"Les Misérables" (Les Misérables) is a novel published in 1862 by French writer Victor-Marie Hugo. Politics, moral philosophy, law, justice, religious beliefs examine the essence of justice, and also incorporate romantic love elements. "Les Miserables" has been adapted into TV series, movies and musicals of the same name many times. Among these adaptation media, He is best known for his musicals. The Les Miserables musical was co-written by French musical composers Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil. It premiered at the Palais des Sports in Paris, France in 1980. Since then, it has become an instant hit, and it was made into an English version in 1982. Performed in British theaters and crossed the sea to Broadway 5 years later, "Les Miserables" is considered to be one of the most influential musicals in Europe.
In 2012, the Oscar-winning director of "Voice of Kings: The Moment of War", Tom Harbour, and the producer of the British version of the musical, Cameron Mackintosh, served as executive producers to bring the "Les Miserables" musical to the big screen. , the cast includes Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, and Amanda Schiefeld who played the protagonists Jean Valjean, Fantine and Cosette, who performed together at the Oscars. Russell Crowe as Inspector Javert in "Warrior", Helena Pohan Carter in "The Shadow Family", and Sacha Baron Cohen in "The Great Dictator" as the hotel owner and his wife (M. & Mme. Thénardier), "Monroe and My Romance Weekly" Eddie Redman plays the revolutionary Marius Pontmercy, star-studded, and even more surprising is that Éponine in the play is played by Samantha Barks in the 25th Anniversary Musical, and Colm Wilkinson, who played Champaign in the musical, made a cameo appearance in the film to rescue the Bishop of Champaign. It is important that the actors sing during the filming of the entire film. Not relying on the right mouth, in addition to showing the actors' unexpectedly good singing voices, they also interpret the emotions of the characters through live singing.
I watched the movie trailer of "Les Miserables" for the first time. It was a clip of Anne Hathaway's Fonteyn singing "I dreamed a Dream". When I was slightly tearful, I remembered the music I watched in high school art class. I started to look forward to the release of the movie. I first heard that the release schedule in Taiwan was moved from Christmas to the Spring Festival. It was really heartbreaking. It took more than a month to wait, but it's nothing, it's all already I've been waiting for half a year, and the second is a happy and auspicious Spring Festival. Who wants to see "Les Miserables", just hearing the word "miserable" is undoubtedly the elders who are pooh-pooh, but this movie is indeed very suitable for Watching at the beginning of the year, although the characters in the movie are very tragic, the value of justice, the true meaning of family, and the so-called love and dreams can be brought to everyone in such a festival. people's cherish.
Although it is touching, but before discussing what moved me about the movie, let’s go back to a rational level and discuss the pros and cons of the movie version. I can probably understand why director Tom Harbour fails many times during the Oscar and winning seasons. , even in the award for the adaptation of the script, it did not get much appreciation. A large part has a strong relationship with other competitors, and some of them can probably know after watching the movie. The ins and outs of the story are generally explained very clearly. The classic songs in the musical are also reproduced on the big screen to feast your ears, but the more detailed character emotional transitions, or the details of the story are slightly simplified because of the length of the movie, and the part of the character's emotions belongs to Javi The last reflection is the most unfortunate, it is a pity to quickly exit the stage before the emotional saturation is reached. Although the story spans nearly 20 years, the director's configuration among many characters shows his intentions, but in terms of scheduling, too many events and too many issues are compressed so that the rhythm of the movie is performed at a rapid pace. The running account method is a little unpleasant, and when it comes to the photography part, I personally think that the director may have to put more effort and thought into the design of some pictures. For example, Shang Wanqiang After being forgiven and gifted by the bishop, singing the song "What Have I Done?", a close-up shot suddenly switched the screen, and some of the pictures in between were a little dark, and the light part didn't work well , another example, when Cosette, Mario and Eboning sang "In My Life" and "A Heart Full of Love", the shots were cut to pieces, and the audience on the stage could freely switch their own Vision, but the movie can't. When the three people are singing their own songs, there should be a better cutting method and configuration on the screen. I really want to ignore such shortcomings, but the switching of shots affects the audience's thoughts. Coherence should be avoided. In short, when a musical simplification is combined with the multi-linearity of song and content, more attention should be paid when planning scripts and cinematic shots.
