Not only was I singing this song over and over and over again, but I was in the freezing rain too. There was just one rain machine over my head. Half way through your teeth start chattering.
In her life of darkness is this beam of light in the form of one young beautiful student Marius. And in the end it redeems her as a good person. I just wanted to be him. I enjoy singing. Is there any chance I can get in the running for this? You sang in a choir at Eton. Had you kept up? Did you have to relearn everything? I loved singing when I was a kid and then I did it a little bit at school and then at college, and then kind of stopped when acting became what I was interested in.
What was wonderful about getting this film was that you then get the best singing teacher in the world who helps you … get yourself to a place where you can do it. You know how you sort of watch actors like lose weight, like Annie had to do in this film, or like Hugh had to do, or put on a huge amount? So much of what the singing teacher made us do was a muscular thing on your throat. So rather than a singing exercise, it involved holding your tongue out and getting the back of your tongue strengthened.
But it did feel like a full on work out to get there! What was it like getting to work with him again? Since Elizabeth I , he became a mate, and he would always come to see the plays that I was doing in London. And Tom found it interesting. So it was lovely when we both got excited about the prospect of it. So there was this sort of instant bond because we had all gone through the mill to get the parts. Next Page: Learning about Marius from his fellow cast mates, and getting teased by his friend Tom Hooper….
A few of the student revolutionaries in the cast had actually played Marius on stage as well. Yes, several of them. Fortunately, I was green enough not to realize it till about day six. They were so lovely. They had some really helpful stuff. I would just ask if I was struggling.
So much of what we try to do on film is to make it sound, or make it feel — as you do with any piece you do — to make it sound like the thoughts had just arrived. But some of the stuff is so poetic. I aslo liked the way Eponine thinks about the stars, for example when she is going to prison it is simply cloudy but she thinks that even though the stars have seen everything they have gone away the night she is going to prison. I think that in terms of history it was very realistic it really captures the poverty that was going on at the time in France.
It also shows the revolution very well and how it wasn't all of the people in poverty fighting but some higher class people as well. It also really shows the contrast between rich and poor. I think that after reading this book I want to find out more about the French revolution.
I personally think that Susan Fletcher is a very good author and I would be very interested to read more of her work. This book is based on the character Eponine Thenardier from Les Miserables'. As a young child Eponine never knew kindness, except from her family's kitchen slave, Cosette. When at sixteen the girl's paths cross again and their circumstances are reversed. Eponine must decide what friendship is worth, even though they've fallen for the same boy.
Ultimately, Eponine will sacrifice everything to keep true love alive. I found this book to be extremely well-written and always stuck tightly to the memoir genre, as that's essentially where it's based.
Its language was captivating and reminiscent. Most of the time I felt like I was really there, listening to Eponine's every word as though she was sat next to me. I couldn't put this book down and it took me less than two days to finish.
The writing style and the way it flowed so smoothly made me feel very comfortable reading it. I'd recommend it to anyone who's into history, drama, romance, memoirs or gripping novels. However, I do suggest reading Les Mis first! A Little in Love is a beautiful but tragic book. Eponine is a symbol of the beauty in the darker parts of life.
Her determination to make up for the bad she has done no matter what her own situation, is inspiringly written. A soul such as this would be deserving of love yet it evades her, which is tragically revealed through small actions and scenes. Eponine is an important figure in the life of Cosette but Cosette is equally important to Eponine.
The early bad treatment of Cosette by Eponine is unintentionally avenged by Marius and Cosette falling in love despite Eponine being in love with Marius.
Eponine is different to her criminal family and just wants her parents love as the reader we realise her parents do not love her but love her thieving skills adding more tragic irony to her story. The way the book is structured beginning with her death and revealing her life as a flash back makes it intriguing and mysterious.
I really enjoyed this book and I found it tear jerking and beautifully written. The writer has embodied a life of disappointment and sadness in a mere pages and it still provokes a meaningful message that those like Eponine who experience sadness on a daily basis and whose bad deeds outnumber the good should try to turn their life around. In Eponine's life, that would be the return of Gavroche and being forgiven by the people she'd wronged most.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone. It is universally entertaining and will make you smile and cry. Eponine never interacted with other people outside her house, then she came along her kitchen slave that worked for her family, her name was Cosette.
When she leaves, she never envisioned herself bumping into Eponine again. She was wrong; when Eponine was 16 years old they bumped into each other and became good friends. Then they bother fall in love! With the same guy!
He jeopardises their friendship, so Eponine had to think about the friendship and what it means to her. Eponine has to make a vast decision and fast Marius soon meets Cosette in the gardens of the house and the two profess their love to each other. She suddenly sees her father, Patron-Minette and Brujon attempt to break into the house.
Hearing this, the men leave. She finds Valjean and anonymously throws a note to him, which tells him to move away. She also intercepts Cosette's letter to Marius so that Marius does not receive it the letter includes Cosette's new temporary address and when Cosette and Valjean will leave France. The next day is the first day of the student uprising. She follows Courfeyrac to the barricades to learn its location, and then goes to Valjean and Cosette's house and waits.
Marius arrives and discovers the house deserted. Wanting to die before Marius, she steps between him and the soldier and puts her hand on the front of the soldier's musket barrel, taking the fatal shot herself.
After this, she calls out to Marius and tells him she is dying. She asks him to lay her on his knees and he does so. She then confesses to Marius her role in sending him to the barricades, and why she took the shot for him. She also decides to give him Cosette's letter, concerned that if she did not, he would hold the letter against her in the afterlife.
Her final request to Marius is that after she dies, he kiss her forehead. Marius kisses her, as he sympathizes with her for her hard life. In most productions of this adaptation, she is made to have a more romanticized, sympathetic, likeable and relatable presentation of her character and she is not as manipulative.
In the novel, most of her beauty has been lost and she has a hoarse voice. In the musical, she is traditionally pretty and her voice is not hoarse, but she is still presented as ragged and poverty-stricken. She and Marius are also portrayed as friends.
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