I had a feeling when they say "look at him, he can act, he cried!", is like the equivalent of us musicians hearing people say "He can play flight of the bumblebee, he's so good!" lol
Sam Stonick They could’ve picked “Titanic”, “The Karate kid 2010”, or “Your Lie In April Live Action”. Well, the Live action one had an actress who hasn’t played violin before, but I guess that they hired a DOUBLE in MOST of the Clips in the Violin Scenes.
Arianna Cunningham yes! Karate Kid. I’m so glad someone mentioned this. I hope there’ll be more movies with ACTUAL violin playing tho sjaldjslskakka..... anyone has any recommendation aside from movies that portray violin playing?
I actually watched that Chinese movie. It's about a single guy who adopted a baby abandoned at a train station, next to a violin. And he paid to have his son learn the violin. It was a very moving story.
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia critics helped him a little on the way. One kinda funny story was: the actual actors in this movie were told to not act as good as they usually could so davids bad acting doesn't stick out that much.
I was an extra in the Devil's Violinist in the scene featured in this video. I can tell you that David Garrett really did play in every take, but they had a pre-recorded track that they synched the movie with. The recorded track was playing quite loudly while filming, so we could only hear a little of what he was playing live. The timing might have been a little off for that reason. Also, I was standing right next to the door when Paganini swooped in, and the director specifically instructed us (the audience) to all turn towards him immediately as he started playing. A few people seem to turn too soon, maybe because they used take no 5 or something and we were anticipating his grand entrance. I'm also glad I wasn't picked to be a screaming fan, that was way over the top ;) Best part of filming was an hour-long set change where David Garrett stayed on stage and played Bach's Chaconne and other things to pass the time. Oh, and the entire orchestra could in fact play (except for the panicking concert master), but since they also played to the pre-recorded track, they didn't even bother to tune their instruments properly. It sounded quite horribly off key.
Oh! Are you that one beard guy beside the door, because as what you said the audience turn too fast, and I was guessing you did not. And the guy that I was talking did not turn too fast, so ye I was guessing it was you 😅😂
@@woopywop lol no, I'm a girl and was wearing a dark blue dress with a white collar. You can't see me in the deep shadows beside the door, I was somewhere behind the bearded guy. Another fun tidbit is that every audience member is in four different places at once because they filmed the auditorium in segments, there weren't enough extras to fill the theater, so we switched places a lot and filmed the scene several times from different angles. In that scene, I was in the shadows next to the door, standing somewhere in the middle, and sitting in a box on the left and a balcony on the right, simultaneously. In this video, you can see me if you pause at 5:36 exactly, above David Garrett's left hand behind a grey-bearded gentleman.
TO BE FAIR... The editors job is more about picking the right frames to begin and end a clip on for maximum pacing, beauty, and emotional impact. Having the shot match exactly what's being heard in the music is actually not a priority. You're not supposed to pay attention to that.
@Kathriel Perales This guy and a bunch of friends (or fake accounts, I don't know) have been spamming TwoSet comment section for three weeks now. They're trying to promote another channel. Many people (including me) have reported them.
5:14 that did happen, Paganini used to smoke cigars and women would pick up the ashes and put them in their medallions; even after getting married they kept the pendants. Women fainted at the sight of him even on the street. He was one of the first musicians to be accused of making a deal with the devil; he died without the last rites. He did encourage the image, wearing all black, riding in a black carriage pulled by all black horses. His greatest tour in London featured him actually diving off the stage directly onto the carriage.
Cheers to your editor for throwing in the minuet to f*** with UA-cam because honestly this video totally counts as fair use. It is so wrong that their auto flagging system screws with legitimate reviews.
I got a bit of anxiety when his long hair kept coming closer and closer to the strings "is it going to get snapped by the bow?" "is it going to get tangled in the strings?"
For real though, I think he actually sold his soul to the devil just so that his hair wouldn't get tangled between his violin's strings... I mean, my hair gets tangled in the guitar so... Imagine how it'd be like if I played violin with my hair let down...
I have long hair and play the violin. It's never gotten tangled, it just brushes off. The worst that's happened is that it's actually sounded off the string (like bow hair), but that's only really audible on electric violin (yes, I play both acoustic and electric).
@@Neophage Exactly I also had long hair and no problem with that. plenty of great violinists who play with long hair, Jerry Goodman and Didier Lockwood come to mind. There's a good video on UA-cam of Goodman playing violin love with his band The Flock, his hair gets all over the violin, but alas, nothing happens at all.
I know im late, but i was an extra in that paganini scene, it was filmed in two days, so David must have played this piece like a hundred times, and he nailed it. Every. Time. So yeah, bad editing. There also wasn't that much screaming on set, most of it is edited in
Can we take a moment to talk about the rosin dust on the first guy’s instrument!? I have never seen rosin on an instrument in a movie! He was ACTUALLY playing and playing with enough movement to make that happen. I don’t know why it makes me so happy but it’s very satisfying.
I was also super impressed by that! Glad you pointed it out! It really shows how much attention they put on the details! In an earliear scene in the movie where he played the same piece with the orchestra, his violin was shinning under the stage light. I guess they filmed the last scene differently on purpose to show how much emotion he had while playing.
@@jingj5744 that wasnt him with the orchestra, that was another girl who was said in the movie to not have passion for music unlike the main. That's why you only see her during the orchestral part and see him during solo
@@zewensenpai thanks for the reply! I didn't mean the girl. It was an earlier scene where the boy "rehearsed" with the orchestra (?) and his teacher went on stage and pat his head...maybe that scene was in the deleted scene edit lol
I get the same problem watching “army” movies, being an ex solider it’s difficult to watch them movies cause they forget to reload or don’t do proper drill
Gotta love scenes where it's a gajillion baddies with swords to one hero, and all the bad guys are flailing around in the background instead of attacking from behind so hero can fight off one or two at a time and live! Or like you said, some tiny little handgun with infinite bullets - a modern take on Legolas?
@@Oscitant_Otter to be fair when fighting cqc unless you're trained specifically to fight as a group at the same time you'll cause more harm than good, swords arent small, all their power comes from the swings/thrust, a LOT of opportunity for friendly fire. Look at people getting jumped for just how chaotic it is, and that's just hand to hand imagine it with 18-31 inch blades, and halberds.only time it probably work well is with spears, but people dont recognize the depth of how cool fucking spears are so you dont get them in movies
Paganini used to practice 15 hours a day when he was a child (he started playing at 7 years), he send a letter to his close friend rossini saying that its really sad that people consider hard work and pain as a devil’s work EDIT : its 22/10, happy birthday franz liszt!!, and thank you for the likes.
Kiyozzz yeah i know, his health went soo bad because of his father, i dont think its 15 hours a day every single day, but he stills force him so hard, his health and personality went so bad because of that
I am so glad you did 'Together" You really need to watch the whole movie...it is so special. The scene you showed is the very end of the movie. The boy has turned down playing the big concert in favor of staying with his father. He was 'hearing' the orchestra but playing in the train station for his father. This is one of my all time favorite movies. Please watch the whole thing... you will love it.
My family friend is the great violin legend who recorded the entire soundtrack for this movie. The actor is indeed a violinist but none of it was his actual playing. Li Chuan Yun is the master virtuoso behind this soundtrack. He was one of the three legendary virtuosoes who shot to stardom along with Lang Lang and Li Yun Di. An unbelievable genius - you have to youtube his performances and be smacked across the face by his brilliance.
Do you know the joke about Paganini: They say Paganini made a deal with the devil. We don't know what it was that Paganini got, but the devil got violin lessons. :-D
@Julia Wiltgen I know this is a joke, but it's soooo not true. You just have to see his sparkling eyes and beautiful smile when he plays to understand that violin gives him life. And @Dembai, I'm pretty sure the last thing Eddy would do is laughing. It's much more plausible he would watch Brett with his eyes wide open, looking at him with his "Senpai" face. 😉
This is honestly how i felt with Coco and guitar. They had actual guitarist play the music and then animated Miguel based off the players and it was RIGHT! And as a guitarist that makes the whole world of a difference. They even got the proper playing style too since each style has different adjustments and holds and stuff and it was super impressive!
The cheering in the Paganini movie seems incorrect, but that’s actually accurate! I’m taking music history right now at Uni and classical concerts back then were more similar to modern rock concerts, in a way. People did cheer and clap at times that seem inappropriate to us now. Besides the cheering, the concert was actually portrayed pretty modern. The modern quiet concert developed towards the end of the 19th century and into the 20th century. There should’ve been a lot more talking and moving around for it to be historically accurate ;)
@@jonnymario771 couldn't be becoz of life circumstances. Both Vivaldi and JS Bach lived by getting employment (patrons) thru commissions and working as "official" music directors for nobles. It was almost the same as with Mozart. Many believe that it was Beethoven who actually broke that system in a prominent way by operating as a "free agent" or "freelancer" which would allow him more artistic freedom, he is his own boss so to speak. From then on, a musician/composer's chief source of income would be selling and performing his compositions. I think this is how the Romantic period musicians like Chopin and Liszt got their "rock star" status, thru their magnificent music and performances.
