Les Misérables is SAD - BLACK PEOPLE REACT
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2020
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A couple of black guys named Noob & Awesome along with a Jewish girl named Danielle watch Les Misérables for the first time. Dawg this is depressing. This is a first time blind reaction. We have never heard this before. 
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The Beauty and the Beast reaction is required reading before watching this
The reason all these French dudes sounds British is because when the show was translated into English it was done in London. So the London cast recording was the first English language version and it's the version that all subsequent productions were based on. So when it came to Broadway? British accents.
I've also heard it pointed out that the English accents are used to highlight the divide in social classes.
@@qbob4202 yeah this was generally what I thought when non English characters spoke English in a non English setting. Why would an aristocrat speak with a silly accent? Far more immersive for them to have a posh English accent and contrast with the others
It's also like not uncommon for movies to do this at all idk why they're so bothered by it lol
Fun fact: there is an ongoing les miserables debate in the literature world about whether or not Enjolras and Grantaire's relationship was gay. It is heavily implicated in the book that Grantaire was in love with Enjolras. The chapter where they die holding hands is called "orestes is hungry and pylades is drunk", orestes and pylades are gay characters from the greek mythology. So it is speculated that V. Hugo tried to add a gay tragedy to Les Miserables, without making it too obvious.
I feel they were gay, or at least bi... but even if they weren't, you can't deny the love between Grantaire and Enjolras. Whether it's romantic or friendship or both.. it's a big part of the novel too... it's all intertwined
@@ponfed friendship like Frodo and Sam in LOTR can also have the most beautiful depth and meaning to it, and even romantic qualities, without there being physical attraction. So there is enough there to find value in no matter what one sees or thinks here for sure!
@@Tom_McMurtry that’s true, the difference being, there are FAR more examples of platonic male friendship than attraction or romance between men in literature due to widespread homophobia. There are definitely examples, but many had to be more subtle because of the homophobia. So it is significant if it’s romantic.
I read the book three or more times by now (yes, even the Waterloo part, fear me) and highlighted every single interaction between Enjolras and Grantaire because I'm a fucking nerd. I also read quite some period novels of around that time, one of them about a definite homosexual relationship just to see wether or not it 'fits the bill'.
In the end we may never know, but I do think that Enjolras is asexual (maybe demiromantic?), as it is written on multiple pages that he does not care about sex and, for example, never kissed anyone till Mabeuf during the last battle.
Whereas Grantaire definitely has feelings for him. Just the domino scene and hints at greek mythology did it for me, not to mention the infamous 'permets-tu?'. But I doubt that he is homosexual, since he talks badly about a girl he was in love with and who left him.
Just my humble nerd opinion, cheers!
@@loverofteaandspice From what it sounds like, Grantaire is probably bisexual then, at least. I used to think Enjolras was celibate rather than asexual, but learning more about asexuality, you're probably right. Still think it could be interpreted in numerous ways, since it often "had" (and even now "has," too often) to be portrayed between the lines.
"I wish all the musicals were live. I hate the lip syncing." THIS IS SO FUNNY because they literally sang this live on set. The music in this was not recorded in a studio. They sang and acted at the same time (in very terrible conditions, dehydrated for hours on end). It's a miracle it sounds even remotely as good as it does.
It sounded pretty good
"Terrible conditions"? It's called method acting. Many characters were dehydrated, so the actors drank less water to capture that for the sake of realism. If Les Miz bothers you, don't look up Christian Bale in The Machinist.
@@jackcinephile7554 method acting is when you put your ability to *_ever speak again_* at risk of developing polyps by dehydrating yourself and singing full blast for 8-10 hours a day when literally nobody asked you to do that.
I didn’t think Russell Crowe was that bad. He had the intensity that was required. You can always see a storm brewing behind his eyes.
Russell Crowe gave a fine performance (although it's not comparable to some of the fire portrayals I have watched on stage and in concerts), but his singing was not that great compared to the others (although funnily enough, in Act 2 I think his singing gets better while Jackman's got worse). To be fair to him, in the conditions he was presented with, I can see how his decent, untrained voice would suffer and turn out poorly onscreen.
