Rewatched Les Mis 1982 (85? The Fucken WIMDY one) in the LAD server last night, and on rewatch:
Man the Myriel bit is so good it's so so so good why do so many adaptations give us 900 years of made-up Toulonnage and Thenardier Sex Scenes when we could be having Conventionist Debate Time
The weather is even worse than I remembered good grief
Really solid Valjean. Really rockin' the dissociation.
No seriously the weather is SO BAD, whole scenes are just swallowed by rain and fog, if this wasn't the real weather I don't know what the director was thinking
Really good pacing!! Really really good! We get a ton of detail and it doesn't feel rushed, it lands all the beats about where they SHOULD be in terms of adaptation timing-- the Time Skip in the middle instead of 3/4 through for instance-- and it all holds together until....like..well... I mean the PACING stays good but the INTERPRETATION starts running off the rails with the Gillenormand Dinner and then just gets weirder and weirder as a cliched French Art Demon appears to gradually take over the show until Catherine the Doll murders Valjean
She definitely murders him btw, that is absolutely what happens, he's fine for five years after Cosette's wedding and then Catherine kills him
No really the weather is UNHINGED, ASMR LM1982: Hurricane
How are ANY barrels of powder being set off, let alone flintlock guns?? it's RAINING RAIN
Anyway I DO really like the chilling bit where Marius and Cosette have replaced the Gillenormands in the dinner scene but like. the point is they are pulled AWAY from that by the revelations Thenardier brings. YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE REDEMPTION MOMENT FOR MARIUS OR IT'S ALL HORRIBLE
Eponine and Gavroche both sing a ton and it's great
This remains the funniest Barricade Fall I have seen and I've seen so many. The slo-mo , the dramatic music. The sudden trumpets. Javert eulogizing Enjolras. A solid if weird and unintentional moment of levity
EVEN WHEN VALJEAN IS GOING TO HEAVEN HE'S SINKING IN THE MUD EVEN HEAVEN IS RAINED OUT, WHAT IS WITH THE WEATHER???