Absolutely, especially when it comes to time restraints. It takes years and years of practice to become proficient on an instrument but only a few lessons spread out across a few weeks to attain somewhat of decent acting skills
I agree, and also because musicians are more sensitive to emotions (through musical training) and do not shy away from expressing them. I think they would have more potential in acting.
As long as they don't fall into the "Kevin Costner School of Theatrics"!! There ARE several musicians in movie history that just didn't make it over that hump of "Acting is Believing".
@@rainawelch6950 What do you mean? I haven't noticed that. (Also, I'm pretty sure I heard somewhere that editor-san plays cello, not sure about the truth or falsity of that.)
@@KingstonCzajkowski I think they were talking about the person (or people) in charge of editing/audio for The Devils Violinist since the audio didn’t line up :)
@Playergartoon94 Dabs Ha ha, don't worry, it happens to me all the time. I was listening to Mendelssohn the other day, and my mom asked me what that piece was. I very confidently answered that it was Sibelius' Violin Concerto ! It took a good 5 minutes for my brain to realize there was something wrong with what I had just said... 😂
My family friend is the great violin legend who recorded the entire soundtrack for this movie. The actor is indeed a violinist but none of it was his actual playing. Li Chuan Yun is the master virtuoso behind this soundtrack. He was one of the three legendary virtuosoes who shot to stardom along with Lang Lang and Li Yun Di. An unbelievable genius - you have to youtube his performances and be smacked across the face by his brilliance.
Brett and Eddy just can’t help themselves - second video still turned into a roast. They couldn’t roast the violinist, so they just roasted everything else. 😂
Hey Twoset! I'm a featured extra in Tv & Film, where I'm mostly hired for my musical abilities [or to mime them]. I can tell you from experience of how/why musicians dont sync up most of the time, as the reality is in filming: Their job is to capture pictures [not audio] - thats someone elses department [which are seldom on set and are more post production]. Most times, you aren't even given the music [no feel, no tempo, no sheet music, no... nothing!] where you're just told to mime, though I have been apart of productions that gave sheet music but during filming - they might do a couple of take with the music playing in the background for you to sync up with [causing fractional delays], but the most difficult part is having to remember what bar the director said cut, and from which bar you begin on 'pick up' [basically, you have to cue the bars to the movements/what is happening in the scene] - so a good example is when the violinist is walking through the crowd [you picked up the slide at a different point] - where this comes down to the editing [as you have a person concerned only with what it looks like editing the visuals] not the individual performer. The only instance in which you are able to see note for note play, is when an Actor is used and they *physically* record the piece and where it is indicative of the character to break into song as part of their dialogue/direction in the film/tv series. It takes alot of time to reherse as well as even longer to get right in filming - which is why it's tended to be brushed over and not focused on in the filming process [which is a shame to witness as a musician]. Hope this provides some incite into the process, thank you for your videos and inspiration to get practicing. Cariad fawr o Gymru - Much love from Wales x
Thanks for highlighting the "other side" of these situations! Believe me, I understand the frustration as an audience member, but I also understand the reality of the situation as a filmmaker and editor. Given infinite time and infinite budget, things like this wouldn't happen so much, but film is first and foremost a _business,_ and schedules must be kept. If you're shooting a solo for 12 hours and it's just not working, at some point, the person signing the checks is going to say, "look, it's good enough, 99% of people won't even notice, let's move on" (and the harsh truth is they're right 👀). The movie has to be finished or it doesn't matter how great the solo is... nobody will ever see it. If you run out of money to shoot the ending because you spent 3 more days on the solo, good luck ever getting anyone to finance another of your movies. And the simple fact is, for every thing "wrong" with the musical portions of these videos, there is something else "wrong" or historically inaccurate with the production design, wardrobe, makeup, etc. (or just technical mistakes with lighting, audio, acting, continuity, etc.) that Brett & Eddy didn't notice because they were paying attention to the music lol! I promise, no filmmaker _wants_ to make a bad movie, but it's a lot like an orchestra... lots of moving parts, lots of people, lots of individual & ensemble performances, lots of equipment to set up and use properly, etc. = lots of room for error. One out-of-tune piccolo shriek and nobody will talk about the rest of the performance, they'll say, "ugh, did you hear that piccolo??"
@@Diddd4444 Idk. Do you know BTS? One of the member's name is Jungkook, and I thought it would be cool to do something similar to "Taehyung Tea". I wanted it to be unique so I added "Juice" to it.
Well, not quite the most beautiful, but certainly the most charming musician... so charming that, once, when he played the Thaikovsky Concerto, I couldn't even hear what , or how he played it, because of his face's expression, and smile...( the chronicles afterwards were not that good about his playing, but I didn' t care, as long as I was , anyway, charmed by his looks...)
My mom use to have an obsession with him about 2 years ago. After work she would always listen to him on the TV till bed time. Now she’s over him but has other obsessions 😅
I have hair his length and it’s curly and it flops on the strings all the time, I can sometimes hear it, but the audience can’t. It does get caught on me shoulder rest a lot though.
This is the same thing as having actual martial artists do action movies. No stunt doubles who always conveniently hide their face, no thousand cuts or super fake punches, amazing choreography and practical effects.
It’d be convenient but as with musicians those guys can’t act for the most part. And the audience aret there to see them. Still they get paid. At least stunt doubles add validity to the scenes
Honestly, I dunno why the critics were so hard on David, when the real problem lied with the horrible script, subpar directing, and poor editing. Also, David originally only joined to compose and arrange the music (which he did, as seen in the orchestral arrangement here) because he loved Paganini. The director's the one who roped him into acting once they realised that not having a real violinist play the part would completely ruin the movie. Yet the script still managed to trivialise Paganini's existence, get many important facts wrong, and leave out most of the good parts of his life. There really wasn't much _any_ of the actors could do with that script and directing. The music was great, and the storyline bearable if you tell yourself this was just a composer with an identical name. *Spoiler Alert* (Do not read if you haven't seen the film yet). Paganini never had any dubious intentions toward an underaged girl (then gotten falsely accused of rape & had his fingers trampled on; that's both horrible and completely false). The story that the creators of the movie could have made from him and Antonia Bianchi would have been much better (not to mention believable, as they met as adults, were together for years, then had Achille). And that's just ONE of the many problems. He had many health issues popping up one after another, but his life as a virtuoso wasn't pathetic. It wasn't until his late years that things started to fall apart. His vices didn't define most of his life except during his late teenage years and before the end. He made friends with great composers and musicians, he invented many techniques for violin, and he composed some of the most difficult pieces for violin, period. His life was more than dramatic and impressive enough without inventing things that couldn't have happened. Making London look like a smoke room (foggy and no visibility are two different things) full of prostitutes, making him do drugs/drink/sleep with random women in every scene, and forcing an impossible love story where he's jilted, jailed, and has his fingers crushed is NOT an homage. I don't see what the actors could have done, given such a wrong script, the directing focused on the darkness looming over Paganini (seriously, constantly invoking the devil was overkill. People may have been superstitious enough to believe something like that at the time, but he was simply more talented and more hardworking. He allegedly practiced 15 hours a day as a kid. The film made it look like Urbani really was a supernatural agent, and completely controlled his life), and the editing to complement. The storyline really wasn't up to par with the music (which was often incomplete so they could spend more footage on the unnecessary and wrong parts).
@bodd boward thats funny cuz this is a copy pasted answer to someones question about two comments up. (copypasted from themself) they obviously didnt want this whole essay to go to waste in a reply section. i applaud
@@Roma-kp4qg Yup. That was brutal. As a person, I found the false rape accusation and subsequent jailing to be horrible. As a musician, I felt his fingers being trampled & the beatings received from other jailmates to be soul-crushing.
@@hargssgrah4738 True. When a movie or other media production is great, we know that it's a combination of all factors. When it clearly has problems, we don't generally know why. Sometimes the director was lazy and picked a crappy script (or just directed/casted badly). Sometimes the original script was great, but someone influential decided to change it. Of course, there are also times when the actors just don't live up to the image they should portray. But it's rarely the fault of CGI (even when it's bad, it's because they hired the wrong people). I just ranted in the original post because when this movie came out, most critics blamed the actors, especially David Garrett. In this case, all I can be certain of is that it wasn't any of the actors' fault. They casted quite well, including the female lead. She didn't sing opera originally, but she did music theatre. And her voice fits the character she was playing. To be fair, the music was phenomenal (if short). Knowing what I know, I still would have watched it the first time for the music alone. However, I would not rewatch the whole thing again, just the music scenes.
