oh dear lord, i have just seen the worst travesty of a book to film adaptation of my life.
the 1998 adaptation of Les Miserables with Liam Neeson and Geoffrey Rush
First of all, Valjean would never hit Cosette or tell her to shut up. That was just messed up. I know most of the people who actually read the book may have wanted to give her an actual personality but uh...
Why bother to spend 10 minutes about Valjean scaling a wall, 20 minutes on Javert sending a spy to spy on Marius (?!) and his love life, and 5 minutes with Cosette watching Marius make a rousing speech but not bother to put in Eponine, Enjolras, the Thenardiers...
By the way, Marius is supposed to be retarded, not a revolutionary leader with rousing speeches.
Why let Jean Valjean tell Cosette in the middle of the movie his past - thereby erasing any possibility of another self-sacrifical scene that the whole book is about when he has to let her go marry Marius instead? Why let Jean Valjean watch happily as Javert commits suicide?
Why let Jean Valjean get lovey-dovey with Fantine?
Why let Jean Valjean live at the end of the movie, after grinning as Javert drowns himself?
Why did I waste 2 hours watching this drivel?
...the fascination of the abomination...
And Uma Thurman is actually a really terrible actress. At least in here.
Actually, every actor in here is pretty bad. Even Geoffrey Rush!
Why can't film directors just make up their own movies if they're going to change the entire plot and theme of the book?
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