Les Miserables has many forms of textual versions and one of these is the Movie. If you compared it with the abridged text version we are reading, you'll get so confused if you haven't read the book.
             In the movie there was a prologue; when a hand was holding a bracelet. The atmosphere and tone is sad/melancholy. But there were parts were the setting would just change, just like when Marius and Cosette would meet. The two lovers set up a new mood in the story. For every scene, the mood would change. You feel more emotions in the movie compared to the text version. For me the setting of the movie doesn't have a big difference in the book. It is only more detailed in the book compared to the movie.
             The chronology of events and plot is very different. The opening scene shows Jean Valjean walking going to Digne. When he stole the candlesticks Bishop Myriel wakes up and Jean Valjean shows himself from the shadow and slaps the bishop so hard that he fell to the ground and lay there unconsciously. The following day you see him with a big red mark on his cheek. You really can see how strong Valjean is. Jean Valjean became the Mayor of Montreuil-sur-mer, it was not really clear how he became the Mayor. Also, the time when he got back from the Arras courthouse, he escaped Javert by banging him on the wall and one of Javert's guards letting him go. It was so funny and it really looks so realistic. You can also see that there became a love interest between Fantine and Valjean. He gets Cosette from the Thenardiers not from money but by the letter of Fantine. The meeting of the two lovers is different from the book, in the book it was stated that they meet when Valjean is sleeping but in the movie when Valjean goes out for a walk that is when Marius and Cosette would meet in their own "bench." Le Cabuc was a spy of Javert, the reason why Valjean knows the two lovers where secretly meeting was because of Javerts le...