New Les Miz Trailer

[Dave19]

"You seem to not understand the difference in the mediums. When you give a stage performance on film, you end up with crap....."


jimmycurry01, I exactly understand the difference between the mediums. I am not talking about a "stage performance" on film. I'm talking about excellent singing on film. I'm talking about Samantha Barks that makes the scenes in the trailer soar and makes me shiver and Amanda Seyfried does not, because she looks like a good actress that struggles with singing.
What has "good singing on film" got to do with a "stage performance"? Why does one thing have to exclude the other?

The only thing that is crap, is if someone does not master the art of combining excellent singing with excellent acting. Because only then the performance in a movie musical will feel real.

You are talking about balance. That is right. If one of those 2 things (acting or singing) is not excellent enough, it is out of balance. Which is the case with Amanda Seyfried and Russel Crowe.

[My Oh My]

Phyllis, darling, I don't mean disrespect since you're one of the more level headed around these parts, but...but...I wrote about a paragraph supporting your assertion that I am over-invested in this. Sooo invested, happily and unabashedly so. =)

The rest is just fanboy babble.

[thirtythirtyninety]

Looks like Tom Hooper is going to be very, very busy soon:

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/racing-to-the-screening-room-to-outpace-oscar-rivals/

[jo]

>>>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<<<

First time I've heard that he will be doing special screenings in NYC the day before the Hollywood leg! Whew!!

I wonder if any of the cast will be with him the whole way or in some of the screening locations?