They said that the actors set the pace. Yes, *usually* it probably does work the other way around. But not in this version. This is an amazing version. Can't believe nobody thought of doing this musical this way sooner. But I guess...good things come to those who wait. ^___^
Actually any accompanist should be led by the vocal/ melody instrument. That is the core of being an accompanist. This is not uncommon and should be this way around.
The fact that you didn't understand her situation until it was put into a movie is a sign of your lack of intelligence/comprehension and has nothing to do with the musical itself.
@@obiwankenobi9141 facts only sam, amanda and eddie sang beautifully. Russel sounded like wet dog shit. Anne had emotion but had to compromise her singing, which resulted in a dirty sounding almost phlegm in the throat type singing
Cosette in the book is young, pretty, innocent, and dainty -exactly how Amanda's voice is. Amanda herself said she lacked training and thinks her voice was so weak in the movie. She was so humble and wiling to learn and doesn't deserve the hate y'all give. She hit those high notes so effortlessly all the while looking like a goddess. As much as Samantha and Anne's voice are ideal for broadway which is strong and loud (both are incredible and I love them), I think the movie made the right choice for Cosette to have that high butterfly-like voice that makes her distinct and more realistic as a blooming young lady.
except cosette is the classic Broadway leading lady, and she's actually written to sound more like a broadway golden age leading lady/love interest (kind of toned down classical/operatic soprano, but still with a strong and well placed voice. Sweeter than pure opera but not fragile!) than what she sounds like in the film! If it was a different score, I'd completely agree, but to me it's odd to hear such a delicate voice singing these songs hahaha
@@bethgarcia1838 they borrowed a lot from the book version of Cosette because the stage version is such a bland and paper thin character. Amanda has the exact voice Cosette has in the book. The only problem really is she wasn’t trained enough (although she trained classically as a teen, she quit singing and became a smoker so her vocal chords were in bad shape; she had 6 months to rehabilitate her voice AND get classical technique) and was very vocal about her frustration about her vocal performance. It’s kind of a right actor at the wrong time situation imo
I think all of you are right in different ways. I wish the book Cosette did sound like that but what just flew into my mind from the book is that the author said about (child) Cosette that the people all called her the Lark "except that the poor lark never sang". I don't know if the eighteen-year-old Cosette sang or not. If she did, it might have sounded like Amanda (sort of). We can't really know for sure though.
One of the few things I never liked about the musical of Les Mis is that they made grown up Eponine seem wonderful while making grown up Cosette seem like almost nothing. Book Eponine was creepy and book Cosette was a nice person and a much more rounded out character than we ever see in *any* musical version.
Book Eponine seduced Marius deliberately because she thought that by finding out what sex was like then she would find out what love was like. She did not love him or anyone. Probably not even her own family (who are the Thenardiers by the way even though we only briefly see that in the stage musical and even less in the movie, if at all in the movie). Musical Eponine is a good girl but Marius just never noticed her because he only had eyes for Cosette, and unfortunately we can hardly see why because they don't show the real her except in childhood which was ten years before Marius met her.
@@_..jolene.._ who would be jealous over someone sounding bad when they sing? I’m jealous of Beyoncé, Whitney Houston, or Jeremy Jordan, actually incredible singers 🤣
Me too! But then, I selfishly want this film to be the only live recorded musical, because I'm afraid something else would top it. Not that that's possible...🤔
@Louis Kirkwood no, actually, it’s not just the imperfections on why singing live for movie musicals is a terrible idea. Sideways has a great segment, “Why the Music in Les Misérables (2012) is worse than you thought,” on why it’s just an inconvenient and stupid idea.
Actually, not really. Movie sets are really fucking loud so everyone had to be so careful with what they were doing or even just walking around the set. So yes, it has it's benefits but it's just SO impractical, and would be a production nightmare
I love Amanda, and I love les Mis… her voice is amazing, but her acting seemed so…. Idk like idk almost like you could tell she was uncomfortable with the roll, I’ve seen her pour herself into different rolls and in this one she just didn’t. That is not a testament to her as an actress she’s amazing. But you could definitely tell she was uncomfortable with the roll.
I just read the book and Cosette makes so much more sense now especially how Amanda sing it. Cosette is called the Lark, She was up at dawn like birds sweeping and being basically a slave of the Thenadiers. "A lark that did not sing" I think the words was. She like Valjean did not know love before they met and now with Valjean the lark could sing. And that is that is what I hear when she sings.
I read the book before this movie while I was preparing for my local production and it’s true how she was called and Amanda’s voice fit the description!
when i read the book i laughed out loud when it said “but this lark never sang” or something like that bc victor prob didn’t know it was gonna be a musical and she was gonna sing while still in that phase.
@@abbsbrady7264 lol, I’m feeling quite poetic when reading it, thinking that the soul sings when it feels love, since she didn’t know it she was silent, so I basically read it as metaphor.
Like Hugh Jackman said Les Mis had to feel real and singing live gives it the real performance. I Dreamed A Dream is a perfect example of this and Anne Hathaway sang it with such emotion and it was so powerful. I cried at her performance. Samantha Barks was also exceptional here with her voice. And Amanda Seyfried I love hearing her talk she's got such a beautiful voice its like a breath of fresh air.
