CP3S said:

darth_ender said:

TheBoost said:

So, the movie moved Anne Hathaway's song "I'm So Damn Sad, Dear God I'm Sad" from after she looses her job (which would make me sad) where it is in the stage musical, until...

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...after she becomes a bald toothless prostitute (which would make me sadder). Seems a solid dramatic choice.

Kinda weird that Ann would sing a song about being so darn sad in a story called Les Miserables. ;)

Honestly, that sounds like a better position for the song to me.

I just don't see the point in moving it. What for? As Cobb says so that it is superficially different from the stage play? That is silly.

Anyway, life was kind of falling apart for her and she was very, very, very sad before she had to sell her hair and herself into prostitution. That song was part of her transition to rock bottom, as you watch as things keep going downhill for her. Don't see why they felt she couldn't be so damn sad until after she had become a prostitute.

I didn't mean that movies should change things when they adapt just for the sake of it, I just meant that I don't think they have an obligation to, and if there is a change that seems like its worth doing, for the sake of the cinematic narrative, there's no reason why they shouldn't do it.

Like I said before, I'm not familiar with the stage musical, so I can't say for sure if the movie's restructuring is better; but, in the movie, I feel it makes more sense to put that song where it is now.