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In reply to the discussion: URGENT MUST SEE - "LES MISERABLES" -- It Is The Movie Of Our Time -- GOP Featured -- [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)in France in French, came to the UK in 85 or so in an English version, at the Barbican Center. It was not performed in the US for about 6 years after the premier in France.
The film version is produced by a British company, directed by a Brit and has almost no Americans in the cast.
And of course, when Hugo first published the book, it was too expensive for the poor to buy. The story has always been directed at those who have more, and it is about what they should do about that fact. Perhaps you think that audiences well off enough to spend money on entertainments should only be offered fluffy, empty fare? That there is no value in showing them a larger world than their lives offer them?
It is a piece of entertainment, a work of art. It is not a program to solve the problems the government can not, which charity can not address fully, such works do not claim to be such things. The objective is that the viewer might think, might feel, and thus be moved to action, to evolution, to solution.