Students will select five of the following ten questions to answer after watching the movie musical. Here are some suggestions: Mary Poppins, The Greatest Showman, Into the Woods, La La Land, The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Across the Universe, Mamma Mia!, Moulin Rouge, Sweeney Todd, Dreamgirls, Grease, A Star is Born, The Sound of Music, White Christmas, The Wizard of Oz, The Wiz, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes… there are lots of options!
For this exercise, please ensure students select a live-action movie musical, rather than an animated film. You may wish for all students to analyze the same movie musical, or have every student sign up for a different one. You may select a movie for your students to view together in class, or let them each select one for approval and watch it at home. Start by choosing a movie musical to analyze. By the time the abrupt and curiously didactic finale rolls around, Les Misérables has confirmed its place as a well-made yet mostly uninvolving debut for a filmmaker that admittedly does show quite a bit of promise.The following exercise has a straightforward premise: watch a movie musical and analyze it! This written exercise helps students practice skills including analytical and critical thinking, observation, problem solving, and creative thinking.
(The picture is, after all, likely to remind most of the similarly-themed Training Day, albeit without that superior effort’s dynamic protagonists.) It does become increasingly clear that, despite its raft of positive attributes, there’s not a whole lot within Les Misérables worth getting terribly excited about or invested in, which, in turn, prevents the viewer from wholeheartedly sympathizing with the central characters’ increasingly perilous exploits and ultimately diminishes the impact of the action-packed third act.
Filmmaker Ladj Ly has infused Les Misérables with a documentary-like atmosphere that proves instrumental in initially capturing the viewer’s interest, as the movie otherwise suffers from a rather familiar atmosphere that’s exacerbated by the three well-acted yet entirely unsympathetic lead performances. Les Misérables follows Damien Bonnard’s Stéphane as he arrives in Paris for his first day of work within the city’s plain-clothes SCU division, with the picture detailing the complications that ensue for Stéphane and his two partners (Alexis Manenti’s Chris and Djibril Zonga’s Gwada) during the former’s first full day on the job.
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