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"Could a movie show us this? Could anyone stage a performance full of mistakes , and not quite sure of itself, but still triumphant?"
See Cameron Diaz's karaoke performance in My Best Friend's Wedding...
There was a minute in my life when I wanted to be one of those people in Hollywood who coach actors on how to mime playing an instrument or lip-synch to a song in order to pass it off as the actor's own performance.
Has anyone ever seen Farinelli?!? The way they have that dude mouthing the words to, like, "Son qual nave" and "Ombra mai fu" is super tragic because that nasty-nast digital combination of awful countertenor with mediocre soprano results in a sound that could never be made by the actor's bright buccal gesticulations.
I need more Realness!!!
That would indeed be a fun job. People onscreen pretending to play string instruments always, always look terrible. (Usually, they move their whole bow arm as a unit, rather than keeping the elbow and wrist loose and flexible.) 20 minutes of close attention and instruction from a real violinist or cellist could solve the problem.
Don't high school bands do it all the time?
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