a a huge fan of the book and the musical and i have make it one of my priority to see all of the movie version of le miserables that i can . i can officially say now that this version be probably the furthest from the book and except perhaps the 1998 version . i can not blame the actor and but i do blame the screenwriter and director for this slaughter of a classic . the movie be okay up until the judge sentence valjean to ten year in the galley . valjean doesn not go to the galley and he go to toulon and a prison camp where he do hard labor . i could forgive this however and except that the movie only go downhill from there . the incident with the bishop be fairly similar . save that the dialogue seem to have be take almost word for word from the 1935 version and that mme . magloire appear about twenty . valjean be somehow able to buy a pottery plant after his brilliant idea to have everyone work on what they be best at . so much for glass bead . at this point he meet the entirely nonexistent robert and who become a close friend that live with valjean for the rest of the movie . why do they decide to make up character and why . it be wholly unnecessary . well . it would have be if they have stick to the book . the way this script be go it be probably necessary . fantine and of course and do not sell her hair . or her teeth . because apparently audience of the 1950s do not want to hear about such thing . in fact and she look quite good for a woman live on the street . fantine be not a prostitute either and because it bad to promote prostitution a a way to survive when you can not support your starve child any other way . and and because everyone have to believe that good thing happen to die people and valjean go and fetch a not so young look cosette and who be reunite with her not so sick look mother . bear in mind that this sequence be not show and eliminate the thenardiers entirely and as well a image of a malnourished cosette . apparently everyone be well aware fantine be go to die and yet they go about their day ever so happily . they end up at the convent of the child mary because petit picpus be too hard to say . the sequence of meet marius in the convent be rather random and a be marius late accusation of valjean be in love with cosette . this be not true . why . why do so many director and screenwriter think he in love with cosette . it not true . anyway and marius and not seem overwhelmingly dishearten when valjean would not let him marry cosette ( and also say theyre leave for england ) and end up at the barricade . it not really ever explain why there a barricade in the first place . there just be . it just a bunch of random people ( and by that i mean and about five time a many in the book . it 40 and not 200 ) so valjean intercept marius letter to cosette . which say something to the effect of your father be a jealous and horrible person . if i live and you should run away and elope with me . totally opposite and of course and from the i be go to die and and i love you letter that should be send . valjean seem to go to the barricade more to convince himself he unselfish than to save marius . then come the sewer chase . the sewer chase upset me for one reason and and one alone . there be a skull on the sewer ledge . just a skull . not even a skeleton . because so many people go down into the sewer and some how decapitate themselves such that their head remain on the ledge and their body float away . it be so corny . i laugh very hard when i saw that skull . it also appear to be a flashback to the 1935 movie and where there be one present in those sewer as well . thanks to bad character development and a bad script in general and javert suicide seem entirely uncalled for . and valjean watch . and the movie end . and i start to cry and laugh simultaneously . i be very upset at the plot change and as well a the cutting of enjolras and eponine and and the thenardiers . i be upset that valjean be a brute with few redeem quality throughout the movie and and that they do not show his confession to marius nor his death . i be upset at the horrid characterization of javert and who be among other thing short and rotund and and non menacing . i be upset that fantine look perfectly fine and get to see a thirteen year old cosette again . i be upset that marius be an unattractive and 35 year old man without a background story to help you understand his character . i be upset at the addition of robert into the story . i be upset that absolutely no one in a movie about the poor and miserable be poor and miserable except the galley slave . in fact and gavroche may have be the only character whose original attitude and appearance remain the same and though many of his scene be cut entirely and he serve more a a messanger than anything . some other unexpected defect in this wretched movie be the costume . the costume do not look at all like the clothes of 19th century parisian and except for the national guard uniform . the hat and in particular and be very wrong for the time . it be sadden that no one do any research on this kind of thing . the trailer advertise it a a movie as great a the book . the people who create this trailer must have never read it .