The women's screams during Paganini's playing - I think they are a reference to some of the legend about his deal with the devil, that he would imprison souls of women in his violin which could be heard screaming while he played
I like to think that classical musicians were the rockstars of back then and I still think that classical and rock music constantly coincide with each other. And David Garrett playing for me is amazing I wouldn't know how to act if he was playing and looking into my eyes.
Golden quote: "Imagine if bananas were blue." That is how jarring it is to see simple mistakes in movies in a are where you have knowledge. In my case it is not violins, I would not spot the errors these guys point out, but I understand fully why it is that jarring to them. Just imagine the sound being off by 0.1 seconds from the image when someone talks or sings. Everyone is (at least) that sensitive.
Also, one reason that sound is out of sync is your own setup. If you have a TV/monitor, computer, DVD/Blueray, some kind of digital box, different encondings decoded buy the same box, a separate amplifier and five channel sound system, some of these having analogue connections and some digital. Long story short: There will be different delays in the sound and image paths in all these cases, and if they are off by just 50 ms that could be enough to upset people sensitive to the problem. So never assume the editor is the culprit, unless they used substandard equipment (or in the case of a movie forgot to use a clapper).
It's actually kind of frustrating for many musicians and multi-instrumentalists. I don't play violin, but I play trombone, drum set, orchestral percussion, jazz vibraphone, sing, and a little piano. It's usually possible for me to tell when almost any on screen musician is "faking it" or if something is wrong in a movie. I'll see wrong rhythms, obviously wrong physics, hear wrong notes, or just some aspect of bad general performance.
It's not a projector, its a limelight. Two fuels and a large amount of pressurized oxygen were pumped onto a mineral block made of lime and limestone dust and set alight. All this was backed with a parabolic reflector. The heat of the combustion was very bright, but still was too too skewed toward the red end of the spectrum. Once the lime block heated up, it would emit blue and violet light to make a balance of colors similar to sunlight.
Going back to David Garrett's record video where he broke his own record by a second and a half, he is definitely the fastest not sacrilegious violinist ever.
together is a very moving film! i believe it's about how the boy's dad struggles to pay for his violin teacher but still lets him learn it he meets a lot of obstacles along his violin learning journey I think it is a true masterpiece! whoever is reading this should watch the film!
That first movie, Together, is my favorite film about a musician I’ve ever seen. Brett and Eddie should absolutely see it. Not only is it a touching movie but the realism in being a young musician is so incredibly accurate both on and off stage.
@@hedgehatchet3578 They trivialized Paganini's existence, got many important facts wrong, and left out most of the good parts of his life. A lot of people criticized David, but honestly, there really wasn't much he could do with that script and directing. And the music itself, which he helped arrange (and sometimes compose), is phenomenal, as well as all the scenes involving playing music.
@@satriyanto6741 I mean, that would be great. But I would settle for them at least not getting things completely wrong. *Spoiler Alert* (Do not read if you haven't seen the film yet). He never had any dubious intentions toward an underaged girl (then gotten falsely accused of rape & had his fingers trampled on; that's both horrible and completely false). The story that the creators of the movie could have made from him and Antonia Bianchi would have been much better (not to mention believable, as they met as adults, were together for years, then had Achille). And that's just ONE of the many problems. He had many health issues popping up one after another, but his life as a virtuoso wasn't pathetic. It wasn't until his late years that things started to fall apart. His vices didn't define most of his life except for his late teenage years, and just before the end. He made friends with great composers and musicians, he invented many techniques for violin, and he composed some of the most difficult pieces for violin, period. His life was more than dramatic and impressive enough without inventing things that couldn't have happened. Making London look like a smoke room (foggy and no visibility are two different things) full of prostitutes, making him do drugs/drink/sleep with random women in every scene, and forcing an impossible love story where he's jilted, jailed, and has his fingers crushed is NOT an homage. I honestly don't see what the actors could have done, given such a wrong script, the directing focused on the darkness looming over Paganini (seriously, constantly invoking the devil was overkill. People may have been superstitious enough to believe something like that at the time, but he was simply more talented and more hardworking. He allegedly practiced 15 hours a day as a kid. The film made it look like Urbani really was a supernatural agent, and completely controlled his life), and the editing to complement. The storyline really wasn't up to par with the music (which was often incomplete so they could spend more footage on the unnecessary and wrong parts).
In Highschool Musical 3, Disney hired myself and other members of my youth orchestra to play in the movie. >< We only got about 10 seconds of screen time in the movie, but they spent the money on real musicians at least!
5:09 This is an accurate reaction according to the books I have read, believe it or not, there were actually a few documented times where women threw their...."under garments" towards him. Which considering the dress of the time was not an easy feat.
I was somehow more distracted by the love interest’s makeup in the last one. 😅 Her tan cream foundation was creasing in a time where it didn’t exist. Fashion History Lesson!: It most likely would’ve been pure white powder (there were cakes too, but it wouldn’t have had that finish or coloring). Basing everything off Late Regency Era(let’s say 1820s): The blush is good, but it should probably be a bit stronger (you wanted to look flush). The lips are good, as are the brows and eyes from what this amateur can see. The hair I’m unsure of. Regency was known to recall Ancient Greek hairstyles like the chignon with face-framing curls or the pull-ups you see on statues. Having the hair in free, perfect curls with no chignon or containment save for a few flowers? Idk, seems pretty sus to me. Maybe mid to late 1840s, and I just can’t see the chignon? But since “the Devil’s Violinist” was dead by that point.... all in all, it’s serviceable, just like the violin-playing. And that concludes your Fashion History Lesson of the foreseeable future!
Actually when I watched the Devil's Violinist, I was fangirling at David the whole time so I had no time to roast the movie haha 😂😂 Edit: David actually did the music arrangements for the movie. So basically, the orchestra part was by him. Since it was a solo piece and not supposed to be played with the oke. And he said as long as nobody is against the music, he deems it as a success. Just saying haha.
The child actor Tang Yun is a talented violinist and graduated from Colburn. But in the movie, the sound track was actually played by another violinist Li Chuanyun. He studied under Dorothy DeLay at Julliard.
They used to edit their videos themselves, they did it for years (which means hundreds of videos) before getting editors, so they have experience in this field.
How have you guys not done a video on the best violin movie of all time “Red Violin” yet. Violin acting was super solid. And the music created for it was badass.
@@austinlee4366 the plot revolves around a thirteen-year-old violin prodigy Liu Xiaochun and his father Liu Cheng who move to Beijing from a small southern town. It is Liu Cheng's biggest dream that Xiaochun may find a good teacher in the city and rise to stardom. After studying under two teachers, however, the boy finds that he has learned not just music, but what is really important in life. 😊
Question: There is another scene in the movie where Garrett plays a piece in a pub. His upper three strings break one after another. So ultimately, he plays everything on the G string till the piece ends. How realistic is this scene?
Unrealistic since if you lose 3 strings, the last remaining string will be extraordinarily out of tune. Also, it really wouldn’t happen in the first place.
Pizza In that case, I guess it could happen. But still the remaining string would go really out o tune. I’m not sure, but it could mess up the bridge and sound post as there is much less pressure holding them down.
Not only does that Together film have an actual violinist, but the way it's shot is so simple yet so effective. You don't have to do a lot to bring out the emotion in the song, just cut to the rhytmn let the musician bring out the emotion as they play, get the soundtrack right, and you're set. So easy, but movies with way bigger budgets can't even do that!
My family friend is the great violin legend who recorded the entire soundtrack for this movie. The actor is indeed a violinist but none of it was his actual playing. Li Chuan Yun is the master virtuoso behind this soundtrack. He was one of the three legendary virtuosoes who shot to stardom along with Lang Lang and Li Yun Di. An unbelievable genius - you have to youtube his performances and be smacked across the face by his brilliance.
We’re not a roasting channel, we’re an applauding channel
-Eddy Chen 2019
It was just as much roasting, not much applause when it came down to it
Good news, he was joking.
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I don't know if they did it, there is a violin fight scene with Lestat on Queen of the damned.
Hyperbole. When you say one thing and mean the other.
*The director of the movie knows that twoset will be watching them*
Exactly what i thought.. 😂
This comment is sooo underrated
Facts!
