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

[narrows101]

There are FOUR new featurettes, and this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js6kUkBoe34&list=UL

shows quite much singing, including a few lines from "Master of the house"

I just noticed that - the hair and makeup, holy cow!

 

[danoyse]

There's a shot from Empty Chairs at Empty Tables in there too.

 

[Pink Ranger]

The chorus prostitutes all look like Heath Ledger's Joker.

Almost makes me want to stop having sex with murderous clowns. Almost.

 

[RayB]

Somebody from Tumblr leaked some audio. Oh dear.

I'm not pleased with the way they cut Drink with me. Fu*ck that.

 

[narrows101]

Hugh is being profiled on 60 Mins. on Sunday, Dec. 9. Video preview attached - he gets all choked up.

Hugh Jackman pays his father tribute

Hugh Jackman's father is his "rock." He raised him alone from the age of 8 when his mother left the family. The "X-Men" actor isn't acting when he chokes up thinking about the message his father imparts to him constantly, to put his family ahead of his career. Scott Pelley profiles the Australian actor for 60 Minutes this Sunday, Dec. 9 at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT.

Jackman had to fudge a rule recently that has kept him and his wife and kids happy for some time: take no roles that require more than two weeks away from home. He spent a good deal of time away while playing Jean Valjean in the upcoming screen musical version of "Les Miserables." It's a part he considers the "role of a lifetime" and its generating Oscar buzz for best picture and best actor.

Fresh off the long absence from his family, Pelley asks him what advice his father is giving him these days. Jackman is silent for several seconds before gaining his composure. "It's always about the family," he says softly, wiping the corners of his eyes and apologizing to Pelley for the unexpected show of emotion. "It's always, 'How's Deb?' It's not about work and I think that's him living with, probably some of his regrets and feelings of maybe he...at the wrong time put too much into his career and he doesn't want me to make that mistake," he tells Pelley. "And so, in his gentle way, he always reminds me that this is the most important thing."

In the profile, Pelley traces Jackman's life from childhood, when the acting bug bit him in prep school, to his success on Broadway in roles other actors might avoid. He played the gay Australian songwriter Peter Allen, a part that won him a Tony and also started rumors.

Asked by Pelley if he thought twice about doing the role that might limit his career, he responds, "Never thought it for a second. What sexuality you are is not the most interesting thing about you. It's the kind of person you are and that role just had, first of all, it was naughty," says the actor most famous for playing the murderous mutant Wolverine in "X-Men" films. "I would never give myself permission to do the things I did as Peter Allen and his sexuality, for me, is another costume. It's a personality trait, it's not who you are."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57557637/hugh-jackman-pays-his-father-tribute/

 

[JP]

Somebody from Tumblr leaked some audio. Oh dear.

I'm not pleased with the way they cut Drink with me. Fu*ck that.

Listened. More than pleased with everything I heard.

 

[RayB]

Listened. More than pleased with everything I heard.

The link is not working for me anymore

 

[jmc]

Is the entire movie's dialog sung?

 

[Kansiov]

Is the entire movie's dialog sung?

Yes and all of the critics that gave it a mixed reception disliked the constant singing. They hated the reused score even more.

 

[lime]

 

[narrows101]

Hugh was on a UK breakfast show this morning - interview starts at 1:39, at about 1:55 you hear "One Day More"!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p3mmp

 

[RayB]

Loved the Marius-Enjolras part. And the orchestration.

 

[narrows101]

Tweeted by one of the "students":

jonnypurchase Jonny Purchase
The students and Mr Hugh Jackman from the Les Misérables Film #barricadeboys pic.***********/KPJZIUSI

 

[JP]

Hugh was on a UK breakfast show this morning - interview starts at 1:39, at about 1:55 you hear "One Day More"!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p3mmp

 

[Earthland]

I found it funny how one reviewer didn't "believe" in the revolution, while the june rebellion is an actual event in the history.

There has actually been one real "singing revolution" in the history, also. You can read about it here.

One of the more powerful songs of that revolution is sounds like this. Almost like Les Mis.

 

[danoyse]

Hugh was on a UK breakfast show this morning - interview starts at 1:39, at about 1:55 you hear "One Day More"!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p3mmp

Wow...

 

[narrows101]

Oh I think I know what this scene is!

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Surprised that the early reviews are so mixed, I thought the critics would go gaga over the movie no matter if it were actually good or bad.

