1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,759 Speaker 1: In a world world. Hey guys, it's Mike d. Thanks 2 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 1: for listening to the Bobby Bone Show podcast. I wanted 3 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: to hop on here and share an episode of my 4 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: podcast with you guys. It's called Movie Mics Movie Podcast, 5 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:12,040 Speaker 1: where every single week I just talk about movies, whether 6 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: it's behind the scenes stuff. Sometimes I'll have directors or 7 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: actors on. But this episode in particular that I wanted 8 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: to share with you guys was one where I researched 9 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: the topic about actors and if they're really singing in 10 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 1: the movies you've seen them in or not. So everything 11 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: from like Walk the Line to the movie Selena, all 12 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: these movies where they're singing in the movie, I researched 13 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 1: and found out if it's their voice or if it's 14 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,639 Speaker 1: a different person actually do in the singing. So it's 15 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: a bit of movie history also a bit of music history. 16 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: I thought you guys maybe find this episode enjoyable, and 17 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 1: if you end up liking this episode, be sure to 18 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:44,200 Speaker 1: subscribe to my podcast to get brand new episodes every 19 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,480 Speaker 1: single Monday. 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One man stands to infiltrate the ears 34 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: of listeners like never before in a movie podcast. A 35 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: man with so much movie knowledge. He's basically like a 36 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: walking on MTV with classes from the Nationale Podcast Networking Cases, 37 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 1: Movie Mics, Movie Podcast. So today we are answering the 38 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 1: question did they really sing in that movie? So what 39 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 1: I did is I researched a bunch of actors who 40 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: are in music movies, either biopics or just musicals, and 41 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: I wanted to find out did they actually provide the 42 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,639 Speaker 1: voice in these movies or did they get somebody else 43 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: to come in and sing the parts, you know how 44 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: they have like stunt doubles come in and do like 45 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: the action scenes. Did they do that with the musical 46 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 1: part of the movie. So I think it's a lot 47 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: cooler win an actor can actually sing the part, especially 48 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: when it's a biopic, because I think it gives a 49 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 1: more raw and real approach to the acting, and it 50 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: also just looks better and feels more authentic on screen. 51 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: So I prefer that. But again, if you can lip 52 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 1: sync a performance just as well, I don't think it 53 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: takes away a lot from the movie. Like really, what 54 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 1: you want to go in and see is the movies 55 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: do justice to the artists and do justice to the song. 56 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: So no matter how they do that, I think it's 57 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: a win win. But I sing sometimes we get tricked 58 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: a little bit to thinking like, oh, let they sang 59 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: all the parts in this movie, and it turns out 60 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,119 Speaker 1: they didn't. So actually, one I researched, I thought, this 61 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: artist saying the songs in the movie from like it's 62 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 1: a movie from my childhood, and the person is actually 63 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: a really great singer. But it turns out they didn't 64 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 1: provide the vocals. So I'll get into that one, But 65 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: what I wanted to do first is actors who actually 66 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: did in the movies, starting off verse with Bradley Cooper 67 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: and A Star Is Born, which is one of the 68 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: most recent ones because Bradley Cooper, he directed the film 69 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: and he kind of just transformed his entire essence in 70 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: being into being a musician, everything from hanging out with 71 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: Eddie Vedder from Van Halen to kind of find out 72 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: what it's like to be a rock star. But he 73 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:23,919 Speaker 1: went really hardcore into taking singing lessons, but not only that, 74 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 1: just like pretty much changing his voice, Like he worked 75 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: with like a speech coach and somebody to train him 76 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: on how to have that really gravelly voice that he 77 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: has in the movie. Like he went all in, so 78 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: he not only learned how to play guitar for the movie, 79 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: he took a guitar lesson from Willie Nelson's son, Lucas Nelson, 80 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: to actually learn how to play guitar. And I think 81 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: this gives a really great rawness to this movie. And 82 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 1: what takes it up even a step further is that 83 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: they recorded a bunch of these performances live, because that's 84 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 1: what Lady Gaga wanted. She didn't want to sing you 85 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: a track, which, of course you have a pop star 86 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: like Lady Gaga, of course she's got a singer room parts. 87 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 1: But her request was that she wanted to do them 88 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: all live. She thought going in and lip syncing two 89 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: recorded tracks would take away from the performance, which I 90 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: feel gives a really like it works really well in 91 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: this movie because a lot of it is some like 92 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 1: just Bradley Cooper on an acoustic sometimes worn't them two 93 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: together performing a duet, And I think having that live 94 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,160 Speaker 1: chemistry between them two because it's really great in this movie, 95 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 1: like them two together is perfect, and even them singing 96 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: like on a ward shows together, it's great. So I'm 97 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: really glad they did that with this movie. And I 98 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: think it's cool to find out that Bradley Cooper can 99 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: actually sing. And I like a lot of songs from 100 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: this movie. I know the big one, the number one 101 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:44,119 Speaker 1: is Shallow, but there's a song in this movie called 102 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: Maybe It's Time, and it's just Bradley Cooper and an 103 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 1: acoustic and I think it's my favorite song from the movie. 