In other words: It's a musical.Originally Posted by GR3
In other words: It's a musical.
A musical would never have sets this gigantic. These pictures look like an opera set at the Met. Like this:In other words: It's a musical.
For a movie musical, this looks so far comparable to, say Sweeney Todd or even Moulin Rouge!.
Well, it depends on the style they're going for. Sweeney Todd and Moulin Rouge were huge, over-the-top, theatrical movies, so that design style suited them. Les Miserables seems to be going for a bit more realistic, which is why some of the sets might feel a little out of place.
"This is not your daddy's HBO version of Mandela," said Weinstein. "This is the kickass version of Mandela."
According to set designers, they were looking for something that felt more realistic but that still had some touch of Broadway so that the stylised feeling made it more appropriate for characters to sing instead of speak. I think they’re succeeding at that. Also, things will look grittier with Hooper’s shaky cam than in clean production stills.
I think it looks more like Gangs of New York: The Musical, lol. Sweeney was so visually and tonally dark (and tongue in cheek) and MR was all camp, color and throwing everything at the screen. Les Mis doesn't look like either of those things.
Yeah, that's why I'm not judging it either way yet. Production stills are hardly indicative of what the final product will look like.
"This is not your daddy's HBO version of Mandela," said Weinstein. "This is the kickass version of Mandela."
at first I had problems with the production design it looked well too fake, but so did Anna Karenina's which was used to emphasize the metaphor of the aristocrats living their lives on a theater stage. However I am leaning more and more with Les Miz for the win. The sets look right, and I am sure in the film they will feel in place. Cant wait for this, its a shame though that we have to wait like a whole month from yesterday to wait and see this!
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This is where the words "realism" and "musical" meet and I should just butt out of this thread....Well, it depends on the style they're going for. Sweeney Todd and Moulin Rouge were huge, over-the-top, theatrical movies, so that design style suited them. Les Miserables seems to be going for a bit more realistic, which is why some of the sets might feel a little out of place.
Realness doesn't belong in this thread. Besides, we all know which film is bringing the REALNESS this Oscar season.
Please stop your incessant campaigning for Quartet!Realness doesn't belong in this thread. Besides, we all know which film is bringing the REALNESS this Oscar season.
All art is a stylization, Tomo. Complaining that people burst into singing equals complaining that people didn't speak in silents or that old movies were in black and white. "But real life is in color!". Yeah deal with it: in real life people don't sing and in real life things have color.This is where the words "realism" and "musical" meet and I should just butt out of this thread....
Indeed.
You can do it, Naomi! You're...
ONLY 10 EASY STEPS AWAY FROM OSCAR!
1.) Bankrupt small, independent distributor via massive Oscar campaign. Failing that, proceed to...
2.) Cash in King Kong residual checks to pay for FYC advertisements from Kinko's.
3.) To avoid getting sent straight to VOD, attach entire film as a "trailer" to another film people actually want to see. And then...
4.) Try to do it Lahti-style and win Academy Award for Best Short Film.
5.) Avoid telling a story that everyone already knows by adding exciting details and/or gratuitous editing.
6. Carefully and patiently weather the wrath of film critics/the royal family/the tabloids/Diana-maniacs for trying to add said details. (Good luck!)
7. Find all of the boxes with "August: Osage County" screeners and slip in self-made cam bootleg from premiere screening at Lowes...the hardware store.
(Not Loews, the movie theater -- too expensive!)
8. Trick octogenarian Oscar voters into thinking that you are, in fact, a real princess. (Hey, it worked on Eva Marie Saint!)
9. On Oscar night, have camera crews come to Nicole's house, Joan Crawford-style, so you can win and keep your day job.
10. OSCAR!
Colm! And lol Jackman's face. What an Actor.
Well, I agree of course.
There are so many floating head posters out there.... *sigh*
But the average movie goer is not that much interested in poster art, I guess.
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I have been really nice about this wretched movie and will continue to not let my issues interfer with the healthy discourse here, even though you misrepresent my view.
Ha! Ok then. But also, I don't get the complain, since it is a well-known fact that French starving people only speak through songs in real life:I have been really nice about this wretched movie and will continue to not let my issues interfer with the healthy discourse here, even though you misrepresent my view.
I will gladly sit through hours of yeye over this.
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