Her rendition of defying gravity is stunning. Been listening to it on repeat on Spotify! Thanks for watching and I hope you consider subscribing if you haven’t done so yet! Talking Wicked Oscar chances on Sunday!!
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@@BenFriedman916The same Oscar voters number of 900 gave the film a standing ovation just like Oppenheimer. They're probably betting on this to win Best picture since there's no big studio tentpoles with artistic stylization and craft other than this. They're all touting this as the film of the year and audiences are LOVING it. This is definitely going to make a billion dollars this is definitely going to make a billion dollars. After a strong opening weekend, it's going to do even better during these sing-along edition in December.
Everyone is discussing an Oscar win for Ariana. I do hope Cynthia gets her flowers too! She was incredible! Even if they just get nominations, that’d be amazing!
1 million percent agreed I would honk the reason the Ariana Grande discourse is so loud right now is because people didn’t expect this from her. Personally, I thought she could be good, but u didn’t think she’d be this good! Thanks for watching and hope you consider subscribing!!
It's a strange situation, but yes as the above comment says, Ariana wasn't necessarily better, but we all knew Cynthia would knock it out of the park, whereas Ariana was maybe more of a pleasant surprise
They follow trends. Anne Hathaway, Catherine Zeta-Jones etc. Musicals with the best supporting actresses that won Oscars always follow that trend. Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo definitely. Erivo will win too, awards voters already talked about how powerful her performance is. She's also an academy favorite and woman of color for the academy. They'll award her for sure.
Ariana was a star in this movie!!!!! Cynthia non speaking acting was phenomenal! Her facial gestures. Her smile her speaking through her eyes like phenomenal
It's actually insane to me that they didn't just make a good adaptation, but managed to create something truly sensational while adding more depth to the story!?
Its because everyone involved starting with the director and the two leads down to tue costum and production designers loved this production. The people who made this move love this story, these characters and this music. Ariana and Cynthia both broke down into tears when they got cast. These were their dream roles. Ariana cried and said she loved Glinda so much and she was going to "take such good care of her" This wasnt a soulless lovie made by focus groups and executives. This was a collaboration of brilliant artists engaged in a labor of love. Its allover the film.
It’s not my favorite film of the year but I had a great time, that’s for sure :) thanks for watching and hope you consider subscribing to my channel for more reviews
@BenFriedman916 Wicked is a strong testament on what cinema is and should be. Cinema is invented as the Theater of the Masses ✊️ And Wicked brings back the true meaning of Cinema as the Theater of the Masses ✊️ And Wicked makes the Masses win ✊️ BEST FILM of 2024 indeed No other films of 2024 come close
Most of Aris funniest lines are off the cuff that is her messing around and they kept it in the film!!! Watching the behind the scenes stuff is amazing. It makes you have so much more respect for their performances. Like watching Cynthia talk about the 1.5 years of training she did bc she wanted to sing live and do her own stunts. Insane!🎉
I'm not sure what you can complain about regarding the flying sequence. You look at the behind the scenes, and any close up of Elphaba is real, not CGI. Honestly, they did a great job with everything they had. There are CGI but it is complemented with real large scale practical sets.
I would do 4.9 stars it’s practically perfect definitely disappointed by the one scene I felt should have had more attention paid to it but otherwise they did a surprisingly phenomenal job
Grew up in the 2000s, I def watched a bit of Victorious. I still didn’t know she had this level of range in her. I figured she’d nail the comedy and emotion.
12:57 I agree I thought overall the movie was just incredible it was just for me one scene that needed just 20% more and I was surprised they didn’t have more takes to choose from or so a small reshoot to punch it up to 100
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I think Erivo is a harder case to make just due to how competitive best actress is… grande I think is not only a lock but could potentially win… I talked about it on my channel yesterday so hope you consider subscribing to check out all my movie coverage and the upcoming Oscars race!
10:12 I agree this scene was like 80% there I was surprised they didn’t pay more attention on it / reshoot if necessary it was very close but not 100% yet why? It was so close a few simple reshoots would have fixed this
I definitely could have spent more on Erivo. I spoke about her more at length during my recent Sunday discussion about Wicked Oscar noms which I hope you consider subscribing to check out!
There’s def a lot of impressive sets used. Also a lot of cgi that I think is mostly blended well. Thank you for the kind words and I hope you consider subscribing for more :)
The majority of the shots in the film are VFX shots haha. Doesn't take away from the practical sets but just gotta clarify. And for the 3D version, every single frame is a VFX shot since it was converted.