Ur 1.1k like lol and that’s tru lol 😂
Woah, we got the same pfp!
me: has never even touched a violin
still me: has been obsessed with this channel for about a week now
The obsession won't stop, I'm here like 4 months now
Me too
A week? HAH!
lmao I'm still here ehehe
@@greer8419 Me too 😂
The Chinese boy cried probably because he had to do so many takes of the same piece
or his dad kung pao-ed his chicken.
or he's irritated by that excessive amount of rosin
@@Jane306
Ma po-ed his tofu
whY I laugh too hard at this
Or he had to practice for 40 hours before he got any rice
I had a feeling when they say "look at him, he can act, he cried!", is like the equivalent of us musicians hearing people say "He can play flight of the bumblebee, he's so good!" lol
Poor Little Sheep as an acting student when they said that my heart stopped for a moment
as a musician AND an actor i can say that’s the best analogy i’ve ever heard
They were probably joking
Flight of the bumblebee is pretty Damn hard tho
It actually was very good acting regardless though
I like how there were literally only two movies
Sam Stonick They could’ve picked “Titanic”, “The Karate kid 2010”, or “Your Lie In April Live Action”. Well, the Live action one had an actress who hasn’t played violin before, but I guess that they hired a DOUBLE in MOST of the Clips in the Violin Scenes.
Ikr
Arianna Cunningham yes! Karate Kid. I’m so glad someone mentioned this. I hope there’ll be more movies with ACTUAL violin playing tho sjaldjslskakka..... anyone has any recommendation aside from movies that portray violin playing?
Copyright I would imagine
They only needed ten minuets to get that sweet SWEET add revenue.
how has the dude not got his hair caught between the bow and the strings yet...
If you see him live it happens all the time
Editing, haven't you heard of film editing?
Because he’s a legend
tuberobotto r/woooosh
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Wasn’t a woooosh
I actually watched that Chinese movie. It's about a single guy who adopted a baby abandoned at a train station, next to a violin. And he paid to have his son learn the violin. It was a very moving story.
What is it called?
@@Mycorrhiza Did you watch the video?
@@duolingoowl7043 lol he changed his comment
It's called Together, or 和你在一起, a 2002 陳凱歌movie, dude's last good one, who also made 霸王別姬, another awesome movie about Beijing Opera.
@@keifyw7444 thank you!
David G. himself said he won't act anymore. He realised he is a musician and not an actor. 👏
Self-awareness/10
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia critics helped him a little on the way.
One kinda funny story was: the actual actors in this movie were told to not act as good as they usually could so davids bad acting doesn't stick out that much.
@@VivaLaBunga wth xD
Oh well. He did his job already. And that's enough
Read this comment before watching the part about him, so this freaked me out a bit.
I was an extra in the Devil's Violinist in the scene featured in this video. I can tell you that David Garrett really did play in every take, but they had a pre-recorded track that they synched the movie with. The recorded track was playing quite loudly while filming, so we could only hear a little of what he was playing live. The timing might have been a little off for that reason. Also, I was standing right next to the door when Paganini swooped in, and the director specifically instructed us (the audience) to all turn towards him immediately as he started playing. A few people seem to turn too soon, maybe because they used take no 5 or something and we were anticipating his grand entrance. I'm also glad I wasn't picked to be a screaming fan, that was way over the top ;)
Best part of filming was an hour-long set change where David Garrett stayed on stage and played Bach's Chaconne and other things to pass the time.
Oh, and the entire orchestra could in fact play (except for the panicking concert master), but since they also played to the pre-recorded track, they didn't even bother to tune their instruments properly. It sounded quite horribly off key.
Wow that must have been a cool experience!
that's cool
Oh! Are you that one beard guy beside the door, because as what you said the audience turn too fast, and I was guessing you did not. And the guy that I was talking did not turn too fast, so ye I was guessing it was you 😅😂
@@woopywop lol no, I'm a girl and was wearing a dark blue dress with a white collar. You can't see me in the deep shadows beside the door, I was somewhere behind the bearded guy. Another fun tidbit is that every audience member is in four different places at once because they filmed the auditorium in segments, there weren't enough extras to fill the theater, so we switched places a lot and filmed the scene several times from different angles. In that scene, I was in the shadows next to the door, standing somewhere in the middle, and sitting in a box on the left and a balcony on the right, simultaneously.
In this video, you can see me if you pause at 5:36 exactly, above David Garrett's left hand behind a grey-bearded gentleman.
@@kathilisi3019 Ow HAHA, SORRY ABOUT MY WRONG CONCLUSION, I ALSO THOUGHT YOU ARE A GUY AHAHHAA 😂🤦
I love the editor.
Katarzyna Dziubińska ikr!!!
I''m absolutely in love with their commentary
Actually. The editing makes twoset videos funnier. Kudos to the editor. He shld be applauded too
yes! petition for the editor to "take part" more
Do you think the editor plays an instrument?
Me : Mom I want 5:38
Mom: We have 5:38 at home
5:38 at home : 5:57
Such an underrated comment lol (brettisstillthecutestbeantho)
this comment should get more likes
OH MY GOD IHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHW
What's the piece at 8:58 guys?
Thế Anh Nguyễn Paganini Caprice No. 24
brett and eddy: "it's the editors fault"
their editor: *:(*
Alyssia Gibbs awwwwwww :(
TO BE FAIR... The editors job is more about picking the right frames to begin and end a clip on for maximum pacing, beauty, and emotional impact. Having the shot match exactly what's being heard in the music is actually not a priority. You're not supposed to pay attention to that.
Lemme timestamp this
4:44
Petition to get Brett and Eddy to feature in a movie!
⬇️
Yes
What's movie? Fifty shades of violin?
Azedarach Melia lmao
More like petition for you to get more likes.
sacreligious boi *Movie Editors + Directors* w h y o f c o u r s e!
Mainstream:
“Violinists are so romantic❤️”
Brett & Eddy:
“NoOnE eVeR cAlLeD uS cUtE”
hehe maybe i will
Ummm I do
I mean, Paganini was hawt. I'm sure that helped...
They r pretty cute
All Ling Ling wannabes: 😍🥰
Fun fact: most of the music from the movie is actually Garrett... He played all the violins and composed some of the score.
What's the piece at 8:58, please?
@@theanhnguyen5445 I think it's from Paganini's 24 Caprices. Theme and Variation?
@@theanhnguyen5445 It is luigi boccherini's minuetto.
@@felixho5322 lmao
And it would make total sense. You got this soloist level musician on hand, you'd want him to do most of the music.
He was crying because no matter how good he is he will never be LingLing
EDIT: Omy thanks for the ♥ TwoSet
I really expected some inside on the movie
Or was he a she?
@@hazimesahe good question
He is lingling
C mamut el vato
Yes, yes it did. Ladies went crazy for Paganini. I was just there tomorrow.
LOL, good one!😉
Doctor Who, is that you ?
Oh ma God, you're the man
can confirm, I was the other dude with the violin
Last time I saw Harrett in concert I threw my corset at the stage.
Me: Am I at the wrong channel? Where’s the roast for today?
Also me: [5 minutes later] Yup I’m at the right place.
@Kathriel Perales
This guy and a bunch of friends (or fake accounts, I don't know) have been spamming TwoSet comment section for three weeks now. They're trying to promote another channel.
Many people (including me) have reported them.
Not disappointed 🙌🏻
The roast is at you for not practicing!
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia I reported them as well! This is so annoying.
“Why is the banana blue! It’s supposed to be yellow”
*cries in green banana*
😂😂😂
😂
Unripe banana is green lul 😂
5:14 that did happen, Paganini used to smoke cigars and women would pick up the ashes and put them in their medallions; even after getting married they kept the pendants. Women fainted at the sight of him even on the street. He was one of the first musicians to be accused of making a deal with the devil; he died without the last rites.
He did encourage the image, wearing all black, riding in a black carriage pulled by all black horses. His greatest tour in London featured him actually diving off the stage directly onto the carriage.
I believe his body was properly buried later though.
First emo/rock star, having tons of groupies, partying, commiting some crimes, showing off on stage, just being genius...
Just about to put this saved me the effort but I love the fact that by age 13ish he was up there with the best violinists in Europe.
Was he the inspiration for the character Frederick Pope in the Red Violin, I wonder?
Damn. Neat little portion of history, I thank you.
appreciation comment for twoset’s editor
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Cheers to your editor for throwing in the minuet to f*** with UA-cam because honestly this video totally counts as fair use. It is so wrong that their auto flagging system screws with legitimate reviews.
This is why WIRED didn't interview you guys - you already do what they do, but with better editing
Anyone know what piece they used at 0:00
joseph jeon yeah i wanna know too
Not fair, the no negative/dislike counter
I got a bit of anxiety when his long hair kept coming closer and closer to the strings "is it going to get snapped by the bow?" "is it going to get tangled in the strings?"
I thought this too I'm surprised they didn't mention it!
