Les Miserables: Even the thread will make you cry

[narrows101]

You sound like Stefon from Weekend Update.

If you're wanting to get dysentary in the Ile-de-france region, look no further. Montfermeil's hottest club is "Zut alors!". Syphilitic child abuser Lebron Thenardier has created a eurotrash utopia in the hear of a condemned fireworks factory. This club has everything: drunks, lepers, ****es, little people, a reindeer who looks like Robert Pattinson, and come this Friday night for the human car wash. You know, it's that thing, when you've got midgets with dreadlocks, and they do handstands on your car and go "flup flup flup flup flup."

That's a riot since I have no idea who you are talking about. t:

 

[JP]

You sound like Stefon from Weekend Update.

If you're wanting to get dysentary in the Ile-de-france region, look no further. Montfermeil's hottest club is "Zut alors!". Syphilitic child abuser Lebron Thenardier has created a eurotrash utopia in the hear of a condemned fireworks factory. This club has everything: drunks, lepers, ****es, little people, a reindeer who looks like Robert Pattinson, and come this Friday night for the human car wash. You know, it's that thing, when you've got midgets with dreadlocks, and they do handstands on your car and go "flup flup flup flup flup."

Freaking love Stefon. Read narrows post and was on the FLOOR.

 

[Pink Ranger]

That's a riot since I have no idea who you are talking about. t:

Can't embed, but watch this:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/bill...es-to-keep-a-straight-face-on-weekend-update/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSDlmUlPtDM

 

[danoyse]

You sound like Stefon from Weekend Update.

If you're wanting to get dysentary in the Ile-de-france region, look no further. Montfermeil's hottest club is "Zut alors!". Syphilitic child abuser Lebron Thenardier has created a eurotrash utopia in the heart of a condemned fireworks factory. This club has everything: drunks, lepers, ****es, little people, a reindeer who looks like Robert Pattinson, and come this Friday night for the human car wash. You know, it's that thing, when you've got midgets with dreadlocks, and they do handstands on your car and go "flup flup flup flup flup."

 

[sideburnking]

I'm a guy.....and I identify with Eponine due to the whole unrequited love thing...............sobs.

Likewise.
I watched the 10th Anniversary in Concert video when I was in high school as part of a project for my Drama class (My first exposure to 'Les Mis'), and I related so much to Eponine, especially when she sings 'On My Own.' Reverse the genders, and it's pretty much exactly how I felt about my crush back then. Hence a big part of why Eponine is easily one of my favorite characters.

 

[Clu]

lonely hearts club unite!

 

[JP]

Thanks to Spotify I've been listening to every possible Les Miz cast recording at work. :')

 

[Raiden]

Likewise.
I watched the 10th Anniversary in Concert video when I was in high school as part of a project for my Drama class (My first exposure to 'Les Mis'), and I related so much to Eponine, especially when she sings 'On My Own.' Reverse the genders, and it's pretty much exactly how I felt about my crush back then. Hence a big part of why Eponine is easily one of my favorite characters.

I think most of us have experienced requited love sometimes in our lives, so Eponine is definitely a much more relatable character from the show than others. The fact that she has a tragic ending made her sympathetic, as well.

 

[narrows101]

Filming finally wrapped at midnight on Friday and there was a wrap party on Saturday.

 

[JP]

I can't believe it. After all this time. This is actually a thing. In less than 6 months we'll get the movie of out dreams.


Les Miserables, on celluloid.

Special thanks to you, narrows, for keeping us all updated across 20 different forums.

 

[narrows101]

LOL - the wrap party (for some) was Saturday and there were many tweets about the last days of filming since the schedule kept changing (and tweets from one that sounded like a disgruntled actor that just quit!) and here is Hugh's final tweet:

Hugh Jackman ‏@RealHughJackman
Filming for les miserables has finished!!! Thank you Tom and the whole crew! Amazing. 24601 signing out!

 

[danoyse]

We've come a long way from this, that's for sure.

Still can't believe this movie is finally happening.

 

[Pink Ranger]

We've come a long way from this, that's for sure.

Still can't believe this movie is finally happening.

Lol, Valjean was in prison a shorter time than it took to make this movie a reality.

Still, I wonder who would have been cast for what part if this movie was made in 1992.

 

[DACrowe]

It may be for the best. Musicals did not come back until the success of Moulin Rouge! and Chicago a decade later. The audiences wasn't there in the 1990s and it could have been something disastrous like when they mad Evita in that decade.

