[Carriage Hill]

$5 says it’s “dreamers”-based.

[Lizavetta]

So they blacked it up and gayed it up.

What a surprise.

[Olog-hai]

The version that I regarded as a real classic was the 1935 film with Fredric March as Valjean and Charles Laughton as Javert. (Even though Laughton was that way inclined, he showed no attraction towards Valjean when in character.)

[laweeks]

Are they going to cast it with Negro characters, homos, lesbians, transsexuals? They’ve ruined just about every other “modern” day offerings.

[wally_bert]

I’ll stick with reruns of Minder and The Sweeney.

[montag813]

There is also an undercurrent of homoerotic “unconscious attraction” fuelling Javert’s obsessive pursuit of Valjean – according to Davies, at least, who says he felt the character “may actually be in love with him”.

You can forget about it right there

[goldstategop]

His masterpiece.

The generally considered opinion is Hugo’s poetry overshadows his prose work.

He is the greatest French poet, period.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Instead of stealing a loaf of bread, with Jean Val-Jean utter a racist comment?

[Dahoser]

Summed up nicely by the rabbi from Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

https://youtu.be/xMSFWZpDZjo

[InterceptPoint]

I read the book.

Twice.

Great book.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Josh Groban - Bring Him Home [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]
https://youtu.be/fXnRf3TQcpk

[Rummyfan]

Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert are homosexual lovers?!

[PghBaldy]

I vaguely remember the 1978 TV miniseries (trailer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO_rw4fRQLA

[Larry Lucido]

Even Alton Benes got into it.

[Mr Rogers]

“After publication, Victor Hugo wrote that his story was intended to be read “in every place where man is ignorant and despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the child suffers for lack of the book which should instruct him and of the hearth which should warm him”.”

So...it has no point in modern America. Can’t remember the last time I sold a woman for bread or saw a child sleeping on a cold street because no one would help.

Now, a novel about people who work hard but have to give & give to a rapacious government who hands part of it over to the ungrateful & self-entitled poor...THAT might be appropriate.

[GOPJ]

Trump voters will be the villains and liberal elites will be the heroes... Oh, and some 'writer' or 'artists' will be slipped in as a gentle 'god like' creature.

The Bishop and his candlesticks will be dumped because liberals hate religion - so the candlesticks will belong to some Hollywood liberal type... again 'the writer' or 'artist'. The young girl will be Hispanic and the evil Inspector Javert will wear an ICE badge.

In short the whole story will be a lie and will get poor ratings and be forgotten quickly.

[GOPJ]

Trump voters will be the villains and liberal elites will be the heroes... Oh, and some 'writer' or 'artists' will be slipped in as a gentle 'god like' creature.

The Bishop and his candlesticks will be dumped because liberals hate religion - so the candlesticks will belong to some Hollywood liberal type... again 'the writer' or 'artist'. The young girl will be Hispanic and the evil Inspector Javert will wear an ICE badge.

In short the whole story will be a lie and will get poor ratings and be forgotten quickly.