After talking about the rational level, let’s talk about what moved me about the movie. There is one reason. I can’t resist the power of music. I get goosebumps, listening to the well-known songs in the play, and seeing such a classic musical and my favorite actor interpreting it on the big screen, it is really a blessing. I can't deny that I came to watch this movie for Anne Hathaway, the monologue "I dreamed a Dream", the rhythm in Anne Hathaway's singing and the emotions in her memories, Fontey's tragic fate The song is exaggerated, and the round teardrops fall just right, it is difficult not to feel pity, Fontey's character is ill-fated, although the film explains it quickly, but through the sadness in the song, the audience can also feel the same. The character of Fangting is the epitome of an era. Even out of this era, you can see the same tragic fate everywhere. A character like Fangting is a poor person who is oppressed by power. You can see it in the film She has been bullied many times, and no explanation can help. However, she fought back hard, slapped the foreman, and grabbed the client, but it was clear that the reality was dangerous and cruel like a giant beast, and after fighting back, But he had to bow his head and beg for pity, in order to be able to live a life with peace of mind. In contrast to the revolutionaries nine years later, isn't their standing up an angry growl at the oppression of the times?
Watching the revolutionaries in the movie made me feel a little bit. The revolution in the movie was the "Paris Republican Uprising" or the "June Riots" initiated by students in 1932. People of that era were enlightened. The influence of the movement has caused many reflections and heated debates on social phenomena, and this group of students built a fortress on the streets of Paris to fight the army with blood. But rather than building a fort, it is more a few fragile barriers. As seen in the movie, these students have no resources at all and are defenseless. In reality, they are quickly suppressed, and there is no echo in history. This kind of history makes me feel emotional. I think of the closed factory workers who were lying on the rails of the Taipei Railway Station a few days ago. Although the behavior of lying on the rails is the most wrong demonstration to the public, it is like randomly taking away the furniture of the people in the street in the movie. , Zhanliujie is a fortress, but this kind of behavior is nothing more than a cry of injustice to social phenomena and power. No one can listen to their voices and they have to choose this way to speak to the public, but it is not only the existence in the society that makes people sad The injustice, but the indifference of people on both sides of the street closing their windows and shutting their doors when the army is fighting and the revolutionaries are no longer able to resist in the movie. Does this picture seem familiar, when these closed factory workers are lying on the rails? , isn't it the people who shut the door who are yelling on both sides? Society is supposed to be connected by people's hearts and hands, but such indifference and opposition have become a hidden worry in a stable life, and it is a problem that we should all pay attention to.
The two songs "Red and Black" and "Do You Hear the People Sing?" are even more exciting and moving in the film, especially when the revolutionary man gradually lost his confidence, the little boy Gavroche sang it again The song "Do You Hear the People Sing?" is very powerful in evoking belief and emotion in people's hearts. As for the song "Red and Black", I also like it very much. In addition to developing revolutionary ambitions, Mario and the revolutionary comrades stirred up a similar situation between Mario and the revolutionary comrades. , The dilemma of hesitation between beauties is really great. Eddie Redman who played Mario really impressed me. He didn't leave much impression in "Monroe and My Weekly Romance" before, but this time in "Les Miserables", not only did he sing nicely, but also The bass singing is really nice, and the solo song "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" is full of remembrance, especially the trembling in the high-pitched part, which makes people reluctant to give up.
Throughout the play, Jia Wei and Shang Wanqiang are debating about justice. Shang Wanqiang stole a piece of bread so that his hungry nephew could fill his stomach. He was finally released on parole in 2017. Shang Wanqiang's theft was indeed a crime, but what Jia Wei didn't know was that there were so-called love and reason outside the law, especially when Shang Wanqiang repented sincerely and became a kind man by the grace of the bishop and God. At that time, Jia Wei was still so relentless in his pursuit. Although he was upright and upright, his integrity was worthy of admiration, but in addition to the white and black of justice and crime, there are still excessive ribbons in this world, even if it is the law of justice. Articles, sometimes it may be the torture of oppressing good people, or the evil that helps the tyrants. Although after the release of "Les Miserables", regardless of the awards or the audience's evaluation, they felt that Russell Crowe was slightly inferior in terms of singing and acting, and felt that he did not have the spirit of performing Javi, but I think that although he sings It's a bit difficult, but the integrity and momentum that belongs to Jia Wei is the law. He plays with great taste, especially when he sings "Stars" with the camera from bottom to top, that kind of power is very intimidating, and That deep voice is actually in the chorus song "One More Day", he supports the rhythm of the bass part, which is quite the finishing touch, but it's a pity that Jia Wei's final thought turn is not a little more. It's really a pity that the extension ended like this.
