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@aux-barricades
Currently thinking about Grantaire in the current spanish production getting progressively more drunk during the barricade scenes till he could barely walk without falling.
(BONUS: I loved how he spent a good five minutes scolding nonsense to a tied and estoic looking Javert.)
HI. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. (for me, at least). I wanted to post this on monday but I'm pretty busy rn.
The thing is. I saw Los Miserables (the Spanish production, in Madrid). It had a TON of enjoltaire and I could ask Javier Manente (the actor who plays Enjolras) about it.
I asked him how he and Pablo Raya (Grantaire) interpreted and played the relationship between Enjolras and Grantaire.
Sadly, I don't remember the whole interaction/exact words but I wrote down everything I remembered right after. I tried my best to translate it, it was something like this:
"We have received directions from above, and they are basing it/relying on the book. But within that we also have some freedom.
It also depends on how both of us feel that day. Sometimes it's more... (you know?) But sometimes it's less like that. Sometimes he pisses me off so much at the café that I don't even want to see him.
But, you know. The book is pretty explicit about it. And I know the fandom. /Yes, he used the word "fandom".
Me: I mean, the book says it verbatim.
Javier: Of course.
Me: But... Do you think it's mutual?
Javier: (without a doubt) Yes.
Me: Yes????
Javier: Well... Maybe he's too busy for that. I mean, he loves him a lot. But... He's completely focused on the revolution"
So, if we needed more confirmation, here it is. I won't get over it. It's been in my mind since. I'm so glad I asked.
(I feel the need to clarify that he said "le quiere", which isn't necessarily romantic but... I'm sure we both knew what we were talking about. In the book they do use "amaba", which is, usually, romantic.)
Happy Barricade Day where everyone is happy and no one is dead ! That was fun to draw and a bit simpler than last year... agh agh agh. Bringing the Pride Banner and the Pride Flags Umbrella back !
Bahorel's shirt is 57% my sister's fault.
This year I didn't forget all the freckles !
Details :
And the lineart :
And don't forget the progress gif !
it's a main character to ME
And we're really cool because we also celebrate fictional character deathdays
my 2 favourite reviews of the brick from the past month
somehow makes it sound like this 1,400-page epic historical novel is a bland self-help book ("practical"?)
honestly, contender for funniest sentence of all time: "it feels as though the author has no definite opinion on politics, religion, or even the central plot of the story."
VICTOR HUGO???
NO OPINION?
bonus runner-up, because i like how it makes it sound like javert is the one droning on about the sewers:
Stanley Kassa as Enjolras from the French production of Les Mis at the Théâtre du Châtelet.
is this anything
Happy @barricadeday where everyone is happy and no one is dead ! This year, our lovely potatoes revolutionnaries have crossed the Channel to go to London and lend their power to the mighty dinosaurs of Crystal Palace ! Let's hope they can help !
I absolutely adore the Crystal Palace dinosaurs, they are mighty and ridiculous and lovely and majestic !
That one has taken around 20 days to draw, and I'm completely dead (but they aren't !). It's the LAST time I do something that ambitious. I thought I wouldn't finish in time.
Their shirts can be found all around the internets. Also Cosette is wearing the dress of my dreams, one day, it will be mine. Marius couldn't get a dino shirt, but he's wearing a lot of pins.
The dinosaur at Joly's belt is a joke from @combeferres-mothematics. Every time they see a Pachycephalosaurus, they show it to Bossuet and say "It's you !!". Bossuet loves it.
The tiny dinosaur plushes on the left are a joke between @crow-songs-at-dawn and I. It's inspired by the pictures I took when we went to London.
*cue fondly exasperated wife noises"
I love the result of that one, but it was A Lot. I wanted to put everyone in the frame, and that took a little bit of time *agh agh*.
Here is the progress gif. And also, happy Barricade Day and happy Barricade Week !!
The real tragedy about the barricade is that we don’t know how much is true. Victor Hugo was there at the June Rebellion, so what is fact and what is fiction? That question gives me chills because we’ll never know.
Charles Jeanne (who I think is probably actual real life Enjolras) wrote an in-detail account of the ACTUAL barricades in a letter to his sister after the fact
you can read it, tenlittlebullets translated it into English :)
it’s really graphic, he leaves no gory details out, just FYI if you’re gonna read it, keep TW: VIOLENCE in mind
#how is he real-life enjolras if he survived (via metellus-cimber)
I’m so glad somebody asked this, because the answer is: when they finally ran out of ammunition, Charles Jeanne rounded up everyone who was still standing, went, “look, if we’re going to die, we might as well die fighting,” and led a suicidal ten-man charge against an entire flippin’ infantry column, armed with nothing but bayonets. The first few ranks of soldiers were so unprepared for such a spectacularly insane attack that they were too surprised to shoot. They crossed bayonets and tried to hold the insurgents off in hand-to-hand combat, but Jeanne’s swordsmanship was apparently aces, because he held off a bunch of them at once and covered his friends as they tried to breach the ranks. And once they were in, nobody could shoot them for fear of taking out their own guys.
