Marius instantly falls in love with her because he sees a beautiful, well dresses young girl thinking of the poor and helping her, people he loves and stands up for.
I appreciate your analysis but I have to be "that guy" that tells you the novel was actually nothing like that, it takes years for him to fall for her and he doesn't see her helping the poor, she's just walking the Luxembourg with Jean Valjean. Of course the musical, due to time constraints, cut all that out.
I think what Éponine means is when they were young and actually getting along. Because In the book, when Fantine meets with Madame Thenardier, Cosette actually played with Éponine and her sister Azelma (she's not in the musical). Madame Thenardier even complimented this occurance "they already look like sisters getting along" and that was when Fantine asks Madame Thenardier to take care of her daughter but as we all know, rather than taking care of Cosette, she and her husband abuses Fantine's money and her daughter.
SPOILERS FOR THE BOOOOK!!!!!! Gosh. In the book, this scene was DAMN LONG and exciting. Marius is Thenardier's (or Jondrette, how they call themselves) neighbour and he gets to know Eponine when she has come to want money from him. He feels mercy for their family and spies on them, seeing Cosette and Valjean helping them (and promising to come later with more money). Then he hears the plan of the Thenardiers: they have recognized Valjean, hate him and wanna capture and torture him for money (they think he is a millionaire and hate hime for stealing Cosette) . Marius goes to the Police and tells Javert all he knows. The inspector thinks of a plan to capture the criminals. Then Marius sees a scene of Thenardier and his friends catching Valjean and him fooling them for long enough time. But Thenardier has made a favour to Marius' dead father so he doesn't know what to do. Luckily, Javert comes on time and Jean escapes on time. Sorry, I love this exciting scene, I had to write that.
Also, they are already in love in this moment of the plot. They saw each other for months and nothing happens, then cosette Discovers She Is beautyful, She dresses well and they fall in love with Just a look
0:24 is it me, or does it seem like Cosette recognized Eponine, just like Eponine recognized her? And Thenardier noticed and called Eponine over so they wouldn't be able to talk or anything. Maybe he figured since they were there helping the poor, and Eponine is, well, poor, she might want to help her.
13wlflvr I think Cosette is still looking at Marius, and Thenardier just sees Eponine hanging around. That also would make more sense because 1) Cosette completely forgot about her life before she met Jean Valjean and 2) Marius and her keep gazing at each other after
@@amiliaroseyroblox yeah it makes more sense that way. Love struck Cosette couldn't be able to notice anything else at that time. Remember how she was absent for a while when Valjean was struggling with the Thenardier gang? Moreover, Eponine was kinda hiding further behind Marius. Not easy for Cosette to see her.
@@amiliaroseyroblox She probably suppressed her trauma of the past.. A bit strange, though, that she didn´t recognize the Thenardiers. But I love this scene in the film - so much going on at the same time.
I meaaaaan they left out the fact that Marius thought Cosette was ugly, she already liked him and *then* he changes his mind after like half a year. Also, in the book Jeal Valjean hates Marius with a deep passion at first lol
@@raina2319 Same. But in almost every book from those times, the man falls in love with the woman because she is pretty. That's what romance was for them. I rarely know a classic book where a man falls in love with a woman because he gets to know her deeply.
@@somekindofflower2024 yeah falling in love with a pretty girl is fine but i personally don't like his high handed behavior. I also don't really like how cosette slowly forgets about jeal valjean once she is married. I mean not only did he save her he is the only family she has.
@@raina2319 No, It says he was actually quite indifferent to her also when he noticed she was pretty, but then one day their eyes met and he fell in love.
He vowed to Cosette's dying mother, who he had failed to help in the past, that he would care for Cosette and raise her as his own. The thenardiers aren't Cosette's actual parents, they "took care" of her, but really just abused her