The protagonist Hugh Jackman not only loses weight and looks ugly in the movie, but also presents old makeup. At the beginning, he asked himself "What Have I Done?". , that kind of struggle is relatively rare, and the emotion becomes less and less. In the scene where he and Jia Wei meet on the revolutionary field, Shang Wanqiang is really too kind, and he let go without seeing him struggle. Jia Wei, the level is not enough, but it is because too many things are fortified in two and a half hours. If it is so delicate, I am afraid it will be more than two and a half hours. But when it comes to Hugh Jackman's singing, it's really a pity that he doesn't sing. He had a solid foundation in the early stage plays, and he gave him the newly produced song "Suddenly" for the movie. In it, he sang full of love and surprise for Cosette, even if it was a new song.
The hotel owner and his wife are not to be missed in the movie. These two actors, who can be called excellent actors, naturally have a soul and a sense of liveliness in their interpretation of such a role. In the song "Master of the House", There are many characteristics of petty cheap and stealing at a glance. The small movements, facial expressions and acting skills of these two actors are full of the whole scene. I used to hate these two characters when I watched musicals. Yes, but after watching the movie version, I feel that the behavior of these two characters is annoying, but they have a likable comedy quality, and Helena Bohan Carter's behavior of showing her shoulders when she met Javi on the street, really Very cute.
The rest of the roles are Eppenne and Cosette. Cosette, both childhood and adult actors, Isabelle Allen and Amanda Schiefeld, both sing very well, especially Isabelle Allen. The newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and it is very dazzling, but the role of Cosette does not have much play in the script. Seeing that Cosette is brought and brought by the actors in the film, there is no deep play, even It's a pity. And Aipponing, Samantha Barks, who plays the same role in both musicals and movies, in the movie, she interprets Aipponing's personality softly and deeply emotionally. Her songs "On My Own", "A Little Fall of Rain" is also more moving than Cosette and Mario's sing-along, and the scene in "One More Day" where the corset wraps around the corner of the room is even more impressive. People's pity for her can only be said that love is really a wonderful thing. Mario fell in love with Cosette at first sight, and Aibo Ning fell in love with Mario so well. If Aibo Ning fell in love with him If it is the other people in the revolutionary youth, is the love more complete and beautiful?
The last scene from "Take My Hand" to "Do You Hear the People Sing?" is definitely a tear-jerking section. From Fonteyn's reluctance to give up the grace of parenting, Mario's gratitude to the life-saving grace, Shang Wanqiang's heart to God Redemption, full of love and dedication, Fonteyn turned into an angelic rebirth and guidance, and then brought the whole scene to the streets of Paris at dawn and the people with lofty ideals gathered in front of the Bastille Elephant Statue. This is a story about dreams, The ultimate chant of sacrifice, love and faith, even in reality, Fonteyn is sinking for life, worrying about money, and the revolutionary youths have not succeeded in overthrowing the dictatorship, but such faith and a story full of love, such a spirit will be borne by her. The song enters the hearts of the audience. The film version of "Les Miserables" may be full of flaws in shooting technology, but the emotion has not been diluted by such flaws. Without concealing the flaws, a classic once again combines its core concept with The value has been conveyed to the hearts of the new generation of audiences, whether you have read novels or musicals, whether you have heard the story or not, you will still get a piece of love and faith when you watch the movie "Les Miserables", it is not about God The only belief, but the belief that life is beautiful, will always be in my heart.
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"Les Miserables" is a Dahe novel written by French writer Victor-Marie Hugo for 40 years, holding the full translation of Les Miserables published by Savage Culture at hand. It is about eight centimeters thick, with a total of 1523 pages.
Hugo takes the convicted prisoner Shang Wanqiang as the core of the story, and almost all kinds of stories of that era are written in. The three thick books ramble, and the people at the bottom of the society who are not described in ordinary works are described in a calm and sympathetic way. depict.
