it’s my dream to play éponine one day, but i’m afraid that i can’t hit some of the notes she sings well enough. for that reason, i am desperately hoping for a big hollywood movie based on of the brick. it would be a dream of mine to play éponine in that.

as much as i love the exposure les mis has gotten lately, i wish people would not simply ignore the fact that the les mis fandom has been around for decades (at the very least) and definitely before tumblr came around…

i find that the finale on the barricades in the movie is the most moving version i’ve encountered of that scene. even just listening to the soundtrack, i get goosebumps and tears in my eyes every single time.

i didn’t like recent movie, but i love seeing all the new fans that have joined the fandom as a result.

it confuses and even annoys me that so many fans of the brick sing george blagden’s praises. he had barely a handful of lines in the movie, and like all the other barricade boys, he was obviously cast for his looks (while the brick calls him “frightfully” or “particularly” ugly). his performance was thoroughly forgettable.

i feel like an outsider in the fandom because i did not enjoy aaron tveit’s performance as enjolras.

i thought sacha baron cohen was a near-perfect casting for thénardier — however, his ad-libbing became really distracting. sometimes it felt like he was mocking les mis altogether, which i definitely didn’t appreciate.

if you feel the desire to “slap” someone or end a friendship because that person knows that they don’t like the movie, they aren’t the one with the issue… to say how important les misérables is to you, and how much you’ve learned all while practicing hatred, threatened violence, and intolerance over a movie is wildly ironic. and disturbing.

i’ve only been a fan of les mis since the movie came out, and i love everything about it: the story, the characters, the songs, everything! but i have friends who have been a part of the fandom for a long time that complain about the newer fans, and they’ve inadvertently been pressuring me away from it. i can’t compare casts or reference the book like they can. i’m afraid of running into more people like them if i try to make friends within the fandom.

i really wish gina beck had been next to killian donnelly in the finale of the movie. i’m a huge shipper of their “turnferre” headcanon, and i wish they could’ve done more with it, like a moment in “drink with me.”

although i thought aaron tveit looked the part of enjolras and sang his songs well, it felt like he didn’t really have a particularly good understanding of the character.

although i already knew about the musical and the storyline, my first viewing of les misérables was the 1998 film. it was really weird to first experience les mis as a non-musical with a semi-happy ending.

i was watching the movie with my family. during empty chairs at empty tables, my five-year-old cousin came in the room and asked, “is he trying to poop?” now i can’t watch eddie’s performance of that song without laughing!

it always breaks my heart to see how the camera flashes to gavroche as they sing “every man will be a king,” in one day more. the fact that he’ll have his chance to be like a king before dying too young is just so sad to me. however, it shows that he lived life to its fullest.

i dislike how the film really emphasises the misconception that the students were kids who’d gotten in over their head. aaron tveit’s enjolras didn’t seem to know what he was doing or why he was doing it, when there’s nothing in the book or the musical that implies that.