#51
Posted: 9/21/12 at 5:27am
Sing the damn song as written, Hugh!
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#52
Posted: 9/21/12 at 5:59am
Barbra Streisand didn't sing the songs in FUNNY GIRL "as written".
#53
Posted: 9/21/12 at 6:32am
He DID sing the song as written, in some takes. He also did some other takes where he changed it up. It's up to Hooper which take works the best.
#54
Posted: 9/21/12 at 7:22am
Re the awards calendar, I don't think for a second they'd have moved the release date if they thought it would effect their awards season. It's been tipped as an Oscar movie from the beginning and they're not going to risk losing that.
I don't think us not seeing any of Russell singing is any great conspiracy, maybe I'm naive but he wouldn't be there if he couldn't do it, they've been so careful with the casting. I'd like to have seen some of Aaron too, but I guess that might come with the second trailer and footage closer to release.
I still think you'd have to be dead for Annes IDAD not to move you, if that doesn't give you chills, you might as well check out now! I love Hugh's approach too.
I love the way they've approached this, the piano and the ear piece and letting the actors pick the tempo, it's going to work wonderfully and I hope it changes the way musicals are shot from now on. It all looks great, shame the release just feels like so far away really.
I don't think us not seeing any of Russell singing is any great conspiracy, maybe I'm naive but he wouldn't be there if he couldn't do it, they've been so careful with the casting. I'd like to have seen some of Aaron too, but I guess that might come with the second trailer and footage closer to release.
I still think you'd have to be dead for Annes IDAD not to move you, if that doesn't give you chills, you might as well check out now! I love Hugh's approach too.
I love the way they've approached this, the piano and the ear piece and letting the actors pick the tempo, it's going to work wonderfully and I hope it changes the way musicals are shot from now on. It all looks great, shame the release just feels like so far away really.
#55
Posted: 9/21/12 at 8:05am
Barks sounds a lot better here (vocals & acting-wise) than she did in the performances of On My Own on YouTube.
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
#56
Posted: 9/21/12 at 9:06am
Oh my God..how the hell can anyone judge Amandas singing with a 5 second clip and it not being the final version I am sure...stop being so pompous ...Also Barks voice is wonderful with/without and orchestra...she has the pipes and she is drop dead gorgeous (which doesnt matter but she is)...This small-very small -very very small-peak at the film is interesting but by no means the finished product -it is to spark interest in the film..which I believe will be amazing...Ann IDAD is exactly as it should be..soft,scary,sad full of heart and heartbreak not screamed by someone like Patti, the character is supposed to be suffering and hungry Ann nailed it even in this trailer clip
I CANT WAIT TO LOVE THIS MOVIE
I CANT WAIT TO LOVE THIS MOVIE
#57
Posted: 9/21/12 at 9:47am
What people also need to realize is that Patti was singing it at the Barbican Theater originally. That place is HUGE!
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#58
Posted: 9/23/12 at 5:27pm
peachesr82, it's definitely a gamble. This is the first time the Oscars have moved nominations up so early, even before the Golden Globe Awards. I'm sure there will be industry screenings and DVD screeners, so they will get it out there as best they can.
#59
Posted: 9/23/12 at 6:13pm
I am genuinely freaking out to see this.
#60
Posted: 9/23/12 at 6:46pm
"We've guessed a lot about orchestrations and the absence of the notorious Eighties Synth Keyboards of Doom in the film. Seeing the reinvented "Valjean's Soliloquy" suggests that, at least in this place, the crunchy electric piano "ba-ba-ba-BA, ba ba ba ba-ba-ba-BA" that drives the pounding rhythm will be entirely absent."
Hello, Cameron Mackintosh, is that you? XD
I'm kidding. It isn't every day that I see someone who isn't him pointing out some detail of the original orchestration and unfairly claiming that one detail represents what John's beautiful work sounds like. Agendas, agendas, agendas.
I have one too.
I've been working on my own recreation of the original "Valjean's Soliloquy - What Have I Done?" and it's really amusing that the 11 member string ensemble is ignored (standard in the original Broadway production) and the myth that the show is 99.9% synths continues and it's just so incredibly unfair. Apologies in advance if that wasn't your intention but the crunchy synth you go out of your way to point out was accompanied by this...
http://snd.sc/Okyk6t
Well, not anymore because it has been chucked, the emotive string section for that song, and reduced to what you hear today. Reduction is one thing. Completely redoing its orchestration which wasn't all synths, and was very full and rich in harmony, in an inferior, cliche manner is sad.
But the new version is neeeeew!!!!!
Hello, Cameron Mackintosh, is that you? XD
I'm kidding. It isn't every day that I see someone who isn't him pointing out some detail of the original orchestration and unfairly claiming that one detail represents what John's beautiful work sounds like. Agendas, agendas, agendas.
I have one too.
I've been working on my own recreation of the original "Valjean's Soliloquy - What Have I Done?" and it's really amusing that the 11 member string ensemble is ignored (standard in the original Broadway production) and the myth that the show is 99.9% synths continues and it's just so incredibly unfair. Apologies in advance if that wasn't your intention but the crunchy synth you go out of your way to point out was accompanied by this...
http://snd.sc/Okyk6t
Well, not anymore because it has been chucked, the emotive string section for that song, and reduced to what you hear today. Reduction is one thing. Completely redoing its orchestration which wasn't all synths, and was very full and rich in harmony, in an inferior, cliche manner is sad.
But the new version is neeeeew!!!!!
Recreation of original John Cameron orchestration to "On My Own" by yours truly. Click player below to hear.
#61
Posted: 9/23/12 at 7:17pm
A Little Fall of Rain?? With Redmayne and Samantha Barks.
Updated On: 9/23/12 at 07:17 PM
#62
Posted: 9/23/12 at 7:19pm
Compare with the first edition -- with Michael Ball and Frances Ruffelle!
Updated On: 9/23/12 at 07:19 PM
#63
Posted: 9/23/12 at 7:26pm
In terms of the delivery of "I Dreamed a Dream" I think it should also be pointed out that it appears they have moved it to a later point in the timeline, judging by the sheared haircut. Assuming that this means it is happening after "Lovely Ladies" then Fantine would be even more broken down and defeated by the time she sings this song. A full on power belt ballad would be quite odd coming from a character who has been dragged through the lowest depths she can imagine.
#64
Posted: 9/23/12 at 7:36pm
Anne Hathaway confirmed in a recent interview that IDAD had been moved to a different point in the movie. Also, those of us that have been following the production via tweets, etc. (the "barricade boys" were huge tweeters!) think that some things from the book will make it into the movie. For instance, the actor playing Grantaire tweeted a quote from the book, so we think his death scene will be the way it is in the novel. That's just one example.
#65
Posted: 9/24/12 at 12:05am
Yes, the clips are short, but I'm quite disappointed with Amanda's voice. Her vibrato sounds like a bleat.
Not too fond of how pop-ish "On My Own" sounds either.
Other than that, I am stoked to see this.
Not too fond of how pop-ish "On My Own" sounds either.
Other than that, I am stoked to see this.
#66
Posted: 9/24/12 at 2:12pm
short and probably not the take that will end up in the film. This one take could be after 16 hours of shooting the same scene, possibly the 300th time she sang it that day. Since this is being recorded live, and that was a behind the scenes video, we really don't know what anyone will sound like in the finished film. Hathaway is the only exception at this point.
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