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Fuck Yeah Victor Hugo
a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France.
Have you pre-ordered the Hunchback graphic novel coming out?
Oh, I didn’t even know that there was a Hunchback graphic novel coming out. Thanks for telling me; I’ll be sure to order it!
Victor Hugo, photographed by Auguste Vacquerie, 1850s
I do not even deign no more, in my dark laziness,
Answer the envious whose mouth harms me.
O Lord! open for me the doors of the night,
For me to leave and disappear!Victor Hugo, “Veni, Vedi, Vixi” in Les Contemplations, April 1848.
so long as there shall exist a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilization, complicates a destiny that is divine with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age—the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of women by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by night—are not solved; so long as social asphyxia shall be possible; so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.
—preface to les misérables, by victor hugo
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Esmeralda by Maria Dillon
1899
Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) brings the beloved musical adaptation of Les Miserables to the big screen with Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe as the warring Jean Valjean and Javert. I was worried Anne Hathaway and Amanda Seyfried would be the ones to break the spell for me, but after this trailer I want more more more…
Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Anticipation is high for the Dec. 14 release of the big-screen version of one of the most popular stage musicals ever. Though cinematic interpretations of Broadway shows have become more commonplace since Chicago took the 2002 best-picture Oscar, Les Mis represents a new phase in the evolution of the movie musical.
The tale of love, redemption and social unrest that unfolds in 19th-century France — whose dialogue, along with such showstopping numbers as On My Own, is completely sung — will feature live performances instead of following the tradition of actors lip-syncing to a pre-recorded track.
Tom Hooper, Oscar-winning director of The King’s Speech, wouldn’t have it any other way.
“If you are miming to a playback, even if the synchronization is done very well, there is a part of you that knows something is off, something is false,” he says. “When it’s live, you believe it so much more. The actors have complete freedom rather than following a recording done three months before.”
Hooper says the results deliver those “spine-tingling moments” he appreciated when he saw the stage show. Fans will get to hear a sampling when a Les Mis teaser premieres on MSN.com Wednesday before it hits theaters Friday.
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