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Yakko

You know you're obsessed with Enjolras when...

You sing all of his songs even if your not on key

You wish that you could have your own red vest

that you wish you could die a glorious death like him

And when you get you get chills when he sings his solo in one day more.
Orestes Fasting

Have I ever told the story about the time I was Enjolras for Halloween?

If I haven't, it's because it sucked. After all the trouble involved in sewing forty-two rows of gold braid onto a red vest, the costume still looked like crap and nobody recognized me. (The latter had more to do with the fact that nobody at my old school seemed to like Les Mis...) But that's still some freaking dedication.
Yakko

Well I always wanted to play Enjolras in Les Mis but that dream may sadly never happen. Anyway how did you make your vest?
Eppie-Sue

Mr. Green Mr. Green Mr. Green
I love digging up old threads. and just from what I've seen and read on this board during the last two days, this thread is needed.

Here we go. These are all examples of my very own pathetic obsession. (I have to add that I was introduced to Les Miz when I was nine years old, and by the age of ten, I read the brick. Yeah, I'm weird.)


- When you were asked what you wanted to be when you'd grow up, your immediate response was: "A student leader." (I was a very entertaining kid at the age of nine, I believe. I mean, people had no idea what I was talking about, but it must have been fun to have me talk nonsense about royalists and democrats and barricades...)

- You used your mum's white blouse and the inside of one of her 80s vests (golden) to stage your very own Caf� Musain.

- You died innumerable times waving an imaginary red flag on your loft bed. And yes, after that you hung upside down from the top bunk, arms stiffly reaching out into the air.

- When you casted your very own imaginary 4th grade production of Les Miz with the members of your own form, it didn't cross your mind to put yourself as one of the female roles. Or, for that matter, as one of the main male parts. No, you always were - somehow always had been - Enjolras.

- When your history teacher handed you a caricature about the French Revolution displaying a beautiful woman grabbing crown and sceptre, you instantly knew her name. Patria. And you laughed at all the n00bs who named her France.

- You know that the correct pronouncation should be Buonaparte.

- You have a t-shirt that says "Quia Nominor Leo".

- You have yet to find a synonym for "Enjolraic".

- You think dominoes is a waste of time.
MlleTholomy�s

My catchphrase: Enjolraic is a synonym in itself. It's the perfect word.
lesmisloony

Eppie-Sue wrote:

- You died innumerable times waving an imaginary red flag on your loft bed. And yes, after that you hung upside down from the top bunk, arms stiffly reaching out into the air.

As someone who has slept in a lofted bed in my dorm for two years now, I am full of shame that I have never thought to do this.
Eppie-Sue

lesmisloony wrote:
Eppie-Sue wrote:

- You died innumerable times waving an imaginary red flag on your loft bed. And yes, after that you hung upside down from the top bunk, arms stiffly reaching out into the air.

As someone who has slept in a lofted bed in my dorm for two years now, I am full of shame that I have never thought to do this.


Very Happy Do it! I actually tried it again a few days ago - with my normal bed now Wink , but the whole hanging upside down thing (it's almost a minute from when the barricade starts to turn to the moment Enjolras disappears again) was a lot more painful and actually harder than I remembered it to be. I'm getting old.
Orestes Fasting

Eppie-Sue wrote:
- When your history teacher handed you a caricature about the French Revolution displaying a beautiful woman grabbing crown and sceptre, you instantly knew her name. Patria. And you laughed at all the n00bs who named her France.


Actually, her name is Marianne. (Shut up, people-who-know-me-on-Abaiss�. I was using it as a pseudonym before I knew that because it's the title of a Sisters of Mercy song.)
Eppie-Sue

Orestes Fasting wrote:
Eppie-Sue wrote:
- When your history teacher handed you a caricature about the French Revolution displaying a beautiful woman grabbing crown and sceptre, you instantly knew her name. Patria. And you laughed at all the n00bs who named her France.


Actually, her name is Marianne.


Ah, but she didn't have the cap and all, and from what I remember the description, which we got to read later, was something like "La patrie s'approprie des insignes" (ah, must refresh my memory of French grammar). So, coincidentally, in that particular caricature, Patria was about as right as I could be. Smile
MlleTholomy�s

Eppie-Sue wrote:

- When your history teacher handed you a caricature about the French Revolution displaying a beautiful woman grabbing crown and sceptre, you instantly knew her name. Patria. And you laughed at all the n00bs who named her France.


My History teacher (whom I love, no malice intended) flashes to a picture depicting the Spheres of Influence afflicting China, and goes: "Uhh, the Prime Minister of Britain, the Czar of Russia, Germany, aaand, the Queen of France-"

"I must object, dear sire. That's Marianne." (For my credit, I pronounced it the American way; you have to take baby steps.)

"What?"

"Marianne. The personification of the French Republic?"
Eppie-Sue

I read this at one of the "Final Battle [10th Anniversary Concert]" videos on YouTube, where they show the aftermath with the instrumental "Bring Him Home", too, and I think it's such a wonderful comment:

Quote:
"Is it pathetic that I reach at the screen when Enjolras' body is being taken out of view, because I don't want to stop seeing him?"

ah, well.
DramaPrincess

I have a habit of naming things after Enjy.
One of my instruments in high school was Enjolras because there's a lot of brass in red and black and it was golden coloured just like his hair Embarassed
And an amarylis plant my mum got given cos it had a red flower Embarassed

I did the Halloween costume too to a music department party (where my obsession was well known - the head of department started playing DYHTPS every time I came into his classroom) but I didn't go to all the gold braid hassle, respect!
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