Shame clip: Carey Mulligan sings New York, New York in Steve McQueen's Shame, also starring Michael Fassbender. Subscribe to Film4 for more interview specials, clips and trailers: bit.ly/2up0y8g #MichaelFassbender #CareyMulligan #Film4
Not sure why people said her singing was bad in this scene. I think it was great. She looked like she was close to tears. It's not cheery like Sinatra, it's haunting and sad and the irony between the lyrics and the delivery really shows the pain of shattered dreams. I love Carey Mulligan
She’s flat and/or hesitant on way too many notes - in a song that’s meant to be triumphant. And as another commented here, that was part of what made the scene so great. It’s beautifully pathetic.
@@johnsinclair6170 it's sung in a different key than the original... It's not that that she's flat, it's in a minor key. The parts where there's less breath support are artistic decisions for the scene. There are weird vowel choices in parts of it which give it a completely different sound. That's my opinion...
Really? Do people say her singing was bad? Of course she is no singer, but the dramatic tone? Doesn't it count? Camannnnnnnnn. The scene is incredible. Finale
I think this scene is about siblings that both went through a lot growing up and are still trying to find themselves. They are still so alone. He cries because of his hurt. She sings for the escape. Powerful message and scene.
I agree with you but this is her shining moment ♥ shes not trying hard at all. thats why I love this scene, her voice is so raw and his reaction to her performamce is his realisation that his sister really is something special. even if she does have flaws, she still has this innocent side. I LOVE THIS SCENE! ♥
Agree. I have a younger sister whose a singer living in austin. This film really reminded me how close we use to be and that we should always be close no matter what.
Fun fact: Michael's reaction to Carey's singing is completely genuine. He had never heard her sing before so they were able to capture his genuine reaction.
Another fun fact: Steve McQueen also asked Carey to make up a song to sing for this scene (I recently just read this in a Vogue Australia article where Margot Robbie interviews Carey).
Chris Emanuel underrated? overlooked by large audiences maybe, but not underrated. As far as I know, all the ppl I know interested in cinema praised that movie.
I think its pretty underrated even in some "movie enthusiastic" social circles. I have a friend who loves directors like Akira Kurosawa, Fellini, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Louis Malle but he didn't liked this movie... i don't know why!
This is the most amazing singing sequence in cinematic history, in my opinion. I am deeply moved, and so was her co-star (those weren't fake tears from Michael Fassbender).
The point of the song was that she is just the average singer. Not so lucky at her chances of being extraordinary. She sung the song like a person looking for a new life, a new dream and new hope. Yet she is not so happy to start over and isnt sure of herself. It was hauntingly beautiful as so many stated. She was perfectly imperfect.
Such a great scene. I think it was good not to cut the song. She did it from the beginning to the end so perfectly. This shows the real feeling between Sissy and Brandon. He seems not to be interested in her or not to believe she can be good at something, but it's maybe because he doesn't know her deeply. It's very touching when he cries while she's singing. She's his sister and nothing else matters. He loves her but he is too vain to shows it. So, in my opinion one of the best and deep films I've ever seen.
Trauma expressed through song. The torment of being broken and worn down by the chains of a traumatic life are heard in the brokenness of her voice, the last glimmer of hope just seeping out to beg for another chance... the “if” being a big IF... but it’s up to you (New York) to accept her damaged broken dysfunctional being... in many ways she’s far more honest than her brother who’s hiding behind a false image. She wears her heart and desperation on her sleeve at her own peril, as that is what pushes people away. Her scars are physically visible and on display where as Brandon keeps his scars hidden and deeply buried. Brandon is doing his best to hide behind his perfectionism. And idealized image of a healthy together high functioning man. She holds up a mirror to him. And acts as a harsh reminder of the brokenness and the burdensome trauma they both carry. Both of them surviving and trying to get closeness and affection the best way they know how. Both of them desperately trying to distract themselves from their own pain and trauma. They are both lonely tragic characters, unable to communicate in a healthy way - which signifies they were badly abused as children. Most likely sexual or physical abuse and neglect.
people give he shit over her singing. its basically stated in the movie shes a failed artist who came back from california and is living surfing couches, carey mulligan herself isnt a professional singer. either way i dont think it detracts from the performance at all
Absolutely the most scintillating, evocative, delightful, passionate, adjective adjective adjective version I have ever heard. Almost made me fall in love with New York as deeply as I fell in love with Carey singing to this extraordinary city.
What’s interesting is that this rendition is slightly different than the official recording released for purchase, which I think means she sang this live for the scene in order to elicit a true reaction from Michael and herself, and then re-recorded for the album. Simply stunning vocals and piano-playing, makes me want to learn piano and sing!
Brandon is tearing up, because the lyrics convey a story of a lost person who's "melting away" in "vagabond shoes" longing to start over, and escape... looking to New York as the answer for his/her problems--"I'll make a brand new start of it.. in New York"..."where I'm top of the list...mountain." "If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere." He understands and relates to the story the song's telling. The optimism. Yet he also understands the let down that comes from chasing a fantasy, in learning no place, thing or job can erase the problems he was trying to runaway from in the first place. (aka trauma, anxiety, sexual addiction.)
They are both addicts. Carey Mulligan is the love addict to Fassbender's sex addiction. They both fear intimacy but Mulligan masks hers with extreme emotional desperation that you hear in this song. This is why Fassbender is moved to tears - because he intimately knows WHY she feels that way.
To acknowledge her worth was to open himself up to an actual human relationship. That's why he was crying in this scene: he was confronted face to face with her abject beauty as a human being, and realized he could no longer dismiss her in the degrading manner he had before.
That song is about him too though, Emotionally, he didn't make it in NY aswell, he barely tries. His suicidal sister's life makes him feel stronger and more well adjusted to life but in moments like this she can really smack reality right into his deepest core and his facade crumbles.
This movie is one of the top 5 movies I have ever seen. Haunting, emotional, raw, tragic.... Highly recommend (especially for those who appreciate independent film.)
I think he would, in the context of the movie. It's only purpose is inside the story- you can't appreciate it fully outside of that context. These few minutes are really one of the focal points of the movie and everyone did a great job here.
Shame is a great nmovie iwth Carrey as the great star singing in a superb way a Sinatra song...gives me goosebumps so full of emotion I have never heard!
Steve McQueen asked Carey Mulligan to improvise a song for this scene. She got nervous, went to toilet and had this song in her mind and she sang it. So it was totally her choice!
I don't think this is true. Just listened to her interview on Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard and she did have to improvise a couple lines of another song after this, but it wasn't this one.
Piano arrangement made everything of the feeling. She sings perfectly good in every context. But this arrangement remind the fact about New York: it can be a weird city (and all the lyrics become ironically absurd).
I understood this. Painfully understood this. If you haven't been truly beaten down emotionally, unrelenting abuse that tears you apart...this cannot resonate as intended.