In 1980, the French edition, written by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Herbert Kretzmer, was staged in France with unprecedented success. This version of the musical successfully takes the life of Jean Vincennes as the main line, cuts out many wonderful but easily digressive plots, and condenses them into a few main scenes. In 1985, Adrew Loyld Webber's official producer Macintosh invited Xun Berg to adapt the play into an English version and staged it in London. The lyrics were as brilliant as the original French version, and the lyrics were adapted by Herbert Kretzmer. From 1985 to the present, the Palace Theatre, which premiered in London, has been replaced by the current Queen's Theatre, which has been performed for 28 consecutive years.
Taiwanese audiences could not wait for the stage version, but finally the movie version.
Unlike other musical stories, there are quite a lot of film versions of Les Miserables (many children's stories have been translated into Lone Star Tears), and the stories are familiar in European and American cultural circles, just like the Chinese world, no matter whether you have read Romance of the Three Kingdoms or not, you will know it. The story of Liu Guan and Zhang Taoyuan's three marriages.
The film version chose the layout of emotions and the flow of music, and only pointed to explanations at key points. Many cameras looked directly at the protagonist's expression, which almost made the characters in the play stand on stage to mourn their own experiences.
Are those plots that we just missed in the movie?
1. Why does Javert hate Jean-Claude so much? It
is mentioned in the movie that Javert was born in a prison and grew up in a slum. In addition, Javert's father was a convict, and his mother was a card fortune-teller. At that time, almost all the fortune-tellers who used cards were gypsies who lacked legal status. Javert worked his hardest to become a policeman and had an inexplicable obedience to authority. Shang Wanqiang refused to accept the domination of the system, flouted the law, and repeatedly embarrassed him when he was the mayor. Javert wanted to escape from his class all his life, and completely denied his background emotionally. He tried to be a good policeman, and also Transferred from local to Paris for outstanding performance.
The lifelong entanglement with Shang Wanqiang is precisely because Shang Wanqiang constantly reminded him that a lifelong convict may also be a saint at the same time. This conflicting behavior proves that the law is obviously wrong. It may be because of this that Javert, who has suffered from severe depression. , and also chose the suicide method commonly used by patients with depression, committing suicide by jumping into a river.
2. After Bishop Bian Furu gave Shang Wanqiang the silver tableware and candlesticks, what happened to the silverware?
After Shang Wanqiang took the silverware, he sold the tableware as capital for starting a business. Only the pair of silver candlesticks remained, the bishop's real gift to him, until the very last moment of his death.
(The stage play version arranges that Fonteyn and the bishop will finally welcome Jean Wanqiang. In the end, all the victims will welcome a bright future. I think it is a wonderful arrangement. What is more than toil for Shang Wanqiang in his life? Looking for him, if there is not such a turning point, the audience will be hurt and their emotions will not be released.)
3. Why is Shang Wanqiang rich?
He invented artificial ink crystal jewelry, and improved the clasp of the jewelry to reduce wear and tear , which made him a fortune. In nine years, it can be calculated from the novel that there are more than one million francs donated for municipal and public welfare purposes, and 630,000 francs who have fled, making at least two One million francs. At that time, based on the annual salary of 1,500 francs that Marius once found a lawyer to work for, Shang Wanqiang probably earned 200 billion francs in today's currency. Of course, this is also due to the fact that the labor cost at that time was much cheaper than it is now. . At that time, the annual salary of an archbishop was 25,000 francs, which was enough for him to hire servants, live in a mansion, and live a good life.
4. What happened to Shang Wanqiang's sister and nephew?
Shang Wanqiang had no parents since he was a child, and was brought up by his elder sister and husband. The elder sister has a total of 7 children. At the age of 25, his brother-in-law passed away, and he began to help support the family. For the sake of his nephew, Shang Wanqiang stole a loaf of bread and was sentenced to five years in prison, which was later extended to 19 years because of the constant escape from prison. In the fourth year of his sentence, his sister also lost the first six eldest children, with the youngest in prison. The Paris printing house worked, and then there was no news.
