ONE DAY MORE - complete song from film- Page 2

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 7:25pm

Can't wait the film is in previews this weekend in Australia.

[broadway guy]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 7:29pm

I love what they have sam doing.Aaron sounds boring to me. Enjloras's voice should give me goosebumps.Aaron is doing nothing for me.Kinda wish they had Ramin in the movie..now thats a VOICE!

Crowe sounds fine to me.He isn't a great singer but i think he can pull it off. Jackman sounds great as usual.Amanda sounds alot better in this than the heart full of love clip.Eddie sounds fantastic.

I like what HBC and SBC are doing but I cant get into HBC'S voice. eh.

I think marketing is going overboard with all these clips.I love watching them but I feel like ive seen the whole movie.A couple months ago people were complaining that Marketing was doing a horrible job promoting the movie.Now i feel all these clips are a way of them saying "you want more,we will give you more".

[broadway guy]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 7:29pm

I love what they have sam doing.Aaron sounds boring to me. Enjloras's voice should give me goosebumps.Aaron is doing nothing for me.Kinda wish they had Ramin in the movie..now thats a VOICE!

Crowe sounds fine to me.He isn't a great singer but i think he can pull it off. Jackman sounds great as usual.Amanda sounds alot better in this than the heart full of love clip.Eddie sounds fantastic.

I like what HBC and SBC are doing but I cant get into HBC'S voice. eh.

I think marketing is going overboard with all these clips.I love watching them but I feel like ive seen the whole movie.A couple months ago people were complaining that Marketing was doing a horrible job promoting the movie.Now i feel all these clips are a way of them saying "you want more,we will give you more".

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 7:56pm

Underwhelming, indeed.

The editing is pretty atrocious ... in this number at least.

[Kaliko]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 8:06pm

I also felt a little underwhelmed from this clip. However, I think that seeing the whole film with the buildup will make it seem much more forceful. Also having theater audio, and not just my low-quality computer speakers should help.

[little_sally]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 8:08pm

I just rewatched it and I don't think it's big or grand enough. It is not filmed as the showstopping moment it should be.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 8:16pm

I think maybe the effect will be a lot different seeing & hearing it in a movie theater the way it was meant to be seen/heard as opposed to thru a laptop screen/speakers.

I'll reserve full judgment on this once I've seen the film in a movie theater.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 8:20pm

Badly edited, woodenly directed, Jackman and Redmayne look like rank amateurs trying way too hard. Barks has her moments. But the whole thing is embarrassing and amateurish. It has nothing like the "Tonight" like energy of the number on stage, let alone the transporting kick of "Tonight" on screen.

Yup. Sorry. That's my reaction.

Now I'm really in for it, exposing myself to all sorts of ridicule from those who want so much to love this movie.

I want to love it to. But the more clips like this I see the more I think it's a nightmare.

[Wildcard]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 8:20pm

I played it through my TV and sound system and it felt a lot better than on a computer.

[broadwaybabytn]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 8:20pm

Hugh Jackman was my least favorite of the performers in that clip, perhaps because I expected him to be one of the standouts. His diction and phrasing was odd, and he sounded very strained.

[jasonf]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 8:53pm

I only was able to see the little tiny clip. It looked underwhelming, but I would think on the big screen it will be much more impressive. The previous clips looked WAY better on a big TV than in a tiny window on the computer.

[Kad]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 9:01pm

The South Park movie's essential parody of this song was a lot more exciting. The "Quintet" from WSS was more exciting.

A number like this is inherently exciting and rousing.

...so why wasn't it?

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 9:14pm

That's a good point about the "La Resistance Medley" in the South Park movie.

I don't think the orchestrations helped--they sounded almost dull to me. Myohmy can tell me if that was just in my head or not, though

[michellek45]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 9:27pm

At the risk of sounding like My Oh My, what in the Helsinki is up with the sound mixing? Where is the orchestra? In big, epic songs like this, the actors' voices can only go so far. You need the big bass notes, the woodwind sixteenths on top, the trumpet fanfare...maybe it's just this way for this clip, but in every clip we've seen so far, I feel like my major complaint has been "the orchestra is too quiet." In a musical where so much meaning is derived from repeated motifs and instrumentals, it's just as much a necessity to have a good orchestra as it is to have a good cast. I seriously hope it doesn't sound like this in the theater.

That said, I loved Samantha and how they had her dressing herself up as a boy- it makes a lot of sense; I never liked how she was just chilling by Marius in the stage version. Eddie was really great, and I don't think he has Kermit-the-Frog Syndrome. Aaron was pretty good as well. Both Amanda and Russel are lacking in vocal technique, yes, but I will let it slide because I can picture both Cosette and Javert having those sorts of voices.

