Les Miserables: Even the thread will make you cry

[danoyse]

LOL, I don't know if that or me trying to not cry and have someone notice is worse!

I just sent the link to my cousin, who still hasn't worked up the nerve to watch the trailer yet...

 

[JP]

We also see (not hear) A Little Fall of Rain


Also trying not to cry and scream at work.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Also trying not to cry and scream at work.

I struggle with that every day. Every. Day.

 

[Earthland]

Amanda was amazing! Now she seems like a perfect Cosette to me! Her "This is a chain we'll never break", I don't really think any stage actor has ever been so pure and innocenet in this....

The first line we heard from Samantha, I loved the way she sang it..

I take back all my words about being doubtful about Hug Jackman!

This film is bound do become a classic! Or even more.. I'm literally shaking

 

[danoyse]

Also trying not to cry and scream at work.

I can't react to this in any way that doesn't end in "AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"..

 

[narrows101]

If anyone wants a breakdown of scenes, someone at IMDB provided them - I thought the last one (if that's what it is) is genius!

Spoiler

:08 frances rufelle as a lovely lady?
:28 - JVJ frees Javert
:32 - Fantine at JVJ bedside
:50 - A Little Fall of Rain
1:00 - JVJ with Marius & Cosette
1:12 - Gavroche, Enjolras etc with Tom Hooper
1:15 - Javert & Fantine (Fanitnes arrest)
3:34 - JVJ walks into court (Who Am I)
4:14 - JVJ meets the Bishop (in heaven??)

 

[Angel_Faerie]

God this film is going to be incredible. It's nice that the concerns about Amanda's voice can finally be put to rest, and holy hell I melted hearing Eddie's voice. Now more than ever I can see why both Eponine and Cosette fell in love with him

 

[narrows101]

God this film is going to be incredible. It's nice that the concerns about Amanda's voice can finally be put to rest, and holy hell I melted hearing Eddie's voice. Now more than ever I can see why both Eponine and Cosette fell in love with him

No kidding! I fell in love with Eddie when I saw "Birdsong" - he has such charisma - imagine him singing "Empty Chairs" and his part in "Red and Black"!

 

[Earthland]

I'm just watching it over and over ... honestly, this is better than the teaser! I just love everything I see ... I can't even say, "especially Samantha", because then Anne pops into my mind and then I feel again the innocence of Amanda's voice and it's all just so... uh...

Thank God for Tom Hooper

 

[CGHulk]

They didn't give us Russell Crow singing, I hope they are not hiding his singing because he's bad at it.

 

[Earthland]

I don't think he's bad, but he's just not extraordinary as the rest of them

 

[JP]

We've heard him sing enough to know that he'll be just fine. I wouldn't call anyone in the cast extraordinary except Barks and Tviet. But they're all appropriately cast and will get the job done.

 

[Earthland]

We haven't even heard Tveit singing anything from Les Miserables - though yes, he is quite superb in what else he has done thus far... but Barks... just think that it could've been Taylor Swift! Barks is the sensation of the year...

 

[narrows101]

I think this analysis is my favorite LOL.

5 Things In The New Les Miz First Look Video That Blew Our Musical-Loving Minds
by Halle Kiefer (@hallekiefer)

Humina humina! Is it gross to refer to the new Les Miserables first look video as “musical movie porn”? It is, isn’t it? Very gross? Ah, we see. Forget we said anything! Let’s just watch it a dozen more times on repeat. “It’s going to be different for sure. It’s the first time anyone’s tried it like this,” Anne Hathaway explains in the new clip. The main difference to us seems to be the fact that they’ve taken a musical people are literally obsessed with…and successfully translated it for the big screen! We may be counting our tubercular French chickens before they hatch, but there were at least five elements in this new video that had us gasping in delight:

1) The live recording process: We had heard about director Tom Hooper’s decision to record his actors singing live, but having Hugh Jackman break down the process for us leaves us even more in awe. How can they manage to do multiple takes without blowing out their vocal chords? Do they end up sounding even more amazing because they have the raged, bruised voices of actual revolutionaries/street urchins? There must be so, so much tea at the Les Miz craft services table. Just pallets and pallets of tea and lozenges.

