Posted on 06/06/2024 2:36:56 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this, the second day of the abortive 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, police inspector Javert is faux-executed — and mercifully released — by his longtime quarry Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo’s classic Les Miserables.
Hugo’s monumental novel is structured by the implacable policeman’s pursuit of Jean Valjean, an absconded ex-con with a heart of gold.
Fate brings them together accidentally at the barricade of the (historical, but now forgotten) student uprising — Javert to spy on the student revolutionaries, who unmask him, and Jean Valjean to keep an eye on his adoptive daughter’s idealistic lover.
Jean Valjean’s timely contribution to the hopelessly outgunned revolutionaries gives him the pull to ask the favor of being the one to execute the spy.* Since Valjean has been hunted relentlessly by the lawman since breaking parole nearly two decades before, the hero has ample motivation to turn executioner.....
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When I hear “Javert,” I immediately think “Philip Quast”
I need to see the Broadway production of Les Mis again.
There is always something new to take away from it.
If you cannot get to Broadway, the movie with Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean is very good.
The movie with Liam Neeson is okay but is not as true to Victor Hugo’s book.
When I first started watching the movie with Hugh Jackman as Valjean, I wondered if it was proper to watch as a Christian.
However soon I realized that it was about mercy, about grace vs. works and the hard flaws of legalism.
Les Miserables, yeah, I went to school with Les...
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