Sep
2012
a real movie musical!
My relationship with Les Miserables isn’t the greatest. I had a roommate who got slightly depressed during my sophomore year of college and it happened to coincide with our visit to see a touring production of the show in town. She borrowed a floormate’s copy of the the “Complete Symphonic Recording” and copied it to tape (remember when that happened?!?!) and listened to it non-stop for months on end whenever she was in the room. From start to finish. She’d pause it when she left the room and resume it when it came back on. Ok… so maybe she was more than slightly depressed, but needless to say that I have heard the words and songs more times than I preferred and it became the Macarena/Call Me Maybe of my college days.
So… it’s hard to hear the songs and think of them as anything but elevator music at times.
But then Mr. M showed me this trailer last night, and I’m pretty certain my heart skipped a beat.
Real people singing in real time in a movie musical?!? What?!?! WHAT?!?!
I’m buying an extra large popcorn and soda, bringing my tissues and pretending that I ever mistook “Do you Hear the People Sing?” for background music.
This is going to be utterly amazing friends! :)
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Brooke
September 25, 2012 at 10:17 am (236 days ago)Thank you for sharing this! I’ve never seen Les Mis, but every time I watch this preview I get goosebumps. Can’t wait to watch it for the first time in theaters with such amazing actors!
Audrey
September 25, 2012 at 10:23 am (236 days ago)I had no idea that Amanda Seyfried could sing . . . she’s come a long way since Mean Girls :) (although let’s be honest, that movie is great) I saw the first trailer with just Anne Hathaway singing and got excited by that. Looking forward to this coming out!
Kim
September 25, 2012 at 8:57 pm (235 days ago)I see a virtual Mamma Mia party in the near future :)
Ayesha
September 25, 2012 at 10:23 am (236 days ago)What an awkward way to have a relationship with Les Mis! My high school’s musical my senior year was Les Mis, and I was weary of this movie at first, because I love the musical so much, but this trailer totally changed my impression! I’m so excited to see it!
Jill
September 25, 2012 at 11:13 am (236 days ago)I went to the movies this weekend, which let me tell you was such a treat, and this was one of the previews. Afterwards I looked over at my husband and even he was getting teary!! I cannot wait.
christi in ma
September 25, 2012 at 12:35 pm (236 days ago)When I was in college, my father sang in a chorus. One spring, he grumbled about the music selected for the concert which wasn’t like him. He kept complaining about this awful French revolution stuff he had to sing. Turns out they were singing Les Mis and it was wonderful. He even had a solo! When I hear talk of Les Mis, it always makes me chuckle and think of him. He died a year later so I’m happy to have that silly memory of him.
A Long Far View
September 25, 2012 at 1:46 pm (236 days ago)Yes yes yes! I love the way they did this and that they were actually able to sing each take rather than lip synch to a master recording. Cannot wait to see this one!
Kate
September 26, 2012 at 3:20 pm (235 days ago)Les Mis was one of the first shows I ever saw on Broadway. My cousin, who went with me, always called it Miss Marbles.
Amy @ The Nifty Foodie
September 27, 2012 at 8:41 pm (233 days ago)I am so stoked that they did it this way! I can’t wait for it to come out!