104 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,600 Speaker 1: I know everybody's probably a bigger fan of Shallow, but 105 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: like this song. I remember hearing and thinking this is 106 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 1: actually a song. I would just listen to norm Emlie 107 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: and there was a song off the soundtrack that I 108 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: would go and just seek out and listen to you 109 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: on my own. If you haven't heard that song, here's 110 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: a little bit of it. Maybe it's time Lios, Maybe 111 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 1: it's time Lilio digs luck to change man digs luck. 112 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: That's my favorite song from the movie. Actually Raised by 113 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 1: Jameson Isbell and a really great music movie. If you 114 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:30,839 Speaker 1: haven't seen it, and if you want to go and 115 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 1: watch it now, it's been out of inn it, but 116 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: I think it's good to watch and know that he's 117 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: actually singing in this movie. Up next, I want to 118 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: talk about Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon and walk the 119 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: line which they both actually sing in this movie. Not 120 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: only that they learned instruments, like Joaquin Phoenix learned how 121 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:48,720 Speaker 1: to play guitar and Reese Witherspoon learned how to play 122 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: the autoharp, and they performed a lot of these together alive. 123 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: So I think Reese Witherspoon was pretty nervous about doing 124 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: this movie because she didn't realize like the musical aspect 125 00:05:57,880 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: to it like she was gonna have to sing, but 126 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 1: she's actually a really great singer, and them together sounds 127 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 1: really good in the movie, and it's hard to believe 128 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 1: like how talented both of them are, and the fact 129 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 1: that they actually sing the songs just kind of makes 130 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 1: the movie that much better. So they both did six 131 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: months of vocal training before they started filming this movie, 132 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:19,839 Speaker 1: and Joaquin Phoenix his voice was actually like too high 133 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: to play Johnny Cash, so he was trying to get 134 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: it down low a little bit. But whenever they were 135 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 1: performing and rehearsing with the band before filming, they're like, dude, 136 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 1: your voice is too high. We're gonna have to take 137 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 1: all the songs up like a key. So they made 138 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,159 Speaker 1: all the songs kind of matched to Joaquin Phoenix's range, 139 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: and then right before they started filming, I guess he 140 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 1: trained himself or somehow his voice got lower, so then 141 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:42,719 Speaker 1: they went back and relearned all the songs in a 142 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: lower key, which I think is pretty cool that he was, like, 143 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 1: he sounds like Johnny Cash in this movie when singing, 144 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: and he gets like the mannerisms down everything from just 145 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 1: like his on stage like performance and just the way 146 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 1: he kind of moved his mouth. I think he did 147 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 1: a really great job in that, and I'm kind of 148 00:06:58,120 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: glad he was able to get his voice a little 149 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: bit lower, because I think that would have taken away 150 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: a bit if it would have been like him singing 151 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: in a higher pitch. I kind of wonder what that 152 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 1: sounded like. Did it sound just like a higher version 153 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: of him or did it sound like squeaky like I 154 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: don't know, but they can both actually really sing. And 155 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: June Carter Cash actually like approved of Witherspoon playing her 156 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: in the movie before she passed away. And it's kind 157 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: of sad that they didn't get to see this movie, 158 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: you know, be put out into the world like before 159 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: they passed away, because I think it does them a 160 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: lot of justice. And I think it's one of the 161 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: best biopics out there, the most authentic feeling. And I'm 162 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 1: glad they both saying in this movie. All right now, 163 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: I want to talk about Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone 164 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: and La La Land and they both actually sing in 165 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 1: this movie. Before this. Emma Stone, she did a lot 166 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: of like Broadway stuff and she's sang there, and I 167 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 1: think they got her to sing in this movie, like 168 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: they didn't know that she was like that greatest singer. 