Anne Hathaway Owes Me $14 — Page 3

Goth, judging Hathaway's I Dreamed A Dream in the context of the show, I might agree with you that she began the song where it ends. But it comes in the movie at a very different point in her life than it does in the show. Unlike in the show, she has already been, not only fired, but totally debased. Given all of that, the beginning of the song is a very different moment than it usually is. Had Hathaway performed the start of the song as it usually performed it would have been a flat out lie. She performs it in reference to the moment before the song starts as that moment was conceived for the film. And she's quite brilliant.

" I know it was the French Revolution.. but you are telling me no one was happy??"

Except it's not. In fact, the first thing we see on screen is text saying this isn't the French revolution.

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He actually just responds "French revolution."

But come on. The first thing you see in this film is text that all but says "THIS IS NOT THE FRENCH REVOLUTION." And then the film updates you on various dates that are further and further away from the French Revolution. And then characters reference how they have previously had a revolution. If people are still confused, I don't think they should be seeing movies.

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Kad, why didn't he just shout, "Revolution!" They're in France, after all. It seems a little redundant.

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Gotham, you include a Beckett quote as part of all your posts. How much of a traditional arc is built into each of the roles he writes? Listen to LuPone in the original. She doesn't sound all that happy at the start.

I agree that there have to be shifts in any piece. The more, the better so long as they're subtle. The actor needs to play the given circumstances (which you seem to have forgotten). To me, the reason for the song, in this placement, is we witness the character's last ditch effort to fight tooth (oh those teeth) and nail for her survival. I thought Hathaway showed the death of a dream. I was moved by it.

THERE Goth - DAT"S da singer that can do it bettah more than Hathaway. well fou YOU Ima shure!

Goth, you are wrong... and always have been wrong.

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I cannot thank Gothampc enough for the free acting lesson. I was looking into new class options but I've now been spared the trouble.

I've quickly learned all I need to know.

Sorry Goth, you're on your own, but you tried.

Actually, Crowe owes you $14 - lol. Like you said, he was wooden and I think it is safe to say does not have the singing voice to do the role justice. Jackman was fine, think he did a good job overall. The best voice of the whole movie IMO was Aaron Tveit.

I understand this separate thread for such an inane discussion. There isn't enough room in any other thread to hold how much this poster doesn't understand -- about Les Miserables, about the film, or even about acting.

So she is at the bottom of the barrel when she starts singing, but because she is supposed to be remembering happier days, she should suddenly get back her strength and maybe skip around the street tossing flower petals in the air rather than show how truly defeated she is at the moment the song starts?

I'm sorry, the entire thing was way too subtle for you to understand and that you were unable to see any "development" in her emotions. Sometimes things shouldn't have to hit people over the head so they can see the emotional development -- smile here means you're happy, then cry to show you're sad. But clearly that's what you needed.

Roo, that youtube video was hilarious...

I must say that while I went into the theater wanting not to like Anne Hathaway, because I felt she was miscast, I ended up surprised at how good she was. Not how I always envisionned the character, but I think her interpretation was interesting and different. She was definitely one of the best things in the movie for me along with Samantha Barks, Eddie Redmayne, Aaron Tveit and the actor playing Gavroche.

I felt the only real weak link was Russell Crowe and even if I usually don't have too much trouble with actors singing in musicals, his voice was hard on my ears and his acting was as bad. Hugh Jackman was good, but his voice was sometimes grating. I loathed Bring Him Home... I was so uncomfortable during that whole scene... I felt he was better in the first part of the movie...

As for Amanda Seyfried, I don't mind her. I didn't love her or hated her, she was just there... but Cosette is such an uninteresting character that it would probably have been the same with any actress playing her... Little Cosette was good though!

Updated On: 1/1/13 at 04:43 PM

Guys: Enjolras's line about the French Revolution comes straight from the book.