@@kingmxjup1825 There may actually be a reason for that. Jackman was originally cast by the producers to play javert, but insisted on playing valjean, and they eventually agreed. In the early parts of the movie in act 1, he must have felt a need to prove that he could play valjean really well since he insisted on it, hence his excellent performance. As the shooting of the movie went on, he might have slowly lost the need to try extra hard to prove himself since people would have already been impressed with him, and hence his performance deteriorated as the movie went on
Fun fact: Most of the actors were deprived of water for days and they were on the verge of breaking their voices. It's honestly a miracle that nothing happened to them.
Edit: Oh BTW in stars he's singing the WRONG NOTES. That man needs help. They didn't hear the music while singing cuz they sang all of this live. And in this one song when he rips the paper he's supposed to time to rips with the music but in this movie it's off sync.
yea i heard that they said they also didn’t get food and had to starve themselves for the roles to give them a more “realistic look”🤦🏾♀️
@@yazzyscorner1173 that's actually insane......
Sabah K. yea it was really bad
Also the fact that they were singing for hours on end,,,,
Some gremlin wandering the web yea true like some of them would actually pass out like some of the characters in the movie
MARIUS AND ENJOLRAS LMAO nah it's Grantaire and Enjolras. In the original novel, there were Implications™.
Among other things, the final scene you were talking about went like: Grantaire passed out drunk on the second floor of the cafe, woke up to a bunch of the soldiers pointing guns at Enjolras, came up to him and asked "do you permit it?" and then they die holding hands. also there are some Achilles and Patroclus comparisons.
I would love to see you guys react to Mamma Mia
Mamma Mia is just ABBA mixed with a 90s/2000s Adam Sandler romcom. Change my Mind! 😂😂😂
So this musical is based on an actual book called Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. It's the story about a man who, in desperation, steals a loaf of bread to feed his family. He gets caught and wound up trapped in an unforgiving criminal justice system. After he eventually gets out he tries to be a good man but is hounded by a relentless cop who is convinced that he can't change. The book is extremely good and very relevant even today.
Fave book ever!
Les miseralbes is literally the miserable ones 😂😂😂 that’s why they’re all so sad
Too sad
i think technically its “wretched” but honestly that’s just extra miserable lolol
The poor are sad because their lives are still wretched and filthy, selling teeth and hair for bread. This takes place not during what we Americans know as the French Revolution of 1789. The desperation of the Parisian poor is partly what launched that rebellion. Fast foward to the 1830s, the poor are worse off. There were two more French revolutions or rebellions (the monarchy took back power after Napoleon) before France became democratic. Les Mis occurs during the first post-1789 rebellion in 1832. So many themes still resonate today. Les Mis is about class, how men and women of all classes must come together to defeat tyranny and injustice. Can Americans of all races and ethnicities similarly unite? I liked the comment about theatrical singing. Musical theater actors often sing in character using their characters' accent. Normally when a person sings, his accent falls away. Male country singers whether they will admit it or not sing in character. As for Javert's monotone, I believe it is deliberate to show that he is trapped in his own hell chasing a man for years so that he himself wouldn't go to prison. He can't express himself like the others because he works for the tyrant and represents the stifling Old Testsment law, not grace like the priest gave to Jean Valjean. One more thing. The musical rights for the music were bought from the French who are not known for staging musicals. The French composers agreed that it should be produced in English to reach the biggest global audience. You could turn on French dialogue and English sub-titles.
@@bobbentz5993 I don't think crowe was like that on purpose, everything else i sgree with
Miserables in french has two meanings like in spanish, the wretched and the bad people.
Fun fact: it’s tradition that the actress playing Fantine is the first to die at the barricade (I don’t think they did it in the movie but still)
You mean Eponine right? The girl who likes Marius?
@@gsilva9887 No. I mean Fantine. Every actor in Les Mis except for ValJean and Javert (and maybe the Thenardiers?) play chorus parts when they are not their main roles. Otherwise this already huge company would need to be even bigger...
@@kated2147 That's interesting! i didn't know what you meant until you elaborated! Thanks for the knowledge :))
@@Tom_McMurtry one of the professors at the university in my town was in the touring cast (first as Grantaire and then as Javert’s understudy). So, when we did the show my junior year of high school, we did the tradition as well since our director was friends with the guy and had gotten tips from him.