5. In order to stay safe in the monastery, Jean-Vintage was almost buried alive.
After saving Cosette, Jean-Vanqiang was targeted by Javert again. One night, during a manhunt, Jean-vintage climbed a high wall and hid in Le Petie-Picpus, a nineteenth-century abbey donated or protected by many aristocratic classes, and one that many wanted to seize. The place where the husband of the wife's dowry was placed under house arrest in the name of recuperation, because of his strong background, even if the police had public power, they were not allowed to enter. Javert searched for Shang Wanqiang, and sent people to ambush around for several months.
Shang Wanqiang happened to meet the old man under the carriage. At that time, Shang Wanqiang, as the mayor, recommended the old man to come to the monastery as a gardener. The old man was obliged to introduce Shang Wanqiang to work as his younger brother. Hide Cosette to go out, but how to let Cham Wanqiang go out? It
happened that a highly respected nun in the monastery passed away, and she wished to be buried in the monastery, but the official requirement that the deceased must be buried in the cemetery, so the monastery decided to send an empty The coffin was used for burial, and this empty coffin became a tool for Shang Wanqiang to hide out. Unexpectedly, the newly arrived gravedigger was not tempted by the old gardener to drink first, and insisted on finishing his work before drinking, which almost made Shang Wanqiang be directly arrested. Buried alive. Fortunately, the old man was in a hurry and hid the grave digger's work permit, sent him away in time, and rescued Shang Wanqiang. He and Cosette were also able to enter the monastery as gardeners' families, and let Cosette be educated in the boarding school in the monastery.
6. The little boy Gavroche is the son of the innkeeper Thenardier, the younger brother of Ebony, the
lively and clever little boy Gavroche is the son of the innkeeper who abused Cosette, and also the brother of Ebony, so He was in tears the moment Ebony was shot. But because he was not loved by his mother, he wandered the streets by himself since he was a child. This was a common scene in Paris at that time. Gavroche, with his cleverness and wit, became the leader of the wild children in Paris at that time.
7. Why are there wild children everywhere on the streets of Paris?
Modern people cannot imagine why parents allow a large number of children to eat and sleep on the streets, and no government agency has come forward to accommodate them. , seems to be the instinct of poor families". Parents don't want it, the government doesn't care, these children are wandering on the streets.
There are hundreds of these wild children every year, and when they grow up, they are likely to be captured as soldiers, or taken to warships as ocean-going sailors. Cityscape”, a large number of arrests, and even led to the horror legend of Louis XV bathing in the blood of virgins to heal his illness.
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1. Why did Marius fall out with his grandfather?
Since the French Revolution in 1789, French history has been constantly showing the royal family, the president, the president Napoleon. He was elected emperor again, and the emperor who was elected at once was defeated again, and replaced by Louis XVIII of the original Bourbon dynasty to be the king. In just a few decades, the regime has been changing, and the victorious side will directly defeat the losing side. Sent to the guillotine, the royalists, the Napoleonics and the republicans each wanted different rulers and different countries.
The current political stance is different from that of the family. At most, everyone shuts up and does not talk about politics. But in 19th-century France, choosing the wrong side may affect the family's wealth, wealth and relatives' evaluation. In addition, the republican contempt for the authority of the church also made the 19th-century middle class more fearful. After all, no matter what era, the middle class is the most in need. Stable, and most afraid of not being able to live a small life. Marius' grandfather belonged to the royalist party, and he was very Napoleonic. However, Marius' father was a colonel under Napoleon, and he was forced to retire after the restoration of the dynasty after the war. The son-in-law, after the death of Marius's mother, threatened his father by disinheriting Marius' property and demanded that Marius be raised.
His military exploits were not recognized, and the father of Marius, who had only half of his retirement salary, had to agree, and he also accepted the condition that he could not visit Marius. He could only hide in the church and look at his son's back every Sunday when he was attending Mass. . It was not until the day of his father's death that Marius finally saw his father for the last time.
Discovering that he has a father and is a hero of the battlefield of Waterloo, his father's political position began to affect Marius, and his grandfather's forced separation of father and son also made him emotionally hate this old man who actually loved him, living in the nineteenth century. Freedom, equality and fraternity In the heyday of ideas, it was also natural for young people such as Marius to turn to revolutionary beliefs, because he decided to run away from home, preferring to live in poverty.