169 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: I don't think that's what they were looking for. I'm 170 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: not saying she's a bad singer, like her performance in 171 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 1: this is actually really good and she sounds good. But 172 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: they were also looking for more theatrical singing for this musical, 173 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 1: so her kind of style already fit that, and I 174 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:04,679 Speaker 1: think they kind of looked for her having a rowdness 175 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: and not being super polished. I think works in this 176 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: because I mean it's a musical. You basically go from 177 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 1: acting into straight up bursting into song. You don't have 178 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: to be a stellar vocalist to be in this movie 179 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: and do this part well. The same thing with Ryan 180 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: Gosling that I don't think he's the best singer, but 181 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 1: he can sing in a musical and perform and act 182 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: really well. But the thing about Ryan Gosling is he's 183 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 1: I mean, he's done some singing in some of his 184 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: other movies, and he was actually in The Mickey mouse 185 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: Club as a kid, So like with all like the 186 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: original like backstory boys, like that was him, Like he 187 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: was like twelve thirteen years old and singing on The 188 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:41,839 Speaker 1: Mickey mouse Club. And I actually pulled a clip of 189 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,440 Speaker 1: him singing just to kind of get of idea of 190 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: how talented he was as a kid. So this is 191 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:49,679 Speaker 1: Ryan Gosling, like twelve years old, singing on The Mickey 192 00:08:49,679 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 1: Mouse Club. Yeah. So he went from that to sing 193 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 1: in La La Land, And he's just kind of a 194 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: guy you have to be jealous about, Like, not only 195 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 1: is he so good looking, not only can he act 196 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:09,680 Speaker 1: so incredibly well, but he can sing too, Like, come on, man, 197 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: all right. Next, I want to talk about a movie 198 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: that I wasn't expecting to like. Now. I've been saying 199 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: for a while now that I'm not a big fan 200 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: of musicals, but I think I'm just not a fan 201 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: of bad musicals because every good musical I get recommended to, 202 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: I hand up liking. And that was the case with 203 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 1: this movie, The Greatest Showman. Now, this is a very 204 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 1: big musical. It's very elaborate, very loud, it's very in 205 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:33,439 Speaker 1: your face. There's no getting around that it is a musical. 206 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: So it's really cool seeing Hugh Jackman's range because not 207 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:40,359 Speaker 1: only is he Wolverine, where he plays a really scraggly, 208 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: you know, macho action star, he goes on to do 209 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 1: the Greatest Showman where he's just this very like dominating 210 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 1: vocal presence and he can't really sing, like this is 211 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: really him singing in this movie, and so much so 212 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 1: that he'll like do shows and tours where he performs 213 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: these songs, and these songs are actually really great and 214 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: very uplifting and kind of like you'll find yourself singing 215 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:05,959 Speaker 1: them more around the house. Like I don't know, Like 216 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: there was a time in my life where this movie 217 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: was like kind of in my head the whole time, 218 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 1: and I was like, man, that was actually really good. 219 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: And it's very hard for a musical to kind of 220 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 1: break through to me, but I found this one interesting 221 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 1: and I found it great how he sang in the movie, 222 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: and the soundtrack is really good, and a lot of 223 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 1: the actors actually ended up providing the voices in this movie. 224 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: Everyone from of course, to Jackman, Michelle Williams, and Daya 225 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 1: and even Zach Eproud actually sang in this movie. There 226 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:35,440 Speaker 1: was only like one of the main casts who didn't 227 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 1: perform the vocals because she was an opera singer in 228 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:41,439 Speaker 1: the movie and couldn't really get that opera voice down, 229 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,319 Speaker 1: so they had heard dubbed in, and that was Rebecca Ferguson, 230 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 1: who played Jerry Lynde in the movie, and that was 231 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: more show that she was playing a really world renowned 232 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: opera singer and it's really hard to kind of mimic 233 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 1: that and recreate that. But yeah, Hugh Jackman really talented guys. 234 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:57,960 Speaker 1: So not only did he sing in this movie, but 235 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 1: he went through like ten weeks of dance her so 236 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 1: to be able to perform all those dance numbers. So 237 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 1: a pretty incredible performance here. And if you watch it, 238 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 1: know that, yep, it's actually him singing. He is that talented, 239 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:11,199 Speaker 1: all right. So the last one I want to talk 240 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 1: about is rocket Man, where tern Egerton played Elton John 241 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 1: in the movie and he actually provides the stinking voice 242 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 1: in this And I don't know why, but I have 243 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,080 Speaker 1: a little bit of a problem with Rocketman in the 244 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: movie because Elton John had a lot of input on 245 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:30,959 Speaker 1: this movie and the fact that he's still living, I 246 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 1: feel takes a little bit away from like the story 247 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: in this movie. And don't get me wrong, like Elton 248 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: John iconic musician. He'll go down in history is one 249 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: of the greatest, and I'm not taking anything away from 250 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,959 Speaker 1: his legacy, but I like it when a biopic has 251 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 1: as little influence from the artist or even like the 252 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 1: artist's family. I like when a biopic comes out, that's 253 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: either the person that's passed away and it's you know, 254 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:59,079 Speaker 1: remembering their legacy, or it's later later, later in their 255 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: career where it's just like, Okay, here's everything that I've done. 256 