As early as 1988, alan parker was ready to direct a musical adapted from Hugo's novel Les Miserables. In Parker's fantasy, it was an original musical. But he left the crew, and the director of the film was changed to Bruce Beresford at 199 1. 1992, filmmaker cameron mackintosh announced that Samsung Film Company would shoot this film. But then, the film was kicked into the trash can and stuck in the preparatory stage. Time flies to 2005, and McIntosh confirmed that the musical version of Les Miserables would be adapted from a prestigious musical, not an original musical. McIntosh said that after so many years of hard work and struggle, he hopes to find a director who is willing to use the original creative staff including himself to work in the crew.
Six years later, the director personally came to the door. 20 1 1 Contact McIntosh's director named tom hooper. Hooper is very excited to direct this play, because in his view, Les Miserables musical is a great work. He felt that he had reached a peak, which was a milestone. Because in his mind, the musical Les Miserables is an unparalleled work. The music and lyrics in it are great. And Hugo's original work is also one of the most precious cultural treasures in the world. It is absolutely great to come to this crew and cooperate with those famous people in history.
In fact, it is not too difficult to adapt a musical, because the original musical is a work with a plot and a main line. What Hope and his screenwriter need to do is to find the right stage, background and actors for these music. At the shooting scene, Hooper decided to take the crew to France to shoot. So the whole crew came to France, and some shots were shot in Britain and the United States because of the schedule of the actors. Moreover, according to MacIntosh's request, the creators of those musicals also came to work in the crew, especially the composer of the original musical Claude-Michel Schroenberg and the lyricist Allen Bubier. Schoenberg not only rewrote the music for the film according to the original tune, but also wrote a new song for the film with Bubir. This new song is called Sudden. McIntosh said that this new song explains why Jean Valjean took Cosette out of the pub and took care of her all the time. This is the only new song in this movie, and it is also the most wonderful part of this movie. In previous musical films, the shooting of musical fragments was divided into two parts. The sound part is completed in the recording studio. After all kinds of musical instruments and arrangements are synthesized, they are output as sound materials and audio tracks. The performance part is completed on the set, and the actors listen to the materials they sing and perform. The singing part became lip-synching. Although lip-synching at the concert is disgusting. But in the film industry, in musical movies, all movies are made like this, so there are no exceptions. However, in this film, tom hooper did an amazing pioneering work. At the same time, he recorded the actors' songs on the set, and then accompanied these individual singing clips in post-production. The accompaniment is not simple, it is an ensemble called the orchestra. Tom hooper's specific operation method is like this. He asked every actor to wear wireless headphones, and prepared a piano far away from the shooting scene, so that the actors could sing songs in the movie while listening to the piano. The role of the piano is to let the actors find their own tones so as not to be out of tune. In this way, he recorded some independent arias with almost no noise at the same time. Then, these arias are taken out separately for post-production. In post-production, Schoenberg rearranged the performances of all the songs according to these arias and the individual rhythms and tones of the actors. In the recording studio, Schoenberg arranged music for these "oratorios" based on singing. After synthesis, it becomes a fragment of singing, dancing and music in the film. This is the first time in film history that the whole film has been shot in this way.
Hooper has his own ideas about choosing such a production process. He hopes that this film can have the same level as a musical, and also hopes that it has the texture of a musical, so he chooses to record it at the same time and add music later. In this way, we can more accurately capture the expressions and eyes of the actors when they sing. You know, when singing and lip-synching, people's expressions, including their eyes and the blue veins on their necks, are different. In this film, there are many close-ups to show this unique texture. This shooting method gives the actors more performance space, because there is only one piano with auxiliary function on the scene, and Hooper did not design any singing restrictions for the actors in advance. All the expressions of rhythm, weight and emotion are prepared by the actors themselves and improvised on the spot, while the piano adjusts its rhythm according to the performance of the actors, which makes the actors sing more naturally and purely in the film and makes the film feel very novel. Serial number Production Company 5 United International Pictures (UIP) [Singapore Wave] 1 Work Opening Film [UK] 6 Universal Pictures Canada [Canada] (20 12). 2 cameron mackintosh Co., Ltd. 7 Universal Pictures International Company (UPI) (20 13) (France) 3 Universal Pictures [USA] 8 Universal Pictures International Company (20 13) (Netherlands) 4 Relativistic Media Company [USA ]9 China Film Co., Ltd. [China] serial number issuing company 10 Huaxia. Universal Pictures [USA]/KOOC-0//United International Pictures (UIP)[ Argan ]2 Universal Pictures (UK) Co., Ltd./KOOC-0/3ZON Audio Visuais (20/KOOC-0/3) (Portugal) 4 Dong Bang-Torvald [Japan]/KOOC.