Wicked vs. Les Miserables Debate

Just thought you might find this hilarious.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0579953/board/nest/21729365

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Updated On: 7/21/05 at 08:32 AM

Well, I signed up...and put my own little bit in. Happily, I can say nothing that I said was biased.

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Comparing Les Miserables to Wicked is like comparing Gone With The Wind to Gigli

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Updated On: 7/21/05 at 01:05 PM

That was so pathetic. My favourite was:
"Miz. i didn't really like that much but i love Wicked! Wicked has an amazing plot line about the untold tale of the wicked witch of the west. Who would ever think to write that? The guy who wrote the book was very creative were le miz really wasn't, i mean he wrote about the french revoultion and Wicked is more of like a fantasy and the songs in wicked are so much better then les miz!"

What? Les Miserables, written by Victor Hugo, was written by arguably one of the best French writers of that time. The characters are made up, and the situations are made up (except for the French Revolution). He was a very creative person.

Gregory Maguire borrows Characters from a movie, and put them in situations and a setting that were also borrowed. I love both Les Miserables and Wicked, but clearly if your going to measure creativity, Les Miserables wins hands down.

jera

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Les Miserables (full name 'cos I'm talking about the novel here) also wins for Easter Eggs. #24601, written in European Format, is June 24, '01. Now I'm forgetting what significance this date is other than it was the year before Hugo was born. But it does mean somethin'.

Also, the apartment numbers that belong to Marius and Thénardier (when they live in the same building) are the years which Hugo didn't work on the story.

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