Aimee
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Les Mis film genres - How would you do it? [silly thread]Ok, you're the film director, you've got the budget but the producer wants a 'way out there' version of Les Mis- anything but a historical drama.
How would you do it?
Anything is ok, no wrong answers.
For example..... how about a Matrix style Les Mis? Valjean is Neo-like, all in black, Javert is Agent Smith-like, the boys are the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar. Lots of 'real time' action and bullets at the barricade. etc etc etc. I'm not sure where Triniy comes in though.
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flying_pigs
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Horror!
Eponine can be the angst ridden teenager who tries to kill anyone who comes near her. Javert is the creepy stalker, Valjean is the good guy who eventually dies. You could probably make the Lovely Ladies scene pretty horrific if you wanted.
And of course there would be lots of blood at the barricade!
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music is my life!!!
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oooh! this looks interesting!
ok... ahem...
basically (like my school!) a complete emo/goth theme where everyone except valjean, fantine and cosette are emo/goth. these guys could be the innocent roles who want the world to be perfect... oh i know! HIPPIES!
 *peace out*
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Eponine93
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Oooh, I'd set it in the East Village in modern times, make Enjolras and crew starving artists instead of students, add a rock beat to all the music and call it Les Rent. Or I could always add in a war protest and take the Les Hair route, haven't decided yet...
Seriously, though... a movie version of the novel or of the musical?
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Crapgame13
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I would make Valjean and Javert ninjas
or science fiction....
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Fantine
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Mary Poppins...
Valjean being like Mary, Javert being like Bert... Cosette and Marius the two children, etc.
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PappyCat
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Put it in SPACE.
I have this theory that pretty much ANY story will work in a sci-fi setting.
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Orestes Fasting
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| PappyCat wrote: | Put it in SPACE.
I have this theory that pretty much ANY story will work in a sci-fi setting. |
What, you mean like stories about evil men getting redeemed by a single selfless act, or dashing and perpetually single young rebels, or a mother sacrificing her life for her child(ren), or characters being kept prisoner by slimy gangsters, or--
Dammit, George Lucas!
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LittleGavroche
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I can totally see a film noir Les Miz. Black and white. Javert is the detective that's always in these kinds of movies, Fantine is the damsel in distress character who comes to the detective for help. Fantine's in love with Valjean, the local club-owner, and Javert slowly falls in love with her, only to find that Fantine is really the criminal so he kills himself. Fast forward ten years, Fantine is in jail on murder charges, and Valjean is still running his club. One day a young lady (Cosette) wanders and meets the piano player. She asks him to "play her song" ("Castle on a Cloud") and it's love at first sight. The local hooker (Eponine) who happens to work at the bar has also been in love with the pianist and in a jealous rage plots to kill the girl. But, she isn't the only one who has been observing the whole goings-on, Valjean who is now quite aged, decides the girl looks familiar and goes to Fantine's cell and interrogates her about having a child. She admits it when he has put a knife to her throat.
I haven't yet figured out how the barricades fit in... 
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happyguava
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A kids version. Not like the SE, just really silly. Like one of those movies that should be a panto but is on the screen?
JAVERT: Where is that man I've been hunting? Where is he? Can you see him?
KIDS (and me!): He's behind you!!!!!!
This brings back memories of our LM director saying as part of this huge practical joke the promotion team had going that he wanted the Epilogue to be "more panto - we've done the serious sad thing to death!". The cast members who were also part of promotion then began to "start a revolution" against him. 
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Fantine
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^
Haha I love that 
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Aimee
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| Eponine93 wrote: | Oooh, I'd set it in the East Village in modern times, make Enjolras and crew starving artists instead of students, add a rock beat to all the music and call it Les Rent. Or I could always add in a war protest and take the Les Hair route, haven't decided yet...
Seriously, though... a movie version of the novel or of the musical? |
Either, no wrong answers. 
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EponineBarker
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I would make it a musical!
No wait...they already have one...
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eponine5
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I sometimes think about how well some bits could fit into a comedy adaptation.
For one thing, they could use the funny aspect of climbing into a girl-who-you've-never-met-before's garden at night and confessing that you love her. And oh look, she loves you too! The amis could easily be made into comic characters, even with some of the dialogue in the novel. And as for Eponine, well, she's a crazy street girl who's decided to stalk a lawyer. Enough said.
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EponineJavert
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Okay, here's my idea: Everyone's pirates!
Thenardier, Thenardiess, Eponine and T's gang are one crew (who at first is slaving Cosette), Enjy, Marius, and the Amis are another, and Javert's part of the Navy. Valjean escapes from a ship where he's a slave, then becomes the Captain of a ship called Montreuil-Sur-Mer, but they eventually make Fantine walk the plank and she ends up (where else?) the docks.
I'll be back with the rest!
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Glissando
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| LittleGavroche wrote: | I can totally see a film noir Les Miz. Black and white. Javert is the detective that's always in these kinds of movies, Fantine is the damsel in distress character who comes to the detective for help. Fantine's in love with Valjean, the local club-owner, and Javert slowly falls in love with her, only to find that Fantine is really the criminal so he kills himself. Fast forward ten years, Fantine is in jail on murder charges, and Valjean is still running his club. One day a young lady (Cosette) wanders and meets the piano player. She asks him to "play her song" ("Castle on a Cloud") and it's love at first sight. The local hooker (Eponine) who happens to work at the bar has also been in love with the pianist and in a jealous rage plots to kill the girl. But, she isn't the only one who has been observing the whole goings-on, Valjean who is now quite aged, decides the girl looks familiar and goes to Fantine's cell and interrogates her about having a child. She admits it when he has put a knife to her throat.
I haven't yet figured out how the barricades fit in... |
You totally read my mind. I love film noir stuff. I would watch this if it was real. Heck, I'll watch it even if it's fake!
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LittleGavroche
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Lol. Me too. I'm sure there's a film out there with a similar plot
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Inspector_Javert
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I have two ideas.
1. A samurai movie in black and white, with a lot of mist and rain, Kurosawa-style. Placed to the end of the Edo era. Mifune for Valjean and Nakadai for Javert (they're awesome together). Valjean is a ronin who becomes a bandit, and he's thrown in jail. Later he escapes and Javert, a samurai, follows him...
There were be some nice katana duels, I think.
The Bishop would be a Buddhist monk (Shimura, other Kurosawa cast member), and the Revolution would be a samurai rebellion at the beginning of the Meiji era...
2. A spaghetti western
Valjean is a sympathetic bandit, Javert is a sheriff, Th�nardier is a greedy Mexican bandit (played by Eli Wallach), the Revolution will be the Mexican Revolution. Enjy is a man of Villa...
Fantine is the gold-hearted-whore, Cosette is the innocent-blonde-girl-from-East. �ponine is a Mexican "bad girl". [/b]
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EponineMNFF
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Please. Stop. Please.
Please.
Please.
Really.
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