I share your relief that the movie didn’t sway too political or woke - it struck the perfect balance between tugging on emotions, and the unbridled fun and joy of musical theatre
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Jeff Goldblum plays Jeff Goldblum playing a character that just so happens to act and speak just like Jeff Goldblum. It's not so much acting as being cast in roles that allows you to be yourself and cash a big check. Jeff Goldblum hasn't acted since The Fly.
Wicked is the kind of story I should love and in general that is true. However I could never get into the book because of the writing and because it turned OZ into a depressing place. I saw the play and I couldn't get into it because to my taste the music is not my thing. I like the movie more than the play because of the actors and the cinematography (which was spectacular) but I still don't really dig the music.
I thought this movie was almost perfect. But yeah the lighting was awful in DG. When Ari and Cynthia are equally in frame and Ari is in muddy shadow. If it’s supposed to be metaphorical, it was awful.
Cynthia Erivo just casually belting Defying gravity live while doing all her stunts. She deserves the Oscar too
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@@kurikong2379 I love her diction of “Never” in you’ll never bring me down 😭🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
Grande is great but Erivo blew me away
@@AnnaKareninaSF Same!
Cynthia deserves an Oscar...Jon M. Chu deserves a nomination as director, as well as set design, costume, hair and makeup.
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The outfits were amazing!
@@BenFriedman916The same Oscar voters number of 900 gave the film a standing ovation just like Oppenheimer. They're probably betting on this to win Best picture since there's no big studio tentpoles with artistic stylization and craft other than this. They're all touting this as the film of the year and audiences are LOVING it. This is definitely going to make a billion dollars this is definitely going to make a billion dollars. After a strong opening weekend, it's going to do even better during these sing-along edition in December.
Everyone is discussing an Oscar win for Ariana. I do hope Cynthia gets her flowers too! She was incredible! Even if they just get nominations, that’d be amazing!
1 million percent agreed I would honk the reason the Ariana Grande discourse is so loud right now is because people didn’t expect this from her. Personally, I thought she could be good, but u didn’t think she’d be this good!
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It's a strange situation, but yes as the above comment says, Ariana wasn't necessarily better, but we all knew Cynthia would knock it out of the park, whereas Ariana was maybe more of a pleasant surprise
@@thehouseofoverthinking Makes sense!
They follow trends. Anne Hathaway, Catherine Zeta-Jones etc. Musicals with the best supporting actresses that won Oscars always follow that trend. Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo definitely. Erivo will win too, awards voters already talked about how powerful her performance is. She's also an academy favorite and woman of color for the academy. They'll award her for sure.
@AntsTheaterCorner2698
Her color is the reason why they won't nominate her..
Ariana was a star in this movie!!!!! Cynthia non speaking acting was phenomenal! Her facial gestures. Her smile her speaking through her eyes like phenomenal
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@@BenFriedman916Cynthia is the star two let’s not forget the hard work this black woman did
@@ml.vaughn2122it’s insane how Cynthia tools up more screen time and did a PHENOMENAL job yet everyone keeps talking solely about Ari…
It's actually insane to me that they didn't just make a good adaptation, but managed to create something truly sensational while adding more depth to the story!?
I agree, this is a really strong case of adapting source material. Thanks for watching my video! And hope you consider subscribing for more reviews!
Its because everyone involved starting with the director and the two leads down to tue costum and production designers loved this production. The people who made this move love this story, these characters and this music. Ariana and Cynthia both broke down into tears when they got cast. These were their dream roles. Ariana cried and said she loved Glinda so much and she was going to "take such good care of her" This wasnt a soulless lovie made by focus groups and executives. This was a collaboration of brilliant artists engaged in a labor of love. Its allover the film.
I had really high expectations for Defying Gravity and, honestly, it got there about 150% for me.
Her singing really is wonderful! Thanks for watching and hope you consider subscribing!
The lighting didn't bother me. I thought the sets were fabulous anyway! I hope this movie (and it's fabulous actresses) receive a lot of Oscars.
Fair, for the most part I thought it was fine it just bothered me in a couple of key scenes
Wicked is THE BEST FILM of 2024
No other films this 2024 comes close
One Big FACT
It’s not my favorite film of the year but I had a great time, that’s for sure :)
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@BenFriedman916 Wicked is a strong testament on what cinema is and should be.
Cinema is invented as the Theater of the Masses ✊️
And Wicked brings back the true meaning of Cinema as the Theater of the Masses ✊️
And Wicked makes the Masses win ✊️
BEST FILM of 2024 indeed
No other films of 2024 come close
Right on!!! No one was ready for it!!!!
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I saw Rue McLanahan as Madame Morrible on Broadway and she couldn't sing one note. So Michele Yeo was fine with me 😊
Oh interesting hahaha
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Madame Morrible and the Wizard don’t need to be great singers for this show… but they were still good
@@kilgoretrout4350 my thoughts exactly!