2. Where did Marius get his title of baron?
If he only watched the movie, he would feel that Marius was too easy to compromise. All his companions were sacrificed. After recovering from his injury, he happily married his beloved Cosette and inherited it. The family title, leaving the revolutionary ideals behind, immediately transformed from Bohemia to Bourgeois.
In fact, the baronship of Marius was not recognized by the Louis XVIII regime at that time, because it was all given to his father by Napoleon on the battlefield of Waterloo, but the regime changed frequently at that time, and anyone should be able to claim it There is a title. In fact, Marius only needs to wait 16 years. Napoleon's nephew came to power in 1848 and became Napoleon III. I believe that this baron should be able to be removed smoothly and get the due salary and privileges.
Then why did Marius and Cosette live a prosperous life later?
When they got married, Jean Vangqiang gave the remaining 580,000 francs of his savings as Cosette's dowry and gave it to Marius. At that time, the wife's property was the husband's property. The admitted baron, not only married a beauty, but also became a millionaire. Also because of the huge fortune of 580,000 francs, Marius' grandfather felt that he had to be a baron to be worthy of his beloved grandson, so he didn't care that the baron was from Napoleon, the one he hated the most. power is always great).
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First, no one came to save Shang Wanqiang even if the dynasty changed.
France in the nineteenth generation was a series of dynasties. Compared with Britain's milder approach to regime change on the other side, France has taken the line of bloody violence. After the French Revolution, regardless of whether it was the same regime or not, the upstarts who had just grabbed the core of power were busy sending the original core of power directly to the guillotine. In just a few years, there were more than 30,000 grievances on the guillotine.
Even the guillotine was a "new technology" embraced by the National Assembly of the regime at that time because there were too many executions to be executed, and the executioner was simply too busy. Ironically, the parliamentary representatives who advocated the adoption of the guillotine at the beginning believed that the new era must pursue humanitarianism, so the torture of the death row inmates should be abolished, and the guillotine for quick execution should be used instead.
Those in power are like revolving lanterns, and the common people who don't care much about history will have a harder life.
I made a list of Jean Wanqiang's life according to the narrative of the novel and the regime changes in France in the 19th century, and the result is even more sad.
In 1796, at the end of the eighteenth century, Shang Wanqiang was arrested and imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread and became a five-year labor prisoner. During his nineteen-year sentence, he passed through the Directorate Government, the Executive Government and the Napoleonic Empire until he was released on parole. In 1815, the dynasty had been changed again, and Louis XVIII of the Bourbon family was back as king. There were four dynasties in the middle, many of which were hostile to each other, but for the convicts at the bottom of the society, the prison shuffling, which is common in changing dynasties, obviously did not happen at all. The elites who are busy building a new society have no time to clean up the wrongful convictions of the old regime.
When Cosette grew up, considering that if she stayed in the monastery for a long time, Cosette would be forced to become a nun, she loved Cosette deeply and hoped to give her a wonderful life. Take Cosette to Paris. Not long after, the French government changed again, and Louis XVIII was replaced by Louis Philips. After five regimes, Shang Wanqiang still lives under the oppression of evil laws.
The regime change, obviously not reformed to the human rights of the French people, freedom, equality and fraternity, is still just a slogan. To quote Javert in the novel: "Stealing over a wall, breaking a branch, stealing a few apples. If it is done by a child, it is naughty; if it is done by an adult, it is negligence; if it is done by a convict, It’s a crime.”
When there is no way out for reform within the system, revolution is obviously the only option left.
2. The Emperor's Defeat Monument Becomes a Sanctuary for Wild Children
In addition to being busy with political struggles, the upper classes are busy erecting large-scale buildings to honor their achievements. Napoleon originally planned to build a bronze elephant in the Place de la Bastille to commemorate his coronation and military exploits, but it may be due to the scarcity of materials and engineering problems. In the end, the elephant only used wood and plaster to build a 24-meter-tall. The model is placed where the original bronze elephant was intended to be placed. With Napoleon's downfall, the elephant's project, of course, came to an end. But after Hugo wrote this plaster model elephant into Les Miserables and turned it into a sanctuary for the wild child Gavroche, although now only the pedestal remains of the elephant remains, and another Pillar of July monument has been erected on it. , but in the world of literature, this elephant has almost gained immortality.
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Just stealing a bread, it was enslaved by the legal.
