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Les Miserables
Movie Blurb by Shale
December 29, 2012
I am not really into musicals or plays, but when a play has been around for 27 years and the name is now part of our culture, I felt compelled to go see it when they put it on the big screen. (just as I did with Sweeney Todd and Phantom of the Opera). In fact this play has an iconic marquee design, which I recall seeing here in South Florida; an engraving of a sad, small girl (Cossette) which has been replicated in the movie poster.
For those who haven't seen the play, I have read that the movie is quite true to it and that the singing is passable to good. (Oh, you know there are going to be the purists who will trash this movie just because it did not thrill them like the many stage performances they saw around the world - but I am of the uneducated masses).
It is set in 1815 France after the revolution and poverty is bad under the new monarchy. The movie opens with hundreds of prisoners struggling to pull a ship into drydock with huge ropes. Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) is among them and is paroled after 19 years, even tho his crime was stealing bread for his sister's starving child.
Eventually Valjean goes on the lam, breaking conditions of his parole and taking a new identity he changes to an upstanding citizen and prospers, becoming a factory owner and Mayor of a town. Then the policeman Javert (Russell Crowe) who knew him as Valjean comes to town and starts to recognize him. While this is going on, Valjean comes across Fantine (Anne Hathaway) a former worker in his factory who has fallen on hard times after she was let go. Fantine is a single mother trying to take care of her daughter Cossette (Isabelle Allen) and Valjean says he will take care of the child.
Well, if you haven't read the book, seen the play or searched the story in the past quarter century I don't want to spoil it for you. Glad I finally got to see this "play" and as usual can't imagine what it would look like as a live performance on stage.
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Movie Blurb by Shale
December 29, 2012
I am not really into musicals or plays, but when a play has been around for 27 years and the name is now part of our culture, I felt compelled to go see it when they put it on the big screen. (just as I did with Sweeney Todd and Phantom of the Opera). In fact this play has an iconic marquee design, which I recall seeing here in South Florida; an engraving of a sad, small girl (Cossette) which has been replicated in the movie poster.
For those who haven't seen the play, I have read that the movie is quite true to it and that the singing is passable to good. (Oh, you know there are going to be the purists who will trash this movie just because it did not thrill them like the many stage performances they saw around the world - but I am of the uneducated masses).
It is set in 1815 France after the revolution and poverty is bad under the new monarchy. The movie opens with hundreds of prisoners struggling to pull a ship into drydock with huge ropes. Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) is among them and is paroled after 19 years, even tho his crime was stealing bread for his sister's starving child.
Eventually Valjean goes on the lam, breaking conditions of his parole and taking a new identity he changes to an upstanding citizen and prospers, becoming a factory owner and Mayor of a town. Then the policeman Javert (Russell Crowe) who knew him as Valjean comes to town and starts to recognize him. While this is going on, Valjean comes across Fantine (Anne Hathaway) a former worker in his factory who has fallen on hard times after she was let go. Fantine is a single mother trying to take care of her daughter Cossette (Isabelle Allen) and Valjean says he will take care of the child.
Well, if you haven't read the book, seen the play or searched the story in the past quarter century I don't want to spoil it for you. Glad I finally got to see this "play" and as usual can't imagine what it would look like as a live performance on stage.
See More Here:
http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?p=7499246#post7499246
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