It's a terrific performance by blue - haired, dressed - in - black Meryl Streep,
whose singing voice is as powerful as her acting.
Though the operatic dissonant relationship between Jean Valjean and Russell Crowe's Javert does prove to be compelling opera as it weaves throughout the rest of the story, the film's second act focus on the story of rich pretty boy Marius (Eddie Redmayne,
whose singing voice is 45 percent Kermit the Frog) falling for Cosette (Amanda Seyfried) at first sight doesn't register nearly the same amount of urgency, feeling like a silly problem that doesn't fit into the story's near - apocalyptic presentation of revolutionary France.
Not exact matches
Writing in the ambivalent, anguished
voice of a young man
whose girlfriend is aborting their baby, Parker
sang:
Speak with the
voice of the Prophetess Deborah, a mother of Israel and mighty warrior, who was brave when Israel was weak, and
whose victory song declared, «I, even I, will
sing unto the Lord.»
At the center of things is 12 - year - old Miguel Rivera (
voiced by Anthony Gonzalez), a lifelong music lover
whose family has forbidden him to strum a guitar and
sing.
The seemingly unlikely incorporation of musical numbers works fabulously; the melodies by A.R. Rahman are haunting and memorable, and they are well - performed (as opposed to «
sung,» for the
voices are provided by studio singers) by the stars — particularly Khan,
whose talent and formidable charisma leaves no doubt as to why he's a Bollywood superstar.
I think of this when I watch American Idol and I see someone
whose dream is to impress the judges and «make it to Hollywood» and get a shot at stardom — yet their
singing voice just isn't good enough.
People who can't stop humming catchy tunes remember the catchy tunes
sung by singers
whose voices match with those tunes which thereafter become forever imbedded within in their brains; the words (scripts) are almost always of secondary importance until matched with the tunes and need to be memorized via overt effort.