@Mirissa remember that firstly its a movie so the most important thing is acting and only then singing which idk why yall hate it i thought it was cool
@@iust.I True Les Miz fans hated this movie because we've seen INCREDIBLE actors over the years who are also world class vocalists. This is not firstly a movie, this is firstly a broadway/london Cameron Macintosh Production. Trust me, this movie was TRASH compared to the real Les Miz that's been in London and New York for over 25 years.
@@paulthroughfilm So you think an Oscar is proof of talent? Awww, how cute 😂😂😂 The Academy Awards, even though it’s entertaining, is nothing more than a big time ”company party” for those who work in the industry 😎
@@Sunset76 I mean if you're saying an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild award, BAFTA, Critics Choice award, Satellite Award, Phoenix and Central Film Critics awards , are all indicative of a poor performance then fair enough
@@paulthroughfilm Aww sweetie, still trying, you are hilarious darling. Just give it a rest because it’s not healthy to be as naive as you are 🤣 If you really think any of those things equals talent you are so far off it’s laughable. Get it in your head baby, it’s all politics 😁
Annie Hathaway fucking kills it in that scene. I had seen this live and in movie versions and thought it was good but when I saw this, specifically her song- I suddenly got it. Well done.
The two biggest oscar snubs of my lifetime have been Anne Hathaway in Les Mis and Toni Colette in Hereditary, breaks my heart even thinkin' bout how much intense emotional turmoil they put into their roles to get only a nom
i think so too, its my favourite scene!! I didnt know Eddie Redmayne before and fell in love with both his singing and acting instantly,. The whole Scene they almost just show his face, yet i am so invested and emotional every time, watching and hearing his emotions
Anne's version gave me so much chills and it made me appreciate the scene even more. I can feel her emotions and I try so hard to replicate it whenever I sing in the shower but I just can't.. she's amazing period!!!
I can't watch "I Dreamed a Dream" without crying. Heck, I can't think of the song without tearing up. Anne's performance was amazing. She made Fantine real.
I know Amanda is not very proud of her performance. But I think her voice is magical. She seems linked she came out from an old Disney movie. Her singing sounds like Cinderella or Snow White birds. But, no doubt, the actress who plays Eponime is by far the best singer in the movie.
Samantha Barks played Éponine in the London production of Les Mis at Queens threatre for a year. She was one of the best trained for the role of any of the cast. You can watch videos of her singing in the live stage production.
ahhh amanda has the voice of an angel. and the face. can’t believe she exists. :-D wish she’d release original music, her absolutely unique voice deserves it
There's very few musical movies that actually stand up to the theatre performances, but I would say that the Les Mis movie is definitely one of them! My heart belongs to Lea Salonga, Michael Ball, Philip Quast, etc., but the cast of the movie worked incredibly well together and were able to tell the story in an awe-inspiring way. It's a different way any stage performance, but it's still amazing
This is similar to how they filmed musicals back when sound technology was very new. Before the idea of using "playback" was invented and sound mixing was primitive there would be a large orchestra behind the camera playing the music live for the actors to perform along to... its pretty cool seeing Hollywood revisiting film history...
I never knew they sang live!! How impressive this is, because the staffs and the director managed to control the echos and other external factors that could disrupt the audio being recorded clearly. Such a masterpiece!
I've watched this film so many times because I absolutely love the music and hearing these amazing voices from the actors; Les Misérables is a film that one can never tire of.
i’ve never seen this movie but i can’t tell u how many times i’ve listened to anne’s i dreamed a dream she couldn’t have done it better. literally did exactly what she intended and poured her whole heart and character into the song making it sound NEW i cry so easily listening coz u feel what she’s saying. it’s so heartbreaking
I think he did a great job for his capacities though. He's a great Javert of his own and obviously they had to rearrange the vocality of the character based on his few techinque, but even with that light, half-voiced sound, he manages to give the character his consistency and you can tell he always feels the songs' lyrics as he does with lines. Anyway, the same exact thing happened with Eddie Redmayne's Marius songs if you focus on the timbres he uses, but it appears to me that everyone's being more benevolent towards him and adversing Russell Crowe instead.
It wasn't. Especially not when you consider under what circumstances they were singing- they kept starving and dehydrating themselves to look good on screen and then had to sing on top of that. It was pretty dangerous, actually.
It's strange seing this because recently (when I posted this comment) Amanda says how much she regretted this because she felt like her singing was "weak" at the time, and that she would do it again if she had the chance, as she feels like her voice is ready now.
Right so I watched this on the plane and I cry pretty effortlessly at emotional scenes in shows/movies. To say I was sobbing in my seat next to my mother while a stranger looked at me in horror was an understatement. I was at “I dreamed a dream” just falling to pieces and my mum was like “oh my god! Are you ok?”, slightly laughing I might add. When I was like “no! It so sad”. My mom was just like “has she died yet?” And my voice caught on another sob, “SHE DIES?!”. My mom just laughed and explained to the gentleman what I was watching lol great movie.
