While it is true that I would have cast this movie differently. I 100% support the way people like Anne Hathaway and Eddie Redmayne sung their parts. A "pretty" version would never have been believable no matter what Marni (who was never actually IN a movie musical until her bit part in The Sound of Music) says.
In related news, I've been reading C.S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man as a remedy for many of the haters; though not of the Marnie Nixon variety. I especially love this (my rewrites are in brackets).
The operation of [many critics of Les Mis] and [their] kind is to produce what may be called Men without Chests [people without emotion]. It is an outrage that they should be commonly spoken of as Intellectuals. This gives them the chance to say that he who attacks them attacks Intelligence. It is not so. They are not distinguished from other men by any unusual skill in finding truth nor any virginal ardour to pursue her. Indeed it would be strange if they were: a persevering devotion to truth, a nice
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*facepalm*
I have all the respect in the world for her talent, but honestly, why ask her a question like that? What else is she going to say?
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While it is true that I would have cast this movie differently. I 100% support the way people like Anne Hathaway and Eddie Redmayne sung their parts. A "pretty" version would never have been believable no matter what Marni (who was never actually IN a movie musical until her bit part in The Sound of Music) says.
In related news, I've been reading C.S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man as a remedy for many of the haters; though not of the Marnie Nixon variety. I especially love this (my rewrites are in brackets).
The operation of [many critics of Les Mis] and [their] kind is to produce what may be called Men without Chests [people without emotion]. It is an outrage that they should be commonly spoken of as Intellectuals. This gives them the chance to say that he who attacks them attacks Intelligence. It is not so. They are not distinguished from other men by any unusual skill in finding truth nor any virginal ardour to pursue her. Indeed it would be strange if they were: a persevering devotion to truth, a nice ( ... )
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