Les Miserables: Even the thread will make you cry - Part 2

[Earthland]

But Jean Valjean is more worthy of knowing than Wolverine. And on the larger scale he already is more known.

 

[Pink Ranger]

why would they? everyone knows hugh jackman as wolverine, not as a character in a movie that hasnt come out yet

But Jean Valjean is more worthy of knowing than Wolverine. And on the larger scale he already is more known.

You're both wrong. Everybody should be saying, "Hey look, it's Peter Allen!"

 

[Earthland]

I can't understand how can the release date in India be 14th december 2012 ... according to film's official facebook page.

Also, according to imdb Les Mis has already three awards (has anyone posted it already?). I've never heard of those awards before, though: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1707386/awards

 

[Venomfan]

But Jean Valjean is more worthy of knowing than Wolverine. And on the larger scale he already is more known.

who is more worthy of being known is totally subjective, but i'd highly doubt that valjean is more widely known, wolverine has become a huge pop culture icon. a closer comparison would probably be wolverine vs les mis as a whole, and even then wolverine these days is probably more well known

 

[Earthland]

These things are never totally subjective...

There's a rumor about November 24 screenings: http://weblogs.variety.com/thevote/2012/11/splash-of-les-miserables-screenings-set-for-nov-24.html

The first impression "Les Miserables" intends to make on the awards community is a big one. No fewer than six invitation-only screenings of the film — each with an introduction from or Q&A with director Tom Hooper and castmembers — have been scheduled for Nov. 24 at venues as far-flung as the Mann's Chinese, Santa Monica's Aero and the TV Academy headquarters in North Hollywood.

 

[Changeling]

I can't wait for this movie and I can't wait to see their interpretation of Chickenfist

 

[Anita18]

The trailer is beautiful. This is a really interesting take on the material. That said, none of the singing really impresses, though the acting appears to be spot on. The trade-off of live singing is going to be that it's a lot less polished and, in some cases, it seems, a lot less vocally powerful, than what we're used to from a Les Mis cast. I get it, they're going for subtlety, they're acting the moments, and Javert's part of One Day More almost feels like an offhand comment, something perfunctory, almost something he's singing to himself, so this may well be intentional, and work wonderfully. I don't have a problem with Russel's voice so much...he's no Phillip Quast, but he's more or less right where he needs to be for that bit, which is one of the harder bits Javert has to sing in the show, though it seems, as do several of the other parts of One Day More, to be almost individually arranged in a sense. "Stars" and "Javert's Suicide" are what matter to me, and I still can't believe they'd have cast him if he couldn't sing them and bring the right emotion to them. Really looking forward to this still.

At least it sounds like Jackman and Hathaway (and Barks obviously, and Redmayne has a lovely tenor voice) have had musical theater training. Seyfried's soprano is cringingly weak, although her voice itself is lovely. Reminds me of Emmy Rossum in Phantom, although both claim to have had opera training.

I'm still aghast at what little we heard of Crowe. He needed to be spitting out those words, at least it would have sounded more powerful that way. Sounded like he was still learning the notes there.

 

[danoyse]

Took this at the movie theater today when I was there to see Skyfall:

 

[X Knight]

does anyone know when the soundtrack for this will be released?

oh, and I must say......just saw the new trailer.....the actress who is playing Eponine is really pretty.

I'm sssoooooooo glad Taylor Swift didn't get that role!!!

and I actually thought Crowe's singing wasn't that bad.........I was expecting much worse.......lol

I really can't wait to see this movie..........I've always loved the story and the music.

 

[AnneFan]

^ Thanks for the happy snap, danoyse.

Read this jealous author's comments about Anne, not liking her 'for some reason' because she's America's sweetheart, too humble, talented and too perfect...
http://crushable.com/entertainment/...s-the-devil-wears-prada-princess-diaries-528/

 

[Anita18]

^ Thanks for the happy snap, danoyse.

