At the beginning, there was a magnificent dock scene. A ship struck a rock and couldn't enter the port. The prisoners were desperately pulling the ship into the port. One by one big waves came over, and these people were too much to continue to work hard. This is the first song look down in the opening. Seeing the Javert on the shore in the misty water droplets, I was immediately stunned. It's handsome. But he opened the scene with a mouth that was a bit weak. Hugh's voice is bright and full, while Russell's singing voice is obviously weak. He did not sing Javert's seriousness and fierceness. But this is the difference between movies and musicals. Musical plays move people by singing, and movies move people by plot and performance.
Soon after he was released on bail, he was run around, until the priest behind came out, let out his voice, and then Jean Valjean fell into self-blame. In my opinion, Hugh played a good score. In a long shot, he blamed himself first, and then remembered the things he had served before, and his eyes were full of hatred. But after an instant, he started crying again, until finally he ran outside the church and sang new life and tore off the bail yellow bar. The rhythm of this piece of music is very fast and not waiting for anyone. It is not easy to express a lot of emotions and complete a considerable quality of singing in this paragraph, and he not only completed the singing, but also completed the conversion of performance and scene within one shot. I give it 5 points.
Fantine will come later. Fantine fell quickly. It can be said that within a few days, she went from a standout female factory worker to a street girl cursed by thousands of people. She is the most miserable person who has seen this world in the play. She fell in love in her best years and devoted herself to love, but soon discovered that the other party was a heartless person, and then she was alone and strenuously raising the children, until there was no way to entrust the child to the other person. Kind hearted hotel couple. She knew that the couple would not treat Cosette well, but she had no choice. Later, her day was to keep sending money to the hotel couple to support the two lion’s mouths, until she was found to have had children out of wedlock, and she was driven out of the factory on the grounds of moral problems. In desperation, she sold jewelry and hair. , Until you sell yourself. As a woman, she has endured all the blows and pains against women: abandoned by her lover, separated from flesh and blood, abandoned appearance, abandoned dignity, and virginity in order to survive... But there is always a beautiful world in her heart, and she will always treat others. It is tolerance. She endured such pain, and she also fantasized that her lover would return to her, she would stay with him forever regardless of the predecessors, and she also fantasized that one day she could bring Cosette back to live a happy life. But all the blows have made her realize that some things are always unfulfilled dreams, such as she never saw Cosette again until she died. Hathaway can sing. In this section of I dreamed a dream, she did not forcibly challenge the treble, but chose a heart-piercing singing voice. Although this is not professional enough in terms of musical effects, she does have a gap with professional musical actors, but from a film perspective. Said that this is a very clever way to exploit strengths and avoid weaknesses, so that the audience can clearly feel that the actor has thought about and adjusted his role and himself. Of course, I also gave full marks to Hathaway's performance. When she sang "Still I dream he'll come to me, and we will live the years together", her tearful but hopeful and smiling expression immediately moved me.
Whether it is a musical or a movie, I am actually not very satisfied with the characterization of Javert. He is a very complicated person. His heart changes are the most subtle, lasting and most amazing, but neither musical nor film shows it, which disappoints me. Javert was born in prison. He grew up in a pile of bad people. He was used to seeing Jean Valjean gradually losing his humanity while serving his sentence, leaving only animal instincts. But Javert did not sink, instead he grew up to become an iron eagle-like law enforcer, never letting the fish slip through the net. It can be said that he is really a very determined, determined and confident person. He has his values and affirmed his values over and over again in the growing environment, but these values are like other people who are restrained by him, they are also inhumane, only cold iron laws. In Javert's eyes, people in the world are very simple, only divided into saints and heinous sinners. A good person never makes mistakes, and a bad person means that no matter what happens, as long as he makes a mistake, Javert will deny the whole person because of a single mistake. He regarded Jean Valjean as a potential big cancer in society, but he did not expect that this cancer did not retaliate against him, did not calculate him, and did not use his power to remove him. Instead, he gave him the opportunity to hunt down himself, and finally released it at the juncture of the revolution. Killed oneself. Javert's heart gradually softened. He said that these were all clouds, but he had already doubted his own judgment in his heart. In the end he asked Jean Valjean why he let him go? Jean Valjean said that there are not only saints and bad guys in this world, but there are also many people who do bad things temporarily because they have to, but they are not bad guys. These words made Javert understand in his heart that all the ways he believed to be in the world were wrong. He also misjudged many people and ruined many people's lives. The most important thing is that he himself became the biggest sinner under his values. He can't forgive himself, he can only punish himself and apologize. Hugo described Javert vividly in words, but it is a pity that musicals and movies express a simpler Javert in a more intuitive way. In the movie, Javert’s direction is like this: You are all malignant tumors, I have to take care of you---Damn, a malignant tumor ran away, is this swelling okay---Damn, the malignant tumor seems to be not very toxic 00----Solo: Iron Eagle loves the law----I was enlightened by a cancerous tumor, saying that I am like a cancerous tumor, and forget it. Under this logic, I can only say that this kind of probation is like selling abductees, and Javert just couldn't figure it out for a while. And Russell's singing skills are indeed not diligent enough. In the musical, Javert sang more imposingly, the thief who sang 24601 was domineering. But Russell’s singing skills are not enough, his vital capacity is not enough, his blast is not enough, his qi The momentum was not enough, the ups and downs were not enough, and finally the cry "there's no way I can return, there's no way I can go" before death was not called out at all, and the one who was muttered by him was Shen Jiang. But from another point of view, Russell's performance is super standard, with some details, and the sword fighting posture is so handsome. The reason why Javert's character is not full is not because of him, but because the screenwriter focuses on Jean Valjean and ignores his sense of hierarchy.
