Eponine in this movie
I just wanted to know people's opinions on the Eponine in this movie.
shareI think that it’s the best incarnation of Éponine to the cinema. Silvia Monfort, one of the largest tragic actresses of the French theatre, went until adopting the gestural one of the character like Hugo describes in his novel, with "her stray glances and her movements of sea eagle" and she even worked her voice to give to Éponine its inflections gutturals. I believe that the film, in addition to the fact that it’s, to date, the most faithful film adaptation of the novel, owes its success with its exceptional casting.
shareHm... isn't this the red haired Eponine? (If I'm wrong, kindly point me in the direction of the movie I'm referring to.)
I think she did well, but her Eponine was far sweeter than Hugo's seemed to be. The real Eponine is a rough thing of the streets, while this one struck me as a young lady who had had some tough breaks.
Admittedly, though, it's far better than musical!Ponine, and none of the other LM movies I've seen to date even bother to have Eponine at all, so she's certainly the best I've seen. Just not ideal.
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Yes, in this movie, Éponine has the red hair like Thénardier, her father in the movie, the French actor Bourvil (in the real life, Silvia Monfort was a blonde-haired woman). If its character is edulcorated a little in this version (but that it is an effect of the realization), Silvia Monfort is nevertheless very close to the character of Hugo in the direction where she adopted her gestural and her strangeness. Hugo makes of her the incarnation of "misery and the hunger in the child". In addition, it is true that the realization gums the miserable aspect of the character like, moreover, for the other members of the Thénardier family who all are properly equipped. I find that Silvia Monfort nevertheless gives all the force wanted to his character although its role was curtailed considerably. Compared to the character of the other versions that I could see, I find that she is the best representation that which one remembers in all the cases, even if she does not act completely as in the novel.
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