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lol, there is a building in your organ

bruh organs are so big that they may aswell be considered architecture

Sideways!!! Can you come back and do the newer movie? Please!

20:19 he kind of sounds like Josh Gad for a second lol

20:32 I guess you could argue that they’ve taken the theme back to its original meaning, being simply an imperial theme. I’ve always kinda looked at it that way as it’s used a decent number if times in empire without Vader being present

12:07 idk, like was teaching him the potential of the force, and this is Luke taking the lessons from his master and accomplishing what Yoda did all those years ago. In this instance it works for me

4:16 I think this is actually a really solid parallel. While she may physical be in the same place doing the same things, mentally she’s grown and has found where she belongs, contrasting her first scenes where she longed for a place to belong

2:27 I disagree. So much of TROS is simply retcons and course correction, but in this instance this isn’t that. Luke becomes the Jedi master he always was by the end of The Last Jedi when he walks out with his laser sword and faces down the entire first order. His scenes in TROS are consistent with the lesson he learned in TLJ, even if some of the lines seem like they’re beating you over the head with how wrong Luke was

0:35 so at first when I saw this scene I rolled by eyes, I thought Maz giving Chewie a random medal because we never saw him get one in A New Hope was beyond stupid. Until I realized I missed something. It’s Han’s medal. Leia holds the medal as she dies, and once her body disappears, Maz gives the medal to Chewie. I think after both Han and Leia had passed, Chewie would deserve to hang on to his best pals medal