No Fantine never died on barricades. She wed Marius
I love that all of Tom hooper's work is now stained by cats
As soon as I heard Hooper was doing Cats I got mad, he ruined Les Mis and went for another famous musical
@@danielthorsteinsson9698 I prefer the les mis movie to the theatre. Russell Crowe's harshness of voice seems fitting with the harshness of his one eyed justice seeking character. seeing other commentary below. The phantom of the opera movie is one that really does the actual theatre dirty.
@@Tom_McMurtry I get that, but in the end he is supposed to go through emotions, furious at the fact that a criminal that was supposed to kill him spared him, so now he owes his life to a foul criminal
Then feel miserable by that fact, and doubt himself, then in the end reach the conclusion that he has to die. feeling proud that he can kill himself , taking his life back i to his own hands and ending it
Russel crowe was just "Me sad, and now dead"
@@danielthorsteinsson9698 I felt those things in his portrayal. Thought his acting was stellar too. Funny how different people can see and hear and feel very different things eh?
@@Tom_McMurtry Interesting take! I can see how you see that in Russel Crowe, and there are definitely a few moments that I think the movie shone. I, however, personally prefer the theatre to the movie, but like you said- it's funny how people interpret these performances differently!
* sings * *"no... we're just french" "...sometimes"*
DECEASED EJHFVYURFUWBVOW
Only sometimes
I lost my mom a couple years ago, but one of my favorite memories of her was when we went to see this in the theater. She hated the idea of everyone suffering as much as she hated Russell Crowe's voice. When it came to his suicide scene she was sitting next to me in her wheelchair just waving her hand and going "just jump already, nobody wants to hear you sing anymore just get it over with!".
okay, these commentaries have me gasping and cackling every two minutes, and then I have to pause to catch my breath. I'm on minute 36 of this 22-minute video.
Thanks bruh
If she talks through the play like she talked through this movie, it's clear why she doesn't remember the plot. They all have British accents, and "Paris" was shot in Prague. The guy who wrote the music for Cats was Andrew Lloyd Webber. The music & lyrics for Les Miserables were written by Claude-Michel Schonberg and John Cameron. Completely different people. Fantine died of TB, Jean Valjean died of old age.
Enjolras and Grantaire really do be a big thing though.
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I screamed when they said “fanfiction alert!” Also Javert and Jean Valjean, that one’s kind of hard to miss.
Think about it though, if they're all speaking to each other in French, they don't have accents. It's just like any movie about Rome, they don't have Italian accents. Any movie about Greece, they don't have Greek accents. Almost all of them have some sort of British accent. This was for an English speaking audience by British people, so that's what they're gonna sound like. If a foreigner came in to the mix, that person would probably have accent. But since they're all speaking french, they'll all sound similar.
It's like if they made a movie set in America but everyone had a English accent for some reason. It reminds me of the Prince of Persia movie where all the Persian people sounded British
@@TwoScoopsXD That's different though, cause both Americans and Brits already speak the same language lol. It's not like British people speak English as a second language, and THAT'S why they sound different. They sound different cause they live in a different part of the world. So if this film is made by English speaking people and they want the movie to be in English, it's gonna be with an accent naturally occurring within the English language. They could have made them all American sounding, which may have been less jarring for your ears. But like most English speaking films set in Europe, they give them English accents cause it feels more European. What IS confusing at times, I'll admit, is the constant use of the word "Monsieur" and other French words lol. So I think the point still stands. If they're all speaking the same language for an English speaking audience, they'd all have some sort of natural English speaking accent, not French. They're not French people thinking "Oooh, I better say this in English for the audience" XD
I love you guys lol. I wanna see you two go further down the Broadway rabbit hole.
Can I interest you in watching RENT? Not the movie version. But the final broadway performance was filmed and is available. Bonus: Renee Elise Goldsbury plays Mimi!
Margarita Mondays Ooh, I second this.
I third this! Please please
please react to Rent!!!!!!
