History Fridge / LesMiserables

** Enjolras never finds out [[spoiler:how many guns they have. Both times that he asks Feuilly and Combeferre if they have the guns they need, he gets interrupted before they can answer: first by Grantaire, then by Gavroche.]]

* In the ending [[spoiler: when Fantine and Eponine take Valjean's soul to Heaven, all who died during the book are there...except Javert. Because he committed suicide, his soul is either in Hell or, at the very least, in Purgatory, deprived from his eternal peace. There's [[http://www.pontauchange.com/Oddities/lastduet.html a prolonged alternative ending]] to the musical where Valjean beseech God to absolve Javert and it ends with Valjean guiding Javert's soul to Heaven in turn, but it hasn't been used in any adaptions so far.

* Jean Valjean's prison number, 24601, is the same as Victor Hugo's birthday, the 24th of June, 1801 - therefore, 24/6/01.

* In the 2012 film, Sacha Baron Cohen's Thenardier accent slips between Cockney, over-the-top French, and a bit of fake plummy in between, making him the only character to have any kind of French accent (for everyone else, [[TheQueensLatin The Queens French]] applies). This differs from the norm in which the character just slips between Cockney and a fake plummy accent. However, this might make sense, as the novel suggests that Thenardier might not actually be French, but instead a Belgian who lived near Waterloo and started passing himself off as French at the same time he started passing himself off s a soldier. Thus, as part of TranslationConvention, Cohen's Thenardier does the usual slip between lower class accent and fake upper class one, but he also has the noticeable French accent to mirror how the character's actual background is with Belgian French or Flemish, but is putting on a French (from France) accent

* Most people are very divided on Russel Crowe’s performance of Javert, citing an overall lack of range, volume, and vocal presence, especially in “Stars.” It is usually seen as a declaration of Javert’s crusade to capture Valjean, using the stars and God as his witness. However, in the film version, Crowe’s Javert is singing this song right after Valjean has just escaped him for the second time. Crowe’s Javert sings the song much more softly, but with just as much emphasis, while walking along a narrow ledge. This is not a Javert that is planning a personal crusade, but a Javert reassuring himself in his faith that, just as the stars have their order in the sky, so too does the world have an order, which is the law. His faith in this order is illustrated by his walking on the ledge; it is dangerous, and he could fall, but he firmly believes that God will keep him from falling in accordance with this order, just as he orders the stars in the sky. This is referenced again in “Javert’s Suicide;” once again, he is walking along a ledge and pondering the order of the world. However, this time, his belief in this order is shaken. He remarks that “the stars are black and cold,” and is no longer certain about his faith in God or the nature of the law. When this faith is challenged, he falls from the ledge and dies.

* Most people are very divided on Crowe’s performance of Javert, citing an overall lack of range, volume, and vocal presence, especially in “Stars.” It is usually seen as a declaration of Javert’s crusade to capture Valjean, using the stars and God as his witness. However, in the film version, Russel Crowe’s Javert is singing this song right after Valjean has just escaped him for the second time. Crowe’s Javert sings the song much more softly, but with just as much emphasis, while walking along a narrow ledge. This is not a Javert that is planning a personal crusade, but a Javert reassuring himself in his faith that, just as the stars have their order in the sky, so too does the world have an order, which is the law. His faith in this order is illustrated by his walking on the ledge; it is dangerous, and he could fall, but he firmly believes that God will keep him from falling in accordance with this order, just as he orders the stars in the sky. This is referenced again in “Javert’s Suicide;” once again, he is walking along a ledge and pondering the order of the world. However, this time, his belief in this order is shaken. He remarks that “the stars are black and cold,” and is no longer certain about his faith in God or the nature of the law. When this faith is challenged, he falls from the ledge and dies.

