I fucking love the end of the bishop forgiveness scene because he’s like “don’t forget you promised to be good” and jean valjean’s like “I did what now?”
The bishop went up to him and said quietly, “Don’t forget, never forget, you promised to use this money to become an honest man.”
Jean Valjean, who had no recollection of having made any promise, remained dumbfounded.
Grantaire is always discarding sketches and drawings at the Musain because he (as a typical artist) doesn’t think they’re any good at all and he just assumes they get thrown in the trash by the staff because they’re never there when he comes back the next day.
He only finds out that this isn’t the case when he’s crashing at Bahorel’s one night and he walks past a sketch of Bahorel high-fiving Jehan framed on the wall. As he drops in at all of his friends’ places, he begins to realise that not one of his works has ever been thrown out.
Joly, Musichetta and Bossuet have a pinboard littered with his drawings, Cosette has a scrapbook, Eponine has several pages blu-tacked to the headboard of her bed. Combeferre returns a book to him and forgets his bookmark in the pages; a doodle of chibi!Ferre gazing into the camera like he’s on The Office while chibi!Enjolras rants about “JUSTICE!!1!!’1”. Courfeyrac proudly boasts a wall on which hang framed portraits of all of his friends. Feuilly keeps a group sketch of them all in his wallet. Jehan has the most out of all of them; he hoards pages and pages worth of material, some pinned to his walls, others stacked neatly in his desk drawer to look at whenever he fancies it.
The last one he sees is Enjolras’, because Enjolras is never actually in for long enough to invite anyone over unless he’s sweet talked into hosting a movie night. Which happens, and Grantaire’s sent through to retrieve beers when he sees it; taped to the fridge is the only drawing Grantaire’s ever done that includes a self-portrait. In it he’s in a stare-off with Enjolras, sporting a thought bubble of “if anybody could save the world, it would be him.”
And in a pen and handwriting that isn’t Grantaire’s, Enjolras has been given a thought bubble that says, “if anybody could make the world worth saving, it’d be him.”
Okay, so I keep seeing all this discourse about the Les Amis de l’ABC and what their first names would be, so I’ve come to insert my two cents because of course I have I genuinely care about this subject! So without any further ado, I, Tumblr user ironicandpunny, (not so) proudly present:
Les Amis and Their First Names!
Alexandre Enjolras
Basile Montparnasse (pronounced Baz-eel)
Gabriel Combeferre
Jehan Prouvaire
Léon Bahorel
Marius Pontmercy
Matheo Joly (pronounced Mat-hey-o)
Milo Feuilly (pronounced My-low)
René Grantaire
Theo Bossuet
Timothée Courfeyrac
@the people who keep reblogging my post about Enjolras, here’s the whole gang
Timothee Courf is my fav one but imma stick with Everyone is Jean lmao
My school is putting on the school edition of Les Mis, and despite having seen the stage production, watched the movie, and read the book, my perspective on the characters will forever be altered by events like these:
Only Combeferre, Courfeyrac, and Feuilly are played by guys. The rest of Les Amis (including Gavroche) are girls.
Marius wanted to know if he could actually be “carried like a babe,” so Valjean carried him around the room bridal-style while Courfeyrac tried to steal his shoes.
Enjolras, Grantaire, and Mme. Thénardier singing “Dancing Queen” around the piano
Combeferre and Courfeyrac discussing the Columbian Exchange for a US History project while practicing waving the flag
Feuilly teaching everyone how to do jazz squares
During “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables,” the students formed a semicircle behind Marius and started doing various Fortnite dances.
During the final battle, Courfeyrac died dramatically and fell off the barricade… right next to Jehan, who was sitting on the floor studying the music, and looked up in complete surprise before going “Oh right” and falling over
“Javert, what are you doing?” “Oh, I’m just making my own gravestone.”
We don’t have sound effects yet so when Gavroche dies, there’s no guns, just Marius saying “Bang” in a monotone deadpan
Javert playing songs from La La Land on the piano
We made a temporary barricade out of chairs and Courfeyrac knocked it over TWICE
Valjean just walks in one day carrying four pizzas. That was a good day.
“I love you, Enjolras!” “Grantaire, you’re drunk.” “I still love youuuuuu!”
So that’s that
A few updates:
“Heyyyy, Gavroche and Javert should have a rap battle”
Eponine beating Javert at arm wrestling
Courfeyrac trying to impale Valjean with the flag
Javert didn’t exit quickly enough before Who Am I, so when Valjean sung “He thought that man was me” he turned around with an offended gasp and Valjean LOST IT
“Marius, you’re late!” “Shut UP, Courfeyrac, rehearsals started TWO MINUTES AGO”
Les Amis formed a chorus line behind Gavroche when he confronts Javert and did the can-can
Mme. Thénardier and Enjolras singing “Bad Romance,” both completely in character, the former eyeing Jean Valjean seductively, the other more or less having a staring contest with Grantaire
All of Les Amis singing “I Want It That Way” in a round and it was beautiful
Valjean, Javert, Combeferre, Mme. Thénardier, and Courfeyrac linking arms, marching across the room, and singing the Russian national anthem??
The Cool Section of the Les Mis Fandom: All I want in BBC’s Les Mis is an adaptation that finally (finally!) gives Les Amis the screentime they deserve! “I believe in you!!” And “To be free!” and “WILL YOU peRMIT IT!” The wonderful iconic Les Amis moments!! All the characterizations!!!
Me (not cool, literal opposite of cool): bbc,,,,….all I want is the Brick’s Best Scene Ever….
.u kno, the one that never makes it into adaptations….the post-barricades “Valjean and Javert Reluctantly Agree to Work Together to Bring the Wounded Marius Home, and Have the Most Awkward Road Trip of All Time on the Way There” scene..,,. pls….. bbc,,,,..my dude…..I’ll give you my firstborn child…..
me, groveling on the floor: bbc…. pls…. make my dreams come true…give us the scene where marius sniffs the handkerchief for months thinking it’s cosette’s but it’s not it’s valjean’s….pls bbc i will give you my soul
me, sobbing : bbc, please… Fauchelevent helping Valjean getting out of the convent in order to get in again by locking him up in a coffin… And Fauchelevent panicking because it’s not really going as planned… pls… it’s funny…. and cool…….,,,
Victor Hugo, rising from his grave : bbc … THE SEWERS
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