Daily Entertainment, Songfic Edition!

[damncompass]

Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you're all as excited for the weekend as I am. (Or at least excited for the next three days if you don't have a weekend per se.)

In honor of #ficfriday, I'm just going to throw out an oldie but goodie.

Song Prompts! Post in with your characters, and other muns can comment, either with a specific lyric, or something from a playlist on shuffle. Write a short (whatever you deem to be short, probably 2-5 sentance) fic based on the lyric.

Have at! <3

Comments

[genarti]

(Gotcha! In the book, no one but Marius is actually around for Eponine's death -- it's off in a tiny side alley -- and there's no indication that before that she's around Marius at times when he's with Enjolras or the others. (And, uh, the book is very contradictory about the amount to which Marius hung out with most of the Amis anyway. Thanks, Victor Hugo.)

As before, I'm totally willing to fudge in some musical canon stuff on this kind of thing so our characters don't have to have the "Wait, who's Eponine?" "You know, my beloved sister who died at the barricade for Marius and then you said we fight in her name...?" "Seriously I don't remember any of that EVER HAPPENING." conversations. *grin* But I wanted to make sure we were on the same page about what level of knowledge I should be assuming. So, sounds good.)

[street_sparrow]

(Cool! And yeah, book and show canon vary more than I thought. (And I don't recall EITHER having Marius threaten to blow the barricade sky high with a torch and a barrel of gunpowder...) What will make you happy, though, Bahorel is in the movie cast list. Not sure he actually speaks, but he's there!)

[genarti]

(Yeah, there's a whole lot on which they're the same -- and I do really love the show, don't get me wrong -- but it's absolutely an adaptation, and one of the changes it makes is that all the characters encounter each other much more. I wouldn't say their storylines are more intertwined, but they're way more aware of each others' storylines, instead of just being tied together in a meta sense. (Marius does actually pull that gunpowder trick in the book! It's easy to miss, because the barricade sections are much more scattered over a few hundred pages and interspersed with philosophical digressions. It's kind of hilarious, actually. He does that, and the revolutionaries are much more unitedly in favor than in the movie and all going "Good job, Marius, you saved the barricade!", and then he promptly goes off to brood in a corner while everyone else gets back to work around him.)

And yesssss. :D Watching people play spot-the-Bahorel in screencaps on tumblr is great fun; I reap the benefits, as someone too lazy to screencap and play that game myself. I don't think he has any non-group lines either, but he's got some fun body language stuff in the background.)

[street_sparrow]

I keep meaning to get a list of Les Amis and photos of their actors and work out who is who. I've got Combeferre, Courfeyrac, obviously E and G, and I think Joly, but the rest are harder and I'm fairly sure not all of the ones in the movie have canon names.

Oh, there's all KINDS of that if you're looking. :D Apart from Grantaire shamelessly trolling Enjolras in Red and Black, which isn't really background but is hilarious, there's Combeferre objecting to letting the newcomer waltz off with their prisoner and Gavroche punching the air when Marius comes back and declares he's going to fight. And, apparently although I can't hear it, someone in the sniper scene says "No, Grantaire, your OTHER right."

[genarti]

Heh. I can help with that! :D I have faceplanted ridiculously into this fandom, and hanging out in certain quadrants of tumblr gets you familiar with the obscure line-less movie!Amis pretty quickly. If you like, I can try to remember when I'm home to grab a list and pictures for you. All the canonical ones are in the movie, but they don't all have lines and you have to know who they are to spot them (and Bahorel and Bossuet in particular are really hard to find a lot of the time). And of course there are background extras who don't line up to anyone named, too.

Heee! I hadn't heard that sniper scene line, and I love it. The barricade boys clearly had LOTS OF FUN with everything, and I for one am delighted by all of it.

[street_sparrow]

That would be great! :D If you can't, I shall go and hunt out these corners of tumblr for myself.

Absolutely! I've watched the movie far too many times and I never get tired of it.

[street_sparrow]

Oh, and there's one particular change in wording that amuses me. Enjolras' line in the show is "A game for rich young boys to play" (yes, I know the show word for word). In the movie, it's "for a rich young boy to play", and he's looking straight at Marius.