In Finland we have this saying ”to climb up a tree arse first”, and the way this film was recorded really sounds like a perfect example of that. Recording an orchestra on top of a vocal track that doesn’t even follow a fixed tempo is _insanely_ difficult. Like the benefits outlined by the cast and crew here are really small compared to the problems it creates. I hope the musicians were paid handsomely for their job.
Read the book, then saw the stage play which was just so beautifully done. This film did not get the attention it deserved. The performances were brilliant. I think musicals are not taken seriously in Hollywood.
This was by and still is the BEST musical movie EVER made. Just like the musical on stage. There is no comparison. Cold Wilkinson original Jean plays the bishop. Wonderful other wonderful actors.
In terms of production, this is THE BEST movie musical I've ever seen. I LOVE how they produced this and allowed them to sing live. The cast was amazing and the whole movie is incredible. I was in tears by the end, it was so good!
@Taljaardt Mostert then list them! Otherwise, keep your negative opinions to yourself and don't bring others down for enjoying a movie and sharing positive feedback.
@@Matt_Hatt3r I understand you enjoyed the film but from a musician stand point it was really a nightmare to produce. Like for instance Jack didn't drink water for weeks before filming, which is like setting a piano on fire and cutting the stings. And this isn't the option of a dude who has watched one video this is the option of a musician of over 11 years. Please watch Sideways' video on Le Mis and you'll understand what I mean.
@Taljaardt Mostert and Anne ate Oatmeal paste to get super skinny for her part, and Hugh Jackman didn't sleep before the intro scene/number. That's what actors do to convincingly portray their characters. Production of it may have been a strain, but the final product is an outstanding movie with wonderful singing (maybe Russel is an exception, but he tried).
When my mom and I watched this years ago, the first thing we said was that Anne had to win an Oscar for her role as Fantine and we were so glad she did
There are great, beautiful moments in this movie. There are also really bad, cringeworthy “oof” moments. Your mileage on whether the choice to have the actors sing live worked may vary. My opinion is that if they were going to choose the live singing option, some of the actors should have been replaced with those who had better vocal stamina.
@@janaharing6600 I think Russell actually did a solid job. Was he Phillip Quast or Norm Lewis ? Noooo. But I do think his voices was far better suited to Javert than Hugh was to Valjean.
I know lots of them are giving flawed performances but I also think musical theatre fans (of which I am one) need to accept that their are multiple ways to give an amazing performance. And perfect singing isn’t the only way
I think people are mad because the excuse people give them is "yeah but they acted really well." well guess what the people on broadway and london do ... they sing impeccably beautifully AND give just as good acting. This movie SUCKED and was an insult to long time les miz fans everywhere lol
How fascinating to hear the process in creating this beautiful performance. I was first introduced to Les Mis in HS choir and then as a class heard it live for the 1st time in 1990. I saw it several more times over the yrs. It’s something that just never leaves u…❤
Very good...Les Miz is one of my All time musicals......saw it with the Oreginal Broadway Cast in 1984..... Saw it about 7 times.......all over..... 10 Stars......
I wish more people would comment on the incredible “A Little Fall of Rain.” I just sit there and bawl like a fool. Every single time. Like when I’m all like “dude, feelings are stuck in my eyeballs and they need to escape” I just turn on that scene and WHAM, all feelings escape out my eyes in the form of salty crocodile tears. She loves him so much and dying in his arms makes her whole empty life worthwhile and it’s so horrible and beautiful and painful and LIFE. Seriously.
Watched this on its release date which was Christmas i think and it was heart breaking, and realistic And simply so well down and i never understood the hate it got for the live singing because while i am not a singer myself, as an audience member i just felt like the emotions of what these characters were experiencing was portrayed better. I enjoyed this musical and still consider it one of the best !!
Totally agree. And I’m totally in a minority but I feel a good majority of the cast was ...miscast. Beautiful singers (most of them) but not for a Les Mis production.
im still not over how tom hooper created what is to me the best musical cinema experience alongside moulin rouge and then went on to make effin' CATS! absolute mad lad..
seriously .. singing live makes all the difference : very moving and vibrant. I love that version of Les Miserables. Amazing music (that'll stay in my head for long)... and great acting though: Crowe, Hathaway, Baron Cohen/Bonham Carter, Jackman... oh and Redmayne that I discovered more recently in Stephen Hawking movie. Cannot go wrong! Well done to all the team; I'll watch that movie again...!
I get why I feel so touched by the movie now. they sing it in the exact moment they are acting so they sound so real, so natural. they are all amazing performers both in acting and singing. I really appreciate the casting
When I was in 10th grade, our literature teacher made us watch this movie and had us make an essay. Min. Of 500 words but I passed a 10,000 word essay because I had too much to say. Finished it in five hours while listening to the entire soundtrack of the movie. Writing that piece was so exhilarating.
I wonder how many of the actors in this movie have ever seen the musical? I saw this first when it came out and finally went to see the musical this year and boy they did such an incredible job bringing this play to the silver screen! There were parts in the play that rushed through and I was happy to have that explained a little better in the movie so I could really understand the depth of what was going on. Just incredible.
