Adaptational Context Change: The film swaps the order of a few songs around from the musical:.His actor, George Blagden, is the opposite. Grantaire in particular is said to be ugly.Same goes for several of the barricade boys, who are invariably attractive onscreen. Eponine in the book is scrawny, dirty, and not attractive at all, but in the film she is portrayed by the lovely Samantha Barks. The younger actors fall into this too.In the book and to a lesser extent in adaptations, Valjean looks like an old man by time he rescues Cosette (and in the book has stark white hair after being Locked into Strangeness).However, Bonham-Carter in the role is made-up to look blowsy looking but otherwise has no change in her appearance, and Cohen, while showing a bit of Thénardier's creepy vibe, is probably the best looking and most stylishly dressed incarnation of the character.
Performances of the musical tend to cast actors whose physical appearance along with make-up more or less fit those descriptions. Thénardier is described as a sickly-looking "runt" who is not at all good looking. Thénardier is a massive, muscular woman with highly masculine features, and is frequently compared to an ogress. Helena Bonham Carter is this yet again, along with Sacha Baron Cohen as the Thénardiers.Inspector Javert ( Russell Crowe), the officer who granted Valjean's parole, tries to maintain order as revolution brews in Paris, while Valjean risks his identity being discovered by Javert, who does not believe he has truly reformed. Marius is also a member of a revolutionary group led by Enjolras ( Aaron Tveit), and is oblivious to the feelings of the now-impoverished Thénardier daughter Eponine ( Samantha Barks). Some years later, Valjean and Cosette have moved to Paris, where sparks fly between her and young bachelor Marius ( Eddie Redmayne). After one of his workers, Fantine ( Anne Hathaway), is outed as a single mother and resorts to prostitution before dying, Valjean takes custody of her daughter Cosette ( Amanda Seyfried as an adult) from the scheming Thénardiers ( Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter). Like the novel and musical, the film chronicles the story of Jean Valjean ( Hugh Jackman), a reformed criminal who becomes mayor of a small town in France. While primarily based on the musical, the film also incorporates elements from the novel that were left out of the original production. Les Misérables is a 2012 film version of the stage musical of the same name, itself an adaptation of Victor Hugo's epic novel of the same name.
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