Same, I thoroughly enjoy these reactions
Les Misérables is a masterpiece written by Victor Hugo. He was a witness of all thoses poor people and situations
13:27 re: live vocals -- Hooper actually filmed this and had them sing live to film! They had in-ear monitors and an accompanying piano would play while they sang, and the orchestra was filled in around them in post-production.
it would be better if they hired actual vocalists
@@zeiters2055a little late to the party, but I couldn’t pass this up. Every single actor is a vocalist. Hugh Jackman is a Tony and Olivier award winner and theater veteran with over 20 years of musical theater experience, Russell Crowe also started his career playing Eddie in Rocky Horror Picture Show and has been the lead singer of a rock band for decades, Anne Hathaways mother played Fantine on stage and Anne has had vocal training since she was a kid, Samantha Barks has played Eponine on stage as well as Nancy in Oliver and Elsa in Frozen, Eddie Redmayne used to sing with a children’s choir in his youth and is classically trained, Aaron Tveit has been on Broadway for over 20 years starring in Catch Me if You Can, Rent and Moulin Rouge and Amanda Seyfried is classically trained and has performed on stage as well as playing Sophie in the film version of Mamma Mia.
This is a musical theater channel now.
Nah we probably gonna watch Harry Potter next
TwoScoopsXD Or you could watch A Very Potter Musical. 🙈😆
@@TwoScoopsXD HELLO a very potter musical!
Witchy & Bright supermevafoxyawesomehot
"Is this whole thing gonna be depressing?"
Well, I mean the title literally translates to "The Miserable Ones" so...make of that what you will. 😆
I kind of want to see you do the Trifecta of French Musicals and watch Phantom of the Opera.
I'm pretty sure you'd hate it but it would be funny.
(Not the movie the movie is bad. Get you the 25th anniversary performance at Royal Albert Hall)
GondorLadyGwen omg yuss
YES YES YES. Ramin Karimloo is a legend
eh, Carmen is pretty French
Hold up...the movie for Phantom was good tho! Then again, it could be because I've only watched the movie for it and I dont know any better, but I liked it.
@@jamontoast7467 watch the 25th anniversary performance at Royal Albert Hall if you can find it. That's what it's supposed to be like.
I have a lot of complaints about the Phantom movie, from how it messes with the music to Gerard Butler's vocals to the Phantom's deformity being almost non-existent... But it's too much to go on about here.
Great reaction, really enjoy watching your thoughts on musicals!
Their accents are probably British because this version of the show (in english) premiered on the west end in London and it became the longest running musical in the world. There was a french language version beforehand but it wasn't as successful so it gets ignored
P.s. please do mamma mia next, it might not be as epic as les mis or Hamilton but it's definitely one of my favourites :)
Really fun! It would be nice if you react to Moulin Rouge!
I second this one
Joctan Hernandez Third! 🙋🏻♀️
Witchy & Bright fourth!
Are they British or French. These dudes all got British accents
French
French!
That's ALWAYS the problem! This was the same problem in Assassin's Creed Unity 😂😂😂
The same thing happens with Phantom of the Opera actually. Because the original casts premiered on the west end (london) and had english producers, the show is always replicated the way it was originally sung--with english accents.
Hey, even old people like to laugh at Russell Crowe’s terrible singing (but good point about Lin-Manuel Miranda LOL). Love you guys🥰
Really love when you guys team up with Danielle. Been looking forward to seeing this and loving your thoughts on musical theater in general. Keep doing you. Y'all rock! Thanks!
Thanks
i don’t get the ”aren’t they supposed to be french why do they have british accents?” bc they are singing in english? If they were singing in french u probably wouldnt be watching this
this is not directed at this reaction, but bc ive heard this complaint other times too for different films/tv series/whatever: do americans actually think that non-american/non-british people actually just speak english with a foreign accent whenever they speak? (eg french people talking to other french people in france in english but with a french accent) what does the accent matter when u already know theyre not /actually/ speaking english, it’s just what you hear?
genuinely curious
Tom Hooper DIRECTED this and Cats. He didn't write the songs for them.
i heard that they said they didn’t get food and had to starve themselves for the roles to give them a more “realistic look”🤦🏾♀️
Waving the Target bag in Do You Hear The People Sing made me lol! Rather timely, if you ask me.
I will never be over the fact that they cut Grantaire's solo in Drink With Me and added that new weird Valjean song that no one needed.
there’s a cut of the grantaire solo somewhere!! ive seen it!! if i can find it again ill come back & link it here. f that new valjean song tho
I love the Les Mis movie but I will forever be upset they cut Grantaire’s solo in drink with me and pretty much all of Gavroche’s singing to include two new songs & the Oh Santa scene.
“What are they dying of?”
Well Fantine (Anne Hathaway) died of tuberculosis
Valjean (Hugh Jackman) is a pretty old character. He just happens to be physically strong and appears younger, but he died of old age and exhaustion.
