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Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
#25Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 2:56pmSee I don't find him attractive so I didn't really notice that aspect.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#26Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 2:58pm
It was ironic, iconic, and bubonic.
A cinematic colonic. An earache that's chronic.
#27Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 3:14pmDon't forget "histrionic".
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
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#28Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 3:17pmCheech and Chonic
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#29Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 3:17pmCheech and Chonic
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#30Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 3:17pmCheech and Chonic
#31Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 3:17pmDance monkeys dance!
#32Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 3:19pmAnhedonic.
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Wynbish
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#33Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 3:38pmA performance sardonic, neurotic, and moronic on a medium electronic and stereophonic.
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#34Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 3:43pm3 Oscars out of 8 nominations, 3 Golden Globes, 4 BAFTAS, a slew of other honors and a gross of half a billion. Yeah, it was dreadful. I thought Hathaway was terrific but it's too soon to call it iconic. That term implies time having gone by.
#35Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 3:48pmCeline Dionic.
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#36Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 3:49pm
Awards don't mean anything, and they have nothing to do with the general public liking it.
Put me in the camp that hated it.
Updated On: 10/5/14 at 03:49 PM
#37Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 3:53pmI thought she (over)acted the HELL out of that role. Just look at the last second of her screen time in the finale and that's all the proof you need.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#38Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 3:55pm
She's a famous movie star and she gave a perfectly fine performance. Or translated into the inflationary language of 21st Century entertainment: iconic!
Updated On: 10/5/14 at 03:55 PM
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#39Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 4:17pm
I cry when a drag queen sings "Tomorrow," yet sat dry-eyed through her performance. I blamed the over-hyped trailer, which used a different, less over-the-top take. After seeing snippits of it with flickering candles behind her obligatory I-lost-half-my-body-weight cadaverous face, I had nothing to discover. She wasn't Fantine, she was Fantine-NESS. She turned a character's suffering into its own state of being. What could I feel, when she was feeling the pain of all who observed her? The song should've been one of the best-kept secrets in the film; instead, it became The Brand. She had to win the Oscar, or the brand failed. We were told to pay attention, told to never forget the performance, and finally told "look away from the Oscar ceremony If You Dare." The whole damn thing wore out its welcome.
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Updated On: 10/5/14 at 04:17 PM
#40Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 5:13pm
Sadly, they knew her scene was the money shot and they pimped the hell out of her and the scene and drove it into the ground (thus the Anne-hate come award season.) She is the best part of the film and her performance was stellar. I should have left after she died.
Overall, hated the film. Then again, I hate the WSS film too. I think its a turd with a diamond of a performance by Rita.
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#41Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 5:18pmSardonic!
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#42Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 5:25pmGrey Pouponic
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#43Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 5:36pmPolyphonic
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#44Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 5:42pmHooked-On-Phonic
#45Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 6:19pm
If Catherine Zeta Jones in CHICAGO is the gold standard, then (a) obviously somebody never saw Chita Rivera, Bebe Neuwirth or even Lenora Nemetz in the part; and (b) Anne Hathaway in LES MIZ is PLATINUM!
But by any reasonable standard, Hathaway was just okay.
Updated On: 10/5/14 at 06:19 PM
rob136
Understudy Joined: 10/5/14
#46Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 6:28pm
She offered a decent performance, but overall the movie was pretty bad. Her singing certainly would never make it on Broadway.
Did she change the role or provide an "iconic" performance? Not even close. I don't even think she's the best performance of Fantine.
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#47Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 6:29pmAntiphilharmonic.
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#48Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 6:31pmI agree with Rob, obviously, and FTR I did NOT hate the movie.
#49Opinion on Anne Hatheway's performance in Les Miserable. Is it Iconic?
Posted: 10/5/14 at 6:34pmI personally preferred almost everything about the movie to the recent Broadway revival.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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