Javert's Soliloquy

Ohh how I LOVED THIS SCENE from Les Misérables!!


It was so intense, the cinematography was wonderful, and the lyrics chilling...
Artistic wise, this was A LOT of fun to do... I decided to try really sharp, contrasting shading this time around; I really wanted to accentuate the intensity here, as well... contrasting conflict =contrasting colours?

I really wanted to capture that look of... doubt, fear, anxiety, and overall feeling of looking into one's past only to find all the skeletons in the closet... that expression... it was tough to do... I'm happy enough with it.


SO! Rather than type out what's going on here, I'm just gonna be lazy and copy and paste two paragraphs from this chapter in the book... it was a long enough chapter and really delved into Javert's inner struggle...
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Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. Other facts which he now recalled, and which he had formerly treated as lies and folly, now recurred to him as realities. M. Madeleine re-appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in such fashion that they now formed but one, which was venerable. Javert felt that something terrible was penetrating his soul--admiration for a convict. Respect for a galley-slave--is that a possible thing? He shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, he was reduced to confess, in his inmost heart, the sublimity of that wretch. This was odious.
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed.
Things could not go on in this manner.

ASDFGHJK I LOVE IT!
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Here's the song too --> [link]
NOTE: This song has the EXACT SAME tempo, context (looking over one's life), and even certain lyrics as Valjean's Soliloquy because... well, they BOTH look over their life and BOTH don't like the mistakes they've made... Valjean faces his demons and decides to change... Javert on the other hand... well... let's just say, this song = DOES NOT COMPUTE!!

Javert:
Who is this man?
What sort of devil is he?
To have me caught in a trap
And choose to let me go free?
It was his hour at last
To put a seal on my fate
Wipe out the past
And wash me clean off the slate
All it would take was a flick of his knife
Vengeance was his and he gave me back my life!

Damned if I'll live in the debt of a thief!
Damned if I'll yield at the end of the chase!
I am the law and the law is not mocked!
I'll spit his pity right back in his face!
There is nothing on Earth that we share!
It is either Valjean or Javert!

Me: Ohhhh boy... _{(totally knows what's coming... lolz)}

Javert:
And my thoughts fly apart
Can this man be believed?
Shall his sins be forgiven?
Shall his crimes be reprieved?

And must I now begin to doubt,
Who never doubted all those years?
My heart is stone, and still it trembles
The world I have known is lost in shadow
Is he from heaven or from hell?
And does he know?
That granting me my life today...
This man has killed me... even so...

Me: Whew... here we go... _{(is loving the music; so chilling!)}

Javert:
I am reaching... but I fall...
And the stars are black and cold...
As I stare into the void...
Of a world that cannot hold...
I'll escape now, from that world
From the world of Jean Valjean
There is no where I can turn
There is no way to go on!

Me: Down he goes...
Here comes the splash...

...

CRACK

Me: ASDHFJG OH MY GAH-HAAAA!!!
Ohhh, MAN! MOVIE!
Y U DO THAT?!
Y U MAKE ME JUMP?!?!
I TOTALLY wasn't expecting that!!
_{Eggh... like a freaking accordean... owwww}

*shivers*

Anywho, please comment and enjoy!