Les Miserables (2012 Movie)

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Hi guys, since I had done comparing the movie with the musical version, here is my movie review on the 2012 version. Enjoy!

The Acting

Okay, I was very impressed with the choice of the cast. This was my first time hearing Anne Hathaway sing as she previously the original choice for Christine Daae in the 2004 Phantom of the Opera before Emmy Rossum got the part. Anne's rendition of I Dreamed a Dream really brought me to tears, I even had the soundtrack and I cried non-stop!

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Okay, so there have been complains regarding Russell Crowe's singing and his portrayal as Javert in the movie. So are my choices who is going to be the perfect choice if Crowe was not chosen in the first place!

1) Liam Neeson

I first saw his portrayal as Valjean in the 1998 version of Les Miserables, I personally felt he should have play a very aloof Javert in this 2012 version. Since he's a very good actor who can bland in with different types of characters throughout his acting career.

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Okay, as I promise, here is my review on both movie and stage. I managed to see the movie again last night and here is the comparison with its stage counterpart.

The Movie Version

The movie version is slightly shorter because the original stage version is really long! If they kept the original length, the songs will definitely have to much repetition!
Also, some of the songs have swap so that the story have some logic sense in it. Especially I Dreamed a Dream which comes after Lovely Ladies, whereas in the original stage version, it is the other way...

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Hi guys, I know that this board is pretty empty, but I thought that it would be interesting to compare both the 1998 version with the 2012 version.

1998 Version

While the majority of the movie is faithful, there are a number of things that I wasn't very happy about. In the case of Valjean, he was a very violent man in this version. Whereas in the book, the musical and previous adaptations. He's very harmless and will never go as far as to attack the Bishop and slap Cossette later in the movie after discovering that the latter is in love with Marius from...

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1. You bought the dvd at the same day it was released.

2. You know the lyrics to all of the songs.

3. Your favourite colours are red and black for some reason...

4. Your phone's pin-code is 24601.

5. You're insanely attracted to at least one of the barricade boys:)

6. You use at least one of the characters' names in all your essays.

7. You have to make a history presentation for school, and you automatically choose the French Revolution.

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I just thought I would point out some of the differences between the movie and the book, not to criticize the movie, but to give a clearer picture of the story to those who haven't read the book.

1st. The Thenardiers:
The Thenardiers are quite different in the book. In the movie they are greedy and a bit goofy. In the book they are greedy but very serious and quite cruel. They also have five children, not the assumed one, and Gavroche is one of them. Marius is also constantly trying to repay Thenardier for saving his father at the battle of Waterloo, although Marius ends up...

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It's my favourite song of the movie, so I decided to write the lyrics here♥

There's a grief that can't be spoken. There's a pain goes on and on. Empty chairs at empty tables, now my friends are dead and gone. Here they talked of revolution. Here it was they lit the flame. Here they sang about tomorrow...
and tomorrow never came.
From the table in the corner, they could see our world reborn. And they rose with voices ringing, and i can hear them now!
The very words that they have sung, became their last communion. On this lonely barricade at dawn.

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The character of Fantine is one of the most tragic figures in Les Miserables. She is completely a victim of circumstance, and as such, her tragic fate befalls her through no fault of her own. She was an abandoned child, and while it tells little of her childhood, when we meet her she is working in a factory. There she meets and falls in love with an older student, who does not return her love, but takes advantage of her, and abandons her when she discovers she is pregnant. She cannot afford her child, and though she loves her with all her heart she must leave her with an innkeeper and his...

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my dear child,

so much has pasted since the day that i took you to live with those people, i know that you are so very young still but if you could read this letter, you would know and soon come to understand why i had to do what i did,

i was desparate and i had to find a job, and where i was working let me pay for you to get the things that i could never give you, like a bed to sleep in, and all of the pretty clothes that i paid with my own money to feed you and keep you safe,

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Anne Hathaway played the role of "Fantine" in the movie.

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One of Paco Delgado's Oscar-nominated gowns from Les Miserables on display at Universal Studios Hollywood

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