| re: Revisiting the Les Miz film 8 years later; only a my 2nd viewing | |
| Posted by: finally 09:51 pm EST 02/06/22 | |
| In reply to: Revisiting the Les Miz film 8 years later; only a my 2nd viewing - Delvino 09:13 am EST 02/06/22 | |
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| Jackman scream-singing "Bring Him Home" overshadowed anything else good he did in the film. Has he never heard of a head voice? It's the one thing he had to pull off for it to be a great overall performance, and he basically shit the bed. That song alone could have put him over the top if he'd nailed it, even if it had been a version that's different from the stage one. It needs subtlety and nuance. Do you scream a prayer? How were the people around him really able to sleep with all that hollering? Not to mention that he was audibly and visibly struggling with the high notes in the key it was using. Terrible song performance and entirely wrong for the film. He was fine throughout the rest of the movie so I struggle to explain how he allowed that particular performance to be committed to film. Russell Crowe was in another movie entirely and essentially ruined what could have be a good, if not great, film. The balance of the entire picture revolves around that character, and he was so awfully anachronistic with the singing part that he threw the whole thing off. I really wanted to like him as he is a good actor, but this was so wrong-headed in so many ways. The director Hooper is really the one to blame in both cases. It was his responsibility to shepherd the project through without alienating the millions of people in the world who have seen a stage version. He also had to put the best light on his actors. That would have involved not casting Crowe from the outset and making sure that Jackman's famous ballad didn't sound terrible. |
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