Hugh Jackman, though...funny you should mention South Park, Kad, because when Hugh Jackman opened his mouth, my mind immediately went to a South Park character. He sounds so weak, and, IDK...nasally (?) on his upper register. I'm not a singer, so I don't have a more precise vocabulary for his tone, but it sounds like he inhaled helium or something whenever he sings the higher notes.

Edited to add: I don't think I've seen this clip of Valjean and the Bishop posted here yet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP-phpTMht0 Updated On: 12/18/12 at 09:27 PM

[E.Davis]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 10:22pm

I think the Orchestra is fine in this clip. You might need to turn the volume up a little bit, but it is there.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 10:43pm

In "Tonight" Wise, Robbins and editor Thomas Stanford expertly and gracefully used cross cutting to energetically overcome the fragmented (when transposed to film without imagination and skill) nature of a composite action set piece.

Hooper, faced with a similar challenge, has patched the disparate elements/soliloquys in clumps that fail to imagistically relate to each other. There is an absence of unifying editorial rhythm. Jackman is passively "on the nose" with the lyrics, leaving him defeated instead of struggling against his obstacles. Having Valjean and Cosette passively riding in the carriage is a disastrous static mistake. Even something as prosaic and simple as packing up to leave would have at least given Jackman and Seyfried something to work with. The editing between Redmayne and Seyfried is choppy and fails to provide any sense of their longing for each other. Similarly, there is nothing that brings Redmayne's inertia and Tveit's passion into the bold relief required. Only Barks and Tveit seem to be naturally in the moment of every take.

Hooper would have seemed a natural choice to make this work. But it's dead on arrival.







Updated On: 12/18/12 at 10:43 PM

[Kad]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 10:44pm

I dunno, there was just something unexciting about this- and this is a song that is typically anything but dull. I've seen professionals do it and students do it, I've sung it drunkenly in piano bars.

I thought Redmayne sounded good to great, actually. He, Barks, and Tveit came out the best. Russell Crowe's mumblecore Javert, however, did not.

[michellek45]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 10:54pm

E. Davis- the volume on my computer was all the way up, haha. Perhaps it's just my laptop speakers.

[E.Davis]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 11:06pm

I admit it could be louder and fuller, but I did not have an issue with the orchestra.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 11:16pm

I'm actually super disappointed by Aaron in this clip. Considering he's one of the only people in that cast who is a real SINGER (really the only one other than Samantha Barks), he should really shine. Instead he kinda fades into the background, which Enjolras should NOT do (especially in this number). I felt like his voice wan't big and booming enough.

Also, Amanda sounds atrocious, and the entire first half of the song was too disjointed and staccato. For what everyone has been saying about Russell Crowe, I think he sounds better and more natural than both Amanda and, honestly, Hugh. I'm REALLY nervous for Bring Him Home.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 11:33pm

I'm wondering if Aaron Tveit held back so that he didn't overwhelm the non-singers, though. Samantha Barks definitely held back except for "he never saw me there."

I'm glad that someone else feels that way about Amanda Seyfried. She's barely hitting those notes! Oh my God, this is like 2004 all over again.

I am also nervous about Hugh Jackman, and here I thought that I wouldn't have to be.

[mikey2573]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 11:35pm

It is very poorly edited. Once you establish each character singing, you don't have to cut to them each time they sing. The audience can figure it out. With the frenetic editing of this number, and the almost dizzying nonstop camera movement, the entire number comes across as a jumbled mess.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 11:40pm

I'm wondering if Aaron Tveit held back so that he didn't overwhelm the non-singers, though.

Because Enjolras makes sense as a character who holds back... I don't think that really should have been a concern. And I don't think Samantha Barks held back. I think she sang the song as Eponine would have sung it: quiet, hurt, introverted, but passionate at times when it should have been. Aaron should have been bellowing that entire song, but instead it sounded like a ballad.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 11:44pm

That's true. Maybe that's part of why a lot of us feel that the song lacked energy.

[scripps]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 11:53pm

I just sent this clip to my sister who has now changed our Christmas Day plans of viewing LES MIS, to a second viewing of THE HOBBIT instead.

Regarding Tveit's vocals: I saw the film and was very frustrated especially during "One Day More," because I know he can sing this material and sing it very very well. My favorite part of the whole show is Enjolras' section during this song, and it doesn't even land with a thud, but rather a whimper.