So the last stand that the insurgents had intended as a noble suicide ended in them breaking through the ranks entirely and winding up in the next street over, outside the combat zone, going “well shit, what do we do now?” (I’m guessing the infantry column wasn’t very deep; central Paris at that point was a rabbit warren of narrow twisty streets, and assembling troops en masse for an organized attack was a logistical nightmare.) Unlike the National Guard, the army weren’t total chumps and got themselves turned around to give chase and start shooting once they weren’t at risk of friendly fire any longer… and that’s when all the civilians holed up in their houses went “no way, you’re not getting your hands on these crazy bastards” and started hurling furniture and crockery down on the soldiers’ heads. Jeanne was understandably distracted at the time, but afterwards somebody informed him that the barrage of unlikely projectiles included a piano. A piano. That is some straight-up Looney Tunes slapstick right there. No wonder Hugo went for the heroic death scene instead; if he’d stuck to real life, he probably would’ve gotten complaints that he’d wrecked his readers’ suspension of disbelief.
Anyway, someone opened an alley gate for them to shelter in and take stock of the casualties–most of them survived(!!!), but a few were pretty nastily wounded. Their host then had to lock Charles Jeanne in to keep him from charging right back out and taking on the whole goddamn army singlehanded. He probably would’ve broken down the door if the poor man hadn’t pointed out that going back out would give away his wounded comrades’ hiding place and the identities of the people sheltering them. They sat there listening to the gunfire gradually slow and go silent, and then in the middle of the night the ones who could still walk were allowed to slip away one by one at long intervals from each other. Charles Jeanne went straight home, slept like the dead for a few hours, was woken up at five in the morning with a warning that he’d been denounced and the building was surrounded, and then slipped out in disguise and managed to evade the police for four months before a former comrade ratted him out and he was arrested.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why Charles Jeanne’s letter is an absolute treasure that deserves to be available to anyone in Les Mis fandom who wants to read it. Incidentally, “how Actual Historical Enjolras survived the barricades by being too good at his suicide mission” is also one of the stories I tell when anyone asks me what the hell is so interesting about researching people nobody’s ever heard of from an obscure chapter of French history.
Bringing this back for Barricade Day! To answer a few questions that keep coming up in the reblogs: here’s my translation of Jeanne’s letter, which was my main source. Jeanne stood trial, was imprisoned instead of executed (because can you imagine what a martyr he would’ve made), and died of tuberculosis just a few years later. Despite his improbable survival story, the RL June Rebellion was not an everybody-lives AU–like the revolt in Les Mis, it ended in a hard-fought retreat into one of the buildings on the street, followed by a massacre. The guys who led a suicide charge and accidentally won were, unfortunately, the exception.
Children of the barricades who didn't last the night
It's June 5...
Time to Build a Barricade!
Paving stones!
Barrels of lime (and the cart they came in on)!
Iron bars off the Corinth windows!
Lumber from a nearby building under repair!
AN OMNIBUS!
Broken glass!
General rubbish!
"All the furniture you can throw down!"
A feather mattress!
Coffin.
unfortunately the brain is still conditioned
Hello????????????
The origin story of Jean Valjean, the heroic protagonist of Victor Hugo's 'Les Misérables,' will be played by Gregory Gadebois in a new Fren
Ok but why did no-one tell me that GRANTAIRE'S ACTOR SUNG A LOVE SONG TO ENJOLRAS??????????????????
Honestly, who knew this artwork existed and DIDN'T TELL ME?
the audacity
but this song is literally *chef's kiss*
It's not even being subtle about the enjoltaire. (or the angst)
i mean 'i got my feelings bruised by the leader in red' & 'R, you good-for-nothing fool' ?
Kill me now.
when i tell you I screamed
then looked up the original lyrics
then screamed again
at this point i need a spotify playlist with this song 20000 times. at least.
gods i hope it's on spotify
i haven't checked yet
I don't even know how to parse this right now except as being extraordinarily tone deaf. Not to mention I cannot take anyone who would name their blog 'The Poesie of Igor Goldkind – Reciting Truth to Power' seriously.
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today i am thinking about the eight bullets that kill enjolras, and how i always see people saying they represent his eight friends to die at the barricade, but when i first read his death what came to my mind was the eight men to escape the barricade alive: valjean, marius, javert, and the five men who are given the national guard uniforms. i think of those eight bullets being meant for those eight men, and enjolras taking them all. he did not change the world in the way he meant, but he changed the world for eight men, and that has to be enough.
