Les Miserables Character Art — Page 2

"I am the Law...and the Law is not mocked" - were first uttered by Javert in the first English version of the stage musical LES MISERABLES in 1985. Check out the final soliloquy.

Unless you were just kidding

"I saw only the photos and didn't know anything about the musical, I would think Russell is the good guy and Hugh the bad guy!"

That's exactly what Javert thinks, isn't it?

Here's a slightly better view of that Japanese sidewalk trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzGlx0Iraro&feature=youtu.be

At 1:17 you can catch a glimpse of Sacha and Helena. They look like something out of a Tim Burton film. I'm sure it's the lighting, but it looks like they have heavy white makeup. haha

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I can help noticing how much Samantha Barks looks like young Helena Bonham-Carter. They really hit the nail on the head with that casting as far as getting people who bare a familiar resemblance.

Yes it is Huge in Japan,thats why they got the trailer first...DUH lol.I Think the greatest anticipation is ALL over!! and btw im not even from AMerica lol :P.

Just so you know I wasn't replying to you, but to StageManager's childish response to the Japanese trailer that the cracker jack mods deleted leaving me looking as though I was talking about you.

They were YOUR posts. Don't pretend you didn't say them because they were deleted. Remember Godforsaken country? Calling me a cvnt?

Merci, thanks for the witness, Ms. Stone.

I'm one of the pickiest of all picky mofos that call themselves picky fans of this musical.

I really like these individual character posters. The color scheme, everything is very well done.

There's only one thing that worries me...Crowe's Javert expression.

Now, I'm known for writing dissertations on single lighting cues and whole songs have been stripped of their power through a slight change in orchestration to me. I'm picky, yes, but I'm that way because I find that the magic lies in the details and not because I'm set in any irrational ways.

Crowe's expression worries me because it is very consistent with every single other expression of his as Javert so far. I get the impression they will hammer us over the head with this "Javert is human, too" nonsense by "humanizing" a character that was already very, very human.

Javert's story is bizarre as it is, and few would argue against his views being of an extreme nature. Those views result in a stunning lack of compassion for the lives of the good people he makes sure are locked safely behind bars over petty things. Crowe looks like he's longing in every photo I've seen. You just want to hold him close and tell him everything will be alright.

That I'd fall head over heels, too, for the burly French peasant of Jean Valjean, and that there are other fish in the sea. I've seen this angsty, puppy dog Javert portrayal once out of 30 times seeing the show live onstage and all but one I'd want to relive again and again.

That one performance I left the theatre forgetting Javert was even a character in the musical. This...after witnessing one of my favorite stage performers totally rock the role vocally, his acting choices were misguided, to say the least.

It's OK to be relieved when Javert hops into the Seine. It's not OK to feel Javert should have been included in the finale along with all those who died at the barricades, and should stand arm in arm with Valjean...and maybe whisper a sweet nothing or two into the hunky French peasant's earlobes.

I've always felt a sense of compassion for Javert and his ideology being what it is, that it eventually kills him. He has always been human to me. I don't need to be spoon fed this emotionally wrecked cop who longingly pursues another man for decades. His catharsis should be his complete loss of faith in himself, hence the self-punishment with death. This is the same man who demanded be fired by "the Mayor," after suspiciously snooping around for details on "the Mayor's" past.

The dude wished to punish himself by er...outing himself and his longing, um...I mean, suspicion and continuing determination for Valjean's ass. Oops, did I say that? I meant he wanted ValJohnny's ass in jail. Yeah, that's it.

I fear that "reinvented" Javert of anniversary budget tour editions will make an appearance on-screen as well, and his offing himself won't be a catharsis but a...wet climax of obsession and manlove!

I wouldn't say it is a fine line; it's pretty darn difficult to make Javert seem like a schoolboy with an Eponine complex but the impression is there that his eye spies a keeper in that sexy, burly, Frenchy Val-mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

But that's just me.

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Not sure if you were responding to my post but in case you were, I know it seems like I am but, no, not going off totally based on that ONE poster of Crowe.


And since when do I care about what the general public thinks? They can care as far as putting only enough attention to know it takes place in France and involves singing, I'd still be filling pages up with "fears" (which are really minor concerns at this point) of attempts at turning something that has brought me much joy into sh*t. You can bet on that. =)

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Updated On: 10/12/12 at 06:09 AM

since Javert raises this trumped up morality play into something approaching art, Crowe's performance will make or break the movie for me. I hope he doesn't whisper through "Stars."

Updated On: 10/12/12 at 09:39 AM

To add to the nitpicks, I don't like how he's not looking at camera. I feel like if Valjean is, Javert should be even more so. Javert is one of the most sure and focused characters in the musical, and not having that dead-on look makes him look more pensive than he is for most of the time.

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Updated On: 10/12/12 at 12:31 PM