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Sunday, November 3, 2013 at 7:27AM Quvenzhané Wallis strutting to playback
Sounds tinny? And what do you need that much oxygen for "a (breath) day (breath) a (breath) wayyyyyyyyy" but set footage always looks/sound chintzy so I shan't judge. Things look sound/different onscreen. Annie arrives for Christmas (December 19th to be exact) 2014.
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Looks/sounds pretty bad. Not that I care. I'll still be first in line to see it. That little girl has more than earned my continued patronage.
She can sing! At least the playback sounds pretty good. I'm glad for her, even if the beat in the background sounds so cheesy.
Sounds like this movie should go straight to DVD....
a horrible version of the song :-O
" I shan't judge" - this whole post is judgement. TFE has been very skeptical about Quvenzhane's Annie. Nick Davis for the defense - the floor is yours.
murtada -- I'm not sure Nick should be your defense. He is hardly a "musicals" guy!
She sounds like a child singing. Which is what she is. I'm encouraged by this. They'll round out the orchestrations and probably do a studio soundtrack (after the disaster that was the Les Miz "live singing" thing). I'm not so sure about the period update and the similarities to Hairspray however.
This clip gets 1/4 of a cheese bagel ....
Huston's film is a childhood classic. This new version won't ruin one's appreciation of the former. Annie isn't like remaking an Arnold movie. It is equivalent to what actually happens on Broadway. Every so often they do a new version of something tried and true.
chest breathing. this ain't gonna be pretty.
Henry -- "disaster" for Les Miz live singing? It won Anne Hathaway and the Sound Mixing team Oscars and the movie was a box office smash. Not sure why that would make Hollywood run from live-singing.
Nat. It won for the Sound Mixing team because they earned the award. They did stellar work trying to find consistency in the perfs--not a fault of the actors, singing is a very different form of sound projection than speaking. If you listen to the cuts, the editors were unable to do anything but single shots because there was no consistency in the sound between takes. Its no where near the same as the spoken voice. Listen to the end of Barks singing on my own (the best perf in the film imho). At the end, they cut to a different POV and it sounds like a different voice. It was a grand experiment which won't happen again without some serious tech advances. And what it did to Jackman to sing Bring Him Home while moving that much--Its a prayer, not a marching song to begin with (his voice was wrong for Jean Val anyway, he should have played Javert---and would have been excellent in the role), could have cost him the oscar. Sound earned the award, Hooper cost the movie more with his silly plan.
As for Hathaway, pretty young thing, never won before despite noms and true talent, other noms were past winners, emoted her heart out and put it all on the table (I quibble with her interpretation, but not her dedication)......the win had as much to do with aspects other than the performance as with what she played.
but he's a HUGE Quvenzhne fan - I still remember the many birthday gifts he sent her :-)
The singing sounds a bit too autotuned for my liking, but I THINK I could make a little of her actually singing in that and it didn't sound too bad. I don't know that I'm exactly looking forward to this movie, but I'm definitely excited for Miss Wallis's film career!
Oh, I'm completely in favor of a musical with more "realistic" singing... I trust in the movie, it'll look spectacular, and in my book, unless huge misfire, she's already a 2014 comedy/musical Golden Globe nominee.
The real interest in Wallis, is to see how her career is going to develope... I hope she's another Jodie Foster or Anna Paquin and she doesn't become another Linda Blair or Tatum O'Neal. If anything was clear in "Beasts of the Southern Wild", it was that she was a true force of nature to be reckoned. Hopefully Hollywood doesn't destroy her talent.
By the way, where's the campaigning for Simon Pegg's absolutely perfect performance in "The World's End"? He should be winning the Globe with a landslide, and he just needs a little push to become a BAFTA nominee. He's amazing on the film.
Between Annie and Rob Marshall's Into the Woods, next year might just be the death knell in the musical resurgence we've seen in the past couple of years.
Nicely shouted. I have to say I don't share the general excitement regarding Miss Wallis.
murtada -- Stop it! My man ain't a pervert!
my heart may be an empty piece of stone but i'm sorta kinda excited about this.
terrible.
This looks/sounds tragic. This version of Annie will be called Autotunnie.
Jesus Alonso: WILL he be a Globe Musical/Comedy nominee? Unfortunately, probably not. Yes, he's been a bit of character flavour in the Mission Impossible and Star Trek franchises, but Gary King is aggressively unlikeable and the movie was nowhere near the big hit it would need to be to justify the campaign. Now, SHOULD he be a Globe Musical/Comedy nominee? YES! But, will he be a BAFTA nominee? Unlike the Globes, I can confidently say, probably. (See also: Michael Fassbender getting in for Shame in 2011 and Andy Serkis managing a nomination for Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll in 2009.) A local boy making good in an uncompromising performance isn't exactly something the BAFTA's have ignored recently and Pegg's work in The World's End fits right alongside the nominations for those two performances in it's own way.