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Her performance had Hugh crying on set

It was a very emotional story, so I agree the movie should be about emotions instead of technique.

This isn't a soundtrack that you listen to because the music is so amazing. But I love how this style added so much to the story. The clean singing always feels so out of place with the tragic nature of the story. Even Russel Crowe's performance is perfect for the character. Soulless, bland, and lacking any real emotion - just like Javert. (If it's not clear, I HATE that character so much!)

@@applepie6832 I have never cried as hard at any other piece of media as I did this movie, and this song in particular. I was sobbing, snot dripping, ugly crying. And I never would have had that response if she'd been the typical technically perfect musical style.

@@cryofpaine the same here! It was a powerful performance precisely because her singing reflected how broken she was. The close up rendered the depiction of her emotion overwhelming

LOUDER!!!

Why is not being a acting coach relevant? this is a singing reaction video not a acting reaction video

@@haejinkim888 Look at context in which the song exists, in a movie. The singing goes hand in hand with the acting, that's literally the point of musicals. You cannot judge the song on a singing bases only without acknowledging the acting equally.

@@deviantmoore9744 Her job is to judge solely on the song. Not how it fits according to the movie. And in this video she didn't not say Anne Hathaway did not give a winning performance. And people can have different reactions to the emotions. And my comment meant was that the above comment felt a bit condescending that was all. Hope I didn't affect anyone

This is a vocal performance, saying that the vocals dont matter (or alluding to that) is just wrong.

But the singing sucks

@@alphaomega6365 the singing only “sucks” because she’s also acting since it’s still a movie. She can definitely sing, but her job wasn’t to be vocally correct

@@josiahmontgomeryofficial5062 Tell that to Hugh Jackman

@@alphaomega6365 he cried

Both can coexist!! Plenty of great broadway performers delivered this song with both emotion and great technique.

but singing should be the focus in a... singing role

I agree. The reviewer has missed the point completely.

I agree with the OP. This is a movie. AH prioritised acting through the song because the song is designed to make you feel the despair of the character and everything she's been through. If she had prioritised the vocals, it would have been vocally perfect but lacking some of the raw emotion from the voice breaks and delivery. If it was all about the vocals, she'd be singing in a recording studio. The song is all about telling the story of Fantine as it is essential to the story. In that sense, the music has a supporting role to the story of the movie. If the main focus should've been the singing/vocals, it would be an album not a movie.

@@beth0725 well I used to say the same, but hearing lea salonga makes me cry more than Anne Hathaway

@@QuikVidGuy no singing should be the focus if the person is a singer. If they are an actor they should be focus on acting.

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Exactly what I was about to comment I think her opinion would be different if she knew it was live on set and not pre recorded like the rest of the songs so I think her opinion on this is coming from the assumption that it’s a pre recorded song

But this argument is based on the proposition that singing this well means people won’t cry or will cry less. I don’t accept that premise.

@@Jaasau not at all what I meant. As a vocalist I know how hard it is to stay on pitch when you get emotional, I just wanted to point out that even the best singers go off key when they cry. It wasn't meant to say that if you aren't good you won't cry, just that when anyone at all cries it changes your tone and the placement of your vocals. I was just trying to give some constructive criticism based on when she said how impressive it was for other singers to cry and still hit the notes but didn't mention it when it came to Anne. It was purely based on her own statements in previous reactions. It is very hard to stay on key while crying, let alone while heaving and hyperventilating, that's all 🙂

@@nancyfrolich3448 I agree, the reactor said herself that your vocal chords tightens up when you cry. The important thing is that she did hit the right notes. If she had opened her mouth more or sang like she was in a theater play she would seem like only acting. Which she isn't in here. She truly internalized with her role. She is an amazing actress who can really sing well.

is there an interview or something where they talked about the casts reaction ?

Scanning the comments, I don't think your opinion is wrong!

Well she got an Oscar for it so not an unpopular opinion

Yes, so unpopular it won her an oscar...

On broadway she can

@@jotunfalls4026 broadway version sucks

Singing badly is necessary to convey emotion.

I saw it in broadway a few months ago and it was absolutely amazing and so beautiful but heartbreaking. It was beautiful and emotional I cried and it sounded better and stronger, like her giving her last strength and keep in mind she dies fairly soon after.

​@@elisabetta611it makes me think of ugly crying versus like, pretty "movie crying." Sometimes movies will make people cry but look all beautiful, and peaceful while they do. Which is NO WHERE near as emotional as someone who is an actual wreck, ugly crying and face all red. They don't look pretty, sure, but that's not the point.

I was going to suggest this toon. I love that movie.

Fair enough. Personally I agree with the vocal coach and really disliked the approach this movie took. Each to their own I guess.

