i can sometimes forget the book characterizations when there is a dispute between the book and musical portrayals, but i have so much difficulty taking things like marius the revolutionary or javert the religious man seriously.

though i loved him as courfeyrac in the movie, fra fee looks exactly like my mental image of marius from the description in the brick. i’m desperately jealous of everyone who got to see fra playing marius on the west end!

i sometimes ship éponine and marius in a ‘maybe now cosette can go hook up with courfeyrac’ kind of way.

marius and i are alike in a creepy number of ways.

i always laugh at marius when he’s furiously thinking he will never forgive cosette if she encouraged that other guy who was staring at her in the park. it’s like, “dude, you’ve never even met her, and it was the wind”.

the marius from the 1998 movie reminds me of a salamander. i don’t know why, but he does.

i didn’t like eddie’s marius. his singing was hard for me to watch and listen to, and i felt there were so many others who could have played the role in a better way.

reading about marius’ employer begging him to accept more money and a nicer place to live, only to be turned down because marius likes being poor, drives me absolutely crazy. even if he doesn’t want money, think of the good he could do with it! that is much more virtuous than simply being poor!

i thought pairing nick and ramin as marius and enjolras worked well. instead of being portrayed as close friends and equals, it was as if marius was enjolras’ annoying little brother who followed him around and joined in the revolution because he thought that was what the cool kids did; the deaths of his friends forced him to grow up.

during “empty chairs at empty tables”, i get distracted by how anachronistically perfect eddie redmayne’s teeth are. maybe other actors had the same issue, but his close-ups are the ones in which this is most noticable.

i love how “in my life” and “a heart full of love” were performed in the movie. amanda and eddie really make a good cosette and marius.

aaron tveit and eddie redmayne are my new favorite enjolras and marius.

sam and eddie’s portrayals of éponine and marius were the closest i’ve ever come to shipping marius/éponine.

it makes me uncomfortable when marius addresses his grandfather as “father” considering what his grandfather did to marius’ actual father.

during “look down” at the tac, i can’t distinguish between enjolras and marius’ lines. their voices are really similar to me.