@@Ramberta They were more focused on the playing than the hair 😂
For real though, I think he actually sold his soul to the devil just so that his hair wouldn't get tangled between his violin's strings... I mean, my hair gets tangled in the guitar so... Imagine how it'd be like if I played violin with my hair let down...
I have long hair and play the violin. It's never gotten tangled, it just brushes off. The worst that's happened is that it's actually sounded off the string (like bow hair), but that's only really audible on electric violin (yes, I play both acoustic and electric).
@@Neophage Exactly I also had long hair and no problem with that. plenty of great violinists who play with long hair, Jerry Goodman and Didier Lockwood come to mind.
There's a good video on UA-cam of Goodman playing violin love with his band The Flock, his hair gets all over the violin, but alas, nothing happens at all.
I know im late, but i was an extra in that paganini scene,
it was filmed in two days, so David must have played this piece like a hundred times,
and he nailed it. Every. Time.
So yeah, bad editing. There also wasn't that much screaming on set, most of it is edited in
Ahhh.... thanks for this information. I literally discovered David Garrett when I stumbled upon that movie.
You can't even begin to imagine how jealous I am... Wow! I love David . Must have been amazing seeing/hearing him
Can we take a moment to talk about the rosin dust on the first guy’s instrument!? I have never seen rosin on an instrument in a movie! He was ACTUALLY playing and playing with enough movement to make that happen. I don’t know why it makes me so happy but it’s very satisfying.
Also if you watch it carefuly, towards the end, some hair broke off from his bow as well, which is also quite realistic.
I was also super impressed by that! Glad you pointed it out! It really shows how much attention they put on the details! In an earliear scene in the movie where he played the same piece with the orchestra, his violin was shinning under the stage light. I guess they filmed the last scene differently on purpose to show how much emotion he had while playing.
@@jingj5744 that wasnt him with the orchestra, that was another girl who was said in the movie to not have passion for music unlike the main. That's why you only see her during the orchestral part and see him during solo
@@zewensenpai thanks for the reply! I didn't mean the girl. It was an earlier scene where the boy "rehearsed" with the orchestra (?) and his teacher went on stage and pat his head...maybe that scene was in the deleted scene edit lol
guys what piece is at 2:07 im sorry i just forgot a lot of great famous pieces
I get the same problem watching “army” movies, being an ex solider it’s difficult to watch them movies cause they forget to reload or don’t do proper drill
Gotta love scenes where it's a gajillion baddies with swords to one hero, and all the bad guys are flailing around in the background instead of attacking from behind so hero can fight off one or two at a time and live! Or like you said, some tiny little handgun with infinite bullets - a modern take on Legolas?
Blush of Pearl 😂 so very true
@@Oscitant_Otter to be fair when fighting cqc unless you're trained specifically to fight as a group at the same time you'll cause more harm than good, swords arent small, all their power comes from the swings/thrust, a LOT of opportunity for friendly fire. Look at people getting jumped for just how chaotic it is, and that's just hand to hand imagine it with 18-31 inch blades, and halberds.only time it probably work well is with spears, but people dont recognize the depth of how cool fucking spears are so you dont get them in movies
i’m in jrotc and the MOST irritating thing is improper salutes 😭😭😭 like how is this guy a general and doesn’t even know how to salute properly?????
This. I cringe so hard
Paganini used to practice 15 hours a day when he was a child (he started playing at 7 years), he send a letter to his close friend rossini saying that its really sad that people consider hard work and pain as a devil’s work
EDIT : its 22/10, happy birthday franz liszt!!, and thank you for the likes.
WELL LING LING PRACTICES 40 HOURS A DAY-
That's just sad...
Xx The Animator xX lol😂
Kiyozzz yeah i know, his health went soo bad because of his father, i dont think its 15 hours a day every single day, but he stills force him so hard, his health and personality went so bad because of that
@@galileofigaro4747 Oh my... Having gone through all that and then being accused of selling his soul to the demon to get that good... 😞
I am so glad you did 'Together" You really need to watch the whole movie...it is so special.
The scene you showed is the very end of the movie. The boy has turned down playing the big concert in favor of staying with his father.
He was 'hearing' the orchestra but playing in the train station for his father.
This is one of my all time favorite movies. Please watch the whole thing... you will love it.
Any idea where to watch it?
What was the violinist's name?
@@divyap4357 His name is 唐韵(Yun Tang). He was a student of the Affiliated Middle School of Shanghai Music Conservatory when this movie was made.
My family friend is the great violin legend who recorded the entire soundtrack for this movie. The actor is indeed a violinist but none of it was his actual playing. Li Chuan Yun is the master virtuoso behind this soundtrack. He was one of the three legendary virtuosoes who shot to stardom along with Lang Lang and Li Yun Di. An unbelievable genius - you have to youtube his performances and be smacked across the face by his brilliance.
"imagine you watch a movie and the banana is blue"
Brett's metaphor is on another level
@Matthew Corbo thank you for the correction, my brain couldn't think of the word while writing the comment lol
But there is such thing as a blue banana.
@@MrsWheezer woah just looked it up that's so cool!!
Do you know the joke about Paganini:
They say Paganini made a deal with the devil. We don't know what it was that Paganini got, but the devil got violin lessons.
:-D
Best joke in a while 😄
Tartini reference?
😂
And then he went down to Georgia to test his skills
@@boxfox4879 was gonna say something like this!
ok but can you imagine brett crying when he plays tchaik concerto like that first guy?
Eddy would be laughing so hard in the background that Brett would not be able to.
Dembai then he'd be crying tears of joy and that's actually better to see 😂
No, cause Brett is actually dead inside
@Julia Wiltgen
I know this is a joke, but it's soooo not true. You just have to see his sparkling eyes and beautiful smile when he plays to understand that violin gives him life.
And @Dembai, I'm pretty sure the last thing Eddy would do is laughing. It's much more plausible he would watch Brett with his eyes wide open, looking at him with his "Senpai" face. 😉
Miss Coussin Rouge I know, Brett’s adorable and it’s lovely to see him play 🥰
This is honestly how i felt with Coco and guitar. They had actual guitarist play the music and then animated Miguel based off the players and it was RIGHT! And as a guitarist that makes the whole world of a difference. They even got the proper playing style too since each style has different adjustments and holds and stuff and it was super impressive!
The cheering in the Paganini movie seems incorrect, but that’s actually accurate! I’m taking music history right now at Uni and classical concerts back then were more similar to modern rock concerts, in a way. People did cheer and clap at times that seem inappropriate to us now.
Besides the cheering, the concert was actually portrayed pretty modern. The modern quiet concert developed towards the end of the 19th century and into the 20th century. There should’ve been a lot more talking and moving around for it to be historically accurate ;)
I remember a story about Haydn 94th being written with the sole purpose of telling off chatting ladies in the front or something along those lines
So you mean classical music concert more fluid and fun back then than now....hmmmm
Also, the baton and the size of the orchestra is accurate
It was like Lisztomania, but for a violinist with otherworldy skills for the time.
Imagine what groupies were like back then, hmmmmmmmmmm? 🧐
"Paganini: the world's *first* rockstar"
Did you all forget about me, tho?
guess so
Who?
What about Vivaldi? Bach?
Broski who?
@@jonnymario771 couldn't be becoz of life circumstances. Both Vivaldi and JS Bach lived by getting employment (patrons) thru commissions and working as "official" music directors for nobles. It was almost the same as with Mozart. Many believe that it was Beethoven who actually broke that system in a prominent way by operating as a "free agent" or "freelancer" which would allow him more artistic freedom, he is his own boss so to speak. From then on, a musician/composer's chief source of income would be selling and performing his compositions. I think this is how the Romantic period musicians like Chopin and Liszt got their "rock star" status, thru their magnificent music and performances.
sacrilegious boi: *if u can play it slowly, u can play it quickly*
eddy: *if u can play it quickly, u can play it slowly*
ASH But it’s not iff.
ua-cam.com/video/UPRevFffQ_U/v-deo.html
Teaching a musician how to act is easier than teaching an actor to play an instrument.
Absolutely!
Absolutely, especially when it comes to time restraints. It takes years and years of practice to become proficient on an instrument but only a few lessons spread out across a few weeks to attain somewhat of decent acting skills
Yeah
I agree, and also because musicians are more sensitive to emotions (through musical training) and do not shy away from expressing them. I think they would have more potential in acting.
As long as they don't fall into the "Kevin Costner School of Theatrics"!! There ARE several musicians in movie history that just didn't make it over that hump of "Acting is Believing".
Let me point out how important is to have an EDITOR that understands music as well!
Editor-san is that you :0
Yes! They always cut and paste at the most random moments because they have no idea how the piece goes. It’s very weird, every time.
