Les Miserables
Dec. 29th, 2012 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meteordustA movie of one of my favourite musicals. A movie with Hugh Jackman as the lead. A movie I've been looking forward to ever since I heard about it. Awesome!
* It was long. I've seen the musical on stage, and we got to have an intermission for that.
* Overall, I think it was a good film adaptation that captured the spirit and feel of the stage production. Plus bonus big set pieces.
* It was a lot more harrowing than I remember. The director really pulls no punches when it comes to making the world as grimy and dark as the story suggests. But I guess what you can show on screen is different from what you can show on stage.
* Still love the whole redemption/mercy/pay it forward theme.
* I really hope Hugh Jackman does more musicals. (I wonder if it's worth looking up that production of Oklahoma! he was in?)
* Yes, Anne Hathaway did a brilliant "I Dreamed a Dream". Also, her story was probably 90% of the harrowing bits.
* I think I must be the only person who thought Russell Crowe did a surprisingly decent job, but that's probably because I went in expecting him to be awful.
* Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter were fantastic as the Thenardiers.
* Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne were excellent too. But I'm still as unconvinced as ever about Cosette and Marius's eternal love at first sight.
* Samantha Barks did a great performance of "On My Own", one of the highlights.
* I don't know if it's the cynicism of age, or simply foreknowledge, but it seemed much more obvious to me that the students' uprising was doomed to fail. Still loved "Do You Hear the People Sing?" though.
* Everyone in the cinema flinched when Gavroche was about to get shot.
* Theatre instincts. I had the impulse to applaud after each song, especially the big ensemble number "One Day More". And I wasn't the only one. Anyway, at the end, the audience did break into applause.
* As the credits were rolling, I overheard someone say, "That was so sad, why did everyone have to die?" Indeed.
* It was long. I've seen the musical on stage, and we got to have an intermission for that.
* Overall, I think it was a good film adaptation that captured the spirit and feel of the stage production. Plus bonus big set pieces.
* It was a lot more harrowing than I remember. The director really pulls no punches when it comes to making the world as grimy and dark as the story suggests. But I guess what you can show on screen is different from what you can show on stage.
* Still love the whole redemption/mercy/pay it forward theme.
* I really hope Hugh Jackman does more musicals. (I wonder if it's worth looking up that production of Oklahoma! he was in?)
* Yes, Anne Hathaway did a brilliant "I Dreamed a Dream". Also, her story was probably 90% of the harrowing bits.
* I think I must be the only person who thought Russell Crowe did a surprisingly decent job, but that's probably because I went in expecting him to be awful.
* Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter were fantastic as the Thenardiers.
* Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne were excellent too. But I'm still as unconvinced as ever about Cosette and Marius's eternal love at first sight.
* Samantha Barks did a great performance of "On My Own", one of the highlights.
* I don't know if it's the cynicism of age, or simply foreknowledge, but it seemed much more obvious to me that the students' uprising was doomed to fail. Still loved "Do You Hear the People Sing?" though.
* Everyone in the cinema flinched when Gavroche was about to get shot.
* Theatre instincts. I had the impulse to applaud after each song, especially the big ensemble number "One Day More". And I wasn't the only one. Anyway, at the end, the audience did break into applause.
* As the credits were rolling, I overheard someone say, "That was so sad, why did everyone have to die?" Indeed.
