#les mis 1925

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EPONINE & COSETTE | LES MISERABLES 1925

An Eposette steal for @lesmisshippingshowdown!

[wanderinghedgehog]

Seeing as our lovely wife Internet Archive is in a coma, does anyone have another way to watch the full version of Les Mis 1925?

[l832]

Gabriel Gabrio as Jean Valjean Les Misérables (1925) | dir. Henri Fescourt

[patron-minette]

One of my favourite things about LM 1925 has to be this little moment where the Patron-Minette and Thénardier are reunited with Montparnasse once more after they escape La Force, I just find it so funny!

Look at Montparnasse’s enthusiasm to see them all again and I love how the whole gang starts to stand up + crowd around him like he hung the moon and stars— he really appears to be a protégé of sorts to the group!

Also, is that Babet reading a book in the forefront of the shot? If it is— what a wonderful callback to the novel, where Hugo in informs readers that Babet reads the papers (‘a striking exception in the world to which he belonged’). Sure, the object that he is holding looks more like a book than a newspaper— but I’ll still take any acknowledgement that Babet reads.

(I’ll stop ranting now but I just adore that this adaptation decided to include extra “affiliates” of the Patron-Minette in these tavern scenes, it makes me so happy.)

[vapaus-ystavyys-tasaarvo]

The introduction of Digne and the Bishop Myriel

Les Misérables (1925)

Actually filmed in Digne! (Or at least most of it was)

[melancholyarchivist]

cute scene in the garden with valjean and cosette from les miserables 1925 (plus ponine spying)

[pureanonofficial]

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Monseigneur Bienvenu made His Cassocks Last Too Long, LM 1.1.5 (Les Miserables 1925)

What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and his offices and his breviary, he bestowed first on the necessitous, the sick, and the afflicted; the time which was left to him from the afflicted, the sick, and the necessitous, he devoted to work. Sometimes he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for both these kinds of toil; he called them gardening. “The mind is a garden,” said he.

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LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - A Rose in Misery, LM 3.8.4 (Les Miserables 1925)

A very young girl was standing in the half-open door. The dormer window of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite the door, and illuminated the figure with a wan light. She was a frail, emaciated, slender creature; there was nothing but a chemise and a petticoat upon that chilled and shivering nakedness. Her girdle was a string, her head ribbon a string, her pointed shoulders emerged from her chemise, a blond and lymphatic pallor, earth-colored collar-bones, red hands, a half-open and degraded mouth, missing teeth, dull, bold, base eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the look of a corrupt old woman; fifty years mingled with fifteen; one of those beings which are both feeble and horrible, and which cause those to shudder whom they do not cause to weep. The most heart-breaking thing of all was, that this young girl had not come into the world to be homely. In her early childhood she must even have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty. The remains of beauty were dying away in that face of sixteen, like the pale sunlight which is extinguished under hideous clouds at dawn on a winter’s day.