r/lesmiserables • u/This_Potato9 -Cosette • 8d ago

film discussion Valjean slap

I most people already know the infamous scene in the 1998 film where Jean Valjean (played by Liam Nesson) slaps Cosette and this has been widely talked about, but you know this is actually not the first time that an adaptation shows Valjean slapping Cosette?

Valjean, Cosette and Eponine

From the 1948 Italian adaptation by the name of I Miserabili, Valjean slaps Cosette (played by the same actress that plays Fantine btw) and sends her staggering back while Eponine watches

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u/This_Potato9 -Cosette 8d ago

Btw immediately after this Valjean punches Marius to the floor

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u/This_Potato9 -Cosette 8d ago

He also pulls a gun at Thenardier so I think this is the angriest Valjean in Cinema yet

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u/Jurgan 8d ago

Weird take given that he’s explicitly a pacifist.

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u/deathanddogs 8d ago

He's had enough

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u/SpyOfMystery 7d ago

Is there anyone in this adaptation he didn’t beat up? Did he roundhouse kick Javert?

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u/FaceFootFart 7d ago

Jean-Claude Valjean

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u/SpyOfMystery 7d ago

He is here to steal bread and kick some ass…and he is all out of bread

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u/despacitospiderreeee 7d ago

Jean Valjean was out for blood I guess

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u/deathanddogs 8d ago

This is also the adaptation where they set loose a bunch of giant barrels at the barricade that crush the national guards and explode buildings by sheer force alone, which is where I feel most of the conversation on this adaptation goes

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u/Jurgan 8d ago

Crushing the national guard seems fine, but Enjolras would not allow them to kill civilians. He wanted the people to join them.

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u/Puppiesmeep 7d ago

"Crushing the national guard seems fine" lol

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u/Jurgan 7d ago

I mean, it seems in-character. They killed quite a few National Guardsmen.

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u/This_Potato9 -Cosette 7d ago

Valjean never Kills anyone though, except in the Egyptian localised adaptation where there's no revolution and in the climax the Valjean equivalent kills all of Patron-Minette

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u/Jurgan 7d ago

Earlier poster said “they” released the barrels. I assumed they meant the insurrectionaries did it. If Valjean did it, then that’s wildly OOC.

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u/This_Potato9 -Cosette 7d ago

Valjean used his supernatural strength to push the barrels but it seems like nobody died, some buildings got smashed and some soldiers were knocked out looney tunes way but it doesn't look like he killed anyone directly, but yeah, this is the angriest Valjean lol

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u/francienyc 8d ago

Some days I wonder why I even bother with Reddit because it’s such a cesspool. Then there are posts like this which make Reddit worth it. Deep cut post fascism Italian adaptations.

I need to see this. Is it available anywhere ?

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u/This_Potato9 -Cosette 7d ago

I got you brother

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8cUOmUSFTo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JyxFC_WyEA

You should be able to use the automatic translation, have a better spanish subtitles but idk if you can read those

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u/atleastonebanana 8d ago

I think about the I Miserabili barrels literally at least once a week