Do you listen to the people sing? After the let go of the initial trailer is to big-deal Les Miserables adaptation, the more dire subject is: Do you listen to Anne Hathaway sing? The singer plays the cursed farmer Fantine in Tom Hooper's ( The King's Speech ) take on the strike Broadway low-pitched (itself an adjustment of Victor Hugo's well read classic), and the initial trailer is set to her surprisingly overwhelming delivery of the ballad "I Dreamed a Dream." (Watch the video below.) Hugh Jackman , Russell Crowe , Amanda Seyfried , and Helena Bonham Carter are amid the A-listers set to charge the barricades when Les Mis storms theaters this Christmas. Here, 4 takeaways from critics:
1. Anne Hathaway 's "I Dreamed a Dream" is heartbreaking
This "trailer is all Anne," says Amanda Dobbins at New York . She creates a differing initial sense with her "remarkably tender voice" and alarming, delicate look as the failing Fantine. And when the band starts ! to enlarge and Hathaway nails the "I had a mental condition my life would be/So not similar from this ruin I'm living" climax, it's hard not to be moved. And she sounds so natural, says Sandy Schaefer at Screen Rant . The vocals were available live during filming, and are presented without a suggestion of technical sweetening - creation for a ample "more organic" performance.
2. But she'll hardly be in the movie
Hathaway clearly steals the uncover here, says Hilary Busis at Entertainment Weekly , but it's a box of "flagrant fake advertising." The Hathaway-centric trailer hints that she's the womanlike lead, but as you all know - "150-year-old spoiler alert!" - Fantine dies considerably early. It's her daughter Cosette and "scrappy Eponine" who share the spotlight with Jean Valjean and Javert. Too bad the trailer fails to uncover off the pipes of Hugh Jackman , Russell Crowe , and Amanda Seyfried .
3. The movie looks acceptably epic
F! orget the singing, says Sarah Anne Hughes at The Washington Po! st . The "gritty and gray world is visually stunning," particularly when Jackman's Jean Valjean performs handbook work in the H2O and Fantine has her "head sheared similar to a plantation animal." Gorgeously grave set decoration, unconditional shots of the French rebels attack the barricades, and the actors' "gaunt appearances" all increase up to what appears to be an epic and "authentic" time piece, says Schaefer .
4. It should be a leading box office hit
When the trailers for The Avengers or Christopher Nolan's Batman reboot initial went online, they "sent chills down spines" of comic book fans who had waited years for that footage, says Matt Patches at Hollywood . "That's how I suppose low-pitched drama buffs contingency feel" now. Plus, says Sean O'Connell at Cinema Blend , "when Hollywood nails the low-pitched genre, the movie attention can supply unconditional entertainment is to masses." Don't be so sure, says Schaefer . The movie might still stri! ve to ring with those who aren't fans of low-pitched melodramas.
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