Never really thought about how this is one of my favorite movies. It is my favorite Broadway but rewatching this behind the scenes reminded me after all these years that this movie holds a special place in my heart
I wish they'd show this on T.V. again and keep it there forever! I love singing out loud to this, it makes me feel so good! Best musical ever! Bravo 👏👏👏
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The pianists are amazing too for keeping up with the actors singing
I'm pretty sure it works the way around
Oh wait no I'm wrong
They said that the actors set the pace.
Yes, *usually* it probably does work the other way around.
But not in this version.
This is an amazing version.
Can't believe nobody thought of doing this musical this way sooner.
But I guess...good things come to those who wait. ^___^
No more so than when they play the music live when it is performed on stage lol
Actually any accompanist should be led by the vocal/ melody instrument. That is the core of being an accompanist. This is not uncommon and should be this way around.
Anne Hathaway made I dreamed a dream a living breathing feeling and understanding of the situation rather than just a song
The fact that you didn't understand her situation until it was put into a movie is a sign of your lack of intelligence/comprehension and has nothing to do with the musical itself.
@@grouchostarx531 this is hands down the best comment i have ever received in my entire life I'm lmao 🤣
she also nearly destroyed her voice by doing it unsafely.
lmao people are so mad that "rough around the edges but emotional as hell" is a valid choice
@CapToon yes I would. Music is about conveying an idea or an emotion, and damn does this explore the emotion of these lyrics
Eddie worked with Amanda and that’s all that I care about
Why?
@@maryaquino4375 they were 2/3 good singers in the entire movie
One day more
@@obiwankenobi9141 facts only sam, amanda and eddie sang beautifully. Russel sounded like wet dog shit. Anne had emotion but had to compromise her singing, which resulted in a dirty sounding almost phlegm in the throat type singing
Cosette in the book is young, pretty, innocent, and dainty -exactly how Amanda's voice is. Amanda herself said she lacked training and thinks her voice was so weak in the movie. She was so humble and wiling to learn and doesn't deserve the hate y'all give. She hit those high notes so effortlessly all the while looking like a goddess. As much as Samantha and Anne's voice are ideal for broadway which is strong and loud (both are incredible and I love them), I think the movie made the right choice for Cosette to have that high butterfly-like voice that makes her distinct and more realistic as a blooming young lady.
except cosette is the classic Broadway leading lady, and she's actually written to sound more like a broadway golden age leading lady/love interest (kind of toned down classical/operatic soprano, but still with a strong and well placed voice. Sweeter than pure opera but not fragile!) than what she sounds like in the film! If it was a different score, I'd completely agree, but to me it's odd to hear such a delicate voice singing these songs hahaha
@@bethgarcia1838 they borrowed a lot from the book version of Cosette because the stage version is such a bland and paper thin character. Amanda has the exact voice Cosette has in the book. The only problem really is she wasn’t trained enough (although she trained classically as a teen, she quit singing and became a smoker so her vocal chords were in bad shape; she had 6 months to rehabilitate her voice AND get classical technique) and was very vocal about her frustration about her vocal performance. It’s kind of a right actor at the wrong time situation imo
I think all of you are right in different ways.
I wish the book Cosette did sound like that but what just flew into my mind from the book is that the author said about (child) Cosette that the people all called her the Lark "except that the poor lark never sang".
I don't know if the eighteen-year-old Cosette sang or not. If she did, it might have sounded like Amanda (sort of). We can't really know for sure though.
One of the few things I never liked about the musical of Les Mis is that they made grown up Eponine seem wonderful while making grown up Cosette seem like almost nothing.
Book Eponine was creepy and book Cosette was a nice person and a much more rounded out character than we ever see in *any* musical version.
Book Eponine seduced Marius deliberately because she thought that by finding out what sex was like then she would find out what love was like.
She did not love him or anyone.
Probably not even her own family (who are the Thenardiers by the way even though we only briefly see that in the stage musical and even less in the movie, if at all in the movie).
Musical Eponine is a good girl but Marius just never noticed her because he only had eyes for Cosette, and unfortunately we can hardly see why because they don't show the real her except in childhood which was ten years before Marius met her.
And to think that Amanda hates hearing herself sing in this, everybody sounds amazing
Crowe doesn’t 😬
Crowe, Hathaway and Jackman dont
The whole movie is being carried on the shoulders of Seyfried, Redmayne and Barks
@@uhuhuh1966 yes he does.
@@danielthorsteinsson9698 that’s a huge lie. They all sound amazing. Jealous much?
@@_..jolene.._ who would be jealous over someone sounding bad when they sing? I’m jealous of Beyoncé, Whitney Houston, or Jeremy Jordan, actually incredible singers 🤣
no one:
amanda: my voice is a butterfly
*goat
Her voice is like a butterfly and a goat.
@@sakurachan4803
A goatterfly!
someone do a time stamp!!!
@@sakurachan4803 a goat you say a goat maybe, she was just like a goat to me
I was today years old when I learned that all these actors could sing so damn well like wth....
Ikr!! Watch the movie though, it's amazing.