Read this jealous author's comments about Anne, not liking her 'for some reason' because she's America's sweetheart, too humble, talented and too perfect...
http://crushable.com/entertainment/...s-the-devil-wears-prada-princess-diaries-528/

I thought people saved that kind of vitriol for Natalie Portman. Girl won an Oscar, went to Harvard, and had scientific papers published! But I suppose since she stole another woman's man and got knocked up, she doesn't seem so perfect anymore.

 

[kvz5]

The SNL opening skit is Les Miseerables themed!

 

[danoyse]

Damn...One Day More spoof in the monologue and a Les Miz commercial during the break. I love this week's show!

 

[DACrowe]

At least it sounds like Jackman and Hathaway (and Barks obviously, and Redmayne has a lovely tenor voice) have had musical theater training. Seyfried's soprano is cringingly weak, although her voice itself is lovely. Reminds me of Emmy Rossum in Phantom, although both claim to have had opera training.

I'm still aghast at what little we heard of Crowe. He needed to be spitting out those words, at least it would have sounded more powerful that way. Sounded like he was still learning the notes there.

Indeed, you do not have to sing it melodically. I actually rather like how the original Javert does it here 25 years later.



Cut to 2:04. It is almost sing-talking there and it works way better than what is in the trailer.

 

[Bruce Malone]

Just wondering are most of you hear prior les mis fans? I'm just wondering if the film is gonna have attraction beyond those familiar with the play?

The set pieces and cinematography look great from what i've seen in the trailer but i'm not familiar with the play that much nor am i a big musical fan really.

 

[Anita18]

Indeed, you do not have to sing it melodically. I actually rather like how the original Javert does it here 25 years later.



Cut to 2:04. It is almost sing-talking there and it works way better than what is in the trailer.

Wheee! t:

Who played Enjolras there? He looks a little young to be in that otherwise 25-years-older group of people.

Yeah, #1 rule about singing - if you need to sound powerful and angry, you'd better be spitting on the first row. Besides the fact that you can always pick out people who've had classical training because they have superior enunciation.

Just wondering are most of you hear prior les mis fans? I'm just wondering if the film is gonna have attraction beyond those familiar with the play?

The set pieces and cinematography look great from what i've seen in the trailer but i'm not familiar with the play that much nor am i a big musical fan really.

Everyone griping about the singing are likely fans of the musical.

If you're not a big musical fan, I'm not sure if you're going to enjoy the movie. I guess it'll depend how much dialogue they decide to have in there, but the entire musical is pretty much sung through.

 

[AnneFan]

Anne was absolutely hilarious on SNL. Magnificent work as usual

For those that didn't see what she got up to check out this page:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...ce-Saturday-Night-Live.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

 

[sueb1863]

Wheee! t:

Who played Enjolras there? He looks a little young to be in that otherwise 25-years-older group of people.

That's Ramin Karimloo, who played Enjolras in the 25th anniversary concert. My understanding is that he sang Enjolras' part there because the original Enjolras, David Burt, felt he was no longer capable of properly singing the lines.

 

[narrows101]

Not long now!!

Racing to the Screening Room to Outpace Oscar Rivals​

By MICHAEL CIEPLY​

LOS ANGELES — For those who have wondered how Hollywood’s studios will get their latest-released movies seen by thousands of awards voters before the unusually early onset of Oscar voting on Dec. 17, Universal Pictures has an answer: blitzkrieg.​

On Friday, Universal’s publicity team circulated word of a lightning strike by its “Les Misérables,” which opens in commercial theaters on Christmas Day, with a series of six Los Angeles-area screenings in about eight hours on Nov. 24. The film’s director, Tom Hooper, will attend all of them — and this, after he executes a similar maneuver in New York on Nov. 23, where the screenings cluster in more manageable Manhattan.​

In theory, it can be done. But based on close inspection of his Los Angeles stops, it appears that Mr. Hooper will cover more than 45 miles on busy surface streets and freeways, just as Christmas shoppers hit the roads.​

According to Universal’s plan, Mr. Hooper, who won an Oscar in 2011 for directing “The King’s Speech,” will start the workday at noon by introducing his new movie at a theater in Hollywood.​

An hour later, he should be at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in the San Fernando Valley, some five miles away (with a driving time of nine minutes, by an optimistic estimate on Yahoo Maps), to introduce the film again.​