@@rainawelch6950 What do you mean? I haven't noticed that. (Also, I'm pretty sure I heard somewhere that editor-san plays cello, not sure about the truth or falsity of that.)
Lol your comment has paganini's number of likes!
@@KingstonCzajkowski I think they were talking about the person (or people) in charge of editing/audio for The Devils Violinist since the audio didn’t line up :)
The woman in the audience were like overheating
I’m the 420th like
loved that scene in the devil’s violinist where the devil tries to vore paganini while he plays minuetto, really iconic and was just so deep
ghost LMAOOO
Did anyone else get literally chills when watching the boy play that first piece?
@Playergartoon94 Dabs I'm confused, the boy was playing Tchaikovsky, not Sibelius...
@Playergartoon94 Dabs
Ha ha, don't worry, it happens to me all the time. I was listening to Mendelssohn the other day, and my mom asked me what that piece was. I very confidently answered that it was Sibelius' Violin Concerto ! It took a good 5 minutes for my brain to realize there was something wrong with what I had just said... 😂
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia can you tell me the name of the piece
@@ikaru5089 That's Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto (3rd mvt).
My family friend is the great violin legend who recorded the entire soundtrack for this movie. The actor is indeed a violinist but none of it was his actual playing. Li Chuan Yun is the master virtuoso behind this soundtrack. He was one of the three legendary virtuosoes who shot to stardom along with Lang Lang and Li Yun Di. An unbelievable genius - you have to youtube his performances and be smacked across the face by his brilliance.
It’s 2019, anything can happen.
Proceeds to stare in shock as movies hire real musicians.
The first movie is from 2002, the second from 2013... 😊
Me: *IMPOSSIBLE*
ua-cam.com/video/UPRevFffQ_U/v-deo.html
“It must be the editors fault”
*Immediate sad face from the editor*
Lmao aw!
"Another episode of two set applause"
🤔 Me trying to recall previous episodes: Roast...roast...roast...
Yes I was like: which video did I miss! 😱
@@Lily_and_River Yes, me too 😂
Was I the only one who was worried about Garret’s hair getting stuck in the bow?
Nope😂
You know you’re early when you can’t see ling ling jokes
Here’s one: Ling Ling got Paganini’s soul back from the devil
😂😂😂
True btw
Brett and Eddy just can’t help themselves - second video still turned into a roast. They couldn’t roast the violinist, so they just roasted everything else. 😂
It's called "making a living" - at someone else's expense 😐🤔.
The scene from the first movie legitimately looks like the recording of an actual concert. Good job!
Just want to say that I LOVE your pfp. 💕
It really does. Very impressive. Makes me want to go watch the movie.
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia ahah thanks, appreciated!
I was confused at first I legit thought that was a recording lmao
S. Gabriel I watched it. it’s a really good movie.
Hey Twoset! I'm a featured extra in Tv & Film, where I'm mostly hired for my musical abilities [or to mime them]. I can tell you from experience of how/why musicians dont sync up most of the time, as the reality is in filming: Their job is to capture pictures [not audio] - thats someone elses department [which are seldom on set and are more post production]. Most times, you aren't even given the music [no feel, no tempo, no sheet music, no... nothing!] where you're just told to mime, though I have been apart of productions that gave sheet music but during filming - they might do a couple of take with the music playing in the background for you to sync up with [causing fractional delays], but the most difficult part is having to remember what bar the director said cut, and from which bar you begin on 'pick up' [basically, you have to cue the bars to the movements/what is happening in the scene] - so a good example is when the violinist is walking through the crowd [you picked up the slide at a different point] - where this comes down to the editing [as you have a person concerned only with what it looks like editing the visuals] not the individual performer.
The only instance in which you are able to see note for note play, is when an Actor is used and they *physically* record the piece and where it is indicative of the character to break into song as part of their dialogue/direction in the film/tv series. It takes alot of time to reherse as well as even longer to get right in filming - which is why it's tended to be brushed over and not focused on in the filming process [which is a shame to witness as a musician]. Hope this provides some incite into the process, thank you for your videos and inspiration to get practicing. Cariad fawr o Gymru - Much love from Wales x
ComeRee Am Bith....as in Cymru am byth? Genuinely thought I'd forgotten all my Welsh after secondary school, haha
Thanks for highlighting the "other side" of these situations! Believe me, I understand the frustration as an audience member, but I also understand the reality of the situation as a filmmaker and editor. Given infinite time and infinite budget, things like this wouldn't happen so much, but film is first and foremost a _business,_ and schedules must be kept. If you're shooting a solo for 12 hours and it's just not working, at some point, the person signing the checks is going to say, "look, it's good enough, 99% of people won't even notice, let's move on" (and the harsh truth is they're right 👀). The movie has to be finished or it doesn't matter how great the solo is... nobody will ever see it. If you run out of money to shoot the ending because you spent 3 more days on the solo, good luck ever getting anyone to finance another of your movies.
And the simple fact is, for every thing "wrong" with the musical portions of these videos, there is something else "wrong" or historically inaccurate with the production design, wardrobe, makeup, etc. (or just technical mistakes with lighting, audio, acting, continuity, etc.) that Brett & Eddy didn't notice because they were paying attention to the music lol! I promise, no filmmaker _wants_ to make a bad movie, but it's a lot like an orchestra... lots of moving parts, lots of people, lots of individual & ensemble performances, lots of equipment to set up and use properly, etc. = lots of room for error. One out-of-tune piccolo shriek and nobody will talk about the rest of the performance, they'll say, "ugh, did you hear that piccolo??"
He didn’t sell his soul to the devil he sold it to...
Ling ling
Plot twist: ling ling refused to buy the soul because the soul lacked practise.
Double plot twist:
Lingling refused to buy it
Cuz lingling was jealous
Plot twist: ling ling scammed paganini by making him practice only 15 hours instead of 40 hours
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Plot twist : Ling Ling worked so hard that he is actually the devil
Is anyone else in love with the high pitched “wAHHHH” sound effect they use in the background a lot
Sun Samaroo i first heard it in fairy tail back in the day
@@zglrd8938 sameee
@@zglrd8938 Same lol
@@zglrd8938 Sameskies
Heart it super often in the gray plays UA-cam videos
The new title should be: "When Movie Directors Finally Listen To TwoSetViolins"
Jungkook Juice what the hell is your name supposed to mean?
@@Diddd4444 Idk. Do you know BTS? One of the member's name is Jungkook, and I thought it would be cool to do something similar to "Taehyung Tea". I wanted it to be unique so I added "Juice" to it.
Jungkook Juice it just sounds.. wrong
@@Diddd4444 hahaha lol......In WhAt WaY? *says in evil tone*
@@jungkookjuice3157 "juice" can mean in sexual way :)) so why dont u search urself :3 it indeed sounds sooo wronggg
My mom just said that David Garrett is the most beautiful man she's ever seen 😂
Your mom is right.
Well, not quite the most beautiful, but certainly the most charming musician... so charming that, once, when he played the Thaikovsky Concerto, I couldn't even hear what , or how he played it, because of his face's expression, and smile...( the chronicles afterwards were not that good about his playing, but I didn' t care, as long as I was , anyway, charmed by his looks...)
Another mom here who wholeheartedly agrees with your mom 😁
My mom use to have an obsession with him about 2 years ago. After work she would always listen to him on the TV till bed time. Now she’s over him but has other obsessions 😅
On god he is literally a dream man. Like if someone asked me to describe my ideal type it would basically be david garret. He is SO FINE.
How did his hair not get caught in the violin.
David plays with a ponytail in contertos lol
The devil kept it out of his face
David Garrett is a pro. he can make sure his hair not get caught.
also lingling is protecting him i guess.
I have hair his length and it’s curly and it flops on the strings all the time, I can sometimes hear it, but the audience can’t. It does get caught on me shoulder rest a lot though.
This is the same thing as having actual martial artists do action movies. No stunt doubles who always conveniently hide their face, no thousand cuts or super fake punches, amazing choreography and practical effects.
So like Jackie Chan
@@borgoat1220 exactly like Jackie Chan. His pre-Hollywood movies were insanely good.
It’d be convenient but as with musicians those guys can’t act for the most part. And the audience aret there to see them. Still they get paid. At least stunt doubles add validity to the scenes
The cirque de Soleil performers as the stunt people in Mad Max Fury Road is what made it so enjoyable for me.
Honestly, I dunno why the critics were so hard on David, when the real problem lied with the horrible script, subpar directing, and poor editing. Also, David originally only joined to compose and arrange the music (which he did, as seen in the orchestral arrangement here) because he loved Paganini. The director's the one who roped him into acting once they realised that not having a real violinist play the part would completely ruin the movie. Yet the script still managed to trivialise Paganini's existence, get many important facts wrong, and leave out most of the good parts of his life. There really wasn't much _any_ of the actors could do with that script and directing. The music was great, and the storyline bearable if you tell yourself this was just a composer with an identical name.
