Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: In a plot stretched over nearly twenty years, probably the most frequent one is characters failing to get older:.Her cruelty towards Cosette when she is exploited into being her family's slave tends to be downplayed in film adaptions (and omitted entirely in the 2012 film), and it is implied she actually wanted Marius to die at the barricades in the book. Adaptation Explanation Extrication: Both Javert's suspicion that Madeleine might be Valjean and the reasons for Champmathieu being mistaken for Valjean, while lengthily explained in the novel, are often condensed to 'He looks like Valjean'.In the book, she's described as having lost any beauty she may have had, but you'd be hard pressed to find an actress playing her who isn't drop-dead gorgeous, even when covered in dirt.

Always with Eponine, at least in adaptations that include her (such as the stage musical).Sometimes Valjean - the 1978 version (starring Richard Jordan as Valjean) was released on video a blurb beginning: 'Jean Valjean, a handsome young woodcutter.'.Some movies have Fantine look incredibly pretty (and above all healthy), when she's supposed to be dying of TB.Adaptations without their own trope pages provide examples of:

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