Yeah, Russell Crowe is way freaking better. Steve Czarnacki's performance is like Shaggy Rogers playing Javert. Crowe actually has the stoicism required to play a character so rigidly stoic such as Javert.
Agree to disagree. Javert is stoic for the entire musical until being shown grace tears apart his entire worldview and the way he understands God and the possibility of redemption. The lyrics themselves don’t call for a restrained, stoic performance. This is a man having a mental breakdown. Crowe was focusing so much on trying to sing that he forgot to act, and still failed at the singing part. He played it stoically because he wouldn’t have been vocally able to pull it off if he had tried to show actual emotion.
Yeah, Russell Crowe is way freaking better. Steve Czarnacki's performance is like Shaggy Rogers playing Javert. Crowe actually has the stoicism required to play a character so rigidly stoic such as Javert.
Agree to disagree. Javert is stoic for the entire musical until being shown grace tears apart his entire worldview and the way he understands God and the possibility of redemption. The lyrics themselves don’t call for a restrained, stoic performance. This is a man having a mental breakdown. Crowe was focusing so much on trying to sing that he forgot to act, and still failed at the singing part. He played it stoically because he wouldn’t have been vocally able to pull it off if he had tried to show actual emotion.