*Spoiler Alert* (Do not read if you haven't seen the film yet).
Paganini never had any dubious intentions toward an underaged girl (then gotten falsely accused of rape & had his fingers trampled on; that's both horrible and completely false). The story that the creators of the movie could have made from him and Antonia Bianchi would have been much better (not to mention believable, as they met as adults, were together for years, then had Achille).
And that's just ONE of the many problems. He had many health issues popping up one after another, but his life as a virtuoso wasn't pathetic. It wasn't until his late years that things started to fall apart. His vices didn't define most of his life except during his late teenage years and before the end. He made friends with great composers and musicians, he invented many techniques for violin, and he composed some of the most difficult pieces for violin, period.
His life was more than dramatic and impressive enough without inventing things that couldn't have happened. Making London look like a smoke room (foggy and no visibility are two different things) full of prostitutes, making him do drugs/drink/sleep with random women in every scene, and forcing an impossible love story where he's jilted, jailed, and has his fingers crushed is NOT an homage.
I don't see what the actors could have done, given such a wrong script, the directing focused on the darkness looming over Paganini (seriously, constantly invoking the devil was overkill. People may have been superstitious enough to believe something like that at the time, but he was simply more talented and more hardworking. He allegedly practiced 15 hours a day as a kid. The film made it look like Urbani really was a supernatural agent, and completely controlled his life), and the editing to complement. The storyline really wasn't up to par with the music (which was often incomplete so they could spend more footage on the unnecessary and wrong parts).
I really appreciate your comment. Thank you so much for actually answering some questions of mine ❤️
@bodd boward thats funny cuz this is a copy pasted answer to someones question about two comments up. (copypasted from themself)
they obviously didnt want this whole essay to go to waste in a reply section. i applaud
Jesus, his fingers got trampled on??
@@Roma-kp4qg Yup. That was brutal. As a person, I found the false rape accusation and subsequent jailing to be horrible. As a musician, I felt his fingers being trampled & the beatings received from other jailmates to be soul-crushing.
@@hargssgrah4738 True. When a movie or other media production is great, we know that it's a combination of all factors. When it clearly has problems, we don't generally know why. Sometimes the director was lazy and picked a crappy script (or just directed/casted badly). Sometimes the original script was great, but someone influential decided to change it. Of course, there are also times when the actors just don't live up to the image they should portray. But it's rarely the fault of CGI (even when it's bad, it's because they hired the wrong people). I just ranted in the original post because when this movie came out, most critics blamed the actors, especially David Garrett.
In this case, all I can be certain of is that it wasn't any of the actors' fault. They casted quite well, including the female lead. She didn't sing opera originally, but she did music theatre. And her voice fits the character she was playing.
To be fair, the music was phenomenal (if short). Knowing what I know, I still would have watched it the first time for the music alone. However, I would not rewatch the whole thing again, just the music scenes.
The women's screams during Paganini's playing - I think they are a reference to some of the legend about his deal with the devil, that he would imprison souls of women in his violin which could be heard screaming while he played
So basically fan girls for pop stars or rockstars today.
Sometimes I think that the screaming was probably Paganini's soul.
When all the girls screamed at David Garrett, I was like same.
*He is SMOKING*
Izzy I went to one of his concerts and I tried hard not to fan girl! hahahahaha
I like to think that classical musicians were the rockstars of back then and I still think that classical and rock music constantly coincide with each other. And David Garrett playing for me is amazing I wouldn't know how to act if he was playing and looking into my eyes.
You were everywhere on the two set videos a while ago
Now you’re back-
Izzy stop sexualizing men
John Doe Hillary Hahn can GET IT.
“He can act. He’s crying.” 😂
Golden quote: "Imagine if bananas were blue."
That is how jarring it is to see simple mistakes in movies in a are where you have knowledge. In my case it is not violins, I would not spot the errors these guys point out, but I understand fully why it is that jarring to them.
Just imagine the sound being off by 0.1 seconds from the image when someone talks or sings. Everyone is (at least) that sensitive.
Also, one reason that sound is out of sync is your own setup. If you have a TV/monitor, computer, DVD/Blueray, some kind of digital box, different encondings decoded buy the same box, a separate amplifier and five channel sound system, some of these having analogue connections and some digital.
Long story short: There will be different delays in the sound and image paths in all these cases, and if they are off by just 50 ms that could be enough to upset people sensitive to the problem.
So never assume the editor is the culprit, unless they used substandard equipment (or in the case of a movie forgot to use a clapper).
I always cringe at anny marching in movies. I spendt a year doing nothing but, so I can always pick out any and all mistakes.
Really great analogy from Brett... except blue bananas actually exist. They taste like ice cream ! 😄
(I'm not joking, just google it.)
My cringepoint usually are the gun fights and sword fights, mostly swordfights, guns are not like that and people won't fight that way IRL.
It's actually kind of frustrating for many musicians and multi-instrumentalists. I don't play violin, but I play trombone, drum set, orchestral percussion, jazz vibraphone, sing, and a little piano. It's usually possible for me to tell when almost any on screen musician is "faking it" or if something is wrong in a movie. I'll see wrong rhythms, obviously wrong physics, hear wrong notes, or just some aspect of bad general performance.
It's not a projector, its a limelight. Two fuels and a large amount of pressurized oxygen were pumped onto a mineral block made of lime and limestone dust and set alight. All this was backed with a parabolic reflector. The heat of the combustion was very bright, but still was too too skewed toward the red end of the spectrum. Once the lime block heated up, it would emit blue and violet light to make a balance of colors similar to sunlight.
This is an underrated comment!
I only like movies with real musicians
-Me, 2019
Noice
*sorry but we don't do that here*
I find it so attractive how well they know and understand classical music
Well, it's their job...
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia her point is that their knowledge is attractive. It doesn't matter if they live from it or not...
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia It's also a Models Job to look good, doesn't mean you can't find Models attractive lmao
Mariann literally what point are you trying to make lol
Ayyyyee, we have the same name @Zaraa .｡.:*･
Brain: "I will practise after this."
Yes... I will
Hopefully
Going back to David Garrett's record video where he broke his own record by a second and a half, he is definitely the fastest not sacrilegious violinist ever.
Well according to Wikipedia, Paganini’s skills were only matched by his skills as a womanizer.
So there probably were fangirls.
Every time they bleep a word I feel like they are saying viola
LOL
I'm a simple girl.
I see David Garrett - I click.
OHHHHH MY GODDDDD CANNOT BELIEVE THEY REVIEWED "TOGETHER". That movie is the reason I am a violin student now. *shedding tears*
I like how they lose their minds when they find out when the projector was invented lol
Haha same that one best parts like a history lesson where the writer and director didn't think about anyone checking on it
the funniest part of this video 🤣🤣
No one:
Me when my violin teacher tells me to be more 'expressive': 7:14
together is a very moving film! i believe it's about how the boy's dad struggles to pay for his violin teacher but still lets him learn it
he meets a lot of obstacles along his violin learning journey
I think it is a true masterpiece! whoever is reading this should watch the film!
Yes it was a great movie- a little melodramatic but expected with Chinese cinema. Ditto the recommendation!
That first movie, Together, is my favorite film about a musician I’ve ever seen. Brett and Eddie should absolutely see it. Not only is it a touching movie but the realism in being a young musician is so incredibly accurate both on and off stage.
Have you guys seen the movie called “The Red Violin”?
It has an actual violinist playing in that movie. I highly recommend it to you guys
Red violin is the best
Takes notes
Red violin was my shit, the naked scene where the guy was playing while having sex was really weird tho
@@ee8546 I hardly remember that part bcoz it's been so long, and I lost my VCD copy. Sigh. Great movie really.
@@ee8546 *what*
The worst part of The Devil's Violinist was how utterly stupid the script portrayed Paganini.
True.
What did they do exactly?
@@hedgehatchet3578 They trivialized Paganini's existence, got many important facts wrong, and left out most of the good parts of his life. A lot of people criticized David, but honestly, there really wasn't much he could do with that script and directing. And the music itself, which he helped arrange (and sometimes compose), is phenomenal, as well as all the scenes involving playing music.
@@user-up9ek3mc5r you are asking for a full 20 seasons of devil's violinist.
@@satriyanto6741 I mean, that would be great. But I would settle for them at least not getting things completely wrong. *Spoiler Alert* (Do not read if you haven't seen the film yet).