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:04,559 Speaker 1: Like I like those kind of movies, and it's very 257 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 1: rare that that happens, because their family is going to 258 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: kind of have a and input on how you portray 259 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 1: the character. So it's very rare to get a really 260 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: raw and straight up what in their life was like. 261 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 1: But with this one, I just felt he was so 262 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 1: involved in it, and the movie was also twenty years 263 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: in the making, like he was trying to make this 264 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: movie twenty years ago so much to the point like 265 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 1: the first person he wanted to play him was justin 266 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 1: Timberlake and he was actually good to be Elton John 267 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:30,719 Speaker 1: and seeing the parts in the movie, and at one 268 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: point Tom Hardy was even considered for the role, and 269 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,840 Speaker 1: then they finally decided on Taran, who is a lot younger. 270 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: So I thought this movie was Okay, I'm not the 271 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 1: biggest Elton John van to begin with, but I just 272 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: felt it didn't really tell his story entirely, Like it 273 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 1: wasn't the movie I was ready for. Yet I would 274 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 1: have liked this movie maybe ten years from now. There 275 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: was just nothing about it that really stood out to me. 276 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:56,080 Speaker 1: I think it kind of bought into the hype around 277 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: when Bohemian rappted he came out, which I'll get into later, 278 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: but I think it was just kind of buying into 279 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 1: the biopics and everybody kind of wanting to, you know, 280 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 1: put out a movie about themselves. So but either way, 281 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 1: it's cool that eggertit actually sang all the songs in 282 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: this movie, and so much so that he wanted to 283 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: actually look a lot like Elton John, which I think 284 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: is probably what they got down best. Like he would 285 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: shave his head to look like Elton John and gave 286 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,560 Speaker 1: him the receding hairlines so much that he actually started 287 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: losing his hair. So that is commitment to a role. 288 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: All right. So what I want to talk about next 289 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: is actors who actually tricked us to thinking that they 290 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 1: were singing in a movie, one that probably ruined a 291 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: movie from my childhood. I'll talk about all those after this, 292 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 1: all right. Now we'll talk about actors who tricked us 293 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: into thinking that they were actually singing in movies. So 294 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 1: last year Bohemian rapsod He was a big movie, and 295 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:46,679 Speaker 1: I thought the movie was okay. I felt it was 296 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 1: a little bit rushed, but myself, I wasn't too familiar 297 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: with Queen's music. So what that movie did for me 298 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: was really kind of make me familiar with their music 299 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: and really kind of go back and listen to them 300 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 1: and get into them from that movie. And the thing 301 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: about Queen and Freddie Mercury is that he has such 302 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: a distinct voice that they had to do something to 303 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: make it sound like Freddie Mercury. So Remy Malleck they 304 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 1: got him. He was in the original choice for that movie. 305 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,079 Speaker 1: It was actually gonna be Sasha Baron Cohen who was 306 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 1: going to play him, but then he backed out of 307 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: the entire movie because the guys from Queen got so 308 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 1: involved in the making of that movie that they wanted 309 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: Freddie Murcury to die in the middle of it, and 310 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: then the rest of the movie be about how they 311 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: recouped and did the band without him, so that got scraped. 312 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 1: He was like, I'm out, and then they found Remy 313 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: Mallick who had a striking resemblance to Freddie Mercury, and 314 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: they did some work with his teeth to put in 315 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: fake teeth to make him have that smile. And the 316 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 1: thing is, he didn't sound like Freddie Mercury, so they 317 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: had to go and find a way to recreate Freddie's voice. 318 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: Like I said, it's so distinct. So actually what you're 319 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: hearing in the movie is real recordings from Freddie Murcury 320 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: that they took from live stuff or just studio stuff. 321 00:14:57,720 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: But a lot of it is this guy named Mark 322 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 1: mart Hell who actually came in on the radio show, 323 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 1: on the Bobby Bones Show and performed. And it's crazy 324 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: to see this guy performed because he came in just 325 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 1: him and the piano, and just from when he was 326 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: warming up, he did like these little runs that I 327 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: was like, holy crap, I could close my eyes and 328 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: picture Freddie Murcury, like when he was actually playing and performing. 329 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: I closed my eyes at one point and I was 330 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: like I could, like I could visualize it, like he 331 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: sounds so much like him. So what they said after 332 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: this movie came out is that they kind of took 333 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 1: Remy Mallick's voice, Mark Martell's Freddie Mercury and made a 334 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 1: combination to put him in the movie. But what I've 335 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 1: actually really heard is that it's pretty much all this 336 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: guy Mark Mark tell because he sounds so like him 337 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: and to the point to where the guys from Queen 338 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: signed off on him. And I think, just watching that 339 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: movie and after seeing him perform live, I'm pretty sure 340 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: that they used like most of his stuff because it 341 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: is so right on. But Remy Mallock did a really 342 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 1: great job playing Freddie Murcury, but sounding like him that's 343 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: a really hard thing to do. So I don't hold 344 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: anything against the guy. He won Best Actor for it. 345 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: I just think it's pretty cool how they made that happen. 