5/7/2023 0 Comments Misery street pbs![]() “With 6 hours of screen time, this production goes so much deeper than previous adaptations.”ĭid you know that Gavroche was the Thenardiers’ son? Or that Thenardier met Marius’ father while ransacking the fallen at the battlefields at Waterloo, then concocted a cockamamie story about being a war hero? Or that Jean Valjean and Cosette spent 10 years living in a nunnery? These details, dreamed up by Hugo, are omitted from the musical for the sake of simplicity.īy putting them back into his version of the story, writer Andrew Davies (War & Peace, Little Dorrit) has made character motivations clearer and event sequences more logical. Les Misérables (2018) is AVAILABLE on DVDĭetails, Details Marius (JOSH O'CONNOR), Cosette (ELLIE BAMBER), courtesy BBC / Robert Viglaskyĭavid Oyelowo (A United Kingdom) said that the team wanted to honor Victor Hugo’s “lovingly written” book (Hugo describes the battlefield: the ditch where the horses fall, the details about the amount of water and how it changed the outcome of the battle). Les Misérables (2018) is AVAILABLE to STREAM Here are six ways the PBS Masterpiece adaptation stands out for her. (No opportunity to belt out “Twoooo fourrrr six ohhhhh ooooooooooooone”?!) “Six hours is a lot of time to commit to a story you’ve known since you were seven.” It turns out, there was so much of the story she didn’t know, and a few new spins on the parts she did. She also wept through the 2012 film version, and has strong opinions about who ought to have been cast as Javert instead of Russell Crowe.Īpproaching the new six-part, non-musical Les Miserables mini-series, Ella was a little apprehensive. (And we’ll give her a pass on that, because neither has Lily Collins, who stars in the BBC / PBS Masterpiece period drama as Fantine.)Įlla has seen the musical many times-both the original version, in which Cosette is dark-haired and wears a neck doily over her black dress, and the newer incarnation, in which she’s blonde and dressed in pastels. Suffice it to say, Ella knows her “Les Mis.” Sure, she’s never read the book. (They’d don them at home, rub a burnt cork on their cheeks to suggest dirt, and push the vacuum cleaner around the carpet until they got bored.) When child actresses moved on from the Young Cosette role, she and her sister inherited the rags they had worn to sweep the cold floors of the on-stage inn. Her mother and aunt both worked on the musical production and she listened to the soundtrack on cassette constantly. So we asked Ella Morton, a writer focusing on overlooked aspects of history and culture, what she thought of the latest “Les Mis.”Įlla grew up in a “Les Mis-enhanced” household. The production is at turns haunting, sad, horrifying, and beautiful, much more so than previous versions.ĭominic West, who leads as Jean Valjean, disregards comparison in adaptations, including this one: “From the actor’s point of view, the value in doing a classic is not that you’ll shine better than someone else, but that you become a more nourished person.”īut what about the fans’ perspective? Those who have watched multiple adaptations of Victor Hugo’s classic story of a man imprisoned for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread, then pursued for decades by a justice-obsessed police inspector, are certain to make comparisons. ![]() ![]() The sun drenched scenes of Fantine and Felix are set against the violent, bloodied prison scenes, and the dirty streets of Paris. To help keep this site running: Willow and Thatch may receive a commission when you click on any of the links on our site and make a purchase after doing so. Eaton said, “This is the most filmic shot I’ve ever seen on Masterpiece.” Jean Valjean (DOMINIC WEST), courtesy BBC It’s June 1815, the day after the battle of Waterloo, and the visible loss of life is profound. ![]() Home » Period Drama Articles » 6 Ways Les Mis (2018) Stands Out 6 Ways Les Mis (2018) Stands Outįor Rebecca Eaton, executive producer of Masterpiece, the opening shot of the BBC / PBS period series “Les Miserables” is one of the reasons this new adaptation stands out. ![]()
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