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| re: Revisiting the Les Miz film 8 years later; only a my 2nd viewing | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 05:49 pm EST 02/06/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Revisiting the Les Miz film 8 years later; only a my 2nd viewing - sf 03:50 pm EST 02/06/22 | |
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| Anne Hathaway has a beautiful voice, as anyone who saw her live in "Carnival!" can attest. Since the director had the cast sing live (very rare in musicals which usually pre-record everything), he most likely had her sing through multiple takes until her voice was very tired. One of those very tired and raw takes is most likely one he chose for the film to emphasize her character's desperation. I'd rather have heard her on one where she was in better voice, but she's probably happy how things turned out winning the Oscar. On stage, except for the apologists who want to hear badly sung Sally Bowles and complain that Liza sings too good to be undiscovered, I'd still rather hear a well-sung Fantine like Patti LuPone's who still vocally gets across how dire her situation is without having to sound like her vocal cords are shredding as she sings. | |
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| re: Revisiting the Les Miz film 8 years later; only a my 2nd viewing | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 07:29 pm EST 02/06/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Revisiting the Les Miz film 8 years later; only a my 2nd viewing - PlayWiz 05:49 pm EST 02/06/22 | |
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| he most likely had her sing through multiple takes until her voice was very tired. I hope not. That is mistreatment of an actor for sure. |
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| re: Revisiting the Les Miz film 8 years later; only a my 2nd viewing | |
| Posted by: Delvino 07:55 pm EST 02/06/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Revisiting the Les Miz film 8 years later; only a my 2nd viewing - Chromolume 07:29 pm EST 02/06/22 | |
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| Actually, he did just that, with her permission. But used an early one. "We did it upwards of 20 times, but it was the fourth take that Tom [Hooper, the director] came up to me and said, 'You know, I have it. That was the one. I don't imagine we're going to do better than that,'" the 30-year-old actress recalled during a recent interview with Yahoo! Movies (video below). "And I, of course, am like, 'No no no no, we gotta go, we gotta go,' and 'I can do it again...' And I never broke through in the same way again," Hathaway said, adding with a giggle, "So, at the end of eight hours of singing the song we realized we could have finished after the first 20 minutes." Per my comments below, I'd like to see takes 1-3. |
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| Link | Anne Hathaway describes filming ‘I Dreamed a Dream’ in one take for ‘Les Misérables’ |
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| re: Revisiting the Les Miz film 8 years later; only a my 2nd viewing | |
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| Posted by: Chazwaza 04:03 am EST 02/09/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Revisiting the Les Miz film 8 years later; only a my 2nd viewing - Delvino 07:55 pm EST 02/06/22 | |
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| Ha. What a deeply excessive waste of money and time, not to mention potential to cause harm to her vocal cords. Especially for a movie that is notably limited in scope due to trying to achieve it on a limited budget. To spend 8 hours on 1 scene when the direction felt confident she nailed it in the first 20 min... even give her another hour, maybe two hours. But any more than that, other than coming back to it another day, is foolhardy (and I say this as a director and an actor). (and i don't mean 2 hours total, I mean after the take where she nailed and, and after several more where he felt sure it wasn't going to be better than what was already done earlier -- if she didn't nail it, fine, do 5 hours... though after that, I mean, really, her instrument could have been ruptured doing any song for 8 hours let alone this one). |
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