Comes in handy when you don't want to embarrass yourself, like me...
Screening of a Victor Hugo masterpiece. To some a rape, to some another form of this timeless masterpiece.
I had many hopes and expectations when it comes to the movie. I saw the play in a theater and, uhm, it was absolutely unsatisfying. We all do know some of the songs from this musical (even if you're not fully aware of it, I mean, we've all heard about Susan Boyle? Remember the song she sung in the casting? That's right.), we kind of know the plot but there's still more to understand. I just didn't. So sad.
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut... Then there was the film released! Thank God. I just LOVED it! It couldn't be produced any better I think. Let me point out the strong curiosity due to many interviews made with Anne Hathaway (Fantine) in which she claimed her will to win Oscar for her role in "Les Mis". While watching scenes she played in I kept on thinging whether she really should be awarded with the prize... Yes- the breathtaking scene of her singing "I Dreamed a Dream" (yup, Susan Boyle) almost made me shed a tear, and there's "no" as well- she appears not for that long during the whole film. Those who agree say that it's Russel Crowe (Javert) who should be awarded (again- he won Oscar in 2001 for his role in "Gladiator"), when it comes to this film's cast. There was never a case where a single song performance catapulted an actress as a frontrunner to the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, since Jenifer Hudson singing "And I'm telling you..." The characters I enjoyed the most were the Thenardiers, played by my beloved Helena Bonham Carter and Sasha Baron Cohen (is that his real-real accent? please, no!). I heard an opinion that they're fan's natural favorites That's true, indeed. However, Cosette (Amanda Sayfried), who causes all the trouble, is no one's favorite, but her rival is- here I mean Eponine, who get's friendzoned by Marcus, who is falling for Cosette... So high-school-like before there was high school.
Because of its' religious overtones, this film has zero chance of winning Best Picture, which kind of makes me sad, but there was no way to change the script from it's original into non-religious one, it would simply kill it.
Sadness, sadness all the time. :'(
Oh no, wait! There are some hot guys to make the movie even more interesting. And OMG, Hugh Jackman, omnomnom.
What I need to mention is that about 90% of the audience consisted of people aged over 40, I think there was only one couple and me "under age". God, why? Are young people afraid of musicals? Don't get it.
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