Re: "Les Miz" -- a technical question

From: Frank, Michael [[email protected]]

yes . . . this is the best [clearest] yet of many helpful answers . . . . thanks for that
but it does confirm what i imagined had to be the case, specifically that there were some moments in the film [maybe many, maybe few] in which the image we saw on the screen and the vocals on the sound track were NOT recorded simultaneously, even if the vocals we were hearing were themselves recorded during another on-the-set take
because i'm a big fan of live [unamplified] music i somehow had hoped/expected that in "les miz" we would at every moment be watching people acting and singing simultaneously, and i somehow [foolishly] felt ripped off when i realized that could not always be the case and yes, hathaway did  have that long close-up shot, which itself creates a very interesting dynamic   . . . actually the cuts i noticed most were in the beren-cohen/bonham carter numbers or in one of the songs by samantha barks as  Éponine

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