Les Miserables Movie Report
MOVIE REPORT
I. TITLE
Les Misérables
II. DIRECTOR
Tom Hooper
III. SCREENPLAY WRITER
William Nicholson& Alain Boublil for the original French text
Claude-Michel Schönberg for the script book
Herbert Kretzner for the lyrics
IV. PRODUCTION OUTFIT
Paco Delgado is the head costume designer for the movie. The production created almost 2200 outfits. The costume play had to create a whole world, and used a lot of color and texture to bring the movie to life the way it was in France 1800s.
For Jean Valjean, he starts as a convict at the bottom of society so the production had to work with materials that have a lot of texture and are very rough and little by little, use finer materials with less texture, as his economic status had risen; different colors, more complexity.
Fantine, the opposite, is a young girl who dressed well in the past but goes through a lot of problems, the production wanted to capture that; reminding of who she was, carrying on in terms of making her clothes rougher and rougher. She starts out with a pinkish dress and ends up red, the idea of a girl flowering into more mature themes in life.
V. PRODUCERS
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward of Working Title Films & Cameron Mackintosh
VI. CAST OF CHARACTERS MAIN CHARACTERS Hugh Jackman- as Jean Valjean,
A frenchman released from prison after 19 years of imprisonment for stealing bread. He is an ordinary person who exerts extraordinary effort to not only survive, but to protect others. He has a great ability to love and defend the helpless. He became an honest man after the bishop touched his soul and made him a man of God.
Russell Crowe- as Javert
A police inspector who dedicated his life to imprisoning Valjean once again. He is a firm man of the law and thinks only from his perspective. He also is unable to cope with change especially where his personal values are concerned. For him Valjean represents an element which lives outside the law, and although only a little
I. TITLE
Les Misérables
II. DIRECTOR
Tom Hooper
III. SCREENPLAY WRITER
William Nicholson& Alain Boublil for the original French text
Claude-Michel Schönberg for the script book
Herbert Kretzner for the lyrics
IV. PRODUCTION OUTFIT
Paco Delgado is the head costume designer for the movie. The production created almost 2200 outfits. The costume play had to create a whole world, and used a lot of color and texture to bring the movie to life the way it was in France 1800s.
For Jean Valjean, he starts as a convict at the bottom of society so the production had to work with materials that have a lot of texture and are very rough and little by little, use finer materials with less texture, as his economic status had risen; different colors, more complexity.
Fantine, the opposite, is a young girl who dressed well in the past but goes through a lot of problems, the production wanted to capture that; reminding of who she was, carrying on in terms of making her clothes rougher and rougher. She starts out with a pinkish dress and ends up red, the idea of a girl flowering into more mature themes in life.
V. PRODUCERS
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward of Working Title Films & Cameron Mackintosh
VI. CAST OF CHARACTERS MAIN CHARACTERS Hugh Jackman- as Jean Valjean,
A frenchman released from prison after 19 years of imprisonment for stealing bread. He is an ordinary person who exerts extraordinary effort to not only survive, but to protect others. He has a great ability to love and defend the helpless. He became an honest man after the bishop touched his soul and made him a man of God.
Russell Crowe- as Javert
A police inspector who dedicated his life to imprisoning Valjean once again. He is a firm man of the law and thinks only from his perspective. He also is unable to cope with change especially where his personal values are concerned. For him Valjean represents an element which lives outside the law, and although only a little