Testing a Hypothesis

[melannen]

Poll #12695 Les Mis

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I first learned the story of Les Miserables via:

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reading the book
18 (16.7%)

watching the musical
18 (16.7%)

watching a movie version
7 (6.5%)

fannish osmosis
11 (10.2%)

listening to the soundtrack
26 (24.1%)

specifically, listening to a pirated cassette tape of the soundtrack. Repeatedly.
5 (4.6%)

I still don't know the story of Les Mis.
23 (21.3%)

Goddammit you people, I have had the songs stuck in my head for the past week straight. >:|

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yes
44 (100.0%)

(ps: so yesterday I learned that on public transit in the middle of a snowstorm is the worst possible place to come down with stomach flu very suddenly.)

Comments

[melannen]

What? But... that's the best song! Why would you leave it off?

[highlander_ii]

I know! That's what I said!

[beatrice_otter]

That's what I said myself! And I *wish* they'd dubbed Crowe's voice for Javert's big numbers, he was great for the back-and-forth with Valjean and such, but his two big dramatic numbers, "Stars" and his suicide ... not up to snuff.

Also, instead of the trio at the end being Fantine, Eponine, and Valjean, it is Fantine, *the Bishop*, and Valjean, and Eponine is shown with the ones who died on the barricade. I get wanting to expand the Bishop's role as he was played by what's-his-face who was the iconic Valjean for decades, but. But I missed Eponine!

[carmarthen]

I get wanting to expand the Bishop's role as he was played by what's-his-face who was the iconic Valjean for decades, but.

I suspect the reasoning was more likely that Valjean had never met Eponine at all in this version, whereas the Bishop was one of the most formative influences in Valjean's life--I thought it had really great emotional resonance, personally, although it definitely changes the musical harmony a lot.