Then fate re-enters his life in the person of Inspector Javert ( Geoffrey Rush), a police official who recognizes him from his years at hard labor and wants to expose him: In this world, if you once do something wrong, you are banished forever from the sight of those lucky enough not to have been caught.Ĭonsider, in the same light, poor Fantine ( Uma Thurman), fired from the factory and forced into prostitution because it is discovered she has a child out of wedlock. As we rejoin him some years later, he is the local mayor, respectable and beloved, trying to teach himself to read and write. Valjean sells the silver, gets a job in a provincial factory and uses the nest egg to buy the factory. In one of the most famous episodes from Hugo's novel, the bishop tells the police he gave the tramp the silver, and later tells Valjean: 'I've ransomed you from fear and hatred and now I give you back to God.' There was a similar scene in Claude Lelouch's 1995 'Les Miserables,' which intercut passages from the novel with a story set during World War II it was touching, but this version feels more like a morality play. Valjean is taken in, fed and sheltered, and tries to steal the bishop's silver.

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