favorite parts of the brick that weren’t in the musical
• jean and jeanne having a kid named jean valjean
• valjean stealing an incredibly minor amount of money from a kid right after being released from prison
• valjean becoming a gardener
• valjean being hidden in a coffin
• the amount of times victor hugo pretends valjean isn’t valjean
• victor hugo discussing how puns are in fact very serious
• bahorel first meeting marius like “hi, thanks for getting me out of law school”
• marius having no money and then sending back the money his grandfather have him so he can freeload off courfeyrac
• bahorel giving joly love advice by telling him to buy new pants
• marius, praising napoleon: “what could be better than having such an emperor?” combeferre: “to be free”
• marius obsessing over the handkerchief he thinks is cosette’s but it turns out to be valjean’s
• grantaire trying to impress enjolras by wearing a robespierre waistcoat (why does he even own that?)
• marius banging his head against a tree for two hours when he learns that cosette is going to england
• marius refusing to go outside in the day wearing anything but black
• anything with marius tbh
• bousset: “enjolras doesn’t even have a girlfriend” enjolras: “excuse you i have france”
Notable mention – Grantaire got drunk, nearly passed out and Enjolras told him that whilst he didn’t care that he was drunk, he was disrespecting the barricade and had to leave