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суббота, 28 декабря 2019

23:38

luksofors

Гражданин! Мать - это республика, а папа - стакан портвейна.

Сохраню для истории свою galaxy brain попытку наложить один кирпич на другой и Друзей Азбуки на Клуб Неудачников (на английском, т. к. изначально постила на тамблере, а переводить лень и бессмысленно)

we have a brick about France, we have a brick about an evil clown from space. fuck it. the Losers Club as Les Amis de’l ABC from Les Misérableswe have a brick about France, we have a brick about an evil clown from space. fuck it. the Losers Club as Les Amis de’l ABC from Les Misérables

Bill is obviously Enjolras - the leader of the group, respected and admired by his friends. Doesn’t talk that much, but when he does, everyone listens. That one character who gives the Speech before the final battle. Presented in the narration in an arguably idealized manner. Probably everyone’s crush. Author’s favourite and it shows

Richie - my first thought was Grantaire, because 1) tragic gay love story; 2) Grantaire’s ramblings are pretty much the 19th century standup, but Grantaire, while still a member of the core nine, is an outsider in the group because he does not truly share their ideals and does not commit to their fight as much as the others do. Richie, in contrast, is part of the Losers Club from the very beginning - as the story starts, he and Bill and Stan and Eddie are already friends - and actively participates in what they do, not mostly remains in the background like Grantaire. So I nominate him for Courfeyrac - Courfeyrac, who jokes and teases his friends and gives them nicknames (like Monsieur l’Abbé to Marius), and may seem flippant and unable to take things seriously, but is actually really smart and gives a damn about the mission of the group. One of the closest to Enjolras, one of the group’s leaders, its centre, its heart

Stan - now, of course, there is a difference between Combeferre who “denied nothing, not even ghosts” and Stan who holds on to the knowledge of what’s real and what’s not so hard that the existence of something like It eventually breaks him, but I’d still argue that thematically Stan fits Combeferre’s role. He’s the intellectual, scholarly one (about Combeferre - ”learned, purist, precise […] a hard student, and at the same time given to musing”, with a “tender and serious mind”), an expert on certain topics (birds vs. technological innovations/geology/medicine), usually calm but also can obliterate you with a remark or two (Stan’s speech at his Bar Mitzvah vs. Combeferre destroying Marius’s argument about the greatness of Napoleon with a couple of words and a fucking song). Also he’s a close friend of Bill and Richie from the very beginning => the trio of the chief, the centre, and the guide

Eddie - Joly is literally introduced as “a young hypochondriac” who “thought himself in poor health” and is “finicky, sickly, joyful […] an eccentric agreeable person”, and who later at some point complains about bad weather before the battle because he “swore to go through fire, not water”, so that’s easy

Mike is Feuilly - the workingman, the orphan (if we’re only talking IT movies, not the book), the passionate learner, the nicest person you’ll ever meet. Mike being a historian vs. Feuilly taking an interest in the history of other countries and knowing a lot about it. Besides, we don’t have a Grantaire to Bill’s Enjolras in this case, but guess what ship involving Enjolras also exists and is comparatively popular… Enjolras/Feuilly…… yeah

Beverly is Éponine - the girl from a terrible abusive family, the girl who had to grow up too fast, the girl who still remained capable of love and tenderness, the girl who fell for a boy who represented a better, kinder life. The girl who confronted a gang of criminals and made them leave the Rue Plumet, telling them that she’s “not afraid of anything! […] Not even you, Father!”. (Yes, I know that she isn’t part of Les Amis in the book, but in the hearts of fandom she is)

And Ben is Jehan Prouvaire - the poet of the group, well-read and soft and sweet and shy and at the same time extremely brave, the one who “spoke gently […] smiled with embarrassment […] had an awkward air, blushed at nothing, was very timid. Still, intrepid.”

*all quotes from the brick about France as translated by Fahnestock & MacAfee

Ну а началось всё, конечно, вот с этого:
Drink with me to days gone by
To the life that used to be
At the shrine of friendship never say die
Let the wine of friendship never run dry
Here's to you and here's to me