2) Amanda Seyfried’s angelic voice: “If they don’t think I’m the right Cosette, eff em,” Seyfried joked back in February. Well, obviously, seeing as how her voice sounds like warm aristocratic honey being poured into our ears. Were we the only ones that didn’t know the Big Love star had pipes like that? We were, weren’t we?

3) Eddie Redmayne being the new hotness: Um, did you guys see Marius’ hair and period French costume? We knew the man was good-looking, but this is ridiculous. Get start on your fan fiction now!

4) How obvious it is that Anne Hathaway is getting an Oscar nom: That raw, weeping face! That beautiful, breaking voice! And to think, just two years ago she was semi-bombing as an Academy Award co-host alongside James Franco. How sweet that night will be…

5) Pretty much everything else about the movie: Film newcomer Samantha Barks‘ performance! The live keyboardist! Russell Crowe‘s hat! Dat. Hat. Honestly, so far the film looks and sounds truly gorgeous. We are going to be sorely disappointed if this somehow turns out badly. It…it won’t will it? What part of Les Miz has you wiping drool off your laptop so far?

http://www.vh1.com/celebrity/2012-09-20/les-miserables-first-look-video-les-miz-movie/

 

[Pink Ranger]

I think this analysis is my favorite LOL.

4) How obvious it is that Anne Hathaway is getting an Oscar nom: That raw, weeping face! That beautiful, breaking voice! And to think, just two years ago she was semi-bombing as an Academy Award co-host alongside James Franco. How sweet that night will be…

It would be cruelly ironic if Anne wins the Oscar next year, and as she's walking off the stage with the statue James Franco, in a weed-fuelled haze, bumps into her and the statue drops on the floor and shatters.

 

[CaptainCanada]

Give us a glimpse of what Russell sounds like, damnit. That's my one question mark about this cast.

That looks like a really interesting way to do a film musical, and offers a lot of creative freedom to the actors.

 

[CGHulk]

It's funny how we heard the the voices from all the main cast except Russell, one is to wonder if they are hiding something!

 

[JP]

We haven't heard Sasha, Tviet, or HBC.

 

[Erzengel]

When is the soundtrack being released?

 

[AnneFan]

It's here, and it's the Extended First Look!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwgQjfg0hZw

Amazing.

Made some caps from it:

Spoiler

It would be cruelly ironic if Anne wins the Oscar next year, and as she's walking off the stage with the statue James Franco, in a weed-fuelled haze, bumps into her and the statue drops on the floor and shatters.

Don't say that.

 

[Pink Ranger]

We haven't heard Sasha, Tviet, or HBC.

True, but I'm not too concerned about the Thenardiers. Their musical numbers are basically drinking songs, so "just good enough" singing is sufficient for the role, their success will rest more on their ability to chew the scenery like it was made of saltwater taffy. And both actors can do that.

 

[Darkness Falls]

the first look video was amazing i really hope anne takes the oscar this year

 

[danoyse]

I noticed another one watching it again (and again, and again...). It looks like Eponine isn't dressed as a boy during On My Own - wonder if they moved that around like it looks like they're doing for I Dreamed a Dream?

 

[narrows101]

Sunday is the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids flea market in Shubert Alley in Times Square, Manhattan, that's held every year. One of the auction items (besides shirts worn onstage by Hugh during his Broadway performance) is tickets to the NY movie premiere of Les Mis.

The Grand Auction, always a highlight of the event, will take place this year in the Times Square pedestrian plaza between 46th and 47th Streets. The Grand Auction is divided in two parts: a daylong series of silent auctions and a live auction that wraps up the day.

The live auction starts at 4:30 PM. Among the more than 40 astounding lots up for bid are:

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- Tickets to the New York movie premiere of the much-anticipated Les Misérables, starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Anne Hathaway

http://broadwayworld.com/article/BC...or-Sundays-Flea-Market-BWW-to-Stream-20120920

 

[Slushy]

I haven't seen Les Miserables from 1998. Is it any good? I'm that kind of guy who will watch more than one version of a movie to compare them.

I don't think he's bad, but he's just not extraordinary as the rest of them

Just like Pierce Brosnan in Mama Mia. t: