...his secretary?

[ladyamberjo]

So, my grandparents called earlier because something titled Les Misérables was on TCM, and they love me and know I'm a total nerd.

I only caught the last half hour or so, and ooooooooh my goodness that was enough. XD

Between Enjolras coming across as a bloodthirsty nutjob and Eponine being Marius's secretary it was already lulzy at best...but

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[lunarkissed]

I was thinking about watching that last night, but I gave in to the temptations of The Golden Girls on WE and the desire to read a book about the Wars of the Roses. I love old movies, until they decide to bring classics to the screen. I make an exception for The Scarlet Pimpernel because Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon are love on screen.

I kind of want to watch that version of The Count of Monte Cristo that is shown on V For Vendetta, but I'm afraid I'll be disappointed in it like other adaptations. Even an 8 hour mini-series didn't get the story right! The closest version is a sci-fi retro anime!

[ladyamberjo]

Les Mis is pretty notorious for consistantly terrible film adaptations...there was an ABC Family version a few years back that wasn't too bad, but it still had a few incredibly squicky moments (pedophile!Valjean wut). It's sort of sad when a musical is truer in spirit to the original work than...four or five movies.

I don't think I've ever seen that Scarlet Pimpernel, actually. I'll have to try to catch it sometime.

[lunarkissed]

TCM is having it on tonight as part of their day long marathon of Merle Oberon films. I think it's on around 9:30 or 10:00? Something like that.

Les Mis is a book I will finish reading (started in high school) but I want an unabridged version this time. ^_~ I know the public library near the university campus has a paperback copy so I think I'll mosey on up there and get it sometime. I pledged 12 books for the Support Your Local Library Reading Challenge this year so there's a good reason to get it. I need to be more well rounded with the classics!

(Although I say that and I want to throw Wuthering Heights down in disgust...)

[ladyamberjo]

Hmmm...I have to tape something for my mother from 9 to 10, but after 10...I could probably do that. And if not, I can always order it from the libarary and add it to the list of "movies I've been meaning to watch for years and am only getting to now" that I've been working on the past two weeks.

Oh, you definitely need an unabridged, for Les Amis if nothing else. They're like the Les Mis fandom's equivalent of Organization XIII, and they generally get cut altogether from abridged versions. But be warned: Hugo apparently thought it was a better idea to go through and add three chapters of historical exposition for every minor plot-point, and it gets...incredibly tedious at times, to say the very least. There's about fifty pages of background on a character who dies a chapter or two into the book, and then sixty or seventy pages on Waterloo, only the last three of which have anything to do with the plot, and then chapters here and there that are educational but interrupt the narrative flow like whoa...there used to be a webpage