ONE DAY MORE - complete song from film

[Claudia Draper]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 2:33pm

http://www.lasexta.com/videos-online/sexta3/noticias/imagenes-excusivas-miserables_2012121800020.html

Thoughts ?

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 2:37pm

Rather underwhelming. And what was up with that lady's face after Eddie/Marius snatched the red flag during "There's a new world for the winning." haha

[mmh1019]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 2:38pm

so happy to FINALLY hear Aaron Tveit!! his voice is so strong and it just looks effortless. I tweeted a guy who writes for Entertainment Weekly who has seen the film already, he said that Aaron was the standout in the whole movie!

[darquegk]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 2:40pm

That actually looks pretty promising, and bits that sounded less exciting out of context, Crowe's singing for one, make more sense within the film.

Interestingly enough, the counterpoint cluster**** at the end is mixed to favor Javert's vocal, the only one saying anything new and having dramatic action at that point. I like this- far too often on recordings or in performances, I've strained to hear what Javert has to say, since it's clear he's not repeating his old lines like everyone else.

Also, the Thenardiers seem to, well, like each other, far more than the usual production's duo do.

[ChanceEncounter]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 3:03pm

in the film, Mme Thenardier's insults in Master of the House are played as a distraction to one of the customers the duo are robbing in their inn.

[steven22]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 3:04pm

Was expecting much different...Aaron was my favorite in this...

[ACL2006]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 3:35pm

pretty good, but the ending was a mess.

[broadwaydevil]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 3:52pm

I actually like it quite a bit. I think the changes between scenes/characters (sorry I'm not a film person and don't know if there's a technical term) works surprisingly well and the vocals sound quite good. Crowe's voice actually works in the context of the song but I still have no idea why they decided to feature just a snippet of him singing in the previews because it didn't work out of context.

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 5:06pm

I have watched this a few times now, and I love it!

[Jamminman]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 5:10pm

They really should have dubbed the chorus singing it sounds terrible! Nervous to see the film now

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 5:18pm

Amanda Seyfried sounds terrible

Also, Hugh Jackman is sounding a little... wobbly. I know that he's always had a heavy vibrato, but it sounds like he might have actually developed a wobble now.

Edit to sound less negative: Samantha Barks, Eddie Redmayne, and Aaron Tveit sounded great! I also liked the cinematography. I actually thought the chorus singing sounded okay--not great, but not too bad.

Updated On: 12/18/12 at 05:18 PM

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 5:38pm

I don't understand people (and some critics) who've said that Redmayne is a great singer. He sounds like he swallowed an apple, and he was not much better in the "A Heart Full of Love" clip, either.

This whole thing is a mess. The way it was cut, the weak singing. It's supposed to be a rousing number, but I was left very underwhelmed.

Updated On: 12/18/12 at 05:38 PM

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 5:42pm

I definitely didn't think it had the energy or gravitas of the stage show version, but movie performances are supposed to be more low-key. I dunno.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 5:48pm

Well, the "Tonight Quintet" in the movie version of West Side Story has energy and gravitas, so there goes your theory.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 5:55pm

West Side Story was also made during a time when moviegoers could accept a musical as it was. They could accept a movie star's voice being dubbed, they could accept tough guys dancing in the street and they could accept two people singing loudly in each others faces on a fire escape.

Things have changed since then and moviegoers aren't necessarily more sophisticated (how could they be when movies like Transformers 2 become box office hits?), but they're not able to accept a fully blown musical in an old-fashioned sense like in West Side Story or in soaringly operatic sense like how Les Mis plays out on stage.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 5:56pm

Touche.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 6:00pm

Hmm....I didnt love it consistently throughout, but it hasnt dampened my spirits. There were moment Redmayne sounded wonderful and others, not so much. DEF didnt care for Cosette. And yes, Tveit seemed very strong.

[little_sally]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 6:00pm

The vocals sound great but the ending is a mess.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 6:13pm

What's really frustrating about Amanda Seyfried is that she's singing live so I can see some of the things that she's doing wrong. Haha.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 6:13pm

Apparently I was so frustrated that I double posted.

Updated On: 12/18/12 at 06:13 PM

[little_sally]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 6:18pm

I really like Amanda's singing actually.

[darquegk]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 6:38pm

Also, though One Day More is in the same genre of song as Tonight Reprise, it has one major difference in its dramatic context.

Tonight Reprise has dramatic action in its presentation. One Day More is a summation of states- the characters essentially turning to the audience and singing to us of where they are at the moment. It is not a moment of action, it is a moment of reflection and introspection. Thus, characters can park and bark without "acting a scene." Onstage, anyway. In film, that would be horribly out of place. But the question remains of whether the convoluted action of the new scene- Valjean and Cosette in the coach, the Thenardiers picking the pockets of the revolutionary throng, works as well as simply stopping and singing straight out, hands at the sides, did.

[Dave19]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 6:44pm

I'm really looking forward to the movie but I have to say I expected a bit more from this number.

Visually it looks great.

Bravo to Samantha Barks and Aaron Tveit. Something magical happens in their moments in this clip. They suck me into their story and I immediately feel the excitement I have for this film again. It's something I can't explain. Watching their performances makes my spirit soar. It just feels extremely "real" what they are doing. Natural. Believable.

I am very disappointed by the others. I really want to give Hugh Jackman the benefit of the doubt, but he sings too staccato "a-no-ther-day-a-no-ther-des-ti"...........and then a HUGE vibrato on the "nyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy" and he always holds the last note of the scentence for way too long. (I-stole-a-loaf-of-BREEEEEEAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDD". This takes me out of the story and the moment immediately. It's just really disappointing because I want him to be great but it just doesn't feel real for some reason.

I have seen him perform in other clips (suddenly for example), that actually do work and feel real, but with Hugh it's about 50/50. Some moments work, others don't feel real at all.

Amanda Seyfried and Russel Crowe are naturally so disconnected from the singing, that no-one will ever believe what they are singing. It's just not there. You just see actors struggling with singing. It gets in the way of the acting.

Eddie Redmayne is reasonably good, but he has a strange way of deforming his voice, like he swallowed a hot potato, almost Kermit the Frog-ish. That really distracts me. But out of all the others he is the one that is able to make it feel somewhat real too. But not as real as the level of Aaron and Samantha.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 7:04pm

Why is Helena Bonham Carter still playing Bellatrix Lestrange?

[TheFoozle]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 7:23pm

Long time lurker, first time poster (hoping I don't get torn apart for having what may possibly be an unfavorable opinion). But anyway, hi everybody.

I like it, but I've been excited about this for a while. What I find interesting is how the parts that I love about the usual cast recordings and liver performances are what don't work for me here and the parts that I generally want to skip through are what thrill me in this clip.

My favorite part of One Day More is always the large stacked singing of the end and this works wonderfully on stage when you can see the whole cast at once singing their hearts and lungs out, but here it just seems messy as for most of it I have no idea who is saying what (and what they're even saying as people are giving their lines while not on screen.

Meanwhile, the solo moments at the top of the number on stage are very nice but just leave me anticipating the big ending, in this clip I felt they were the moments that really delivered as I got to spend some time with each character and see where they were that was causing these lyrics and emotions.

Overall, I think it's big numbers like this that really make it clear that films and stage shows are two different beasts and what works for one is another's possible weakness.