Guión De Los Miserables (English)

Les Misérables
The Movie
Screenplay by
William Nicholson
Alain Boublil, Claude- Michel Schönberg
and Herbert Kretzmer
Adapted from the Stage Musical
”Les Misérables”
Based on the novel by
Victor Hugo
White Shooting Script - March 13, 2012
Blue Revisions - May 20, 2012

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BLACK SCREEN

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SUPERIMPOSE CAPTION:

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The year is 1815.
The French revolution is a distant
memory. Napoleon has been defeated.
France is ruled by a King again.
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EXT. TOULON PORT - DAY

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RISE UP out of the iron-grey surface of theocean, seething
in the wind, towards the shore. Winter rain slices the air.
Ahead, the port of Toulon, home of the French navy. A forest
of tall masted warships.

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The great ships heave at anchor, the wind whipping their
rigging.

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Through the sea spray we see the great ribs of warships
under construction, and warships being refitted.

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Toulon
Home port of the French navy
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EXT. TOULON DOCK - DAY
Storm-lashed sea and driving rain. A great wave rises up
and hammers down. As it recedes we see the figures of men
heaving on great ropes, the sea water streaming down over
their faces. The harsh storm light catches glints of metal:
these men are CONVICTS, chained by manacles, heads shaved,
wearing red shirts withprison numbers crudely stitched
onto them.
Now we see that the ropes run up to a ship that is being
hauled ashore - a storm-damaged man-of-war, its masts
broken, rising and falling on the surge.
As yet another great wave rolls over the convicts, we
follow the straining ropes down into the base of the
slipway, and find the convict JEAN VALJEAN, up to his waist
in water, chained by two sets ofmanacles, as the rain and
spray and wind scream round him. A great brute of a man, he
seems to feel nothing.

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The convicts sing in time with the rhythmic pulls on the
rope Ha - Ha -

CONVICTS

CONVICT 3
Ha - Ha Look down, look down
Don’t look them in the eye

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CONVICTS
Look down, look down
You’re hereuntil you die.

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CONVICT 4
No God above
And Hell alone below

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CONVICTS
Look down, look down
There’s twenty years to go.

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The camera RISES UP to find JAVERT, the officer in charge
of the convict workforce, looking on, his face rain-lashed
and expressionless. He stands above the men on the top of
the dock, as lines of convicts labour beneath him on the
steep steps of thedock wall.

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Behind Javert, through the storm rain we glimpse a forest of **
half-built ships, their ribbed frames like great skeletons in **
the mist.
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FOREGROUND convicts are at work on another ship that is
almost completed, labouring in the crashing spray.
CONVICT 2
I’ve done no wrong
Sweet Jesus, hear my prayer!

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CONVICTS
Look down, look down
Sweet Jesus...