Yes ive been planning on watching it ever since I watched this video
@@labinatasfia624 I think it’s on amazon prime video if you have that
@@lottie233 It's also on Netflix, at least in my country
@@teodora3 they took it off my version, which sucks
To record the singing live was the best decision ever. I wish they would do this for all the musical films.
Me too! But then, I selfishly want this film to be the only live recorded musical, because I'm afraid something else would top it. Not that that's possible...🤔
@Louis Kirkwood no, actually, it’s not just the imperfections on why singing live for movie musicals is a terrible idea. Sideways has a great segment, “Why the Music in Les Misérables (2012) is worse than you thought,” on why it’s just an inconvenient and stupid idea.
Sideways viewers: 👀
@Julian. So do I
Actually, not really. Movie sets are really fucking loud so everyone had to be so careful with what they were doing or even just walking around the set. So yes, it has it's benefits but it's just SO impractical, and would be a production nightmare
I read that Amanda didn't like her performance in this movie, but she is AMAZING.
true! she underrates herself so much when she is indeed very talented and extremely beautiful
Meh
And she has a great voice
@@adeleweiss8130 yeah sure, you are a better singer lol
I love Amanda, and I love les Mis… her voice is amazing, but her acting seemed so…. Idk like idk almost like you could tell she was uncomfortable with the roll, I’ve seen her pour herself into different rolls and in this one she just didn’t. That is not a testament to her as an actress she’s amazing. But you could definitely tell she was uncomfortable with the roll.
I just read the book and Cosette makes so much more sense now especially how Amanda sing it. Cosette is called the Lark, She was up at dawn like birds sweeping and being basically a slave of the Thenadiers. "A lark that did not sing" I think the words was. She like Valjean did not know love before they met and now with Valjean the lark could sing. And that is that is what I hear when she sings.
So lovely 😭
I read the book before this movie while I was preparing for my local production and it’s true how she was called and Amanda’s voice fit the description!
She is amazing. 🖤
when i read the book i laughed out loud when it said “but this lark never sang” or something like that bc victor prob didn’t know it was gonna be a musical and she was gonna sing while still in that phase.
@@abbsbrady7264 lol, I’m feeling quite poetic when reading it, thinking that the soul sings when it feels love, since she didn’t know it she was silent, so I basically read it as metaphor.
Like Hugh Jackman said Les Mis had to feel real and singing live gives it the real performance. I Dreamed A Dream is a perfect example of this and Anne Hathaway sang it with such emotion and it was so powerful. I cried at her performance.
Samantha Barks was also exceptional here with her voice. And Amanda Seyfried I love hearing her talk she's got such a beautiful voice its like a breath of fresh air.
Singing live was everything that was wrong with this movie.
@@synesthesia101 why?
Samantha Bark stole the show in my opinion-it makes sense since she also played Eponine in the anniversary concert
@Mirissa remember that firstly its a movie so the most important thing is acting and only then singing which idk why yall hate it i thought it was cool
@@iust.I True Les Miz fans hated this movie because we've seen INCREDIBLE actors over the years who are also world class vocalists. This is not firstly a movie, this is firstly a broadway/london Cameron Macintosh Production. Trust me, this movie was TRASH compared to the real Les Miz that's been in London and New York for over 25 years.
Samanda Barks... just angel
"There seems to be something selfish about trying to go for the pretty version" - Anne Hathaway
She couldn’t handle the ”pretty version” even if her life depended on it. She hasn’t got the talent 🤢🤮
@@Sunset76 I'm sure she'll cry into her Oscar after reading your comment
@@paulthroughfilm So you think an Oscar is proof of talent? Awww, how cute 😂😂😂 The Academy Awards, even though it’s entertaining, is nothing more than a big time ”company party” for those who work in the industry 😎
@@Sunset76 I mean if you're saying an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild award, BAFTA, Critics Choice award, Satellite Award, Phoenix and Central Film Critics awards , are all indicative of a poor performance then fair enough
@@paulthroughfilm Aww sweetie, still trying, you are hilarious darling. Just give it a rest because it’s not healthy to be as naive as you are 🤣 If you really think any of those things equals talent you are so far off it’s laughable. Get it in your head baby, it’s all politics 😁
Annie Hathaway fucking kills it in that scene. I had seen this live and in movie versions and thought it was good but when I saw this, specifically her song- I suddenly got it. Well done.
@@your_delusional_donkey she prefers Annie or Anna, anything but anne, she said in an interview
Emmy Rossum should have played Fantine.
@@tahirihhansonironic bc she was due for the phantom role but bc of scheduling conflicts emmy ended up doing it
Anne completely deserved that Oscar!
its crazy she got so much hate for it that year
The two biggest oscar snubs of my lifetime have been Anne Hathaway in Les Mis and Toni Colette in Hereditary, breaks my heart even thinkin' bout how much intense emotional turmoil they put into their roles to get only a nom
@@abaliagoob what?? Anne won the Oscar
Emmy Rossum should have played Fantine.
