Posted on 12/17/2012 9:31:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
But is it more awesome than “Paint Your Wagon”?
Les Miserables with Clint Eastwood as Javert and Lee Marvin as Jean Valjean. Clint sings while holding a single shot pistol on Jean Valjean "I know what you're thinking. 'Did he fire one shot or zero'? Well to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I kind of lost track myself."
Very funny. But here is the trailer for those who want to see it:
Hated just hated the stage version of this lousy Brit musical. And what I’ve seen of the movie version? Hugh Jackman is NOT aging well.
I found myself inferring that this operatic version was going to beef up the impact of the good Catholic Bishop in ValJean’s life course. I hope that proves correct. The Christian life lessons could use a more truthful approach out of Hollywood.
It is an over blown show about a very evil event.
RE: I found myself inferring that this operatic version was going to beef up the impact of the good Catholic Bishop in ValJean’s life course
The man who plays the Bishop on this film is none other than the original Jean Valjean on stage — Colm Wilkinson.
I went to see a stage version in Hollywood some time back ... and walked out ... during their perversion of the wedding scene.
I hate musicals. Needless to say, I would have seen this movie if not for that fact.
Evil event??!?
Yes, read the real history of the French Revolution. It was an evil event.
RE: It is an over blown show about a very evil event.
You mean the students who were killed in the barricades were the 19th century version of Occupy Wall Street? :)
From the little bit I heard in the trailer, Russell Crowe is no Philip Quast. But I congratulate him for trying anyway...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urxk4mveLCw
RE: I hate musicals.
So, the “Sound of Music”, the “King and I”, “My Fair Lady”, etc. are not for you?
This was based on the June Rebellion of 1832, but had all the charming characteristics of the Revolution and the later Paris Commune. Those French really have a bad default setting for this sort of thing.
Its not a Brit musical, its a French one that has been translated into English.
The French Revolution took place well before the events of Les Miserables. The barricade scenes are during the June 1932 revolt in Paris.
My introduction to Les Miserables w as on stage in Boston. I was enraptured by the stage version. I watched TCM present three back to back screen versions a few nights ago and loved even the black and white rendering of this awesome story.
EWTN has presented a couple of programs on the new movie that made me believe it to be well worth seeing again. I hope the operatics don’t get entirely lost on the audience’s appreciation of a classic story of Good and Evil, virtue and vice. We are so lacking for healthy lessons at the movies.
As I told my wife when we saw the previews for the first time in the theater, “I’ll be washing my hair that night”.
I think I have more interest in watching a slasher film than this piece of pickled tripe.
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