346 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: But if you're watching that movie and thinking to Chrumie 347 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: Mallick singing, it is not now this next one kind 348 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: of got me by surprise because Jamie Fox is a 349 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 1: really talented actor and musician, and he's a really great singer. 350 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: And when he played Ray Charles in the movie Ray, 351 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 1: I thought that was a you know, a no brainer 352 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: that he was singing in it. But the thing is 353 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 1: that Jamie Fox, he loves Ray Charles and he I mean, 354 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: he nails the performance. He looks like him, but he 355 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 1: didn't want to attempt to kind of recreate or mimic 356 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: Ray Charles's voice because in the movie he is playing 357 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: Ray Charles like throughout his career, and he didn't want 358 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 1: to do like an impression of what would end up 359 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 1: just sounding like the end of Ray Charles's lives. So 360 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 1: what he did was he actually went and learned piano, 361 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: so in the movie it's actually him playing piano, which 362 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: is a hard thing to recreate, like when it comes 363 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 1: to learning instruments, if you don't know how to play 364 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: instrument while you're acting, it's gonna look really like like 365 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 1: you're not gonna believe it because you're not gonna be 366 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: looking like you're knowing what you're doing. So he learned 367 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: how to play piano to make that part authentic, but 368 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:06,679 Speaker 1: he wanted to hold Ray Charles's voice and use his 369 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:10,399 Speaker 1: actual recording, so he didn't actually sing in the movie 370 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: Ray and he actually does like a really great impression 371 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:14,880 Speaker 1: to Ray and he can actually sing just like him, 372 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,159 Speaker 1: but for the movie's sake, they use live recordings that 373 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 1: you stuff from the studio, and it's not Jamie Foxx 374 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 1: singing in the movie. Nailed the part, though He's a 375 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:26,199 Speaker 1: really talented guy and sings in other movies, just not 376 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:28,639 Speaker 1: in this one. Now, this next one is one that 377 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:30,640 Speaker 1: kind of ruined my childhood just a little bit because 378 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,880 Speaker 1: I'm a big Selena and Dania fan. She's a dehno 379 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 1: artist out of Texas and growing up, like I was 380 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 1: maybe five years old, and I didn't really know anything 381 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 1: about music, but I knew Selena and when she died, 382 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 1: it was a really sad day in my family, Like 383 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: I remember it the day she died, and I remember 384 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,439 Speaker 1: getting a T shirt with Selena's face on it. And 385 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: I loved her music. So when the movie came out, 386 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,199 Speaker 1: I was as a kid excited to see it and 387 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 1: Jennifer Lopez in it. I love her in this movie, 388 00:17:57,119 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 1: and the whole time I thought it was her singing, 389 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: because Jennifer Lopez is like Jamie Foxx, like I was 390 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 1: saying earlier, she's a great actress and a great singer. 391 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:09,919 Speaker 1: But they didn't use Jennifer Lopez's movie. In the movie, 392 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 1: she is actually just lip singing all the songs, and 393 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 1: it's Selena's real voice in the movie, which makes sense 394 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: looking back now because it sounds so identical to the recording, 395 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: so identic goals to how she sounded live, and a 396 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:24,119 Speaker 1: lot of those are just studio recordings. It's not actually 397 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 1: Jennifer Lopez singing, despite how much she looks like her 398 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: and could probably sound just like her. I just think 399 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 1: it would have been a lot cooler if it was 400 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 1: her voice. But I get it that they wanted to 401 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:35,399 Speaker 1: hold a kind of true to what Selena sounded like 402 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 1: and have her actual music in the movie. But for me, 403 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: I think it takes a little bit away from my 404 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:42,640 Speaker 1: childhood thinking that it was Jennifer Lopez. Still a great 405 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 1: movie if you haven't seen it, though, it's not on 406 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:47,160 Speaker 1: Netflix anymore, but if you subscribe to HBO Max now 407 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:49,360 Speaker 1: you can watch it there, all right. This next one 408 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: is another one of my favorite movies. It's La Bamba 409 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 1: starring Lou Diamond Phillips, who played Richie Vallens, and Richie Vallens, 410 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:57,439 Speaker 1: of course, died in a plane crash back in the 411 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 1: fifties with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper and this movie. 