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Re: Les Miserables
By:Not a PR Person
Date: Wednesday, 19 March 2008, 11:31 pm
In Response To: Les Miserables (Oscar)

I actually haven't seen that one, so I'll have to check it out, soon as I can. :)

> As a matter of fact I HAVE! And I loved it! Neeson has the right
> "hang dog" look about him to play the lead. Just
> mentioning it prompts me to want to check it out again.

> And not only have I seen the movie, I have actually read the
> book, all 1000+ pages of it, while I was in high school! It
> really impressed people that I would read something that long
> because I wanted to!

> Another historical movie that I have seen a few times is "A
> Man For All Seasons" starring Paul Scofield and Robert
> Shaw. When it came out in 1966 my whole Catholic high school
> class went to see it because it dealt with the conflict between
> Henry VIII and Sir (Saint) Thomas More who would not renounce
> his Catholicism.

> It was a successful play that translated well to the screen with
> a minimum of Hollywood-ization.

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