And for everyone else... as you can see, they were shot to death
"They're gonna die in each other's arms" "I think I've heard of that, the *Marius* and Enjolras-" don't do my boy Grantaire dirty like that Dx and yes, graintaire and enjolras died holding hands :((((
Lol i don’t know characters names
@@daniellebreitstein5581 to be fair, it seems like the writer of the movie didn't either 😂 considering I never knew any of the students names (including enjolras and grantaire) until I read the book lol
I can't shut up about this musical warning.
Regarding French vs British, this is largely to keep in line with the musical. This is such a golden standard of musical theatre (and my all time favorite classic), that doing something like changing the accents for the whole show would be such an issue. Les Miserables was written by Victor Hugo, who was French, and it was originally turned into a musical by Claude-Michel Schonberg. However, it didn't get great reviews at it's Paris opening. It became a powerhouse when it was moved to London, performed on the West End. It opened with Colm Wilkinson, who is my personal favorite Valjean. I was in London in 2011 and went to see the show (that was STILL RUNNING since 1980) and it happened to be a day Colm Wilkinson was doing a walk-on for Valjean and it was a MAGICAL moment. I don't know what the intention was behind the choice of English accents, but I have always thought of it as a really good choice. Ultimately, the music and the lyrics help provide emotional power to the situations--an accent might put a barrier in the way of the audience keeping up for the duration of a 2.5 hour musical.
Also, one of my biggest reasons for loving the score is how there are musical motifs for the characters and situations. The opening phrase ("Look down, look down" etc) the melody is used to indicate some sort of exposition (hey, look, we skipped ahead 15 years!). When Valjean is facing a major moral decision, there's the same underscoring of his mind racing through choices, and it resolves in the iconic descending strings as he becomes resolved on choosing to be a good man. Those strings ultimately underscore "One Day More", the iconic culmination of everyone's long motivation arcs.
Then, I think it's just a beautiful literary framework filled with poignant contrasts. You have Javert, who is framed as a villain, but he stands for a rigid justice; a direct comparison to Valjean, framed as the hero, who permits himself to break the national laws in order to live as a good person. When Valjean is given a moral challenge, he finds forgiveness and acceptance--Javert breaks under the pressure of having his world view challenged to such a degree. You have Fantine, who has almost nothing and works incredibly hard to try and provide for her daughter--contrasted with the Thernardiers who do have some degree of wealth, don't work hard, and "care" for Cosette by neglecting her. Then , grown Cosette, sheltered and innocent trying to fight for the ability to have a real understanding of the world around her, shinning against Eponine--who has had innocence ripped away from her from living in such abject poverty and works to lose herself in the fantasy of love and care that she doesn't have.
Also, I grew up on the 10th Anniversary Concert VHS that I played so often it wore into dust. Philip Quast is the voice of Javert to me. If you want to contrast "Stars" Crowe and Quast, you'll see some of the lyricism that Crowe just lacked. Listen to Philip and hear his conviction through this soaring, classic voice. Ooh, I just listened to it again and brought you a link.
ruclips.net/video/urxk4mveLCw/видео.html&start_radio=1
@@BEZEZIKI totally agree the 10th anniversary was amazing and Philip Quast was perfect for the role
@@BEZEZIK I haven't listened to the stage version of the soundtrack in a while and at the FIRST WORD of Stars I was like oh. that's what good Javert singing sounds like. I had forgotten.
@@eggything I'm glad I could guide you back to the absolutely mindblowing beauty of that moment.
“And so will Russell Crowe.......cuz he follows me” stop I snorted
Indeed, Les Miserables is very sad but the title was kind of a giveaway because Les Miserables means “The Miserable” in French, the title of the story is literally “The Miserable” so it was inevitable that it would be a sad story.
Haven't seen anyone say it so I will, but Anne hathaway was insane in this role! I still remember sobbing like a baby when I first saw her rendition of I Dreamed A Dream.
You cannot judge Les Mis by the movie. If you really want to hear it done the way it was meant to be sung, watch the 10th Anniversary concert with the "dream cast." Perfection! (And you'll have a much better idea of what it's about, too.)
Les Mis is considered one of the best written musicals ever, lyrically- and Claude Michel Schoenberg and Alain Bublil wrote it - not Andrew Lloyd Weber.
