I would love to just dump a nice clean, full HD trailer right here for you but we still don’t have a handle on this shit. So below find the unideal embed of the latest trailer for Tom Hooper’s Les Miserables.
This is an even more epic look at the film, covering many of the major cast members, the scale of the revolutionary backdrop, and giving even more of an idea what the location-recorded singing will feel like. It looks great, and this thing is sure to be a disruptive entry in the Oscar season as we move into 2013 after its Christmas Day release.
If you’re not up to speed on that whole thing- note that this is the first (or at least one of very very few?) major Hollywood musicals to record all of the singing on set, in the moment rather than pre-recording it and doing playback for filming. The idea is that the actors are much more free to perform while singing, resulting in a much more powerful experience. So far, it sounds very successful. More on that in the special behind-the-scenes trailer.
via Rope Of Silicon
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Looks like they got it right. I love the way this trailer is cut, and the lead up to the long-awaited reveal of Crowe’s singing is perfect. I’ll reserve judgement on how he sounds because it wasn’t a particularly challenging melody they revealed here. Still, my excitement for Christmas has just increased ten-fold.
wow – gave me goosebumps. Looks genuinely great.
John Cameron Mitchel recorded his vocals live while filming Hedwig and the Angry Inch. And I’m sure at some other point in cinematic history other films did as well. Les Mis isn’t the first musical to do so, and I wish they would stop claiming they were. Not knocking the film itself, just the flimsy claim they’re making.
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