"It’s unfair to ask Phoenix to sing alongside Lady Gaga, who has real pipes. But then, it’s also unfair to ask her to perform alongside Phoenix, who is one of the best actors of his generation. The whole thing is almost comically mismatched."
The 1967 movie Camelot had a similar issue: Richard Harris couldn't sing, and Robert Goulet could…
"It’s unfair to ask Phoenix to sing alongside Lady Gaga, who has real pipes. But then, it’s also unfair to ask her to perform alongside Phoenix, who is one of the best actors of his generation. The whole thing is almost comically mismatched."
The 1967 movie Camelot had a similar issue: Richard Harris couldn't sing, and Robert Goulet couldn't act in the same league as Richard Harris. About fifteen years ago I saw a lovely PBS special about Broadway history, which interviewed both of them about how terrified they were to perform next to each other. And yet Camelot worked quite well. So I'm guessing it's the other problems with Folie à Deux that make this movie really terrible.
You’re right. It was Burton who they interviewed about the Broadway production, not Harris about the movie. Easy for me to confuse, as I consider Harris’s recording of “MacArthur Park” to be a spectacularly weak singing performance.
I am very surprised that I was confused about Goulet being in the movie, as I have watched that movie multiple times. I also forgot that Andrew’s wasn’t in the movie. But you are right and I was wrong. I guess I’ve just listened to the Broadway soundtrack so many times that it obliterated the movie in my mind.
I agree that Joaquin Phoenix sang well in Walk the Line. That was a great movie.
I think you may have "misremembered" on Broadway it was Richard Burton and Robert Goulet (along with Julie Andrews) and the movie was Richard Harris and Franco Nero (along with Vanessa Redgrave). The Broadway show was a hit--- the movie made money. Burton won a Tony Award and the show made Goulet, who they say was not as bad an actor as he thought, a star and gave him his signature song "If Ever I Could Leave You."
Hollywood can fix anyone's singing. Apparently they did not want to fix Phoenix's singing and that makes sense given his character.--- but bad acting is hard to hide. Gaga is a good enough actor--- and Phoenix did all his own singing in the bio-pic "Walk the Line."
And I am keen on seeing this.
I liked the first "Joker" he made and this one looks interesting and looks to be a lot of fun.
I actually saw Goulet as King Arthur in a revival of Camelot back in the nineties. I agree that he was a fine actor (though not as good as Burton or Harris).
"It’s unfair to ask Phoenix to sing alongside Lady Gaga, who has real pipes. But then, it’s also unfair to ask her to perform alongside Phoenix, who is one of the best actors of his generation. The whole thing is almost comically mismatched."
The 1967 movie Camelot had a similar issue: Richard Harris couldn't sing, and Robert Goulet couldn't act in the same league as Richard Harris. About fifteen years ago I saw a lovely PBS special about Broadway history, which interviewed both of them about how terrified they were to perform next to each other. And yet Camelot worked quite well. So I'm guessing it's the other problems with Folie à Deux that make this movie really terrible.
You’re right. It was Burton who they interviewed about the Broadway production, not Harris about the movie. Easy for me to confuse, as I consider Harris’s recording of “MacArthur Park” to be a spectacularly weak singing performance.
I am very surprised that I was confused about Goulet being in the movie, as I have watched that movie multiple times. I also forgot that Andrew’s wasn’t in the movie. But you are right and I was wrong. I guess I’ve just listened to the Broadway soundtrack so many times that it obliterated the movie in my mind.
I agree that Joaquin Phoenix sang well in Walk the Line. That was a great movie.
I think you may have "misremembered" on Broadway it was Richard Burton and Robert Goulet (along with Julie Andrews) and the movie was Richard Harris and Franco Nero (along with Vanessa Redgrave). The Broadway show was a hit--- the movie made money. Burton won a Tony Award and the show made Goulet, who they say was not as bad an actor as he thought, a star and gave him his signature song "If Ever I Could Leave You."
Hollywood can fix anyone's singing. Apparently they did not want to fix Phoenix's singing and that makes sense given his character.--- but bad acting is hard to hide. Gaga is a good enough actor--- and Phoenix did all his own singing in the bio-pic "Walk the Line."
And I am keen on seeing this.
I liked the first "Joker" he made and this one looks interesting and looks to be a lot of fun.
I actually saw Goulet as King Arthur in a revival of Camelot back in the nineties. I agree that he was a fine actor (though not as good as Burton or Harris).