These two cross paths for the rest of the film, with Javert in panting pursuit.
Prison guard (later Inspector) Javert is the voice of the rule-of-law principle run amuck.
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There he is dimly recognized as a former convict by Javert (Russell Crowe), the local police inspector.
Valjean, who would have shown mercy and resolved the situation with much better results, is focused on avoiding detection by Javert.
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What's missing most from his performance, though, is demonic sizzle, a sense of the wild internal conflicts that make Javert's demise necessary, not just inevitable.
It is obvious to everyone except Javert that no genuine good would be served by depriving Montreuil-sur-Mer of its highly capable mayor and chief industrialist.
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Yet this formidable actor hasn't mustered the musical variety, and therefore the dramatic power, to make Javert compelling as an individual, rather than an instrument of Valjean's fate.
The long-distance Javerts in the tough-on-immigration movement need to take a good long look at Les Miserables, whether the book, the movie or the musical, and see the bit of Javert in each of us.
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On January 23, 2012, doing its best imitation of Inspector Javert and after learning that Douglas had returned to the U.S., the SEC filed a Motion for a Rule to Show Cause and for an Order of Civil Contempt, requesting that the Court hold Douglas in contempt for a second time.
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