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Dec. 27th, 2012 03:51 pmSaw Les Mis yesterday. I think it went a whole lot better than I feared it would. However, thought 99% of the people who see it I am certain will not notice, they changed at least one word in every third-fourth line of each song. Sometimes they just switched lines around. Other times they changed the entire last line of a verse. Apparently all of the changes were to make the wording more understandable to the audience which, okay, I get, but bugs me nonetheless. I can't sing along if you change the lines.
But the part I feared - namely that someone's voice was going to grate on me like fingernails on a chalk board - did not happen. I attribute this to a) they can sing, b) many of the secondary/tertiary cast were from the 25th Anniversary Stage Production of Les Mis, and therefore were reprising their own stage roles and c) I tried not to listen to Hugh Jackman butcher some of the notes too closely for fear of ruining the entire experience. Russell Crowe, however? Nailed it completely. Anne Hathaway too.
And 1000 bonus points for the surprise guest star I didn't see coming, because I purposefully did not look up anything about this movie ahead of time.
But the part I feared - namely that someone's voice was going to grate on me like fingernails on a chalk board - did not happen. I attribute this to a) they can sing, b) many of the secondary/tertiary cast were from the 25th Anniversary Stage Production of Les Mis, and therefore were reprising their own stage roles and c) I tried not to listen to Hugh Jackman butcher some of the notes too closely for fear of ruining the entire experience. Russell Crowe, however? Nailed it completely. Anne Hathaway too.
And 1000 bonus points for the surprise guest star I didn't see coming, because I purposefully did not look up anything about this movie ahead of time.