Cynthia Erivo is 💯 EVERYTHING beyond Ari in this film!
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Sounds like a really good Movie. Im going to have to check this out for sure. Thanks for the review.
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Most of Aris funniest lines are off the cuff that is her messing around and they kept it in the film!!! Watching the behind the scenes stuff is amazing. It makes you have so much more respect for their performances. Like watching Cynthia talk about the 1.5 years of training she did bc she wanted to sing live and do her own stunts. Insane!🎉
I'm not sure what you can complain about regarding the flying sequence. You look at the behind the scenes, and any close up of Elphaba is real, not CGI. Honestly, they did a great job with everything they had. There are CGI but it is complemented with real large scale practical sets.
Let’s not just focus on one actor Cynthia Erviro deserves an Oscar as well
She def deserves a nom. I think the difference is best actress is pretty competitive where I think best supporting actress Grande will get in
It’s insane how no one is talking about Cynthia is the Oscar conversation… WTH
I would do 4.9 stars it’s practically perfect definitely disappointed by the one scene I felt should have had more attention paid to it but otherwise they did a surprisingly phenomenal job
Did no one watch Victorious!?! I had no doubt she was going to pull off this role!
Grew up in the 2000s, I def watched a bit of Victorious. I still didn’t know she had this level of range in her. I figured she’d nail the comedy and emotion.
12:57 I agree I thought overall the movie was just incredible it was just for me one scene that needed just 20% more and I was surprised they didn’t have more takes to choose from or so a small reshoot to punch it up to 100
This year there were and are few movies that are or were worth watching.
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Cynthia best Actress
Ariana Best supporting actress
OSCAR FOR BOTH
I think Erivo is a harder case to make just due to how competitive best actress is… grande I think is not only a lock but could potentially win…
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Listen Ariana was great but Cynthia was PHENOMENAL
I will agree on that. Grande is getting more attention but Erivo is grest
I can definitely see Ariana playing Meg from Hercules now.
Yeah that’s a great call honestly!
10:12 I agree this scene was like 80% there I was surprised they didn’t pay more attention on it / reshoot if necessary it was very close but not 100% yet why? It was so close a few simple reshoots would have fixed this
Ariana 100% deserves an Oscar!
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Too much about Ariana Grande and too few about Cynthia Erivo! Why is that case?
I definitely could have spent more on Erivo. I spoke about her more at length during my recent Sunday discussion about Wicked Oscar noms which I hope you consider subscribing to check out!
Really strange.
love this review but they used VERY little CGI. all those set are real, including the turning stages in dancing through life
Yes they used a lot of practical sets, but there's still lots of CGI required for this movie. That's not a bad thing at all.
There’s def a lot of impressive sets used. Also a lot of cgi that I think is mostly blended well. Thank you for the kind words and I hope you consider subscribing for more :)
Another reason this will win best visual effects. Dune won already, they're not giving it to its sequel, plus it's the middle chapter.
The majority of the shots in the film are VFX shots haha. Doesn't take away from the practical sets but just gotta clarify. And for the 3D version, every single frame is a VFX shot since it was converted.
I share your relief that the movie didn’t sway too political or woke - it struck the perfect balance between tugging on emotions, and the unbridled fun and joy of musical theatre
Ariana's impactful performance in this movie reminds me of whoopi goldberg's in ghost.
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100% 👍
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Jeff Goldblum plays Jeff Goldblum playing a character that just so happens to act and speak just like Jeff Goldblum. It's not so much acting as being cast in roles that allows you to be yourself and cash a big check. Jeff Goldblum hasn't acted since The Fly.
Id argue Goldblum certainly uses his persona but still mixes it well with character work. He’s wonderful in Anderson’s films!
Wicked is the kind of story I should love and in general that is true. However I could never get into the book because of the writing and because it turned OZ into a depressing place. I saw the play and I couldn't get into it because to my taste the music is not my thing. I like the movie more than the play because of the actors and the cinematography (which was spectacular) but I still don't really dig the music.
I thought this movie was almost perfect. But yeah the lighting was awful in DG. When Ari and Cynthia are equally in frame and Ari is in muddy shadow. If it’s supposed to be metaphorical, it was awful.
Yeah it didn’t work for me either. Thanks for watching and hope you consider subscribing for more!
What is wrong with CGI, do you think that Matte paintings are great?
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with CGI rather when not up to par it can be distracting. In the case of Wicked I found it to be 75/25 split
It’s a half a movie
One of the worst depressing films I have ever seen. More Hollywood crap.