Stars Russell Crowe Acts Philip Quast Sings

[@loureviews]

Philip Quast is the greatest of all Javerts, and although Crowe could act the role, the singing of it was beyond him. Thanks for sharing this.

[@timchambers5242]

Do modern actors/singers race to mediocrity or follow the slower path to excellence. Philip Quast gives a masterclass in singing Les Mis kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZO4qYGbhpmDers

[@cloudambient]

what do you mean? Crowe forgot to act literally for the whole movie.

[@boooster101]

@@cloudambient I love how you replied to a year old reply to a six year old comment on an eight year old video. really putting your point across

[@mikeor-]

@@cloudambient Crowe is an experienced ACTOR and singer, but the reason why it didn't work for him here was because he had to go to many different music tutors, and couldn't get off the ground. So while he killed it in the acting department, he didn't so much do that in the singing department.

[@cloudambient]

@@mikeor- Killed it in the acting department? He literally forgot to act in this movie. His body language/facial expressions never once portrayed anything at all

[@helenwilson2609]

Philip Quast's voice sounds right coming for Russell Crow. Brilliant job on the editing.

[@IrishNanette]

Phillip Quast will always be my favorite Javert. He has a certain presence in his stature and voice that can not be matched.

[@janesimpson6892]

And Philip Quast is an absolutely amazing actor as well as a fantastic singer. He should have been the movie Javert.

[@malachimizori305]

RC's version of Javert is also different. My first les mis experience was the movie so I didn't have any bars to hold the actors to, but I know Crowe said he wanted to bring a different purpose and reasoning to the character. I think his version of this song in the movie is much more mellow, but it fits the Javert that he portrays. Quast has a very powerful voice and it was clearly meant for broadway. His performance of this song is brilliant, and I'm sure he plays an amazing Javert on the stage. And in this video it looked and sounded cool. But I still think the version Crowe did was meant to be more mellow to and sadder toned. I think it fits the setting of the movie and the way we see Javert portrayed.

[@ComedyLoverGirl]

Yeah, Crowe's Javert is a sad, cold, miserable and broken man who definitely doesn't love himself and probably doesn't find much meaning in life aside from his job (his tendency to walk on the edges of buildings, apart from foreshadowing his death and showing his faith in God, also shows his disregard for his own life). I think Crowe wanted to create a different take on a famous character, so he played to his strengths of having a lot of magnetism for sympathy, whereas the Broadway actors are much louder and more bombastic, usually portraying a Javert that is the passionate, zealous, and intimidating law enforcer, which is rather more similar to how he is portrayed in the novel.

[@charliecampbell6851]

JSD exactly. Too bad his 'different take' included garbage singing and straying from the book's description of Javert. This movie was a travesty.

[@blades9152]

@@LifesongAcademy shut up dude

[@blades9152]

@@charliecampbell6851 ok sing better then. If you’re gonna call him garbage do better. Oh wait you probably can’t because your a piece of crap.

[@WillElliot]

I started working on Javert's Suicide. The first part of it has been tough as the lines are said rather fast. But I only have a few more line before it slows down. So I'll try to work on it some more tomorrow. Don't wanna rush it and upload a sloppy version.

[@Ignauhak]

Thank you.

[@mikeydrummer]

This is very well done. I saw Quast when he first played Javert in London in the regular production. I went back soon after, just to see him again. He was always the best, and a favourite with the audiences, hence being picked for the Tenth Anniversary. Crowe was never going to be the same, but I liked his presence, even though the voice did take the edge of my enjoyment of the movie. It's a shame, because everything should have been top-notch in the film.

[@joshscomputer]

This definitely won't be the only film of the musical, hopefully they'll get top notch next time around

[@billcook4768]

Damn, that’s some good editing. I don’t think people realize how hard this is, especially 10 years ago.

[@auntyp]

Brilliant! They should have signed Philip Quast as Javert for the movie. Russell Crowe just didn't cut it.

[@davidholmgren8156]

Aunty P He is a brilliant actor though

[@frappuccino68]

Thank you, Will. Quast should've been cast as Javert for the film in the first place, but I guess they needed a star ...

[@ComedyLoverGirl]

And bear in mind that Quast was also too old for the part by the time the movie came out. He sang in the 10th anniversary concert in 1995. By the time the movie rolled around in 2012, he was already in his mid-60s. Javert is 35-52 years old during the course of the story. Colm Wilkinson, who plays Jean Valjean in the 10th anniversary did appear in the movie, he was the bishop since he was also too old to reprise his role. A lot of the lovely ladies were the same actresses from the 10th anniversary concert though, since they were bit parts and their ages less important.

[@tianajoiner7852]

Ezy Teri Reddy Quast was born in 1957; he was 55 in 2012.