The last one I want to comment on is Marius. His performer, Eddie, is a BBC queen actor, and a powerful idol. He once starred in "Tess of Deborville", the male pig's feet who married Tess and dumped her and finally came back to look for her. In that play, Eddie showed a solid foundation in acting. He played such a complicated person into three points, with a sense of hierarchy. His performance is not Russell's sharp-edged performance, nor is Hathaway's kind of seeing her own shadow no matter what she plays. His performances are refreshing. At first, I didn't think there was anything special, but the more I watched, the more I felt that he was stealing the show. The scenes with him were very beautiful and detailed. It can also be seen from the movie that the director loved him very much. In the section where Jean Valjean told about his life experience, he gave Eddie several shots. He first listened with a smile, his eyes glowing with excitement. , And then the smile became a little stiff, he seemed to understand something, in the end he fully understood what Jean Valjean was about to say, and fell into thought. In these few shots, Marius's expression gradually became a bunker. After watching the whole show, with so many big names, if you ask me who played the best, I would still say Marius. This is indeed a very unlikely task for such a young British actor. He can perform well, but other big names have had various flaws in singing, such as Hugh’s Bring Him Home, which should be very good. He sang the soft night solo into a noisy midnight song. The last few climaxes of Hathaway I dreamed a dream seemed lack of confidence. Russell's chants were clear but not ups and downs. Only Marius' performance and singing skills were very coherent. Complete, no obvious flaws, and excellent acting skills. The actor's future is limitless.
Let’s talk about some other small details at the end. The revolutionary passage in the musical is the one I cried the most. This revolution was obviously a tragedy of defeat at the beginning, but those young people did not hesitate to fight to the end for the freedom of the new world. After the first battle, they had a premonition that they might not be able to retreat, so they sang that. First drink with me, farewell to the one you love. In the end, they knew that they had no choice but to die, so Andra's words Let others rise, let them take our place became the last last words, generous and full of hope, which made people shocked and weeped.
All in all, the musicals and movies are a good presentation of the greatness of the original work. "Les Miserables" has been remake five or six times in the past fifty years, and each edition has its advantages and disadvantages. This time the musical film is a big attempt to create a movie. I personally think that the actual effect is not perfect due to various restrictions, but the overall production is excellent. As an audience, I encourage such attempts. Every attempt is an improvement. "Les Miserables" is a too big book. It contains the fall of life and the rise of hope, as well as all kinds of love in the world. There are thousands of facets in this world, every facet is touching, every facet is beautiful.
Do you hear the people sing?
Do you hear people singing
Singing a song of angry men?
They sang the song Angry
It IS A people at The Music of
the Who by Will not BE slaves Again!
It is a nation no longer willing to slave voice
the when the beating of your Heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
when your heart rhythm and drums resonance
IS A to the About Life There Start
the When Tomorrow Comes!
Tomorrow there will be a new world will open
Will you join in our crusade?
You will join our crusade
Who will be strong and stand with me ?
Who can I be strong with a total of survival?
Somewhere Beyond at the Barricade
at the fort on the other side
is there a world you long to see ?
whether you have a desire to make the world saw for himself
then join in the fight
then join us to fight it
That will give you the right to be free!!
Fight for freedom!
Will you give all you can give
if you will run to all
So that our banner may advance
to hold high the banner of freedom
Some will fall and some will live
and some will fall some people will survive
Will you stand up and take your chance ?
You Are you willing to take risks for freedom?
The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of France!
The blood of the martyrs will irrigate the free land of France!
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