| re: it's an opera, and Jackman isn't the right fit vocally | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 05:32 pm EST 02/07/22 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 05:15 pm EST 02/07/22 | |
| In reply to: re: it's an opera, and Jackman isn't the right fit vocally - Chromolume 04:04 pm EST 02/07/22 | |
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| Even in his own comfortable range, assuming it is set there, Jackman still did not do a great job with this song. Making it comfortable for him should have made it possible for the song to sound beautiful, and it didn't, as I recall, whether he was hitting or trying to hit the Colm-notes or not (obviously not). Maybe I'll be more forgiving with a new viewing of it. Also, it really doesn't matter to me in the least what the song might have been as originally thought of before the cast was involved. They didn't make this movie thinking it had no fans, let alone 20+ years of being one of the most successful, performed, and recorded musicals of all time, let alone of those particular 20 years before the movie was made. It's not my, or other fans of the musical's fault that we have heard it in the Colm key (and with his level of vocal ability, or similar with most notable Val Jeans over the years) for 2 decades. That is the song now, I'm sorry... but I'm not. They knew they'd have a massive audience base buying tickets because of their familiarity with the musical -- they counted on that when greenliting the movie-- with that pre-made audience base comes the pre-made impressions of the score on their ears, hearts and minds. I'm sorry for Hugh that so many much better and more rangey singers tackled and recorded the role, on audio and filmed concerts, before him... but they did. I also don't care what you think is silly. I think it's silly that such a gorgeous song wasn't gorgeous in the one major film of the musical likely to ever exist. It doesn't matter what/why/how that came to be, that was the result. If you and Tom Hooper liked it that way, good for you. |
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