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"There are men who seem to be born to be the reverse [...] their name is a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction and; and their existence is not their own; it is the other side of an existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was the obverse of Enjolras." — les mis, 3.4.1

I’m not a stickler for all Les Mis movies being exactly like the book, because due to time restraints that’s basically impossible (I like the 2012 movie, and it leaves out plenty of stuff!), but when your movie is three hours (!!) and there’s clearly been a lot of effort put into including details from the book, up to including actual dialogue, this seems like a weird place to cut corners.

(also, you DO have time for a bunch of instances of women getting pushed around and assaulted, hmmmMMMmmmm, great)

anyway, if you’re thinking “but star-crown, what three hour long les mis movie am I gonna watch now”, maybe check out the 1934 Raymond Bernard one, which has its own idiosyncrasies but is good I think