@whoever makes these adaptations – ¯_( ಠ_ಠ)

saltedpin:

the thing that really gets my back up about when adaptations make Valjean romantically attracted to Fantine is entirely because it points to such a dearth of imagination in scriptwriters and producers that they can’t possibly conceive of why a man might want to help a woman in distress for any reason other than because he wants to fuck her