![]() ![]() Finally it swoops into a closeup of one of the prisoners, the emaciated Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), exerting himself in the chorus of the condemned: “Look down, look down/ Upon your fellow man!” Ordered by the warden Javert ( Russell Crowe) to lift a heavy spar that carries another flag, Valjean does so, demonstrating tremendous strength and, in a brief tableau, proving he is a human Jesus, selflessly bearing a cross for the sins of humanity he has suffered all his life - and will suffer until his death. ![]() Then it surfaces and ascends high above a ship being dragged into its dock by hundreds of rope-pulling convicts. ![]() The movie’s first shot begins underwater, beneath a tattered French flag. ![]()
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