An In-Depth Guide to Les Mis Adaptations

There is a worse adaptation of les mis than 1998! (And a worse movie adaption of a book than Percy Jackson!) 

**spoilers for a 160 year old novel**

This movie is practically conservative most probably owing to the Hays Code- the title sequence has a bastardised Hugo quote, the revolutionaries are notably ‘not revolutionaries sir politics is not our business’ and ‘are in favour of a more strict control of crime than now…

One rewatch later I’m still mad
WE NEVER FIND OUT AMERICA FERRERAS CHARACTERS NAME IN THE FILM!! She’s subtitled as sasha’s mom!!! Grievous fucking oversight if you ask me even worse than not giving any background to her existential crisis aside from one montage played twice from different povs why is she thinking about death? Because her daughter is growing up and she’s growing older? Because her own mom died? it can be inferred sure but this is supposed to…