[@Beautifullytragic6]

If only he had sounded like this in the film........

[@deewragg7853]

Totally agree,I love Les Mis and was totally let down by the two Australians in the film.

[@obiwankenobi9141]

@@deewragg7853 well Philip Quast is also Australian.

[@showhiminbailey]

Oh, oh, oh, oh... If only he DID sound like that! But sadly, he doesn't cost he hardly Breathes!! Thank God for the big bombastic bass baritone that is Mr Philip Quast x

[@tommyredzeo300]

Lol wouldn't it be funny if he fel- oh wait

[@thatperformer3879]

Sl90531 oh my god I only just now realized what his suicide symbolically meant with that comment.

[@voidify3]

Lucifer fell because he was punished by God. Punishing oneself is kind of the opposite of being punished by another... and water is kind of the opposite of fire...

[@Bai_Su_Zhen]

@@STheConduit except not in flames

[@jennbryant32]

Hahahaha that's terrible but hilarious

[@theragnaross6529]

and even more than that, it plays the ending of this song after he jumps at the end of his suicide song

[@melindaengstrom8910]

The best actor combined with the best singer. Fabolous!

[@kittykaati]

This is awesome, and kind of funny how Russell is standing and moves his lips in a way that could never produce a voice like Philip's :DD

[@samrcat4077]

Thank you! This and Javert's suicide were such powerful songs on stage and lacked it in the movie. Crowe looked the part but could not sing well enough for this part.

[@Zebradeen]

Brilliant! Shivers up the spine. Russell acts it perfectly, and Philip sings it perfectly. Neither can do the other job as well, but I did love the film and Russell Crowe did a good job as Jalvert. As did the rest of the cast. I have no complaints. But THIS is marvellous! Thank you!

[@hairyeahyeah]

Great edit!! Now if you could just dub Michael Ball over Nick Jonas in the 25th! things WILL be sounding better to this self confessed Les Mis-A-Maniac! Adore PQ!

[@lgbaloni]

omg yesssssss

[@trishkoran3293]

hairyeahyeah AHA!!! Yes, yes, yes!!!

[@jennbryant32]

I'm with you! I LOVE PQ

[@RickRollMachine]

Finally, a version that isn't painful to listen to

[@lauriehankins7739]

Claps........... Bravos How it is swelled at the end. Heart Felt from him.

[@zoewilkerson7618]

Would pay extra for this version of the movie

[@princezzpuffypants6287]

That healed my soul. Thank you

[@approp]

Ha. Brilliant. Was a shame about RC's singing voice. He did a briliant acting job but for Stars you need the big vocal chords. Have had Philip Quast on a loop for years though so don't think anyone else would measure up.

[@erracht]

They should do this to the entire movie wherever Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman and Sacha Baron Cohen are singing. However good actors they are, they just aren't cut out for singing in a musical (especially one of the caliber of Les Miserables), especially Crowe, he made an effort but the result was a "Stars" that sounds like he has a cold. Good job.

[@ineffabledolphin9139]

Whoever did this... bless you

[@kaulterloli5955]

I just got this recommended and thank you very much!

[@LOVxxE]

Ah, this is so much better... we can but imagine. I'll just pretend this is the film version ;) This is how it should have sounded. Thanks for this!

[@MickintheMiddle]

you went out of your way to edit the timing of the lyrics. mad respect

[@joelleheyer8170]

Just found this. Yes! Thanks for sharing. This is how it should have been. Russell is a great actor, but no singer. Have the master, Philip Quast sing!

[@mythoughtsand]

when it went "safe behind bars" and showed the cityscape i got chills- if only he sang like this in the movie. OR EVEN BETTER imagine if they had made the movie with the tenth anniversary cast in the 90's? 😳 i wouldve cried even harder than i did when i watched the movie 😹😭

[@AmethystAnna]

I was just wishing today that someone would do this to the whole movie. I so want the vocals of the 10th and the scenery of the movie. Happy I found part at least. :)

[@fairfeatherfiend]

If only the movie had this level of singing. :-(

[@allerod]

op, thank you so much for making this, i would die for you

[@garylines9258]

Just shown this to my Asthma nurse who like me is a massive Les Miis fan, and she was greatly impressed as am i

[@briang.2218]

I will say this, everything else about the scene was brilliant. The sweeping visuals, the night sky, etc, all beautiful. The only slightly more lackluster thing was the singing. So this video of course makes it great.

[@sdsures]

Much, much better! If Crowe had been allowed more rehearsal time or had they not done this live, he actually has a good voice.

[@MsLasofia]

You are a wonderful persom for making this!

[@lydiab2927]

This makes me smile.

