THE Most Epic Scenes Ever!!!

----First of all, this gives away most of the rest of the book. Sorry.

----So Marius and his friends are desperately fighting for their lives in the barricade. And I have to give you the play-by-play here just because it's so awesome. Enjolras, the rebels' charismatic leader, has longish blond hair, green eyes, and a passion for his cause, quite like Luke Skywalker actually. But their side is losing and he suddenly grasps that they are doomed. Enjolras orders a retreat, in order to save as many men as possible from the oncoming torrent of enemy soldiers. But it's too late. He is caught, and then the scene becomes one of those classic episodes we nerds, actors, and gamers love- the epic death.
----Enjolras, the underappreciated hero, stands in the corner of an old shop, the only building left intact. When the soldiers break down the door, they see him there in all his resplendence-- behind the billiard table, standing up very straight, with clear eyes and level chin. This is the only soldier who has emerged from the battle without a scratch. Still really only a child, so much potential and beauty is still there, uncorrupted. He delicately lays down his rifle. "Shoot me."
----He refuses the offered blindfold, preferring to stare them down to the last. He knows that death is okay when it makes a point. To die in vain or die to support your cause- that's the real question.
----A breeze abruptly wanders through the broken window, ruffling Enjolras's blond hair. The morning sun shines in too, giving him a halo. An enemy officer remarks in a low voice of the resemblance to Apollo. It's just after dawn. Paris is still asleep. No one knows nor cares about one boy and his heroism.
----The gun's loud report rents the air. Enjolras remains standing, pinned against the wall, but bows his head, shaggy blond hair getting in his eyes. The end has begun.

----Inspector Javert, being chronically unlucky, has been caught by the rebels while attempting to spy on them. They tie him up, but Valjean, volunteering for their cause, offers to execute him for them. He takes the inspector to a dark alley (trite and ominous, right?) but instead of a gun, pulls out a knife. Javert comments on how this is more the convict's style, but Valjean isn't finished. He saws throught the ropes binding Javert and lets him go. WHAT? Valjean just turned Javert loose and gave him his current address? Javert, the one who has doggedly pursued Valjean for the past nine years? Wow. That's all I can say.
----Marius, meanwhile, is showing off just how much he is like Romeo. They're both so brainless! Also, miscommunication was both of their demises.
----Cosette is forced to move to their other house by her father, who still doesn't know of her love for Marius. Devastated, Marius slips into depression and wanders into the barricade. He picks up a gun and starts randomly firing.
----Marius finds himself being shot at, point blank, by an enemy soldier. But... what's this?... a boy jumps in front of him and stops the musket ball with his hand. It tears through, but Marius' life is saved. And then- get this- Marius thinks nothing of it! He's still so obsessed with Cosette that he barely notices his narrow escape and walks away! Um, wow. He's either really dim or really in love. Possibly both.
----Eventually he realizes that "oh, really? Someone saved my life? Gee, who could that have been?" He sees that same boy lying on the pavement and kneels down next to him. Wait, it's Eponine, dressed up as a boy! She's dying of the wounds she sustained for Marius, who, by the way, is so in love with someone else that he barely notices. Eponine, in excruciating pain, is only comforted by Marius' presence. The life finishes slipping out like the wet blood staining her shirt.
----And then... and then...
----Marius leans down, serene amidst the gunfire, and gently kisses her waxy forehead. "This was not infidelity to Cosette; it was a thoughtful and gentle farewell to an unhappy soul."
----After this episode, Marius is completely unprepared when he is knocked unconcious by a beam hitting his head. And I, the reader, am completely unprepared when Jean Valjean swoops in to save the day yet again (although I should be getting used to that by now, he's always conviently in the right place at the right time) and carries Marius over his shoulder four miles through the dank labrynthine sewer system. He's an old man now, in his seventies. Seventies!
----Finally, he makes his way out by bribing Thenardier, who is guarding the entrance and doesn't recognize him. But he does find Javert. Come on, is there no relief?