What Have I Done? | Valjean's Soliloquy | Les Misérables | Screen Bites 

Same. That exact line puts me into tears every single time.

@@hillarysweeney3081 yes! such a broken man due to victimization from horrible circumstances...this whole musical/book is a true testament to the resilience of the human self

But not in this movie the singing is abhorrent not because of the cast but because of the director doing amazingly stupid choices, sideways has a great video on why the singing and music is quite terrible in this movie including the actors dehydrating themselves and singing for 10 hours straight at max effort which can severely damage your vocal chords permanently

I came to this video almost just to hear that line because it hits so hard. I was thinking about it while I was at work and started tearing up due to how devastatingly vulnerable that line is combined with the slight falter in "he called me brother"

@@alexwood4695 well if you read the comment they said in fiction, not musicals. You do realize this was novel long before it was on Broadway, right?

That part caught me off guard when I first saw this I started crying! The world can be so cruel and especially back then when you could be chained up for 20 yrs for stealing a loaf of bread.

That was why valjean met his salvation and javert just had a cold and lonely death

After all of these years, les miserables is one of the best stories in the history

that is the essence of this story

And I love how the music repeats the same theme for both, showing the parallel.

All Javert had were the law and his morals and the fact that Valjean speed him destroyed both of those, leaving him with nothing.

Some argue that's the highest goal any piece of art can do.

It can't be trite because it impacted you positively. It did with me.

It was his decision to do it. There is however medical supervision and every now and then an intervention is made and actors are ordered to cease an action such as this for the sake of their health

It sounds like your just repeating sideways.

This happens to a majority of men in movies. That shredded look they get is just dehydration

Wait, Hugh Jackman played in Les Miserables?

@@fashhandifadillah8158 yep, he was Jean Valjean

Especially because it was absolutely silent on set apart from the singing, no music, no talking, no nothing they added it all later

If I could sing that well, I would love to have the chance to perform, because I can feel it, and communicating feeling through sound your body makes must be exhilarating, like a drug. But I cannot sing, instead I am a different kind of artist. I am a writer and photographer. I think people forget that acting is an art, talent, and skill, and a true actor relishes getting up there in front of as many people as they can.

@@obi-ani5727 They where singing live, and they had a earpiece with a pianist playing the song. So they could hear the music and feel the feeling of the song.

Ms. Henry I hope you are well. I'm going thru the same stuff too. For a year and a half I know it's tough. I'm 26 not sure how old you are. It's like my outlook on life has changed and I'm trying to get back to that positive place where I was. One day at a time.

@@markelder6497 good for you keep it up 💪💪💪💪 I am in a pretty low place and this song Continues to inspire me. I was pretty severally harassed for living my truth and commenting on another song that is huge to me. But we have to keep fighting. This girl won't quit I'm glad this comment could help in some way 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 stay strong friend

Yeah, Javert's version is a reprise. I always thought of how they are both 'turning point' songs, except jean's is towards a new life while Javert's is to death.

Yeah it’s really sad

That's the point

An example of how this musical is basically symmetrical, in that many melodies established in the first half get repeated in the second half

Not in this movie😬

@@CallMeTy67 yes in this movie

His singing voice is pretty annoying in this movie

@@LoveOnTheInsidex3 Have you heard les mis? This is not it.

you literally copied these facts off a video evaluating the film lmao

Sideways:)

It definitely feels like they couldve iust played it a second later

@@leocardew1678 And they're correct.

I PREFER IT THIS WAY. It feels much more organic.... and in a special way, it IS more organic.

He was nominated, and I think deservedly, but didn't win.

@@InSaNoDaCloWn he would've won if it weren't for Daniel Day Lewis who is just unbeatable no matter how great the opposing performance is

@@romanxxxxyoutube Tell that to Tom Hanks (1993), Adrien Brody (2002), and Gary Oldman (2017) Hanks beat Day-Lewis for his role in "Philadelphia"- when Day-Lewis was nominated for "In the Name of the Father", Brody beat Day-Lewis for his role in "The Pianist" when Day-Lewis was nominated for "Gangs of New York", and Oldman beat Day-Lewis for his role in "Darkest Hour" when Day-Lewis was nominated for "Phantom Thread"! I also believe that Hugh Jackman should've gotten nominated AND won for 2017's "Logan", which was even better than his performance in this film!

@@romanxxxxyoutube I think it would’ve gone to Joaquin Phoenix for The Master if it didn’t go to Lewis. Jackman wasn’t going to win on a cold day in Hell. They don’t frequently reward musicals (and they already awarded Hathaway for this movie) and Hugh Jackman was still nothing more than Wolverine as far as the general public was concerned.

@@JayKayEllEmm nah I think Hugh Jackman was the runner up

Amen, Jesus is in this movie alot, one of the reasons I enjoy it so!

I am reaching, but I fall, and the night is drawing in... As I stare into the void, into the whirlpool of my sin. I think sadly a lot of us long for this road to Damascus moment which changes everything and we break free of what binds and chokes us in life. However I think real life isn't quite this simple, but I've found myself at this place so many times - reaching but I fall - back to the same old things, but I never give up trying to be better and this story helps me keep trying. This world will always try and grind us down, but that struggle makes our humanity shine all the brighter when we shed even a little light into it's darkness.

If you notice, the end of the scene has him standing between two crosses, implying he’s following in Jesus’ footsteps.

It’s our story ❤🕊 the story of mankind 🙏

Yeah no Daniel Day Lewis is much better. I’ve seen bits of Hugh Jackman in Les Mis, and all of Lincoln. Lewis blows him out of the water

I’m gonna try to watch Lincoln this week & get back to you guys! DDL is definitely one of the best actors of all time... but, HJ is underrated. The way Les Misérables was shot, took extraordinary acting ability to pull it off!