* Most people are very divided on Crowe’s performance of Javert, citing an overall lack of range, volume, and vocal presence, especially in “Stars.” It is usually seen as a declaration of Javert’s crusade to capture Valjean, using the stars and God as his witness. However, in the film version, Russel Crowe’s Javert is singing this song right after Valjean has just escaped him for the second time. Crowe’s Javert sings the song much more softly, but with just as much emphasis, while walking along a narrow ledge. This is not a Javert that is planning a personal crusade, but a Javert reassuring himself in his faith that, just as the stars have their order in the sky, so to does the world have an order, which is the law. His faith in this order is illustrated by his walking on the ledge; it is dangerous, and he could fall, but he firmly believes that God will keep him from falling in accordance with this order, just as he orders the stars in the sky. This is referenced again in “Javert’s Suicide;” once again, he is walking along a ledge and pondering the order of the world. However, this time, his belief in this order is shaken. He remarks that “the stars are black and cold,” and is no longer certain about his faith in God or the nature of the law. When this faith is challenged, he falls from the ledge and dies.

* A lot of people seem to be divided on Russel Crowe's performance of Javert, especially in "Stars". However, consider the placing of the song in the film. It's right after Valjean has gotten away from Javert for the second time. Javert is calmly walking on the edge of a building as he sings out to the city. Crowe's interpretation of the song isn't meant to be the swearing of a crusade. It's meant to be taken as more of a softer reassurance that Javert will catch Valjean because of his faith in the law and the ways of the world, just as he has faith that he won't fall from that ledge and that the stars will burn forever in the sky. As said above, this is even called back to during Javert's suicide when he is walking on the edge of the bridge. He remarks that the stars are black and cold and then he falls into the river. A different take on the song to be sure, but not an altogether wrong one.

* In the musical, Éponine isn't that crazy, and is portrayed as being a close friend of Marius', making his obliviousness to her feelings seem a tad thick of him. But some productions make Éponine be played by a teenager, and Marius and Cosette as more grown up, so that Marius doesn't notice her feelings because he sees her as a little sister.
** That'll definitely [[DependingOnTheArtist depend on the actor.]] In the book, Cosette and Éponine are supposed to be the same age (though Éponine may look younger due to malnutrition.)

* FridgeBrilliance:
** In the musical, Éponine isn't that crazy, and is portrayed as being a close friend of Marius', making his obliviousness to her feelings seem a tad thick of him. But some productions make Éponine be played by a teenager, and Marius and Cosette as more grown up, so that Marius doesn't notice her feelings because he sees her as a little sister.
*** That'll definitely [[DependingOnTheArtist depend on the actor.]] In the book, Cosette and Éponine are supposed to be the same age (though Éponine may look younger due to malnutrition.)
** In the song "Red and Black":
*** "Red- a world about to dawn!" Think of the phrase "Red sky at morning, sailors take warning." Now go back to "One Day More." "One more day before the storm!" and "A Little Fall of Rain." Get it?
*** "Like the flowing of the tide, Paris coming to our side!" [[spoiler:The tide goes in and out...]]
* FridgeHorror: Remember in ''Waltz of Treachery'', when Thenardier said that he "[[ExactWords treated [Cosette] like one of [his] own]]"? Well, technically, [[AbusiveParents he wasn't lying...]]

* I had one for ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' based on one of the performances on Youtube. During Thenardier's VillainSong "Dog Eat Dog", he refers to {{God}} being as dead as the "stiffs at (his) feet". Initially, this just seemed like a usual example of a villain having NietzscheWannabe pretentions, but then it hit me... During this scene, Thenardier is in the Paris sewers, and it seems like the "stiffs" he references are Valjean and Marius, neither of whom are dead. Thus, the musical is sending the message that God is very much alive.-- {{Jordan}}

*** That'll definitely [[DependingOnTheArtist depend on the actor.]] In the book, Cosette and Eponine are supposed to be the same age (though Eponine may look younger due to malnutrition.)

* I had one for ''[[{{Theatre/ptitlenjisnv3p}} Les Misérables]]'' based on one of the performances on Youtube. During Thenardier's VillainSong "Dog Eat Dog", he refers to {{God}} being as dead as the "stiffs at (his) feet". Initially, this just seemed like a usual example of a villain having NietzscheWannabe pretentions, but then it hit me... During this scene, Thenardier is in the Paris sewers, and it seems like the "stiffs" he references are Valjean and Marius, neither of whom are dead. Thus, the musical is sending the message that God is very much alive.-- {{Jordan}}