The movie is still a musical, and I love this emotional performance

@@seductiveraven4895 yes but a musical done in-front of a camera which involves different style of acting as it would be on stage. I personally love how this is done. Would it hold up on a stage? No. It’s too small an intimate. It would get lost on stage but here on film the way this is done is amazing and real and each small and tiny emotion can be easily seen by the viewer. Making it more intimate.

A lot of the choices made for this movie did not work for me, but Eddie R’s Empty Chairs at Empty Tables and Samantha B’s On My Own did work very well. And this. I saw this clip before the movie was released, and it blew me away. I thought Anne H deserved an Oscar for just this scene, and she won one.

This is why she is cringe af....to focused on techniques rather the art

@@tyroneloki5131 Marc Daniel Patrick does the best reaction to this performance. ❤❤

She's a classically trained opera singer and she actually has been on Broadway. As many of the other responses have stated that the directors wanted this to be emotional rather than the focus on the vocally correct techniques. Also her pitch for most of the notes is spot on. And as the vocal teacher has explained that it is indeed hard to sing while crying not only does it affect the vocal cords in tightening but also causes mucus production which can cause a film on the vocal cords. Either way this is still quite a vocally challenging and vocally technical piece. Is there parts that don't sound good sure... but it still would not be easy to reproduce this.

She is a vocal coach not a art coach or acting coach. She only judges the vocal abilities. Thats literally what her channel is for. Stop hating.

@@NOONE-cd4gu Crawl out of my butt please. My first sentence acknowledges her area of expertise. Also, this was not an attack or hate on her. It was an opinion. It's what the internet was made for.

Ruthie Henshall is the one and only Fantine on stage

Question: why do you expect a vocal coach to not critique the vocals in a performance she is reacting to?

@@christianseibold3369 but why are we asking a vocal coach to not speak on vocals and deffer instead to acting? And as shr mentioned there have been many theatrical performances of les mis where the vocals AND the acting were both on point. Personally I go to musicals for a good sonic experience as well as storytelling. One doesn't have to be at the expense of the other.

@@adiac4471 cause it was a poor choice of video for this channel

@@adiac4471 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-a9bAm1PLpvA.html&ab_channel=WorkingTitle skip to 3:30 in this video. It was a choice. One that works really well for the cinematic adaptation of the musical. She is not trying to be theatre level because everything, from the acting to the singing, has to be bigger in the theatre since the audience is so far away. Here the camera is right there and the audience is subjected to far more nuanced acting than you can get away with in theatre. A vocal coach should not be reacting to this video at all seeing as technical perfection of the vocal performance was not the point of the scene at all.

@@lumatasia98 Hm. I'm going to meander, get a bit philosophical here I hope you don't mind, lol, but I guess this is where I come to have problems with many film adaptations of musicals specifically because I think the two mediums-theatre and film-have quite different goals to achieve and ways to achieve them. Too often I think that the difference in medium isn't taken into account but you're right, I don't believe that is the case here. However, I don't understand why there would be more value in a filmed musical that has messier vocals in the name of visceral performances than adaptations that still manage to hit you right in your chest because of harmonies and note placement and clean vowel shapes. After all, good musicals use music to convey emotions. Lyric, score, and vocals often do the heavy lifting in terms of emotional storytelling here. The musicality shouldn't be an afterthought. It was not an afterthought when the composer wrote it, or when the first actors workshopped it. And it certainly was not an afterthought in this film! So much work went into being able to record the music live (which came with it's own suite of problems...sideways has a wonderful video essay on it). For this youtuber, she found areas that could be improved! I don't think any of the suggestions she had in the video were overly drastic, nor would they have worsened Anne Hathaway's stellar performance. Besides-this is her channel! She can post what she wants! Often her videos (from what I can tell) are made for the purpose of education. She takes popular examples from musicals and uses what performers do well and what they don't do well (in her professional opinion) to give advice.

Exactly. The performance doesn't work as a stand-alone soundtrack. But in the context of the movie, it's great. It would have been cool to have them do a soundtrack that was a clean, polished version, just to hear the contrast.

she had vocal lessons to be able to cry and sing at the same time.

@@astrologym1939 well but that obviously didn’t really work for her

@@Thomasss-lq1ev maybe but if the director was fine with it its because she did a great job. She said they recorded at least 6 times because she wanted to make it perfect.

I'm not sure if she was forced to loose weight for the role (I could be wrong). I think it was a choice made by Hathaway to loose the weight for authenticity, similar to Hugh Jackman at the beginning of the movie. This was also a movie where she (Hathaway) actually shaved her head for this role, like the star of "Stranger Things" did.

She's also much more an actress than a singer, even though she has done espectacular for instance Somebody to love y Ella Enchanted or the riffo-off she just had against Kelly Clarkson

I thought her acting choices actually took away from it personally.