412 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: Watching it, I kind of knew that it wasn't Lou 413 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,360 Speaker 1: Diamond Phillips sinking in it because you could almost tell 414 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,680 Speaker 1: in some scenes where he's lip syncing that it just 415 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: kind of completely changes and sounds like a recording. But 416 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:16,439 Speaker 1: what they ended up doing is they used music recreated 417 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:20,159 Speaker 1: by those lobos, because when Richie Valens went into the 418 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 1: recording studio and did these old tracks, back in the day, 419 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: they didn't have everything separated. So when you record music nowadays, 420 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 1: you have like the vocals on one track, the guitars 421 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 1: on one track, the drums on another track, and so forth. 422 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:33,920 Speaker 1: But back in the day, it was like straight up 423 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 1: everything on one track. Because it's so old school, everything 424 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: just pretty much recorded the tape and there was no 425 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 1: way to pull apart the tracks. So what they end 426 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:43,680 Speaker 1: up doing, like when they're shooting the movie, is the 427 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,640 Speaker 1: lip sync to the vocals or something like that kind 428 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:48,719 Speaker 1: of shrip it down in a way to where they 429 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,200 Speaker 1: can recreate the scenes and make it, you know, sync 430 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:53,399 Speaker 1: up just perfectly. But they couldn't do that with these 431 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 1: old recordings. So what they did is they got those 432 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: lobals to essentially recreate all of Richie Valens his music 433 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: for the movie, and including the song Bla Bambah, which 434 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:03,880 Speaker 1: I knew that one because I remember having the soundtrack 435 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 1: to this to this movie and all the songs on 436 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:08,640 Speaker 1: their headless Lobos. I was like, oh, so it's not 437 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 1: Ludum and Phillips singing, which pretty much makes sense. He 438 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 1: looks a lot like Richie Vallens in the movie, but 439 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,639 Speaker 1: it's not him singing. This next one's actually kind of funny. 440 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 1: The movie Old brotherware Artyle starring George Clooney, has a 441 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 1: really great soundtrack, and George Clooney, you think he's singing 442 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,479 Speaker 1: in the movie, and it would be kind of like 443 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,160 Speaker 1: an entire package if George Clooney was that good looking 444 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:29,160 Speaker 1: and could be able to sing. But what they tried 445 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 1: to do for this movie first is actually used George 446 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:34,640 Speaker 1: Clooney's voice. They're like, you know what, let's give him 447 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 1: a shot. So he actually sang on like the early 448 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: recordings going into this movie, and when the producers listened 449 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Speaker 1: back to this, they pretty much said that he sounded 450 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:44,639 Speaker 1: like a cat, just screeching and sounded terrible and they 451 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 1: couldn't use it. So what you see in the movie 452 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 1: and what you hear on the soundtrack, it's not George Clooney. 453 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: It's actually from a band called the Saggy Bottom Boys, 454 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 1: who ended up winning a Grammy for this soundtrack and 455 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 1: the main song on it, Man of Constant Sorrow, even 456 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,879 Speaker 1: though as talented as George Clooney is not him singing 457 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,320 Speaker 1: in this one. So this next one's pretty cool. So 458 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:06,880 Speaker 1: you got the animated nineteen ninety four original Lion King 459 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 1: and you have a young Simba voice by Jonathan Taylor Thomas, 460 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: who you may remember from Home Improvement and pretty much 461 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,239 Speaker 1: being a little hard throb in the nineties, but he 462 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 1: didn't provide the singing voice for Simba in this movie. 463 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 1: Who actually did it was an actor named Jason Weaver, 464 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 1: who you may remember as the Older Brother and Smart Guy, 465 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 1: which is a really great TV show back in the nineties, 466 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: and he did the singing voice for this And not 467 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 1: only that, but Disney originally offered him two million dollars 468 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 1: to do the voice for Simba, and essentially, okay, you 469 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 1: take the two million dollars and that's your pay for 470 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: this movie. But his mom really had a big win 471 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 1: here because she kind of knew how deep or big 472 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: Disney pockets were and how much this movie could really 473 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 1: be successful. That she made a really powerful business move 474 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:55,639 Speaker 1: to be like, you know what, we don't want the 475 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 1: two million instead, we'll take a hundred thousand dollars and 476 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 1: we want some royalties of the movie, which was probably 477 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:07,680 Speaker 1: the best move in like a kid's acting career because 478 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: The Lion King arguably one of the biggest Disney movies 479 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 1: of all time, and you're getting royalties from that from forever. Really, 480 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: you have that money coming in for the rest of 481 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 1: your life, just a straight up paycheck in the mail. 482 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,200 Speaker 1: That's like a really great business move, an awesome way 483 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 1: for a mom to be looking out for their young kid, 484 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: because really, at that age, two million dollars sounds like 485 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,639 Speaker 1: an incredible amount of money. But you're looking at Disney 486 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:34,920 Speaker 1: here and you're thinking, you know what, they're putting out 487 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:39,439 Speaker 1: these really big legacy animated movies in the nineties. I 488 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 1: want to get in on this. I want this for 489 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 1: the rest of my life. So I hope those royalties 490 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:44,919 Speaker 1: are still coming in front of them, because that is 491 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: an amazing story. This next one is a little cringe worthy. 