Now that you have done this version, react to the 25th Anniversary Concert version. Norm Lewis who was the first African American Broadway Phantom plays Javert and he is literally menacing in it. Also fun fact: The Barricade Boys are compiled of guys who were or at the time currently in the old style West End production or the UK or a different tour of Les Mis.
In the real July Revolution, depicted in Les Miserables, you know who raced to the baracades and was proclaimed their leader?
Your favorite fighting frenchman, Lafayette!
Yes, one and the same from Hamilton. Would have been great been if Taye Diggs were added into this version of Les Mis.
I got this wrong, actually. Les Miserables depicts the June Rebllion, which failed, not the successful July Revolution from 2 years earlier. Lafayette didn't fight in the June Rebellion, but he did support it. He was a pallbearer at Lamarque's funeral and pleaded with the King to issue reforms rather than put down the Rebllion. He died 2 years later after a remarkable and long career.
In the song Do You Hear the People Sing, they show the funeral. Lafayette was there.
@@Sam_on_RUclips Also, wouldnt it be hard for them to add Taye Diggs into the movie because Hamilton came after the Les Mis movie? No one would have known he was going to play Lafayette.
@@Yumichan62 Yes. I know. It wouldnalso have been a really weird choice even if it had come out later. But it would have been fun to see. And Hooper is no stranger to weird choices in musicals.
Also, Daveed Diggs is the one who plays Lafayette. Taye Diggs was Benny in RENT.
@@jdm9219 Oops.
I am LOVING you two turning into theatre geeks slowly but surely. I think you should watch Dreamgirls, Chicago and Rent in prep for In The Heights opening next year xo
The last time I saw Les Mis on Broadway, Gaten Matarazzo from Stranger Things played Gavroche, and the crowd loved him. (It was 2014, so before Stranger Things aired.)
I was waiting for it but it still got me smh. Congrats, you guys owe me a new keyboard and another cup of coffee! lol Seriously, though. those first bars from Russel Crow made me groan out loud in the movies. I was NOT expecting that! 🤣🤣🤣 Guys, please do The Greatest Showman next? PLSSSSSSS???? 🥺🥺🥺
the les mis memes are flashing before my eyes
To be honest, this is one of my favourite movies. I've seen it more than 10 times because the songs are so beautiful and impactful, like y'all pointed out. Enjoyed this reaction.
12:54 You’re more attracted to the story in this musical because it was adapted from the novel Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, one of the most respected French authors, who also wrote the Hunchback of Notre Dame. The music was kind of a second thought.
Y'all need to review the Percy Jackson movies, they're awful.
They can't review movies that don't exist
Don’t you mean the Peter Johnson movies?
Fun fact: the songs in this film weren't lip synced. They tested it in studios to hear how they wanted it, but the singing was all live because the directors felt like it would bring the story over better.
All this musical content is making me happy
12:36 Tom Hooper *directed* the film. He didn’t write any of the music.
The river where Russell Crowe kills himself in this film is near where I live and people actually fall in and die every now and then because they’re drunk
I actually quite like the movie, however, the 25th Anniversary concert will ALWAYS be my favourite adaption of Les Mis.
I'm a huge fan of Les Miserables... even more than Hamilton. Javert is my favorite part... and Russell Crowe absolutely butchered it. To the point that I have trouble watching this version... in spite of some really amazing performances. Javert is really supposed to be a baritone... and Crowe is sort of a tenor. If you want to hear it done right... check out the OG Roger Allam
mithroch I actually those changes tho. I don’t wanna watch the same thing over and over. Although I get that for the movie to stick more traditional
i love your guys’ commentary omg
Tyler Perry's The Miserable Ones
Imagine Madea in Les Mis
@@TwoScoopsXD she'd prolly try to fight javert lmaoo
5:55 it’s a great acting performance
Not so much a singing preformance
cici sourcer wow
"Is this gonna be just sad and dreary til the end?"
"...Yes"
"Ah gee wilikers"
“They’re doing what they did to Cats”
How fuckin dare you.
They fucking NAILED the performances in this movie
Cats however, was always awful and I hope we as a whole forget it ever existed
If you like the writing & emotion in the songs I really recommend that you watch the 25th Anniversary Concert performance of Les Mis - it's my favorite one to listen to, the singers are beyond talented. It won't have the same visual effect of course but the musical performances are bone-tinglingly good.
