- Danielle Marie
- 17 years old
- Born and raised in London, England
- Not your average cabbage
- Obsessed with anime, bands, youtubers and fictional dead French people ^_^
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
You guys wanna know what makes me really sad though? In the Epilogue, during the line ‘we will put away the sword’ the camera is on Combeferre. It’s just sad because he really just joined the revolution because of the peace he thought would come afterwards, but he was really against violence. Anyway.
VIVE LA FRANCE!
Reblog if you’re older than ten and want to go to Disney Land
My sister thinks that I (aged 16) would be the oldest person there besides parents. Prove her wrong?
in england we don’t say “i love you,” instead we’ve built an entire culture around being repressed where expressing your feelings is extremely frowned upon and i think that’s why we drink so much.
Travel is little beds and cramped bathrooms. It’s old television sets and slow Internet connections. Travel is extraordinary conversations with ordinary people. It’s waiters, gas station attendants, and housekeepers becoming the most interesting people in the world. It’s churches that are compelling enough to enter. It’s McDonald’s being a luxury. It’s the realization that you may have been born in the wrong country. Travel is a smile that leads to a conversation in broken English. It’s the epiphany that pretty girls smile the same way all over the world. Travel is tipping 10% and being embraced for it. Travel is the same white T-shirt again tomorrow. Travel is accented sex after good wine and too many unfiltered cigarettes. Travel is flowing in the back of a bus with giggly strangers. It’s a street full of bearded backpackers looking down at maps. Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was. It’s the rediscovery of walking somewhere. It’s sharing a bottle of liquor on an overnight train with a new friend. Travel is “Maybe I don’t have to do it that way when I get back home.
Nick Miller, Isn’t It Pretty To Think So? (via electric-wish)
(Source: quotethat)
I can tell it, this movie is going to be heartbreaking
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I just wanna hit Marius on the head. Like Eponine just died for him. He told her if he could, he would heal her wounds with words of love. And in the same night, he starts grieving for Cosette and how he cannot live anymore because she’s going across the sea. I’m like BITCH YOUR BEST FRIEND JUST DIED. WHAT KIND OF BEST FRIEND ARE YOU KSRHGFBASRHJLFBSRK
Repeat after me, slowly:
Eponine. Is not. Marius’ best friend.
(I think that, uh, honor would go to Courfeyrac or something?)
Her fate is tragic and she’s redeemed somewhat by dying for Marius, but a) Marius is totally oblivious to her love, because she never tells him [except in the book, in which she tells him that she was “a little bit in love with” him just before she dies.]. And b) the musical paints Eponine’s actions as 100% selfless, which they are not.
I don’t want to seem as if I’m putting down Eponine, or trying to crush opinions NOT based on the brick, but really - she’s an awesome, selfish, morally corrupt character [“I’m not an angel, I’m the devil.”] In the book, Marius meets Eponine WELL AFTER he sees Cosette and starts falling in love with her. I don’t know why they changed this in the musical to make it seem as though Marius and Eponine were friends, but they were not. Poor Eponine is surprised that he even remembered her name the second time they met. Doesn’t really sound like friendship to me (and to be honest, even though this sucks ass, Marius probably would not be friends with a lower-class girl who was the daughter of a criminal anyway). Literally the second thing Marius and Eponine ever do in terms of interacting with each other is her showing him where Cosette lives.
Marius is not really a revolutionary the way Les Amis are. Eponine TAKES HIM TO THE BARRICADE in the book. She wants to die, and she wants Marius to die with her. She takes the bullet for him so she can be waiting for him in heaven. She’s got a lot of problems, and I can’t blame her for wanting to get her extreme poverty and parental abuse. She’s mentally not all there, anyway. But her actions were not selfless; she brought Marius to the barricade to die, she took the bullet hoping that he would die soon afterwards, and since Marius had already known Cosette for months at that point, of course he’s upset.
But even in the context of the musical - he’s IN LOVE with this girl. He would be upset regardless, especially given Marius’ personality. Please don’t demean their love just because it happened too quickly for your taste. Love is love is love. In the words of Victor Hugo, “to love or have loved, that is enough.”
