What's the Difference between Les Miserables the Book and Les Miserables the Movie?
Les Miserables Book vs Movie
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When Fauchelevent is being crushed by the cart, Madeleine/Valjean tries to convince someone to help lift it in exchange for money, then when nobody answers, crawls under the cart himself and attempts to lift it but succeeds only slightly, leading to all present helping him and lifting the cart together. |
Madeleine/Valjean lifts the cart by himself to let Fauchelevent out. |
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When Javert tells Valjean about Champmathieu being judged at Arras, Valjean makes a journey to the courts along which he encounters multiple hardships which partially encourage him to turn back, but he ends up pressing on at every occasion. When he arrives, he finds that only by a stroke of luck did he manage to get there before the trial was completed. |
A very short transition represents Valjean's journey to the Assizes.
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Valjean spends a night questioning whether or not he should reveal his true identity to save Champmathieu, then does it again in the antechamber of the courts of Arras. |
Valjean only questions himself once on this matter, while he is still at Montreuil. |
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Valjean has to appeal to three convicts he used to know, Brevet, Cochepaille and Chenildieu and mentions that he still keeps the forty-sou piece he stole from Little Gervais in order to convince the court that he and not Champmathieu is, in fact, Jean Valjean. |
Valjean yells out his prisoner number, then asks the magistrates to consult with Javert to assert his identity.
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Javert seeks to condemn the revealed Valjean because of his robbery of Little Gervais. |
Javert seeks to re-apprehend Valjean because the latter broke his parole. |