yakalskovich | Les Misérables -- 2000 French TV miniseries -- Part 4

Oh hello student doctor -- that must be Joly?
Say sorry, but Gavroche's death isn't as heartbreaking as it could be; perhaps it is because he's not as little as he could be.
How does Javert know that the soldiers shot Gavvroche?
Now, Valjean gets a pistol and a Javert.
Couteau, not surin, for the knife!
He cuts Javert free, and then? The revolutionaries would totally notice the lack of dead police spy. Only not, because they're all dead in a minute. Also, not enough bluescreen from Javert here, I think.
And why is Fauchelevent in uniform on the wrong side and gets shot now? They wouldn't recruit an old man as a volunteer and put him there that fast.
And off we go into the sewers, through a narrow grate.
Rivers of eurgh, with rats swimming in it.
Why are there soldiers randomly shooting around in the sewers?
Okay, now we are chest-deep in the really nasty, and here is Thénardier, of course...
And he takes what Marius has and unlocks the sewere.
Oh hai, Javert. He knew exactly where Valjean had to come out with Marius.
Javert helps him with Marius and takes him in his own coach to M. Gillenormand -- that is brick canon, I think.
What? The grandfather will be content with the corpse of Marius?
Gillenormand's butler is fun.
Javert and Valjean actually talking to each other peacefully about things.
And Gillenormand shouts at both of them and shouts at them, and not even Javert doesn't contradict him.
"Non. Oui." Oh Javert.
Ooops and here are the two silver candlesticks, suddenly turning up again on their living room table, having been there all the time. We apparently just weren't shown them. And now, he locks her in and leaves.
Javert is gone.
Ooops, Javert takes pity on some guy with a wife without legs and lets him go.
And here he writes his pathetic list of You're Doing It Wrong, and doesn't listen to the guy telling him that he's not like everybody else. Interesting way of doing his final conflict.
He's shackles his hands behind his back. And it's raining. June, this is not.
And we have no parapet, he simply walks deeper and deeper into the water, WITH his hat. And now, the hat drifts away on its own...
Nope, I think Javert not literally falling leaves something to be desired.
Valjean tells Gillenormand about Javert killing himself, and then hands over Cosette's dowry. In turn, Gillenormand allows them to marry.
Thénardiers, and Azelma, in front of a --church? Stealing from people waiting to see Marius and Cosette to come out.
Cosette wants Valjean to live with them and brought the candlesticks -- aww. And then, he leaves.
And here he returns to Rue Plumet, and Toussaint is gone, leaving a cryptic note. Valjean, though, goes to Cosette's former room, smells her pillow and kisses her doll. How very sad...
Valjean tells Marius everything because Javert is dead and nobody else knows who he is? Er, what?? He claims he loves Cosette, not like a father but -- eurgh, what a pervy idea! Or does he simply claim it so Marius stops pitying him? Why does he keep wanting Marius to hate him and be strict to him? Does he want a replacement for Javert somehow? What is this even?
And now, he comes to see Cosette ages later with white hair and gets sent to the kitchen, and Marius secretly comes to see him there, being very cold and distant.
And now Thénardier comes to save the day unwittingly yet again? Nope, not yet.
Valjean fakes letters from Egypt -- what? And the Gillenormand butler brings him things in a sack. Oh, his candlesticks. And Monsieur Gillenormand sends a doctor.
And Marius sends Thénardier to America as punishment, with 30.000 Francs to start over! ROFLMAOPIP!! That is why some Americans are so horrible -- they're descended from the Thénardiers!! **giggles**
Valjean is living in Cosette's former room, huddled before the fire, dying...
Cosette lights the candlesticks and comes to him carrying them. How very odd.
'Misérable' -- that was probably the last title drop because Valjean is dying.
He sees lots of light, then Marius blows out the candles in the chandeliers, and the last episode is done.

Goodbye, Jean Valjean. I still think you weren't really served well by being played by Depardieu, but otherwise, the series wasn't bad, the casting was excellent, the historical things and places were quite detailed, and Malkovich makes a very interesting, snarky, wordy Javert miles away from musical!Javert, let alone Crowe!Javert, who is quiet and prim and dour.

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The French version is six hours. It takes its time, as I said. I'm sure the three-hour version won't retain the scenes where Javert walks up or down a staircase, hat under his arm, saying nothing. I liked those.-

You'll have to tell me what parts the three-hour version kept!

Will do! I think any edited version is bound to suffer, but hopefully the essence will remain the same. It has good reviews on Amazon, so we'll see. :)

And three hours has at least the chance to do it justice; it's not as if it was pared down to a standard 90 minutes.-

Les Misérables -- 2000 French TV miniseries -- Part 4

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