You're welcome, Gary. No one could have shut me up about this film anyway. :-)
Good point about a movie doing what a stage production can't. Even with that said, I think that, for me, there's a little too much of a good thing going on here.
I absolutely agree about being able to get all the lyrics; that was a pleasure! Excellent point about the sound mixing and editing here. It was a gift.
I never expect Javert to be mean, because I don't think he is. He's a man of the law and takes his duty more seriously than anything. He's very black-and-white, and he is defeated because there's nothing in him that can reconcile the gray areas and the reversals that Valjean introduces into his reality. My challenge with Crowe's performance is that he's just there, neither an energetic presence nor a resolute one. He just is. He should be as physically implacable as he is philosophically and I never got that from him.
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Date: Sat, Dec. 29th, 2012 06:45 pm (UTC)Good point about a movie doing what a stage production can't. Even with that said, I think that, for me, there's a little too much of a good thing going on here.
I absolutely agree about being able to get all the lyrics; that was a pleasure! Excellent point about the sound mixing and editing here. It was a gift.
I never expect Javert to be mean, because I don't think he is. He's a man of the law and takes his duty more seriously than anything. He's very black-and-white, and he is defeated because there's nothing in him that can reconcile the gray areas and the reversals that Valjean introduces into his reality. My challenge with Crowe's performance is that he's just there, neither an energetic presence nor a resolute one. He just is. He should be as physically implacable as he is philosophically and I never got that from him.