492 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:52,920 Speaker 1: So zac Efron in high school musical zac Efron is 493 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: actually a decent singer. Talked about The Greatest Showman where 494 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,159 Speaker 1: he did actually provide the singing voice in that he 495 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,200 Speaker 1: can sing and he thought he was going to be 496 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,119 Speaker 1: the one singing in high school musical. Like, he filmed 497 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: the movie and did all the singing, but when the 498 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,479 Speaker 1: movie came out, he realized that they took all of 499 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 1: his vocals out and brought it another singer to sing 500 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 1: over him. So it's not actually zach Efron in that 501 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 1: movie because they didn't want to use his vocals, so 502 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: they got somebody else hired him. Zac Efron said he 503 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 1: was actually blindsided when he found out that they didn't 504 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 1: use his voice, and after that that he realized that 505 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 1: they brought somebody else to record the vocals and put 506 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: him instead without him knowing. When it came to the 507 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 1: sequels for this, he pushed for them to actually use 508 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: his vocals in the second and third movie. So after 509 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 1: that original movie, it is zach Efron singing in the movies. 510 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 1: And speaking of Disney, movie is a guilty pleasure of 511 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 1: mine is the Lizzie McGuire movie. And I was actually 512 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: thinking of this movie the other day because I felt 513 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,879 Speaker 1: like this movie kind of ended my childhood. Now. I 514 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 1: didn't get super into Disney really, but I did from 515 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:56,919 Speaker 1: time to time when I would go over till at 516 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 1: my cousin's house, I would watch the Disney Original Chan 517 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:01,879 Speaker 1: movies because after like a certain time at night, it 518 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:03,920 Speaker 1: would just replay those all over and over and over. 519 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,240 Speaker 1: And I didn't have cable at the time, so that's 520 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,159 Speaker 1: really the kind of time I would bringe all these movies. 521 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,199 Speaker 1: And I remember watching Lizzie McGuire and being really excited 522 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,439 Speaker 1: when the movie came out, and I feel like that 523 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 1: was kind of like the last of my years of 524 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 1: being into any kind of Disney Channel stuff, because I 525 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 1: was growing into being like a teenager going to middle school, 526 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm not really going to be 527 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,920 Speaker 1: into this anymore. And I remember like the summer that 528 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:26,960 Speaker 1: the Lazy McGuire movie came out. Maybe I didn't see 529 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: it in theaters, I may have saw it like on DVD, 530 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 1: but I felt like that was the end of like 531 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,400 Speaker 1: a marking point in my life. That's kind of how 532 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 1: I like pinpoint the end of me being like an 533 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,639 Speaker 1: innocent kid to going on to being a teenager. But 534 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,919 Speaker 1: in this movie, Hillary Duff actually plays two characters. She 535 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:46,439 Speaker 1: plays herself as Lizzie McGuire and then she plays the 536 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:50,399 Speaker 1: other singer, Isabella. In the movie, it's like a parent 537 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: trap flit screen situation going on here. But Lizzie McGuire 538 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 1: is voiced by Hillary Duff, so that's her singing those 539 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:00,640 Speaker 1: parts in the movie. But just bring in Isabella actually 540 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 1: used Hillary Duff's sister, Hailey Duff, who also guests started 541 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 1: in a few episodes of Lizzie McGuire, so it's all 542 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,359 Speaker 1: right there coming out in the movie. Haley Duff and 543 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: Hillary Duff's both singing in that part, and there you go. 544 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: Those are the ones that I found were the most interesting. 545 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 1: If there are any others you think I should have 546 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,919 Speaker 1: included in this list, just hit me up and tweet 547 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: me at Mike Destro or send me a message on Instagram. 548 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: All right, So this next movie review, it's a movie 549 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,360 Speaker 1: that I was highly recommended to watch by a guy 550 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,440 Speaker 1: I worked with on the Bobby Bones Show named Lunchbox. 551 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,480 Speaker 1: He saw this movie and was like completely Florida completely 552 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 1: blown away by it, so much so that he's been 553 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,360 Speaker 1: recommending it to everybody, like even to like his family. 554 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 1: And Lunchbox isn't really a big movie guy, so it 555 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,679 Speaker 1: takes really kind of something to kind of shake him 556 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,200 Speaker 1: to his core, and so much so that he recommends 557 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:47,800 Speaker 1: it to people. So I was like, all right, I 558 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 1: can't believe first of all that I haven't seen this movie, 559 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 1: and second of all, if he's so hype about this, 560 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: it has to be good. So it's a movie called 561 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,919 Speaker 1: Molly's Game, which came out in twenty seventeen. It stars 562 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, and Kevin Costner, and it is 563 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,199 Speaker 1: available to watch now on Netflix if you're looking for 564 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 1: something to watch. But before I get into the review, 565 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: here's just a little bit of Molly's Game. I'm Molly Bloom. 566 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,159 Speaker 1: Do you know about me? Sold your indictment after I 567 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,160 Speaker 1: got your call last night and I bought your book. 568 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,679 Speaker 1: Do you understand that you're charged with operating an illegal 569 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 1: gambling business? Are you taking me on as a claim? 