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This is for the contest for the month of September being run by msbrit90 of Doll-Makers-Domain where the theme was Music. We're to make a piece (using any doll-maker program) that somehow depicts a song, music video and/or band that we like. I actually considered quite a few different options for this contest. (There's a particular song especially that makes me think of my various characters encouraging me to write about them. *LOL* But, I was having issues getting them to come out right.) Then, I thought of "Les Miserables". It's a musical that I've been in love with since I was in high school. I've read the book, I've seen the musical in London (and my home town), I've watched the recent movie based on the musical, I've watched every other movie I could find based on it, (some of them I wanted to throw The Brick at though, because the writers must have been on drugs...) and it's the music I listen to when I just need to let the world disappear for a while. I love most of the music from it, but the song "On My Own" has long been one of my favorites, and I thought it would be fun to depict Eponine as well as Marius and Cosette. Since this piece of art has had SOOO many different depictions, it's hard to find any one definitive version of any of the characters, so what I made here is somewhat of a conglomeration. It's been a long time since I've read The Brick (the full, complete, unabridged novel) so I don't remember all the details of what the characters looked like, but I do remember that Cosette had dark brown hair, and Marius always wore a black coat in mourning for his father. I dressed Cosette in the type of dress that she usually wears in the stage musical, but I dressed Eponine in dress that more closely resembles the recent movie, since it was a bit easier to make with the options available. Marius... I just gave him a black coat, and some clothes that aren't TOO spiffy looking, but would be suitable for the time.
As for the song itself, as I said before, it's one of my favorites from the musical. I felt bad for Eponine as she was raised by horrible people who only showed her the worst depths that humanity can sink to, and for the longest time that's all that she knew. And then she met this nice guy who was also poor, but he didn't let himself become corrupted by it, and I think he was the only bright spot in her otherwise dreary and hard life. And he doesn't see her as anything besides a poor girl to be pitied, and has fallen in love with a nice, pleasant, well-to-do girl, and Eponine realizes that she never really had a chance to start with, and if she was absent from his life, there would hardly be a difference.
Here's a link to the version of the song from the movie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFEkEr…
Also, just for the heck of it...
"On my own
Pretending he's beside me
All alone
I walk with him till morning
Without him
I feel his arms around me
And when I lose my way I close my eyes
And he has found me
In the rain the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me forever and forever
And I know it's only in my mind
That I'm talking to myself and not to him
And although I know that he is blind
Still I say, there's a way for us
I love him
But when the night is over
He is gone
The river's just a river
Without him
The world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere
The streets are full of strangers
I love him
But every day I'm learning
All my life
I've only been pretending
Without me
His world will go on turning
A world that's full of happiness
That I have never known
I love him
I love him
I love him
But only on my own"
Made using the Snow Queen Scene-Maker www.azaleasdolls.com/dressupga… at Azalea's Dress-up Dolls. www.azaleasdolls.com
The musical has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg and original French-language lyrics byAlain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, alongside an English-language libretto with accompanying English-language lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.
The novel was written by Victor Hugo.
(In other words, I take no credit for any of this, besides the making of the picture.)
As for the song itself, as I said before, it's one of my favorites from the musical. I felt bad for Eponine as she was raised by horrible people who only showed her the worst depths that humanity can sink to, and for the longest time that's all that she knew. And then she met this nice guy who was also poor, but he didn't let himself become corrupted by it, and I think he was the only bright spot in her otherwise dreary and hard life. And he doesn't see her as anything besides a poor girl to be pitied, and has fallen in love with a nice, pleasant, well-to-do girl, and Eponine realizes that she never really had a chance to start with, and if she was absent from his life, there would hardly be a difference.
Here's a link to the version of the song from the movie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFEkEr…
Also, just for the heck of it...
"On my own
Pretending he's beside me
All alone
I walk with him till morning
Without him
I feel his arms around me
And when I lose my way I close my eyes
And he has found me
In the rain the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me forever and forever
And I know it's only in my mind
That I'm talking to myself and not to him
And although I know that he is blind
Still I say, there's a way for us
I love him
But when the night is over
He is gone
The river's just a river
Without him
The world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere
The streets are full of strangers
I love him
But every day I'm learning
All my life
I've only been pretending
Without me
His world will go on turning
A world that's full of happiness
That I have never known
I love him
I love him
I love him
But only on my own"
Made using the Snow Queen Scene-Maker www.azaleasdolls.com/dressupga… at Azalea's Dress-up Dolls. www.azaleasdolls.com
The musical has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg and original French-language lyrics byAlain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, alongside an English-language libretto with accompanying English-language lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.
The novel was written by Victor Hugo.
(In other words, I take no credit for any of this, besides the making of the picture.)
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I love Eponine and Cosette and the way that you made both of them here. I think that both of them really look near what I imaged that they looked like when I had read the Brick myself. It's been quite sometime since I read it. But the plays and the music, with this song in particular, really always pulled at my feels. The very clean look of Cosette and her curls and ruffled collar. The Eponine and her dirty appearance, and her looking sad. It really fits the song and everything well. All three of them look good!