I agree with you wholeheartedly about the new songs in each movie. Two things bother me about them and they're pretty much what you mentioned: they don't serve any purpose within the story and the studio goes to the trouble of writing new songs when they've got songs in the stage musicals that people know and love. When they made the live-action Beauty and the Beast, my first question was, "are they adapting the animated movie or the Broadway show?" because if it was the Broadway show, they'd need to hire someone with impressive vocal chops to play Belle and the Beast (and I was one of many people who wanted Ramin Karimloo to play the Beast for that reason). If they wanted to give any of the characters songs, they had a range to choose from: "Human Again" for the servants in the castle (which Ashman and Menken wrote for the animated movie, but ended up cutting it), "Home" and "Change in Me" for Belle, and "If I Can't Love Her" for the Beast. With "Human Again," we get this joyous, hopeful number as the servants watch Belle and the Beast begin to fall in love - this comes right after "Something There" - and it lifts the tone of the musical and shows them beginning to get to know each other. Belle picks out a book and reads to the Beast and they bond over the story and shared experiences, whereas in the live-action movie, she just sticks her nose in a book and ignores him. The movie equivalent of that song, "Days in the Sun," is more downtrodden, somber, the servants aren't sure if the curse will broken, and Belle grapples with what she's feeling. You never see really that she changes her mind about him until the end of the film, whereas we see it gradually on animated screen and onstage. We could've seen that with "A Change in Me," which is when Belle realizes what she feels for the Beast, but the way they changed the story towards the end, they couldn't have fit it in there. Belle sings it after she rescues her father from the woods and brings him home to nurse him back to health. In this movie, Maurice returns to the town after Gaston abandons him, then Gaston turns the town against him, which forces Belle to ride in and rescue him. By omitting that, we lose a chance of seeing that moment where Belle realizes she's in love, but on the other hand, we'd then be comparing Emma Watson to Broadway powerhouses like Susan Egan and Ashley Brown, and that's even more unfair to her than comparing her to Paige O'Hara. (Not to mention that that song usually brings fellow cast members and the audience to tears, so auto-turning the emotion out of that one would almost be a crime.) "Evermore"....I was really looking forward to hearing that in the movie. About a week before I saw the movie, Disney released the recording of Josh Groban singing "Evermore" on CZcams and I must've listened to it 50 times in that one week. (Also, may I just say: good lord, that man is aging like a fine bottle of wine. Going back to your comments about vocal preparation and care being similar to athletic training, you can see it in how well Groban has taken care of his voice for 20 years, including two vocally demanding roles on Broadway.) Okay, back to the point. I get to the movie and it's underwhelming, partly because Dan Stevens doesn't nearly have Groban's vocal chops, but also because it seemed like they stuck that song in for no reason. As a song standing by itself, it's excellent, especially with Groban singing it, but what purpose does it serve in the story? The Beast expresses his love for Belle, his regret in his choices, and how she'll always be with him even after he lets her go? Yes, that's all stuff he needed to say, but he needed to say it about 30-45 minutes prior to that. In the stage show, he actually does say it 45 minutes prior to that. "If I Can't Love Her" is a difficult song in the musical for a few reasons. First is its placement in the show. When I saw the touring production, you wanna take a guess as to what song got the first standing ovation of the night? If you said "Be Our Guest," you're correct. It brings the house down every time (and it should, the dancing is FANTASTIC!!!!). They easily could've ended Act 1 on a literal high note with that song, but they don't. They end it five minutes later with "If I Can't Love Her." So, it's in a difficult spot already, because it follows one of the most beloved songs in the Disney canon, but also because it takes you from this fun, loud party track to this to this song full of despair and hopelessness as the Beast realizes he's just thrown away his chance to love and be loved. He knows that he's going to die alone and as a Beast unless he changes, then the track ends with "let the world be done with me!" meaning he's already on the verge of giving up, which explains why he gives up so easily after Belle does leave. He's already expressed that she's his reason for living. With "Evermore," we get this track about how he's just now realizing he's in love with her when they haven't grown together organically like they have in the animated movie and stage show. It doesn't work! It works a lot better in the 30th Anniversary special on Disney+ with Groban singing, but they take the time to build the relationship in that too. With "Aladdin," they had no choice but to write something new for Jasmine. She only has one solo in the stage show and it comes really early. It's not even a solo come to that. She gets a song called "Beyond these Palace Walls," which is about her desire to get out of the palace and see the world, and she sings it with her three handmaidens (one for each of Aladdin's best buddies, who replace Abu in the show and they get a really fun song with "High Adventure"). She then leaves, meets Aladdin in the marketplace, and they plan to run away together that night and leave Agrabah forever....then the guards find them. She has this song with her ladies and two duets with Aladdin, and beyond that, she doesn't get a whole lot of singing time. She has no song that is just hers and hers alone. In fact, she's on stage even less of the time in the show than she is in the animated movie. (Fun fact: Part of the criteria for being included in the Disney Princess line up is that the princess has to be the star of her movie and that almost kept Jasmine off the list, since she isn't the star. She got just enough screen time that they decided they could swing it.) So, with the changes they made to Jasmine's character, they couldn't use that song. For one thing, she's not running away in the live-action movie. She's getting out and seeing Agrabah, seeing how the people live because she wants to be Sultan, meaning she needs to know her people. Now, I like this change in her character and I like that they seemed determined not to sideline her as the animated and stage counterparts did. But, "Speechless"...again, standing by itself, it's a great song, and I like watching the video that's just Naomi Scott singing it in the studio with clips of the movie showing on top, but when placed within the context of the movie, it feels contrived. Part of that is because the style doesn't fit with the rest of the music in that movie. I don't know what they might've replaced it with though. With The Lion King, okay, it's been years since I've seen the stage musical, so I don't remember what changes they made with the music, but there is one song I listen to quite a bit, and that's Nala's Act II solo of "Shadowland," which explains her reason for leaving the Pride Lands. Rafiki and the lionesses give her their blessing and she sets off on her journey. If they only had to pick one song from the stage musical to put in the movie, it should've been that one. It's an incredible song. If you haven't heard it already, go listen to either Heather Headley (Nala's original Broadway actress) or Merle Dandridge (Disney Broadway Hits at the Royal Albert Hall - it's on Disney+) sing it. Okay...pause a moment...did you listen to it? Good, then let's press on. Show of hands, how many of us would've LOVED to hear Beyonce sing that? I sure as heck would've. She would've sounded amazing! Instead, we get "Spirit," which is a good song, but would've sounded a lot better if she sang it over the credits. That way, it wouldn't sound like it had been shoe-horned in like the rest of the original songs do. Because that's the biggest problem, these songs are shoe-horned in and they don't serve the plot. The only one that really does is "Speechless," and it feels so cheesy that it doesn't deliver quite the plot punch that it should. This is why the Disney execs should have adapted the stage musicals rather than the animated movies; they make more sense musically and they have songs that audiences love. Not to mention, we might've gotten Samantha Barks as Belle, which would've been amazing! Thank you to everyone who read this far!

I mean that spirit performance by beyonce is oversung af but the redt fo your video is fair

And now I know why my music tastes are so varied. I have ADHD and music has been my go to for as long as I can remember whenever I needed to focus. Even more so I've had those moments where nothing is really real. Everything in your head connects at a conceptual level and it is remarkably beautiful. I noticed that playlists are wrong because something or other will take out a song or two and I am expecting to hear the old pattern

remember that cheese pizza

18:32 i find it funny how there were probably people watching this who legit got offended by this

5:11 dankpods

Am I the only one who thought the racism in Bells of notra dame was a good way to show how bad the Romanis have it? Even today there still getting crap.

Fantasia 2000 also did a good job expanding that concept too.

