Tag Archives: Les Misérables
An Appreciation of Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables Part 3: A Master Adaptation
For the last part of this series on the 2012 Les Misérables, I want to finally talk about it as an adaptation, and the way it uses elements of both Boublil and Schonberg’s musical and Victor Hugo’s novel. This is … Continue reading
An Appreciation of Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables Part 2: The Part That’s Not Actually Appreciative
It may seem strange that I’m going to devote a whole blogpost to what I consider the shortcomings of Les Misérables (2012), especially when I claimed to be tired of the negativity I sensed towards it on the internet. But … Continue reading
An Appreciation of Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables Part 1: A Masterpiece of Visual Storytelling
It doesn’t say much for my confidence that I feel compelled to start off my first non-introductory blog post with a disclaimer. But during the past year and a bit into the current one, there have been far too many … Continue reading