The longer I watch this, the more I think Danielle looks like Samantha Barks. At least sorta related in some way.
Jean val john was very old. That was why he latched onto saving marius because he could take care of cossete when he was gone.
These reactions to watching musicals makes me want to see the reactions to Newsies (Broadway on Disney +), Little shop of horrors, and Johnny Depp in Sweeny Todd.
Showed the title of the video to my roommate and first words outta her mouth are; "Yeah, thats probably why its called The Miserable Ones"
Did you know that all the singing in this movie was recorded live during filming? They didn’t dub anything.
Maybe they should have!
They probably have British accents just because the original musical production was in London, I don't know, but Americans do that all the time.
1:47 needs to be meme of the year-“ HellLLLOoOo I am FRENCH!”😂
Ah, yes. The Great Target Revolution.
It’s what i had lying around!
@@daniellebreitstein5581 Don't worry, I loved it! Barricade the aisles with Arizona Iced Tea boxes and Elsa cardboard standups!
@@daniellebreitstein5581 OH. Randomly looking at your profile right now and as someone six eight months into learning violin AND a big Tangled the Series mark, I'm LOVING your uploads there! Aaaaa!
I hope one day they listen to a actual musical recording (west end, og broadway, 10th anniversary, 25th anniversary, ANY) and realize EVERYONE was singing badly in that. The worst part is they’re all great singers they were just in horrible conditions.
You guys are awesome! Loved your Hamilton review too! Please do more
I would strongly consider paying like several actual dollars to see you react to the 10th Anniversary concert. (Optionally the 25th, but cmon we all know the 10th is where it's at.)
This was my reaction to Les Miserables except with more tears 😭
This may have been addressed in comments somewhere, but for this movie all singing was done for the camera, no overdubs.
In the book Grantaire speaks very specifically about his love for Enjolras... and walks out to die with him at his execution
I would love to see you guys watch the last five years just for the Russell crow reference in "I'm climbing uphill"
I just had to look it up and currently there are 2160 javert/valjean fics on ao3
Valvert OTP! "Post-Seine" fics with super awkward old gay virgins, look it up. Best slash ever and I am not even being ironic.
It's a movie version of the famous english-language West End adaptation of the original french musical, which was in turn based on the novel by Victor Hugo. But this is the English musical, that's why they don't speak with a French accent. Kind of like how the characters in Mulan don't speak with a Chinese accent even though it's set in China lol
I am now fully convinced this is a sequal, not to princess diaries, but Ella Enchanted
Yes. There are quite a lot fanfictions with the Javert/Valjean pairing 😂👏🏼
I know that you guys are new to musical theatre, but I would love to see your reactions to some starkid musicals. They upload their content to youtube so it's fairly easy to find it :)
As you say you don't care, but is your focus span like the in every video? This is the first video I see with you and might be the last, sorry to little focus
Do rent next I think you would like rent
“She gonna be a corpse in the next three cuts.”
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...I mean...you’re not wrong...
Holy cow. You are 100% right about the Tyler Perry thing! Nice catch.
A new version of Les Mis was just released, and the performers are incredible.
Yes, you talked over the most beautiful song in this movie... 😢
i would love to see your reaction to key & peele's one at a time, now that you've seen (a version of) les mis.
Your reactions! Very entertaining commentary 🤣🤣
I scream laughed. XD *You even pointed out my ship, Enjolras and Grantaire, which was I accidentally started shipping, kind of hard to explain.*
Ok but I’m glad they didn’t speak in French accents unless it was natural because why speak in English in the accent of the language you would be speaking in?!
Tbf hugh jackman started his career in theatre hes always loved performing on stage
Screw the haters. I loved this movie. Yes, even Javert. I don't care what people think of me for it.
Have yall reacted to The Greatest Showman yet?
As someone who loves the musical, I appreciate the roasting. It's important not to take anything too seriously.
19:18 "I feel like everyone is dying of something"
I mean, she's not wrong, we're all dying of old age as we watch this and while you read this comment.
Y'all should do a short react to Norm Lewis singing Stars and Javert's Suicide. >_>
Ik im 9 months late but, while these characters are fictional, the event of the students at the barricades did happen historically. 93 died i believe.
"I thought it was more French than this."
Just you wait... just you wait....