Never saw the musical production, but did read the novel before in abridged version and it's in English translation as well. Funny that whenever I think about Les Miserables (because normally people have the tendency to link to the musical production, I can understand), I will want to break out into this song being used in the musical - 'Castle On A Cloud'.
Because this song was being used once in my past school's music lessons like five years back. We were being taught by our music teacher how to sing it like in the form of Cosette in the musical and we even watched parts of the musical through this tape or something my music teacher has. It was the beginning of me discovering all about Les Miserables and everything in between.
Jean Valjean (Liam Nesson) is actually an escaped convict, but then he had managed to work his way through to become a mayor of the town and being popular among its folks. Cosette's mother Fantine (Uma Thurman) was working in the factory that Valjean owned. When it became made known to Fantine herself that she is almost dying, she asked the mayor to find her Cosette and take care of her. But the thing is, young Cosette has already been working for the Thenardiers for some time and the family has always been harsh to her even when Valjean managed to locate Cosette down. Soon Valjean took her under his wing and raised her like his own.
Years passed and Cosette (Claire Danes) is 18. By this time, the poor are very unhappy over the French government. A group of university students (they call themselves Friends of the ABC) decided to lead a revolutionary movement. One of them is Marius. Soon, he was being taken by Cosette and always tried to meet her out. But, a revolution is about to happen and his friends needs him and even when a jealous Eponine (she actually happens to be part of the Thenardiers) gets in the way, everything starts to become so uncertain.
In the times where the people have no idea what will happen tomorrow during the events of the French Revolution (which did happened in history), it's a little poignant and sad as I watched this movie.
I had actually watched the movie once on television here, and another time on cable. Though the ending was kind of what I had never really expected to be (maybe given I had read the English translation of the novel before), at least it gave the uninitiated an idea of Victor Hugo's best known work.
Because this song was being used once in my past school's music lessons like five years back. We were being taught by our music teacher how to sing it like in the form of Cosette in the musical and we even watched parts of the musical through this tape or something my music teacher has. It was the beginning of me discovering all about Les Miserables and everything in between.
Jean Valjean (Liam Nesson) is actually an escaped convict, but then he had managed to work his way through to become a mayor of the town and being popular among its folks. Cosette's mother Fantine (Uma Thurman) was working in the factory that Valjean owned. When it became made known to Fantine herself that she is almost dying, she asked the mayor to find her Cosette and take care of her. But the thing is, young Cosette has already been working for the Thenardiers for some time and the family has always been harsh to her even when Valjean managed to locate Cosette down. Soon Valjean took her under his wing and raised her like his own.
Years passed and Cosette (Claire Danes) is 18. By this time, the poor are very unhappy over the French government. A group of university students (they call themselves Friends of the ABC) decided to lead a revolutionary movement. One of them is Marius. Soon, he was being taken by Cosette and always tried to meet her out. But, a revolution is about to happen and his friends needs him and even when a jealous Eponine (she actually happens to be part of the Thenardiers) gets in the way, everything starts to become so uncertain.
In the times where the people have no idea what will happen tomorrow during the events of the French Revolution (which did happened in history), it's a little poignant and sad as I watched this movie.
I had actually watched the movie once on television here, and another time on cable. Though the ending was kind of what I had never really expected to be (maybe given I had read the English translation of the novel before), at least it gave the uninitiated an idea of Victor Hugo's best known work.