When you try to hum a song from Sweeney Todd but you accidentally do it upside down and you hum the wrong one

Wow FINALLY …a solid review by a professional reviewer who actually has extensive background knowledge of the show and understands how high stakes the situations are involved for all characters, especially with the Bakers wife, the Baker, and the Witch. It’s refreshing to have an actual professional reviewer who understands the concepts of the show and characters involved, is authentic and not fake with flowery phrasiology (aka trying to sound like an intellectual) ….AND this reviewer is not an Ageist. If some amateur, inexperienced reviewers out there are so worried about how “smart” they sound …maybe they need to start sticking with reviewing fine visual arts that are related to their own field of silly “cartooning”

So idk how to say it in english (im italian), but my father sings in many choirs, but hes also familiar with opera. He has a really deep voice but i don't really know what he did exactly, so i'll ask him and update if u wanna know :3

You can’t talk. You can’t even pronounce it right

You actually made this movie popular :)

I didn't care for the film, however. I am find of a few songs

THANK YOU I felt like I was nuts when every single other person I’ve talked to about them taking out Be Prepared from Lion King shrugged it off and really wasn’t bothered by it.

The cats aren't deciding who dies. They are all dead and the play happens in the afterlife. They are deciding who gets to reincarnate, to a "new life". They are "gelical" as in angelical, because they are kinda angels, in heaven. Further, the heavy side layer is heavy because living beings have bodies, meanwhile gelicals are only souls.

Probably also comes of the villain stereotype of being a highly intelligent, well learnered, sophisticated excentric genius whereas heroes used to be more on the athletic physical side. A traditional hero would play a flute or a violin, instruments that are joyfull, homely and festive and in a crowd whereas the organ sounds majestic and you usually don't see the organist, he is apart from the crowd he plays to.

Me realizing I may have a Pavlov response to Dies Irae because of movies (and their great music!)

why am I such a sappy bastard, memory makes me choke up every time I hear it.

I love that this movie is so damn respected that in Ducktales, Goofy has a picture of both Max and Roxane in his wallet.

Can you explain why the music in Wish(2023) is so bad? Because I think you could put it into eloquent words why it sounds so janky.

Sideways I hope you're doing OK. We love and miss you so much.

You know, I was gonna have my insane loner villain play the pipe organ at the end of the story I was writing purely for the prison bars aesthetic, but after hearing this background entirely and perfectly describes said villain I have no choice but to cement that fact.

Another comment for another watch.

Man, its kind a heartbreaking when you think about what could have been with the Sequels

Its funny how operas are often considered posh and high culture and way too complex, yet most opera plots are simpler than a Seinfeld episode and these grand sweeping singing scores are people expressing their most basic wants which could be summed up in a half sentence.

this became my fav youtube comfort watch

Biggest problem with this film is that it is telling a very emotionally dramatic story in a time of big political turmoil and revolution. Yet, the grandieur of the situation never comes through because the actors often stand in small cramped rooms or in front of empty background, alone, not in an ensmble and with awkward close ups. These songs, this story are meant to happen on a large stage.

"damn she thicc, I'm totally gonna win jeopardy tomorrow" 😂

Hey man - its been 3 years. Hope you're doing well, miss seeing your stuff.

pipe organs may look like keyboard instruments but they are actually wind instruments.

It kind a seems to be as if Tom Hooper thought that he is gonna get the best movie by letting the actors do whatever they want and bent the entire project around that. Cue in the music having to follow them and the VFX artists being overworked because we can't have actors wear mo-cap suits.

is it possible that the song at 1:00:45 works on a beat, because the singer is actually tapping the beat for himself and the orchestra, thereby setting and keeping a rythm?

Takeaway: Musical music:8/10 Musical music-plot:7/10 Movie music:1/10 Movie music-plot:-1/10

1:48 An additional detail with that is that when we see each pairing of the gems trying to fuse for the first time, each of their instruments plays in a style in accordance with their own personality. Pearl's piano is elegant, Amethyst's drums are wild, Garnet's bass is bold. Then when they complete the fusion, the instruments take on characteristics of the other gem. Very distinct in Opal's theme, where the drums tighten up and focus under Pearl's influence and the piano loosens up and has fun with it under Amethyst's, but it's there with the other fusions too

Home on the Range sounds like someone got high and made a film, it's so insane.

"I'm starting to get that Cosette is like the center of all these situations." That's what me and other people have been thinking for some time and I find it very interesting (I would sometimes believe that's the reason why she's in the poster of the musical and in the book cover of the brick, instead of Valjean). Because I've seen more people criticize Cosette, or more specifically the musical version of her, being an empty character and not being that too interesting.

"And my Lucy lies in ashes" has the same melody as part of Nessun Dorma, which is neat