[@tankmaster1018]

Hell, if the strings were up to this level in the movie, it would still be way more impressive without changing anything that Russell did... The live orchestra from Quast's version of this song just blows the movie version out of the water with the string swells, like at 1:55 in the video. I'm guessing the people who made this film decided to calm down the song to make it easier on Russell and cover up his vocal flaws.

[@deborahingle2301]

Brilliant! Well done!

[@MmeNemours]

aah, that's how it should have been all along!

[@Laou41]

This mash-up made me think, "Hey, Russel Crowe isn't very good at acting either" :D

[@chrisp4170]

Thank you for doing this...

[@MSJMSJ1900]

Clever!

[@rogerspatton1734]

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[@WolfeTone66]

Very good job putting this together..👍

[@STE3111]

Dude that’s amazing you have some serious skills in editing

[@akechijubeimitsuhide]

This scene just got 1000% more Lawr.

[@fjvasquez1]

Brilliant! Can't beat Quast!

[@DarthxErik]

if ONLY this is how it sounded... :P Wonderful work!

[@1sleepinglisa]

Thank you! too bad we can't buy the film with this as an option... hahah

[@marleygreen3866]

so good. i thought russell's voice was mediocre, but not good or bad. his acting was terrific though.

[@ComedyLoverGirl]

+Racie Mae Crowe's interpretation of Javert made the character a cold, broken man who harboured a lot of sadness and didn't find much meaning in life apart from his work, and couldn't empathise with other people. He acts accordingly, being a stone cold character who only gets emotional in a few key scenes. Quast, and most of the other stage actors, portray a more passionate and arrogant Javert who is the ruthless and zealous law official. I think Crowe tried to bring some of his own charisma for sympathy into the character because he wanted to do what he does best and bring out another version of Javert, a classic character. With mixed results, of course. He kind of woobified the character too much.

[@fairfeatherfiend]

@@ComedyLoverGirl Javert lorded over prisoners all his life, how did he get to be a broken man?

[@ComedyLoverGirl]

@@fairfeatherfiend Well remember, he was born inside a jail, the son of a convict and a gypsy. He hated his parents and the people he grew up around, that's what motivated him to become such a law fanatic. There's definitely a lot of insecurity in the character though from how he was raised, that when he ends up losing faith in the law he literally kills himself, because he had nothing else to live for.

[@mateoblumenthal9316]

Holy shit I just found this and it is truly beautiful

[@naruoze]

A nice cut!

[@viktorwillyam]

thank you man, this is amazing

[@paulak5220]

This version is impressive and really really great! But I absolutely LOVE Crowe in the movie, no matter what all people say for some reason. And I am trained in music.

[@ombrandon]

You are a brilliant genius for doing this

[@GMGRDS]

This is amazingly well done.

[@WillElliot]

Thanks. I went with B&W because KZbin was blocking the video after I uploaded it. Still not sure why as there were other videos up already. So I went B&W, made some small tweaks to the audios frequency, and it worked. I did put a colored version on vimeo.

[@trishkoran3293]

Will Elliot I think the black & white works wonderfully!

[@JuliaStegeMagic]

brilliant! beautiful editing. Wonderful

[@FreshGreenKim]

Wow. You made a dream come true.

[@rialce_v]

You're a genius!!I really love this video

[@personne4346]

excellent job man o_o

[@voidify3]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the foreshadowey camerawork in this scene? It's like the movie's saying "Look at all these vertigo-inducing shots of Javert standing on a railingless edge hella high up, birds eye shots, worms eye shots, his feet walking on the edge, throw 'em all in! This ;) sure ;) won't ;) come ;) up ;) again ;) *finger guns @ people who know the plot*"

[@SiennaZahav]

Nice work :)

[@annarowe1849]

Well done this is brilliant Phillip Quast has such an amazing voice, mr crow was ok but I love this overdub :-)

[@kathrynmdesign]

This is now my movie.

[@admiralflynn895]

Really good speed ramping.

[@mariawodniok6253]

now, this Javert is PERFECT!

[@SteveJones313]

Nice work.

[@xcranktc]

Excellent Job on the dubbing

[@malachimizori305]

you guys have to remember that russell crowe isn't a broadway regular. So yea, his voice might not be as developed and as opera sounding or whatever as the other guy, but stop being so hateful. It was something he got to do for the movie and he loved it, it's not like he performed it every night and projected his voice for a large theater on the regular. I know people like Philip Quast better, and I can agree that his voice is far better for broadway stuff, but I also like Crowe's voice in the movie and think he did a good job with what he had. People are always going to be upset when their broadway favorites don't make it into the screen adaptations, but you don't have to be so harsh on the actor who filled that spot. They're just filling that spot on film, it's not like Crowe is going around trying to be Javert on broadway across the world and claim he is the best or anything. Haters are going to hate I know that, I just wanted to say something positive for Crowe for once since everyone seems to be against him. I think he did well in the movie and enjoyed himself. Either way, the movie is done and you can't change it.