I also find it interesting about the negative reaction for how the movie looked and was edited. I thought that The King's Speech was an ugly looking film with medicore direction and yet the director won the oscar for directing in 2011. The Oscars aren't important but I felt like it was a shocking joke when Hooper won. It's too early to call the movie a critical disappointment but it isn't looking fantastic right now.

I'm still interested in seeing it for Hathaway and Jackman alone but I never liked the choice of director.

 

[narrows101]

Surprised that the early reviews are so mixed, I thought the critics would go gaga over the movie no matter if it were actually good or bad.

I also find it interesting about the negative reaction for how the movie looked and was edited. I thought that The King's Speech was an ugly looking film with medicore direction and yet the director won the oscar for directing in 2011. The Oscars aren't important but I felt like it was a shocking joke when Hooper won. It's too early to call the movie a critical disappointment but it isn't looking fantastic right now.

I'm still interested in seeing it for Hathaway and Jackman alone but I never liked the choice of director.

The critics are mostly complaining about the story being depressing (hello, "les miserables"??), it's ALL SUNG (!!!) with no breaks, and some of the songs are repetitive and Hooper uses too many closeups (I guess they don't want to see the emotion). If you ask me, I think most of them don't know anything about the musical and don't like musicals in the first place.

Hopefully people who vote for the awards (Guilds v. Critics) will see differently. At least it already won Best Ensemble from the National Board of Review - Dec. 13 is the Golden Globes and I'm hoping it will get quite a few nods there.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I'm judging Hooper as a director based on The King's Speech and Those Damn United.

100 Percent of the critics could love LM and I would still find the director to be mediocre based on The King's Speech and Those Damned United. Saying it won a cast award does not invalidate my feelings on the sub BBC directing that Hooper does. I'm not a fan at all. That being said I'm still not judging the film until I see it. I'll decide if I like it or not. I don't trust the critics one way or the other when it comes to Hooper because they loved TKS and I thought that it was mostly boring royal worshiping tripe.

 

[danoyse]

Surprised that the early reviews are so mixed, I thought the critics would go gaga over the movie no matter if it were actually good or bad.

I also find it interesting about the negative reaction for how the movie looked and was edited. I thought that The King's Speech was an ugly looking film with medicore direction and yet the director won the oscar for directing in 2011. The Oscars aren't important but I felt like it was a shocking joke when Hooper won. It's too early to call the movie a critical disappointment but it isn't looking fantastic right now.

I'm still interested in seeing it for Hathaway and Jackman alone but I never liked the choice of director.

The critics have never gone universally gaga over the stage version either. The original London production at the Barbican was initially panned so badly that they thought it would close early. The reviews were much better by the time the show came to NY (as was the show by then) but it's always had a pretty fair share of detractors. A lot of the reviews I've read of the movie echo the same problems critics have had with the show. It's always been more revered by the audiences than it has by the critics.

Also, as a fan of the show for over 20 years, the bad reviews are also because those critics are ***holes.

 

[Kansiov]

The critics have never gone universally gaga over the stage version either. The original London production at the Barbican was initially panned so badly that they thought it would close early. The reviews were much better by the time the show came to NY (as was the show by then) but it's always had a pretty fair share of detractors. A lot of the reviews I've read of the movie echo the same problems critics have had with the show. It's always been more revered by the audiences than it has by the critics.

Also, as a fan of the show for over 20 years, the bad reviews are also because those critics are ***holes.

This could pretty much be a Titanic situation, opening to mixed critical reaction, only to go on and win at the box office.

 

[danoyse]

This could pretty much be a Titanic situation, opening to mixed critical reaction, only to go on and win at the box office.

It's a musical that's been critic-proof for almost 30 years, I'm not worried about it now. As far as this and the Oscars go, whatever happens, happens. I have no control over it, so I can't get worked up over it. I'm just excited to finally see it.

 

[terry78]

You kind of have to be familiar with the material to go in knowing what to expect.

 

[X Knight]

ok, so I just watched the 4 clips, "Who am I," "On my Own," Javert and Valjean, and "At the end of the Day."

all I can say is.............TAKE MY MONEY NOW!!!!



oh, and Samantha as Eponine singing On my Own =

and, to all the critics complaining that there's too much singing and that it's too depressing................it's a ******* MUSICAL and it's ******* LES MISERABLES!!!!