This is why I cry so much every time I watch this. They’re not only singing, they’re acting with their voices
I’m a fan of Les Mis but I had no idea they sang everything live. I feel like a fake fan now haha
same
Same goes with meeee
Not knowing everything about a movie you love doesn't make you a fake fan ;)
There’s not such a thing as a fake fan, people thinking it does are gatekeepers
They said it since the beggiming of the movie, you are a fake fan indeed, at least a fan that doesn't do a little bit to investigate lol.
I thought Eddie singing Empty Chairs and Empty tables was the highlight for me. I had no idea he had such a good voice & he's such a wonderful actor.
He just won an award for his role of the MCee in Cabaret in the west end.
Yea thats like my favorite song in the movie and im literally in love with it, btw sorry of im a bit late at responding lol :)
i think so too, its my favourite scene!! I didnt know Eddie Redmayne before and fell in love with both his singing and acting instantly,. The whole Scene they almost just show his face, yet i am so invested and emotional every time, watching and hearing his emotions
Anne's version gave me so much chills and it made me appreciate the scene even more. I can feel her emotions and I try so hard to replicate it whenever I sing in the shower but I just can't.. she's amazing period!!!
I wish i were a cameraman or one of the staff, standing in front of them listening to them singing live right in front.
amanda sounds like snow white...so gentle and clear so delicate to the ear...
Oh, man. Amanda would sound awesome as Johanna in Sweeny Todd.
indeed
Funny, I thought that while watching Sweeney Todd for the first time.
Jayne Wisener was lovely as Johanna and that film does not need to be remade. Edit: Jayne.
@@tessdurberville711 agreed!! I'm only making an observation based on Amanda's voice 🙂
All I want to say is Amanda really surprised me when I first heard her voice
have you not watched mamma mia
@@ella811 ikr
i don't know how they managed to cry and sing at the same time. it's not easy
and it’s not healthy either lmao
That's the problem with singing live
This movie ... I cried throughout the whole thing which is horrible when you are in the movie theater just sobbing.
I can't watch "I Dreamed a Dream" without crying. Heck, I can't think of the song without tearing up. Anne's performance was amazing. She made Fantine real.
Apparently i dont need to hear the whole I dreamed a dream of anne hathaway to start crying.
I still listen to the movie soundtrack on repeat and I just get chills when I hear Anne’s version of I Dreamed A Dream
I know Amanda is not very proud of her performance. But I think her voice is magical. She seems linked she came out from an old Disney movie. Her singing sounds like Cinderella or Snow White birds.
But, no doubt, the actress who plays Eponime is by far the best singer in the movie.
Samantha Barks played Éponine in the London production of Les Mis at Queens threatre for a year. She was one of the best trained for the role of any of the cast. You can watch videos of her singing in the live stage production.
@@McFlightDGCanada I know.
ahhh amanda has the voice of an angel. and the face. can’t believe she exists. :-D wish she’d release original music, her absolutely unique voice deserves it
One of my top 3 movies of all time!
There's very few musical movies that actually stand up to the theatre performances, but I would say that the Les Mis movie is definitely one of them! My heart belongs to Lea Salonga, Michael Ball, Philip Quast, etc., but the cast of the movie worked incredibly well together and were able to tell the story in an awe-inspiring way. It's a different way any stage performance, but it's still amazing
Amanda's talking voice is like ASMR
Is it just me that cries everytime I hear Anne's version of I dreamed a dream. Mah heart. 😭😭😭😭
This is similar to how they filmed musicals back when sound technology was very new. Before the idea of using "playback" was invented and sound mixing was primitive there would be a large orchestra behind the camera playing the music live for the actors to perform along to... its pretty cool seeing Hollywood revisiting film history...
I never knew they sang live!! How impressive this is, because the staffs and the director managed to control the echos and other external factors that could disrupt the audio being recorded clearly. Such a masterpiece!
Les Mis, is such an emotional musical, now film, it makes me so emotional, so that's three and a half hours of crying
I want to shoot a musical film where a pianist plays on my ear and then the piano is replaced by a 70 piece orchestra. OMG This is so awesome!!!!
I've watched this film so many times because I absolutely love the music and hearing these amazing voices from the actors; Les Misérables is a film that one can never tire of.
Samantha Barks 😍😍😍😍
i’ve never seen this movie but i can’t tell u how many times i’ve listened to anne’s i dreamed a dream she couldn’t have done it better. literally did exactly what she intended and poured her whole heart and character into the song making it sound NEW i cry so easily listening coz u feel what she’s saying. it’s so heartbreaking
Funny how they didn’t show Russell Crowe ‘singing’ live in this featurette 😂
LOL🤣🤣yes funny.........
That’s why I came here 😭
I think he did a great job for his capacities though. He's a great Javert of his own and obviously they had to rearrange the vocality of the character based on his few techinque, but even with that light, half-voiced sound, he manages to give the character his consistency and you can tell he always feels the songs' lyrics as he does with lines. Anyway, the same exact thing happened with Eddie Redmayne's Marius songs if you focus on the timbres he uses, but it appears to me that everyone's being more benevolent towards him and adversing Russell Crowe instead.