He never had any dubious intentions toward an underaged girl (then gotten falsely accused of rape & had his fingers trampled on; that's both horrible and completely false). The story that the creators of the movie could have made from him and Antonia Bianchi would have been much better (not to mention believable, as they met as adults, were together for years, then had Achille).
And that's just ONE of the many problems. He had many health issues popping up one after another, but his life as a virtuoso wasn't pathetic. It wasn't until his late years that things started to fall apart. His vices didn't define most of his life except for his late teenage years, and just before the end. He made friends with great composers and musicians, he invented many techniques for violin, and he composed some of the most difficult pieces for violin, period.
His life was more than dramatic and impressive enough without inventing things that couldn't have happened. Making London look like a smoke room (foggy and no visibility are two different things) full of prostitutes, making him do drugs/drink/sleep with random women in every scene, and forcing an impossible love story where he's jilted, jailed, and has his fingers crushed is NOT an homage.
I honestly don't see what the actors could have done, given such a wrong script, the directing focused on the darkness looming over Paganini (seriously, constantly invoking the devil was overkill. People may have been superstitious enough to believe something like that at the time, but he was simply more talented and more hardworking. He allegedly practiced 15 hours a day as a kid. The film made it look like Urbani really was a supernatural agent, and completely controlled his life), and the editing to complement. The storyline really wasn't up to par with the music (which was often incomplete so they could spend more footage on the unnecessary and wrong parts).
It would be amazing to have David Garret in a twoset episode!
back in the days probably the violinist was a guitarist in a nowadays rock band
Yeah, Paganini = Elvis
I still can't stop laughing at David Garret's fish face 🐟🐡😂😂
You know someone is a musician when he wear a shirt with word 'musician' written on it.
They wear their own merch, it's called shameless plug... 😅
Ah yes the floor is made of floor
"why is the banana blue!? It should be yellow!"
Immediately pressed Thumbs Up
In Highschool Musical 3, Disney hired myself and other members of my youth orchestra to play in the movie. >< We only got about 10 seconds of screen time in the movie, but they spent the money on real musicians at least!
5:09 This is an accurate reaction according to the books I have read, believe it or not, there were actually a few documented times where women threw their...."under garments" towards him. Which considering the dress of the time was not an easy feat.
do you think they showed him their thug ankles?
I guess there’s a possibility they ripped their petticoats? Hmm.
Wasn't the only time it happened, either. Look up Lisztomania.
korean soap opera: *You still played a wrong note*
@@ze_bresel you must be new
@@meganm5988 Nope, but the drama she is talking about wasn't Korean
Yep, it was a Chinese drama. I don't think they ever reviewed any Korean dramas (yet).
Let's agree it was an Asian drama. 😊
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia as a Korean i will enjoy a Korean music drama. I'm a cellist so I hope it's an orchestra one.
They should roast Tomorrow's Cantibile. It was really painful to watch the violin-shaped objects. No one owns the North American rights anymore!!! Go!
The dislikes are the fake musicians that didnt get hired😂😂😂😂
Or they promised applause but it became a roast
The ones feeling guilty about not practicing
Cough cough vov dylan and ben lee
Am I the only who's super confused in how he played it perfectly while his hair was touching the strings
DAVID GARETTTTTTT ONE OF MY MOST FAV VIOLINIST WHEN I WAS YOUNG
*IF YOU CAN APPRECIATE SLOWLY, YOU CAN APPRECIATE QUICKLY*
But you have to appreciate in 10 minutes. No more, no less.
set video speed to 2x
@@Teshuva2k and now thanks to that i can watch Hillary Hahn at 100 notes per microsecond! 🐝🐝
_Gasp inmidiately*_
"18th century af" needs to be a new shirt.
I was somehow more distracted by the love interest’s makeup in the last one. 😅 Her tan cream foundation was creasing in a time where it didn’t exist.
Fashion History Lesson!:
It most likely would’ve been pure white powder (there were cakes too, but it wouldn’t have had that finish or coloring). Basing everything off Late Regency Era(let’s say 1820s): The blush is good, but it should probably be a bit stronger (you wanted to look flush). The lips are good, as are the brows and eyes from what this amateur can see. The hair I’m unsure of. Regency was known to recall Ancient Greek hairstyles like the chignon with face-framing curls or the pull-ups you see on statues. Having the hair in free, perfect curls with no chignon or containment save for a few flowers? Idk, seems pretty sus to me. Maybe mid to late 1840s, and I just can’t see the chignon? But since “the Devil’s Violinist” was dead by that point.... all in all, it’s serviceable, just like the violin-playing.
And that concludes your Fashion History Lesson of the foreseeable future!
"I guess if you can play it quickly, you can play it slowly"
-eddy2k19
Actually when I watched the Devil's Violinist, I was fangirling at David the whole time so I had no time to roast the movie haha 😂😂
Edit: David actually did the music arrangements for the movie. So basically, the orchestra part was by him. Since it was a solo piece and not supposed to be played with the oke. And he said as long as nobody is against the music, he deems it as a success. Just saying haha.
Then he was successful. The music and the violin playing is great, but the rest ...
He was fiiiinneeeee :333
With David Garrett’s looks and skills it’s not like the movie NEEDS anything else, I’d say 😂😂😂
Actually I was pretty disappointed by the end, seems like the same handful of pieces throughout the movie.
Chanchai Nacion i freaking love Garret 💙
10 seconds fresh. The earliest I’ve ever been
Chloe Ahyong krktnfldd
Well technically, it's the most on time you've been.
The last time I was this early...
Well it was yesterday.
The child actor Tang Yun is a talented violinist and graduated from Colburn.
But in the movie, the sound track was actually played by another violinist Li Chuanyun. He studied under Dorothy DeLay at Julliard.
Chuan Yun is a legend. Nobody can play like him, not even the devil himself. How do you know of him may I ask?
Lol lol go to Hungary ROBY LAKATOS AND U WILL NEWER PIC UP VIOLINO !!!!!! Lol lol 😂 ❤. 🎻🍾
4:44 Eddy: "I think it's editor's fault"
Next day: "Looking for a full-time editor" XD
Lol yes
The fact that they can sense editing flaws is goddamn amazing to me
If you reach a certain level you can see and hear it too. Any advanced (not necessary to be pro) violinist can confirm.
They used to edit their videos themselves, they did it for years (which means hundreds of videos) before getting editors, so they have experience in this field.
Napster guy (8:15) downloading music back in the day.
Omg thats frickin haliarious
100
Napster! Lol
You sure won my vote 😀
Ahahah that's funny
C mamo en ingles :v
How have you guys not done a video on the best violin movie of all time “Red Violin” yet. Violin acting was super solid. And the music created for it was badass.
You HAVE to see the movie "together" this movie was the one that made me play violin in the first place! 😍
Do you kind telling me a summary of the movie? :)
@@austinlee4366 the plot revolves around a thirteen-year-old violin prodigy Liu Xiaochun and his father Liu Cheng who move to Beijing from a small southern town. It is Liu Cheng's biggest dream that Xiaochun may find a good teacher in the city and rise to stardom. After studying under two teachers, however, the boy finds that he has learned not just music, but what is really important in life. 😊
Just watched the movie, love it
Ling Ling doesn’t need fine tuners. His violin tunes itself.
Who’s lung ling
the tov Ling Ling’s long lost cousin.
the tov, Stupid auto-correct!
Question:
There is another scene in the movie where Garrett plays a piece in a pub. His upper three strings break one after another. So ultimately, he plays everything on the G string till the piece ends. How realistic is this scene?
Not very realistic unless there's a serious problem with your violin
It is an actual story about Paganini though. Paganini intentionally let his strings break so that he could show off his mad skills.
@@LinhHoang-im4cz or just take out 3 and improvise in one.
Unrealistic since if you lose 3 strings, the last remaining string will be extraordinarily out of tune. Also, it really wouldn’t happen in the first place.
Pizza In that case, I guess it could happen. But still the remaining string would go really out o tune. I’m not sure, but it could mess up the bridge and sound post as there is much less pressure holding them down.
Not only does that Together film have an actual violinist, but the way it's shot is so simple yet so effective. You don't have to do a lot to bring out the emotion in the song, just cut to the rhytmn let the musician bring out the emotion as they play, get the soundtrack right, and you're set. So easy, but movies with way bigger budgets can't even do that!
Yeah case in point is the second movie. Grandiose set design, but the way it was filmed was so cheesy.
My family friend is the great violin legend who recorded the entire soundtrack for this movie. The actor is indeed a violinist but none of it was his actual playing. Li Chuan Yun is the master virtuoso behind this soundtrack. He was one of the three legendary virtuosoes who shot to stardom along with Lang Lang and Li Yun Di. An unbelievable genius - you have to youtube his performances and be smacked across the face by his brilliance.