all on board with following societally-approved bigotry, but EVERYTHING ELSE is just–why would he care if she’s sleeping with some rando? Why is he WRITING VALJEAN ANON HATE when he knows where he lives? why does ANY of this happen??

I mean, I gave up on Valjean’s characterization after “he slaps Cosette” (A Heart Full Of Nope, A Heart Full of Wrong, Valjean doesn’t even hit Montparnasse after MONTPARNASSE TRIES TO ROB-MURDER HIM. Valjean CAN be violent but never is ,that’s a major MAJOR point of his character!) but I hadn’t known it was…quite this. Yowza.