liked it, didn't love it, cried far less than expected. Ann Hathaway needs to eat a sandwich.
An excellent capsule review!
Teenage Cosette is always boring. I'm not sure there's a way to make her less boring given the material as written. It would help if there were a little more obvious sexual feeling in her instacrush on Marius, or if she displayed a little more anger toward Valjean for his refusal to talk about the past, but that's not how the songs are written. (Although if the director was going to muck about with the songs, that would have been a better use for the mucking about.)
Gavroche being a Thenardier is in the book, but isn't mentioned at all in the stage play as far as I know. The movie made some alterations to the play to make the plot resemble the book a little more closely. I don't remember that coming up in dialog, but it might be why it was in the credits?
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Date: Sun, Dec. 30th, 2012 03:48 pm (UTC)An excellent capsule review!
Teenage Cosette is always boring. I'm not sure there's a way to make her less boring given the material as written. It would help if there were a little more obvious sexual feeling in her instacrush on Marius, or if she displayed a little more anger toward Valjean for his refusal to talk about the past, but that's not how the songs are written. (Although if the director was going to muck about with the songs, that would have been a better use for the mucking about.)
Gavroche being a Thenardier is in the book, but isn't mentioned at all in the stage play as far as I know. The movie made some alterations to the play to make the plot resemble the book a little more closely. I don't remember that coming up in dialog, but it might be why it was in the credits?