@@auroragarofolo1731 What utter nonsense 😂
@@Melt_With_You yeah........ theres no comparison between the two😂😂
There is no possible way this can be healthy for the singers' vocal chords to give it their all on every single take over and over again
It wasn't. Especially not when you consider under what circumstances they were singing- they kept starving and dehydrating themselves to look good on screen and then had to sing on top of that. It was pretty dangerous, actually.
It's strange seing this because recently (when I posted this comment) Amanda says how much she regretted this because she felt like her singing was "weak" at the time, and that she would do it again if she had the chance, as she feels like her voice is ready now.
She was right.
I love her honesty and self-awareness
Right so I watched this on the plane and I cry pretty effortlessly at emotional scenes in shows/movies. To say I was sobbing in my seat next to my mother while a stranger looked at me in horror was an understatement. I was at “I dreamed a dream” just falling to pieces and my mum was like “oh my god! Are you ok?”, slightly laughing I might add. When I was like “no! It so sad”. My mom was just like “has she died yet?” And my voice caught on another sob, “SHE DIES?!”. My mom just laughed and explained to the gentleman what I was watching lol great movie.
Most incredible movie production of a musical, EVER.
This comment makes me want to watch Chicago again.
BS! it killed the original West End show stone dead!
I'd say chicago is! and of course the new in the heights film is flawless.
Just no
In Finland we have this saying ”to climb up a tree arse first”, and the way this film was recorded really sounds like a perfect example of that. Recording an orchestra on top of a vocal track that doesn’t even follow a fixed tempo is _insanely_ difficult. Like the benefits outlined by the cast and crew here are really small compared to the problems it creates. I hope the musicians were paid handsomely for their job.
Read the book, then saw the stage play which was just so beautifully done. This film did not get the attention it deserved. The performances were brilliant. I think musicals are not taken seriously in Hollywood.
‘that song which i thought i knew pretty well, suddenly i listened to the lyrics for the first time afresh’
This was by and still is the BEST musical movie EVER made. Just like the musical on stage. There is no comparison. Cold Wilkinson original Jean plays the bishop. Wonderful other wonderful actors.
this musical is freaking legendary and it’s just as beautiful rewatching it.
Nobody is talking about the fact that Samantha Barks absolutely smashed On My Own in torrential “rain” wearing a corset smaller than my little finger
My mum absolutely loves this musical. She says it’s the best musical
In terms of production, this is THE BEST movie musical I've ever seen. I LOVE how they produced this and allowed them to sing live. The cast was amazing and the whole movie is incredible. I was in tears by the end, it was so good!
No it's not it was a nightmare I have reasons
@Taljaardt Mostert then list them! Otherwise, keep your negative opinions to yourself and don't bring others down for enjoying a movie and sharing positive feedback.
@@Matt_Hatt3r I understand you enjoyed the film but from a musician stand point it was really a nightmare to produce. Like for instance Jack didn't drink water for weeks before filming, which is like setting a piano on fire and cutting the stings. And this isn't the option of a dude who has watched one video this is the option of a musician of over 11 years. Please watch Sideways' video on Le Mis and you'll understand what I mean.
@Taljaardt Mostert and Anne ate Oatmeal paste to get super skinny for her part, and Hugh Jackman didn't sleep before the intro scene/number. That's what actors do to convincingly portray their characters. Production of it may have been a strain, but the final product is an outstanding movie with wonderful singing (maybe Russel is an exception, but he tried).
@@Matt_Hatt3r Just no they didn't even sing the correct notes. And just to say they could literally have lost their voices from that
When my mom and I watched this years ago, the first thing we said was that Anne had to win an Oscar for her role as Fantine and we were so glad she did
Gahh, I love Eddie!!!
There are great, beautiful moments in this movie. There are also really bad, cringeworthy “oof” moments. Your mileage on whether the choice to have the actors sing live worked may vary.
My opinion is that if they were going to choose the live singing option, some of the actors should have been replaced with those who had better vocal stamina.
Honestly, i feel like everyone hates on russel. Im not saying you are. But i honestly prefer russle to hugh
@@janaharing6600 I think Russell actually did a solid job. Was he Phillip Quast or Norm Lewis ? Noooo. But I do think his voices was far better suited to Javert than Hugh was to Valjean.
@@trinitysanabria1350 agreed
I really enjoyed Crowe, more than most of the others! Glad to find others who agree :)
I couldn't count how many I've watched this movie. This is the greatest movie I've ever watched.
I really had no clue that Amanda Seyfried, and Anne Hathaway has such an angelic voice until Les Miserables
It definitely just makes you appreciate this movie all over again!! The magical. Feel of all these brilliant singers ❤️
8 years later I'm finally finding what Key of Awesome parodied
I love this movie so much. It was a favorite musical when I was a kid. My mom would listen to the CD in the car.
I know lots of them are giving flawed performances but I also think musical theatre fans (of which I am one) need to accept that their are multiple ways to give an amazing performance. And perfect singing isn’t the only way
I think people are mad because the excuse people give them is "yeah but they acted really well." well guess what the people on broadway and london do ... they sing impeccably beautifully AND give just as good acting. This movie SUCKED and was an insult to long time les miz fans everywhere lol
How fascinating to hear the process in creating this beautiful performance. I was first introduced to Les Mis in HS choir and then as a class heard it live for the 1st time in 1990. I saw it several more times over the yrs. It’s something that just never leaves u…❤
Very good...Les Miz is one of my
All time musicals......saw it with the
Oreginal Broadway Cast in 1984.....
