Javert When I Get My Hands On Him

In a better world Les Misérables would contain an 100 page digression about the sleeve trends of the 1830s

The accusation

*whispers* omg they held hands

Javert and Monsieur Madeleine, 京剧 悲惨世界 | Les Misérables Peking Opera

About 10 years ago I was working for a gaming company doing creature design. After work, I would go home and dissect animals in my garage. I borrowed a tiger carcass from a local taxidermist. I wanted to understand how the jaw muscles worked, so I stop motion animated it.

The muscle on the back of the head (Temporalis) bulges out when the jaw is closed. But when the is jaw is open, it depresses in like the surface of a trampoline. But not uniformly, in a Y shaped pattern.

I ended up getting evicted for stop motion animating tiger parts in my garage…..but it was worth it. I still have hard drives full of animal carcasses reference animations today. Fun Times.

this is so fun i need to make more homoerotic twin cinema poems thank you and goodbye

An all too short TV commercial with rare footage of the first Canadian cast of Les Mis, 1989.

Gotta say I am both very dubious of, and fascinated by, the concept of a "Jean Valjean Prequel". like...are we gonna focus on the grueling poverty of his life as a peasant in the Ancien Regime? Are we going to watch as multiple generations of his family are literally killed by deprivation and overwork? See the faint echoes of the revolution from the POV of a family that is not at all involved in the politics ? Are we going to just...spend those 19 years he was in prison IN PRISON? Every beating and escape attempt? the casual corruption and cruelty of the officials and guards? Might we get sort of meta and see some riff on Claude Gueux play out there?

the thing is we do actually know what happens to JVV before the book starts and it's all bad, grindingly exhaustingly bad ; if they're committing to that then Respect, honestly, it's not like "poverty and prison are soul crushing" is less relevant these days

And/but if they're not committing to that...what the heck are they gonna do with it ??

Javert's Demise

please make your own ideas and conclusions i find them cool and interesting, also there's two versions because both fields were a real struggle

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Ponine & Cosette