It’s because the movie has Christian undertones and Hollywood doesn’t like that!

Watch Lincoln and find out

It's just because it was Daniel Day Lewis, which will always be a super tough competition, and it was alledgedly one of his best performances. Any other year Hugh Jackman would've one cause that was a near flawaless performance

Wait what happened to you bro?

With Daniel Day Lewis from Lincoln and Joaquin Phoenix from The Master in the same year? So impossible, the nominations on that year is so strong

no but dude it really fucking is. like its flawless.

@@Lightgrenadez7777 you can feel every single emotion

@@Lightgrenadez7777this performance is scarily underrated

@Phasmania it fucken really is. This scene in particular. I just can't look Away from it

@@Lightgrenadez7777 like the way he looks and sounds completely broken is genuinely mesmerizing. He’s actually falling apart here. The microexpressions of guilt, rage, and everything are actually insane, easily the best performed musical theater song in terms of acting I’ve ever seen

Thanks.

Sounds like a Scottish-American mix

I would say irish

And he still hasn’t won an Oscar. Give this man an Oscar already!

Ayo bro. Best wishes to you, man.

I mean, sure the singing isn’t quite as good (it’s still really good for this number despite being very dehydrated and having way too many takes) but Hugh’s acting is like leagues ahead of any other version of this song lol

@@Phasmania in a rare praise id say he did his best with the god awful directing decisions. considering its the only film-musical and not a stage performance i dont feel its useful to compare the acting (hes a good actor tho). the singing is shite which is yknow. not great for a musical. considering its one of the most essential elements.

@@lee_1292 I think the singing is pretty good here, especially when he’s belting (considering his conditions especially). I guess you mean in the quieter parts where he’s crying it’s nasally and cracking, but like, for a movie I think that’s passable because that’s kinda the point. It wouldn’t really work in a stage production, but the ending is still powerful both vocally and acting wise imo

@@Phasmania i think the singing is pretty terrible all around including the ending belt lol. for a MUSICAL movie i disagree that its passable. i respect your opinion though bro 🫡

Irony

this is a joke, right?

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The music conductor was Mackintosh's own music conductor for stage. Also, composers Schonberg and Boublil were present during the daily filming. The film adaptation is not meant to be a carbon copy of the stage musical as film is a different kind of medium.

I've seen some musical productions not adhere to this. It doesn't really impact the core of the number so It honestly doesn't matter to me

the YELLOW PASSPORT, we have only ONE OF IT

bro wtf are you saying

bro the fact that you edited your comment and it still looks like this, fucking hell

The film adaptation is not meant to be a carbon copy of the stage musical ( which I have seen many times - Broadway/London/Paris/Asia) but has its own tale to tell. It emphasizes the dramatic elements of the storytelling and character development, where singing was simply complementing the acting choices! Jackman was nominated for an Oscar which means his performance has passed muster in all aspects. If you have read the unedited version of Victor Hugo's novel, you would also be aware that there are many key passages in the book ( such as the 2nd epiphany of Valjean/ the escape to the convent/the full tale of Fantine/the doubts of Javert/the rich background of Marius/ the jealousy of Valjean over Marius's taking away his daughter, etc) which were not covered in the stage musical. Also, Valjean's Soliloquy was the dramatic highlight, meant to show the epiphany of redemption, which was breezed through in the stage version. If you are talking original, the most original is the stage version in Paris in 1980, preceding the English version by 5 years. In that original version, Valjean was a baritone role and sung by a French baritone ( which would be a more realistic portrayal of a rough convict - can you imagine a hardened convict singing unrealistically like an opera tenor?). Also, the song of Fantine (L'Air de la Misere) from the original became Eponine's On My Own. Also in the film, it made more sense for Fantine to be there when Valjean was dying because of the attachment to Cosette ( while Eponine had nothing to do with Valjean). So changes should be looked at not to compare unfavorably but to see how it has improved as it went further along. Also, film is a totally different medium compared to stage and portrayals may differ (singing full blast to a camera may be a bit off-putting).

respectfully i disagree, they were perfectly cast. every time you ask someone why they dont like them they say something that comes back to thier singing. this is a movie. the singing comes second to thier perfomances of those charachters. not how well they sang.

The song is perfectly fine (and one of the best ones in this musical) but not the way it's directed here. You can barely tell what he's singing and the music is all out of time and drags/rushes frequently. The instrumentation is also lacking in a lot of bite. I don't necessarily blame Jackman, but the director definitely didn't know what he was doing.

@@brxzbze thanks Mr Whiplash

Why?

@@ingridmay66 the actors chose to deliberately sing badly in order to act better

@@Pearlem Who cares.... it's just a movie, not a concert....😂

​@@Pearlem he didn't drink for 36 hours, it's live and not pre recorded, that's a part of the reason, he's actually singing not lip syncing

yes but dont you think thats looking at a movie expecting it to sound better than the stage production? when you go se it live its about the voice. becuase most people cant see the actors face. when your talking about a movie it becomes less about prioritising perfect text booking singing. and prioritising an emotionally moving performance. becuase to me. all of those things you listed as negatives are the strengths of this particular performance.

I guess that you have no respect for Hugh Jackmans talents for having played a favorite comic book figure and a beloved person from a brilliant work of book art

Who tf cares about you ?

@@erikhomuth2520 Hugh Jackman is a great actor, but even great actors can suffer poor performances at the hands of a bad director. take off your simp glasses

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