Saw it about 7 times.......all over.....
10 Stars......
This movie was “ groundbreaking “ as they wanted! So memorable and beautiful. I loved the realness of the voices, to me it was perfect
I wish more people would comment on the incredible “A Little Fall of Rain.” I just sit there and bawl like a fool. Every single time. Like when I’m all like “dude, feelings are stuck in my eyeballs and they need to escape” I just turn on that scene and WHAM, all feelings escape out my eyes in the form of salty crocodile tears. She loves him so much and dying in his arms makes her whole empty life worthwhile and it’s so horrible and beautiful and painful and LIFE. Seriously.
Watched this on its release date which was Christmas i think and it was heart breaking, and realistic And simply so well down and i never understood the hate it got for the live singing because while i am not a singer myself, as an audience member i just felt like the emotions of what these characters were experiencing was portrayed better. I enjoyed this musical and still consider it one of the best !!
Goosebumps every time I listen to the soundtrack or watch the movie
Who here gets obsessed with this once every 2 years?
this movie would’ve been so much better if they hired a director that understood how musicals work
We dreamed a dream... And this director ruined it.
Edit: The producer ruined it.
Totally agree. And I’m totally in a minority but I feel a good majority of the cast was ...miscast. Beautiful singers (most of them) but not for a Les Mis production.
@@kayanarede Producer was the one who ruined it. He insisted on Crow, live singing and many more flaws.
@@xakseli2244 thank you!
@@trinitysanabria1350 agreed! Aaron Tveit's shoulders must be sore from carrying the film's whole weight
I watched les miserables when I was 6/7. Hugest regret of my life, I couldn’t sleep for a week 😂 watched it again 8 years later and I love it!!
im still not over how tom hooper created what is to me the best musical cinema experience alongside moulin rouge and then went on to make effin' CATS! absolute mad lad..
seriously .. singing live makes all the difference : very moving and vibrant.
I love that version of Les Miserables. Amazing music (that'll stay in my head for long)... and great acting though: Crowe, Hathaway, Baron Cohen/Bonham Carter, Jackman... oh and Redmayne that I discovered more recently in Stephen Hawking movie. Cannot go wrong!
Well done to all the team; I'll watch that movie again...!
How can they sing with the sitting or laying position and still be so powerful like this?!?!
Personally Samantha and Anne’s voice just gets me
I really didn’t know Amanda could sing and she is amazing
Isn't she in the film of Mamma Mia?!
I get why I feel so touched by the movie now. they sing it in the exact moment they are acting so they sound so real, so natural. they are all amazing performers both in acting and singing. I really appreciate the casting
One of my favorite musical theatrical productions
it should have just stayed in the theatre, this movie was TRASH
no wonder this is one of the most enchanting musical cinematics. they did it live and give life into every piece of the lyrics ♥️ Extraordinary!
Even looking at this video I'm tearing up a bit
something about this video is so powerful that it gets me emotional
Living for Helena & Sasha, they crack me up & brought just the right tone of comedy! Bravo 👏🏼
When I was in 10th grade, our literature teacher made us watch this movie and had us make an essay. Min. Of 500 words but I passed a 10,000 word essay because I had too much to say. Finished it in five hours while listening to the entire soundtrack of the movie. Writing that piece was so exhilarating.
I wonder how many of the actors in this movie have ever seen the musical? I saw this first when it came out and finally went to see the musical this year and boy they did such an incredible job bringing this play to the silver screen! There were parts in the play that rushed through and I was happy to have that explained a little better in the movie so I could really understand the depth of what was going on. Just incredible.
Bought this movie musical on DVD. Sigh. What a beautiful and sad story.
Never really thought about how this is one of my favorite movies. It is my favorite Broadway but rewatching this behind the scenes reminded me after all these years that this movie holds a special place in my heart
Me and my mom balled at the movie theatre.. waterfall of tears..
I loved this method of recording live!!
i’m already feeling feelings from this
Anne was amazing but so were Hugh and Eddie. I bawl through their songs everytime.
I love the death scene of Hugh Jackman’s character. Cry every time.
Eddie’s speaking voice sounds oddly different in this video
It’s because all the sound in this copy of the video raises the pitch a half step higher
Well now I know why Lés Misrablés is my fave musical 🎼 the fact that they're singing live gives that chance to convey emotions in their songs
Breathe taking beautiful
I adore being practically tone deaf cause they all sound lit to me (although I can hear that the original cast is largely better).
This just makes this movie more powerful, god Hugh Hackman is just a soul we didn’t deserve🖤
i know! i love him and his singing!! this whole comment section complaining about his voice is making me so sad😭
Watching this makes me want to cry, the music and performance in this movie is immaculate.
I wish they'd show this on T.V. again and keep it there forever! I love singing out loud to this, it makes me feel so good! Best musical ever! Bravo 👏👏👏
Totally amazing ❤️