[@obiwankenobi9141]

Besides Crowe is not a bad singer, he has his own band it’s just he can’t sing musical theatre.

[@trishkoran3293]

Ha! Now I know why in the old days of musical films, they would dub the actor’s singing. 😂😂😂😂

[@kapitankapital6580]

How it could have been if they hadn't recorded the singing on set.

[@craigking8066]

This is awesome and amazing awesome song and I love 💕 my name is Craig king from south west wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Pembrokeshire

[@lotkooijman]

thank you:))))))))

[@lukehensonmusic7141]

Can you somehow edit Norm Lewis’ Confrontation and Colm Wilkinson’s Confrontation into a single recording?

[@davyd8963]

well made :D

[@pajarowalking]

Big improvement! The whole movie could use your 'improvements'. Thanks so much.

[@1940ssinger]

Crowe not the power vocal of Quast, but he is an actor..and has facial power. The looks, emotions there. But am a Quast Javert fan.. so would have been nice to see him in the role. But Crowe as an actor, did good job and always liked his work

[@FelineFurKin]

Welp, this finally made it fantastic, who’d have thought 😏 the music is so powerful anyway, it comes through better than I remember in the film. I still want to know why there are about two whole stars in the sky, was it that hard to put some up there?

[@DustyLemonZilla]

Philip Quast is the ultimate Javert, there is no one like him.

[@tcwlau3721]

We have reached..."the balance"...!

[@victoriajohnson5467]

oh my word... please do this for the whole movie... russell crowe kills me. he's so weak as javert. he's great in everything else he does don't get me wrong but javert is philip quast. hand down. always.

[@lainejay]

Just watched Russell Crowe singing dubbed over Philip Quast i.e. reverse of this video... a most horrific experience!

[@JRBanitt]

This is a much more enjoyable experience lol

[@sarahchristinaganzon8244]

This has been my dream combination. Can you do an edit similar to this of Javert's suicide?

[@stevejailbirdmatt]

Great job! Philip Quast is the quintessential Javert and I was so disappointed by Crowe's performance. The tempo was too fast and it lacked emotion. This should be the official version!

[@zoephotoart]

I can't decide whether I like Russell with Quast or Carpenter's voice better lol. Your syncing is great! Why did you chose B&W?

[@niallsulcer600]

Is it bad I still like Quast more? I just think he's a better actor and singer for the part

[@PoissonVisageStudios]

Everyone likes Quast more. Literally everyone. Why would that be bad?

[@lynackhilou4865]

Niall Sulcer well he's the perfect javert and seen by a lot of people as the best one too

[@andrewwest7053]

Of course he is, he is a Broadway actor, meaning he has to pull off everything in one take every night.

[@chrisp4170]

Niall Sulcer Let’s not go too far in criticism of Crowe. He‘s a stunning actor who is willing to push himself and take risks that some others might not. On this Occasion, he should probably have been dissuaded.

[@amonferrari]

you're doing god's work son...

[@coll912]

Despite his singing, The wonderful aspect of Russel Crowe for Les Miserables is that he can perfectly rival Hue Jackman. They're both wonderful opposites as actors, but more importantly, wonderful opposites as characters.

[@CarinSomers]

great improvement, Philip should have done the film

[@petriewheeler-lill2735]

Do you know who you should do this as? Norm Lewis. Partially because I expected Crowe to sound like him. Got a shock when he sounded like Gerard Butler met David Hasselhoff...

[@kalebwick3429]

And not to mention Crowe's acting method of "If I act like I don't care, maybe I can convince you to care".

[@charliecampbell6851]

Wow, he actually sounds good now.

[@ivanfiodorov6429]

that's for fixing it!

[@Ace5846]

This was some great syncing. I know a lot of people don't like Crowe's voice, but I think one think that ruined it was the ending. I was wondering if you might be able to sych up the audio from the movie with the soundtrack's recording of Crowe where they use better cuts of his voice and stick to the original ending? It would be fantastic to see and I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd love to see it.

[@TheMIKEBATT]

If Crowe could act as well as Philip Quast it would help. It's visually not anything like Quast does with it! Nice edit though. RC walks through the movie like a frightened zombie.

[@cerridianempire1653]

if only this one had color

[@WillElliot]

Me too. It was when I first uploaded it. But KZbin kept blocking it. Don’t know why. They only allowed it after I did the the Color grading.

[@cerridianempire1653]

@@WillElliot oh I see

[@WillElliot]

Thanks. I was thinking about doing more. Maybe his suicide. The Confrontation would be nice, but don't think I could get the timing to work with two people signing at different speeds.

[@bigadrian9519]

Philip quast