 

[narrows101]

Some of the "barricade boys" at the wrap party looking kinda plastered - pretty sure the one on the right is Eddie Redmayne.

http://***********/andycoxon1/status/216937739684290561/photo/1

Some of the "Lovely Ladies":

http://***********/halfpintsinger/status/216666136341774336

And to quote the recent USA Today article:

When it opened on Broadway in 1987, "there was a slew of interest in doing a film," says the savvy impresario also behind the record-breaking runs of The Phantom of the Opera and Cats. But delays got in the way.

Mackintosh, however, believes the wait was fortunate. For one, technology has improved to the point that actors are actually performing the sung dialogue and songs live rather than miming to a pre-recorded track, as is usually the case with movie musicals. For another, there is a whole pool of stars these days capable of carrying a tune.

"We have found actors who naturally express themselves through music," says Mackintosh, who opted for mostly big names. "Did a Hugh Jackman exist 25 years ago, someone with that experience both on the stage and in the cinema?"

Jackman also believes the moment is right, given the popularity of TV's American Idol and Glee. "I think, generally, among younger people, musicals are cooler," says the Tony-winning actor, whose recent one-man Broadway show allowed him to get in shape vocally for the demands of his role as ex-convict Jean Valjean.

http://www.usatoday.com/LIFE/usaedition/2012-05-29-Sneak-peek-at-Les-Mis_ST_U.htm

 

[X Knight]

^ they couldn't do the film 20 years ago cuz they were just waiting for the CGI technology to advance........

 

[Pink Ranger]

^ they couldn't do the film 20 years ago cuz they were just waiting for the CGI technology to advance........

Yeah, it would have sucked if they had done this movie without Skrulls.

 

[X Knight]

Yeah, it would have sucked if they had done this movie without Skrulls.

well, they need them for the huge ensemble pieces........

 

[narrows101]

Hugh on singing:

Russell Crowe has dabbled in rock music, but can he carry Broadway melodies? “Oh, I knew he could sing. He’s fantastic,” Jackman told us. “Eddie Redmayne is going to blow people away. I mean, everybody.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/os...n-les-miserables-russell-crowe-eddie-redmayne

Speaking of Eddie:

Wimbledon made a happy respite from filming Les Misérables. “The last few days of shooting involved being a corpse and getting dragged through pollution by Hugh Jackman,” he sighs. “I’ve still got the songs going round in my head.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...uel-praises-thrifty-Duchess-of-Cambridge.html

One of the West End actresses, Hannah Waddington:

Speaking of film roles, how was it working on the Les Misérables film?

It was great fun. Myself and Kate Fleetwood were the two main *****y factory workers bullying Anne Hathaway as Fantine. I developed a really nice relationship with Tom Hooper, the director of The King's Speech, because he was being cheeky about musical theatre. We all just had such a laugh and Anne’s a lovely girl and of course the lovely Hugh Jackman who was just wonderful and very down to earth and made it really enjoyable.

http://www.whatsonstage.com/intervi...ith+...+Kiss+Me+Kate's+Hannah+Waddingham.html

 

[Raiden]

LOL - the wrap party (for some) was Saturday and there were many tweets about the last days of filming since the schedule kept changing (and tweets from one that sounded like a disgruntled actor that just quit!) and here is Hugh's final tweet:

Hugh Jackman ‏@RealHughJackman
Filming for les miserables has finished!!! Thank you Tom and the whole crew! Amazing. 24601 signing out!

Can't believe that the movie has wrapped already, and we'll get to see this movie this December. Can't...hardly...wait!

 

[danoyse]

Speaking of Eddie:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...uel-praises-thrifty-Duchess-of-Cambridge.html

Wimbledon made a happy respite from filming Les Misérables. “The last few days of shooting involved being a corpse and getting dragged through pollution by Hugh Jackman,” he sighs. “I’ve still got the songs going round in my head.”

If you're going to travel through pollution, that's the way to do it.

 

[X Knight]

I guess Crowe is the one I'm most worried about, singing wise. so that quote from Jackman is a bit reassuring.

Also, who's Redmayne playing? Marius?

 

[narrows101]

Also, who's Redmayne playing? Marius?

Yes, Eddie Redmayne is Marius. Here he is as soloist for the Eton College Choir (trivia - he went to Eton with Prince William).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxFEqPUu57s

 

[narrows101]

More from Eddie (he was at Wimbledon this week) and what he did the last week of filming.

Eddie also dished the dirt about his upcoming film Les Miserables.

He said: “It was an amazing experience. My last day of filming was last week and I spent the entire day being cradled in Hugh Jackman’s incredibly muscular arms as he carried me through a sewer.

“It was bizarre. I was being held like a baby by Wolverine!”

http://www.heatworld.com/Celeb-News/2012/06/heat-chats-to-Grace-Jones- Eddie-Redmayne-and-Jamie-Lang-at-Wimbledon/

 

[JP]

"Carried like a babe.."