Then it’s off to Santa Monica — 18 miles, and 24 minutes, away, as the limo flies — for a question-and-answer session where “Les Misérables,” which has a running time of well over two hours, will have begun screening at noon.​

There’s another showing, with an introduction by Mr. Hooper, in Santa Monica at 4 p.m. That should leave time for an 18-mile drive back to the valley, to introduce a 7 p.m. screening at the television academy.​

Then, Mr. Hooper can backtrack to Hollywood, five more miles, in time for another Q. and A., at a screening that will have started at 5 p.m., and should be wrapped by about 7:30.​

It should work out fine. Unless, of course, Mr. Hooper collides along the way with filmmakers behind the Weinstein Company’s “Django Unchained,” Sony Pictures’ “Zero Dark Thirty” or Warner Brothers’ “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.”​

All have release dates in mid-to-late December, and will soon be fighting for attention as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars, begins a nominating vote that in the past did not start until much closer to the month’s end.​

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.c...o-the-screening-room-to-outpace-oscar-rivals/

 

[X Knight]

so when does the soundtrack for this come out?

I can't seem to find it listed on any site........there will be a soundtrack, right?

 

[narrows101]

so when does the soundtrack for this come out?

I can't seem to find it listed on any site........there will be a soundtrack, right?

Good question, I keep remembering Crowe's tweet when someone asked him the same question months ago - he said:

"I don't understand you question, the movie is the soundtrack."

 

[DACrowe]

I thought people saved that kind of vitriol for Natalie Portman. Girl won an Oscar, went to Harvard, and had scientific papers published! But I suppose since she stole another woman's man and got knocked up, she doesn't seem so perfect anymore.

Portman and Hathaway are a good comparison. That article is from the world of snarky celebrity gossip blogs. They make their money and/or get their attention by cynically tearing people down. The problem is with actresses like the two aforementioned is there is very little, if anything, for such misanthropes to grasp onto. Talented actors who actually seem intelligent, well-educated, well-adjusted and don't get in trouble with the paparazzi. Instead, they keep making great films, winning awards and generally being popular without becoming gossip fodder.

Strangely, women celebrities are both coveted and worshipped while being reviled and torn down. Portman and Hathaway seem happy (and smart) enough to not let that second part happen. It pisses off those who only follow actors for schadenfreude from their personal lives and not their performances or work.

 

[DACrowe]

Just wondering are most of you hear prior les mis fans? I'm just wondering if the film is gonna have attraction beyond those familiar with the play?

The set pieces and cinematography look great from what i've seen in the trailer but i'm not familiar with the play that much nor am i a big musical fan really.

I have seen it in the last year. I am a fan, but not a life-long one who knows all the words.

It is a sung through musical. If you can enjoy, say, Sweeney Todd or Phantom of the Opera (even though the second one was a poor film adaptation of the play it's based on), then you should be able to like this. The story is much more epic and ambitious than most musicals. So, in that way it is different.

Wheee! t:

Who played Enjolras there? He looks a little young to be in that otherwise 25-years-older group of people.

Yeah, #1 rule about singing - if you need to sound powerful and angry, you'd better be spitting on the first row. Besides the fact that you can always pick out people who've had classical training because they have superior enunciation.

Ramin Karimloo. He also played the Phantom in the 25th anniversary production of that!

I am not one who tries to be too picky on musicality in film adaptations per se. I thought Depp and Carter were magnificent in Sweeney Todd despite not having Broadway vocals. It is how they are used and acted. But that bit is supposed to be Javert full of passion and fury. Crowe sounds soft and weak there because he cannot handle the melody. That is a problem for me.

 

[kvz5]

The Dec 2012 Vogue issue (with Anne at the cover) has some pics of the cast taken by Annie Leibovitz:

http://www.vogue.com/magazine/artic...iserables/#/magazine-gallery/les-miserables/1

Article (with cover):

http://www.vogue.com/magazine/article/leap-of-faith-anne-hathaway/#1

 

[JP]

Gorgeous photos!