The Movie Les Miserables ( 2012, United Kingdom )

Moulin Rouge is one of Baz Luhrmann’s best films. The movie came out in June 2001 and has won many awards and is one of the best movies in the musical genre. The set design, costumes, casting of roles, and music all is so perfectly put together to create this brilliant film. Luhrmann, who also co-wrote the movie with Craig Pearce, traveled to Paris with Pearce and the production designer to conduct historical research and write the synopsis for the movie. “To find ways to depict 19th century Paris and the Moulin Rouge as it may have felt to its audience then - at the cutting edge of sex, music, dance, theater and modern thinking - the filmmakers immersed themselves in the neighborhood, venues and culture of their story” (Luhrmann). Through their research and learning about the culture, they came to understand that the Moulin Rouge was a club that brought all different classes together and Pearce quotes that is the equivalent of “Studio 54 in New York in the late 70’s; a place where the rich and the powerful can mix with the young, the beautiful

It didn’t help me to analyze anything from the book or make any good connection with the themes. The movie and the novel share one thing in common, which is the main characters struggle with society. The main character in the movie, Charlie, battles with his love for religion (Catholicism) and his Mafia ambitions. The movie has an abrupt ending with a scene of an ambulance and paramedics arriving to help Charlie and Johnny that have been shot by the man they owe money to. The movies main purpose was to illustrate the cultural and ethnic situation of the time and how it impacted the youth’s

The book begins with the convict, Jean Valjean, being released from a French Prison. He has served nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread and subsequent escape attempts. He is set free, but only with his identification papers yellow. This marks him as criminal, and now in the new town, no one is willing to house him. In despair, Jean Valjean goes to the bishop M. Myriel. The kind man allows him to stay, but Jean Valjean repays him by stealing the bishop’s silverware then running for it.

During his eight years in hiding, Valjean became a wealthy factory owner and the mayor of a town called Montreuil-sur-Mer. A worker in Valjean’s factory named Fantine, has her secret of sending money to the Thénardiers, the caretakers of her child, Cosette, exposed, and is fired from her job. Fantine, left with no other options, resorts to prostitution to support Cosette. During an altercation with an abusive customer, now police inspector, Javert, arrests Fantine, but Valjean stops him, and takes Fantine to a hospital where she is diagnosed with a terminal case of tuberculosis. While at the hospital, Valjean learns that a man suspected to be the missing prisoner himself, is put on trial for a crime he

Musicals have been gracing the big screen rarely these days that it is difficult not to be wowed by the brilliance and daring of Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land.” A closer of the films examination reveals heavy influences and borrowed plot elements from the best of the ’30’s and ’40’s, but Chazelle’s efforts takes on a life of its own thanks to the infusion of numerous musical and visual elements. At its core, “La La Land” keeps the message of chasing dreams fairly, but the fluid and ever-changing progression of musical sequences, complemented by a memorable recurring romantic tune, easily sweeps the audience into the whirlwind of emotions that accompany the two leads’ journey in and out of love through one magical year in Los Angeles. Contrary

In the film industry there are all types of different genres ranging from happy comedic films, all the way to dark and depressing films that all serve an important purpose. Each film genre has a specific way of evoking certain emotions out of viewers. All throughout the years, different movie genres used different approaches to impact viewers about certain issues that was going on in their culture. Today, I will be analyzing and talking about the descriptive approach within the musical romance Grease and how it is used to create an interesting and loved film. In the descriptive approach of analyzing films, there are many questions that can be asked towards specific genres such as: What is frightening, or what possibilities do we fear?

From the moment he meets her, Jean Valjean is ready to sacrifice everything for Cosette; whom he cares after as if she were his own daughter. From the moment he escapes prison to find her to the moment he risks his life at the barricade to save the love of her life he lives selflessly. “He went to the barricade to save me. As it is a necessity for him to be an angel, on the way, he saved others.” (326) His realization at the bishop’s house made Jean

Jean Valjean is caught committing questionable crimes and is detained in prison for 19 years. Because of his past, people constantly look down upon him. He meets Fantine, Cosette's mother who is on her death bed, and promises to rescue Cosette from the Thenardiers. After doing so, Cosette's love redeems him. He is immersed in love he has never felt. Cosette loves him and accepts him just as he is, regardless of the past. She saves him.

“The reason Les Miserable touches its audience in ways others cannot, is that it speaks to us to remind us of the times society has tried to define our worth” (What Les Miserables taught us…

A few weeks ago, I had a chance to watch Les Miserables at Imperial Theater. Les Miserables is play based on Victor Hugo’s award winning novel. I must admit that the play made me realize the great stories that will continue be told in mass media for years to come. Much to my astonishment, the characters in the play essentially delivered a great show, ranging from their acting to their singing.

Les Misérables (1862), a novel set in early nineteenth century France, presents a story of obsessions in honor, love, and duty, and through it redemption and salvation. It is the story of the poor Jean Valjean, condemned to an unfair amount of time in prison and a life on the run for stealing a loaf of bread for his starving family. The kind act of forgiveness from a Bishop with whom Jean Valjean stays one night, changes the course in which he chooses to live his life. Under a different identity, he becomes wealthy from a business he starts and later is elected mayor of the small town of Montreuil. He falls madly in love with Fantine, one of the workers in his factory. Because Fantine, one of the very

Fate is defined to be the development of events beyond a person’s control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power, (Google definition) In that case, I strongly believe that free will does bring about a person’s fate or future. One is highly capable of achieving virtually anything regardless of the background in which they were brought up in. The characters in the novel Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo illustrate their free will through their actions. They are essentially given the chance to develop their own forthcoming.

Valjean’s turning point of growth begins after the last words the Bishop shares with him. “You belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying from you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts, and from the spirit of perdition. I give it to God!” (39) The reader is aware of the obvious change in Valjean’s life, as his identity was changed twice (Monsieur Madeline, and Monsieur LeBlanc) to hide away from his past convict life. Eventually, Jean Valjean was faced with a dilemma. He had to make a choice between the death of an innocent man (who is accused of being the convict, Jean Valjean), and his own fate of hiding once again. The only thing that stood in the way for him to make a rational choice, was his promise he made to Fantine (a lower class, ill-fated prostitute). That is, to take care of her daughter after she died. He expressed goodness from then on in every aspect of the novel. By keeping his promise to Fantine, saving an innocent man’s life, not redeeming Javert from his position as inspector (considering he denounced him Jean Valjean before admitted), and not killing Javert when he could have (even though Javert continued to chase him down since he possessed Cossette). Because of the Bishop’s compassion for Valjean, it influenced Valjean to lead on a better, forgiving life. Jean Valjean started out as a resenting convict, but progressed through letting go of the past,

In his novel, Les Miserables, Victor Hugo identifies the principle social evils of French society through the actions and qualities of his characters. By depicting each of his characters’ struggles through destitute and oppressed measures, Hugo is able to identify the social errors of 19th century France. The fact that characters such as Valjean, Javert, Fantine, and Cosette, attempt to rise above poverty and redeem themselves indicate that such inequalities did, and still do, exist to this day. Through the use of feminist ideals and the criminal injustice system, Hugo attacks the principle social evils that each of his characters face in Les Miserables.

Les Miserables is a characteristic romantic work in both theme and form. In theme the novel assaults the traditional social structure, glorifies freedom of thought and spirit, and makes a hero of the average individual. In this novel the several characters were portrayed as heros. It follows the lives and interactions of several French