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Posted: 5/23/14 at 7:22am
I would like to make a topic about this, because I could only find one about the "possible movie cast ideas" and one about the previews/reviews of the new London production.
Yesterday I watched the Les Miserables film again and it was worse than I remembered it to be. The whole film is full of things that don't work. To give an example, the scene where the Bishop sings to Valjean "...But remember this my brother....." a key moment in the story of the life of Valjean. Unfortunately this scene does not work in the film, because it is very rushed, there is no realization in Valjean , it's in the same sentence as "you can go now" to the guards. All you can hear is the guards walking away, bad timing, rushed, messy and no emotional impact.
I don't want to make a list of all the things that don't work (such as the use of inadequate people for certain roles, the use of live singing which didn't work on many occasions, wrong scenery and atmosphere in certain scenes, no natural singers etc),
My point is, many of these things can be blamed on the director. The film is full of things which show that the director was not familiar enough with the material. Maybe it's impossible for someone to grasp it all in only a few months and there are too many details that need attention.
I feel that with a possible Miss Saigon Movie they need to go into a completely different direction. This can become a piece of art if done right. Different director, no live singing in all the scenes. A more filmic, romantic look for certain parts in songs (Movie in my mind, Last night of the world), to show the contrast. Not necessarily make the scenes cold in an empty conrete room because it's supposed to be real, but make the scenes better than life, to use the emotional contrast, maybe some of the sets deliberately being a bit more theatrical, like they did in the Chicago movie. The right lighting, depth, right editing can make a scene a filmic, emotional piece of art. I can imagine in "The movie in my mind" Gigi singing a soaring, heavenly note, while a tear comes out of her eye, and a spot goes around her and makes that teardrop sparkle (like in Lana del Rey's "young and beautiful" clip), maybe combined with a dream sequence. And then back to reality in the dirty club. Seeing a girl stand and sing in a one take shot in a dirty club the whole time is not necessarily the best way to go in film. (les mis). Film can be a triumph of fantasy and editing.
With that said, I would love to see people that really know and understand every detail of this material involved. Not people, directors or actors who just received the script a few months before. Mr Hooper just missed way too much.
About casting, I have a feeling they might ask Eva Noblezada for the role of Kim in this film. Which is great in my opinion.
Yesterday I watched the Les Miserables film again and it was worse than I remembered it to be. The whole film is full of things that don't work. To give an example, the scene where the Bishop sings to Valjean "...But remember this my brother....." a key moment in the story of the life of Valjean. Unfortunately this scene does not work in the film, because it is very rushed, there is no realization in Valjean , it's in the same sentence as "you can go now" to the guards. All you can hear is the guards walking away, bad timing, rushed, messy and no emotional impact.
I don't want to make a list of all the things that don't work (such as the use of inadequate people for certain roles, the use of live singing which didn't work on many occasions, wrong scenery and atmosphere in certain scenes, no natural singers etc),
My point is, many of these things can be blamed on the director. The film is full of things which show that the director was not familiar enough with the material. Maybe it's impossible for someone to grasp it all in only a few months and there are too many details that need attention.
I feel that with a possible Miss Saigon Movie they need to go into a completely different direction. This can become a piece of art if done right. Different director, no live singing in all the scenes. A more filmic, romantic look for certain parts in songs (Movie in my mind, Last night of the world), to show the contrast. Not necessarily make the scenes cold in an empty conrete room because it's supposed to be real, but make the scenes better than life, to use the emotional contrast, maybe some of the sets deliberately being a bit more theatrical, like they did in the Chicago movie. The right lighting, depth, right editing can make a scene a filmic, emotional piece of art. I can imagine in "The movie in my mind" Gigi singing a soaring, heavenly note, while a tear comes out of her eye, and a spot goes around her and makes that teardrop sparkle (like in Lana del Rey's "young and beautiful" clip), maybe combined with a dream sequence. And then back to reality in the dirty club. Seeing a girl stand and sing in a one take shot in a dirty club the whole time is not necessarily the best way to go in film. (les mis). Film can be a triumph of fantasy and editing.
With that said, I would love to see people that really know and understand every detail of this material involved. Not people, directors or actors who just received the script a few months before. Mr Hooper just missed way too much.
About casting, I have a feeling they might ask Eva Noblezada for the role of Kim in this film. Which is great in my opinion.
Updated On: 5/23/14 at 07:22 AM