How to wash away such anger? Jean Wanqiang was fortunate to meet two angels: one was Bishop Bienvenu (Bienvenu, which is only one letter away from welcoming bienvenue in French); the other one, he saved his angel - Ke Dorset. The bishop made Jean-Vintage feel forgiveness, tolerance and acceptance again; Cosette gave him true love and warmth.
Shang Wanqiang, who had long lost contact with his family, had a gloomy personality and resentment against the society during his 19 years as a labor convict. During his 19 years in prison, he only earned 109 francs and 15 sous for his hard labor. He has nowhere to go, no employment. The bishop forgives him for stealing silver utensils, and makes him believe that there is forgiveness and virtue in the world; accidentally agreeing to Fonteyn to raise his illegitimate daughter makes Jean-Vintage, who has never been truly loved in his life, taste the joy of being a father. .
As the illegitimate daughter of her father's dewy marriage, Cosette was fostered by her mother Fonteyn in the house of a vicious innkeeper and became their child laborer. She had no shoes on a snowy day, was beaten and scolded at every turn, usually sweeps the floor from morning to night, and fetches water and knits socks for Ebony.
Hugo describes in detail in the book that one needs a lover, and one needs to be loved; one needs a child, and one just needs a father. (To be honest, raising an eight-year-old girl is barely something a father can do. If it is an eight-month-old baby, I am afraid that Shang Wanqiang will find a kind woman to pay him to raise it. This way He continued to be alone.)
All the imbalances in Shang Wanqiang's life were gradually comforted in the process of raising a little girl who suffered just like him. He once had the opportunity to lock the little girl in the convent for life, and let Cosette become a nun after finishing the boarding school in the convent. owns Cosette.
But Jean-Vintage did not do this. He chose to leave the abbey and go to Paris to let Cosette see this prosperous world. Shang Wanqiang lived in a cold hut with only straw chairs and cots. Cosette lived in a suite with a small living room facing the garden, with a Persian rug, a table with roten and a ceramic dresser imported from Japan. Cosette bought new outfits at will, even the boots were made of satin, becoming "one of the best-dressed women in Paris".
And when she grew up, Cosette was not only a gorgeous daughter, but also a kind and good girl. Her greatest joy is to go out together with Shang Wanqiang to help the poor. Even after Shang Wanqiang refused to explain her life experience many times, she still loves this mysterious old man with the feeling of a daughter.
Only two tormented souls can rely on each other in this way, can they know the past that they are unable to explore, and can only wake up the past at the right time.
She never intended to abandon the old man who had brought her up, either during the desperation of Chamvin-Qiang or after Cosette married Marius. Only such a pure and kind heart can comfort Shang Wanqiang's aggrieved life.
How important is Cosette to Jean Vincennes? Twice Jean Vanqiang told Javert his location and waited for him to catch him, once before meeting Cosette, and once to make sure Cosette fell in love with Marius , after he rescued Marius and went home, there was almost no Cosette, and Jean-Vintage didn't even want freedom.
And after voluntarily leaving Cosette, Jean-Vinette's strong body suddenly collapsed. Because this little girl has always been the only happiness in Shang Wanqiang's life, once the angel finds another destination, the suffering of Shang Wanqiang's life immediately loses its buffer, and directly overwhelms the old man.
Shang Wanqiang is a daughter in love, and at the same time he is a saint-like father. He endured his possible danger and left the safe monastery, fulfilled his daughter's love and saved his daughter's lover. Martyrdom and redemption, there is great love and responsibility in sacrifice, and to practice love and responsibility by sacrificing one's own happiness and stability, Shang Wanqiang raised his father's love to the realm of saints. (Yes, this book, Les Miserables, is actually about the Christian spirit of martyrdom and redemption.)
Postscript: The stage play version of Les Miserables does not deal with the mutual dependence between Jean-Pierre and Cosette. On the one hand, the stage is The drama version needs stronger dramatic tension to maintain its popularity. On the other hand, stage plays that cannot show subtle expressions can only be passed easily. In the 2012 film version of the musical, an extra song "Sunddenly" was written to strengthen this part. However, because this song is tailor-made for the film version of actor Hugh Jackman, the tonality is more like a gentle pop music, and it is quite different from the classical style of the original musical, which is actually a pity. place.
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