Les Miserables
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Deliberate mistake: In "Do You Hear the People Sing?", Grantaire can be seen hijacking the funeral carriage, but when the insurrection starts, he is at the tavern with some girl, and Marius says, "Grantaire, get off your arse, it's begun!" and acts like he wasn't just there. George Blagden, who portrayed Grantaire, didn't want to be left out of that great set-piece, so he was allowed to participate, and the director must have thought no-one would notice him. (01:36:55 - 01:38:45)

Factual error: In the scene where Javert commits suicide, you can see the back side of Notre Dame in the background. However the river Seine does not flow in the direction as shown in the following scenes. The river Seine flows from the east to the west in Paris, not the other way round.

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Trivia: Anne Hathaway won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role as Fantine, even though she only had 15 minutes of screen time.

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