570 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,239 Speaker 1: I don't think I can convince my pard as if 571 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,199 Speaker 1: they can fly on the polk procession. If you think 572 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,400 Speaker 1: of the Princess can do it, I did. You're incorrect. 573 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:31,679 Speaker 1: I'm getting that you don't think much of me, but 574 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: one of every single one of your ill informed, unsophisticated 575 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:36,919 Speaker 1: opinions about me were wrong. So the movie is the 576 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: true story of Molly Bloom, who was an Olympic class 577 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:43,040 Speaker 1: gear and then ran the world's most exclusive high stakes 578 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,399 Speaker 1: poker game and became a target for the FBI. And 579 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 1: what I liked about this movie but in the beginning, 580 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,399 Speaker 1: was that it kind of started at the end. It 581 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 1: kind of set up her story at an Olympic skier, 582 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 1: and then it kind of just kind of flipbops and 583 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,439 Speaker 1: goes into how she got arrested. So it kind of 584 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 1: starts at the end and then it works away figuring 585 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,879 Speaker 1: out kind of what happened. So Jessica Chastain plays Molly, 586 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,919 Speaker 1: and then she's working with Edris Elba, who was her lawyer, 587 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,959 Speaker 1: and she's trying to get out of trouble with the FBI. 588 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 1: And then throughout her kind of explaining your situation, it 589 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 1: goes backwards and kind of starts from the beginning of 590 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 1: how she started running these poker games into where she 591 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,680 Speaker 1: ended up now. So I felt the movie was had 592 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:25,399 Speaker 1: a really great premise. I liked the storyline, but I 593 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 1: also felt like you needed to know a little bit 594 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: about poker, which when Lunchbox told me about it, he said, 595 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 1: even if you're not into poker, even if you do 596 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,199 Speaker 1: anything about gambling, you'll still enjoy this movie. And I 597 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 1: just found myself having to kind of google things and 598 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,199 Speaker 1: kind of like look at things and realize why they 599 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 1: happened a certain way. I didn't feel like the movie 600 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 1: did a great job explaining everything as it went throughout. 601 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,640 Speaker 1: But I think the real problem I had with this 602 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,400 Speaker 1: movie is that it's a lot of explaining and not showing. 603 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 1: So it's Molly pretty much telling the story of what 604 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,480 Speaker 1: happened the entire time, and she narrates in a way 605 00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:59,880 Speaker 1: that it kind of gets a little bit boring because 606 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 1: there's parts that you just want to see happen. You 607 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: just want to feel those things. You want to feel 608 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,240 Speaker 1: those things with her and experience and with them, but 609 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 1: it's all her kind of like backtracking back, and I 610 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: felt like this movie was building up to something that 611 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: never really paid off anywhere or got anything kind of accomplished. 612 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: To me in the movie, I thought there was gonna 613 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,680 Speaker 1: be like this really big, unbelievable scene were just something 614 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 1: unbelievable happened, but it never really got there for me 615 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,119 Speaker 1: and ended up, you know, I didn't feel like it 616 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:25,919 Speaker 1: did a really great job in that there were some 617 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: really cool parts to it. I thought there were some 618 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 1: pretty cool parts to it, I found it interesting, but 619 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,880 Speaker 1: as a movie in a hole, I just didn't feel 620 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,160 Speaker 1: like it had a lane anywhere, Like it was kind 621 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 1: of a biopick, but it didn't really feel like a 622 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: coherent movie to me, Like I thought it was entertaining 623 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 1: enough to keep watching it. At no point I was like, 624 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: I'm going to turn this off and not care anymore. 625 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: Maybe the last twenty minutes I was kind of over 626 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: it and didn't really care what was gonna end up. 627 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 1: So for that I would probably rate it like barely 628 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 1: at a three at a five poker chip. It's right 629 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 1: on the very end, like it's entertaining enough, but it's 630 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 1: also two hours and twenty minutes. In those last twenty 631 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 1: minutes really don't go anywhere, and it kind of ends, 632 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, that's how it ends, Like that's it, 633 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 1: Like where's everything else? Like I don't know. I feel 634 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: like there's another movie inside there because it is based 635 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: on a book, and it is based on a true story, 636 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 1: and I feel like there's more inside of that true 637 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: story that makes for a better movie than the way 638 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 1: this was told. And I don't even think it was 639 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: the fact that it was so hyped up to me, 640 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 1: that I found myself not liking it. I just kind 641 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 1: of got bored there towards the end. So I'd say 642 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 1: maybe if you're really into poker and gambling and want 643 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,760 Speaker 1: to see a movie about that, maybe it's more for you. 644 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,840 Speaker 1: But if you know nothing about it and really don't 645 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 1: carry anything about that storyline, I'd say it's probably not 646 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 1: worth your time. Thanks to everyone for listening. I hope 647 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 1: you have a good day. I hope you have a 648 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 1: good week, and I will talk to you next time. 649 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:47,240 Speaker 1: Later