Hi!
Today...
We are going to watch a,
a video that's—
A movie that's been requested by a lot of y'all
Ling Ling wannabes.
Apparently, this video did a really good job.
This, f -
Apparently this movie—
Fu—
This movie actually—
F—
- This— - Yeah you do it, I can't.
Basically, there's a movie that did a pretty good job
at using violin doppelgänger.
That doesn't make sense.
Come on, come on come on.
Basically, it's a movie
that portrays a classical music scene,
but in a very interesting way.
Wow! (Brett: Whoa!) Could this be the first movie
to actually nail down violin playing?
WHAT?!
Let's review it!
I think that's probably part of the story. I don't know.
We're here to review the violin playing,
not watch the movie.
'Cause we're too busy practicing!
I thought he already put it up once.
Yeah, yeah.
They must have like, stopped again,
'cause he's noticed someone was missing back there?
Ooh!
- There's two chairs, right? - Uh-huh.
Who's missing?
What's the instrumentation?
(both) Hmm.
- We should know. - I should know this.
I think it's a couple of trumpets.
- Eddy: Yeah, they're— They look like trumpets! - Brett: Ah, there it is. Yes, trumpets!
We studied!
Has that actually ever happened?
Oh, it HAS happened!
- Really? - Yeah. Oh!
Even once, a conductor was late as well.
He rocked up, I think five minutes late.
- To the concert? - To the concert.
Five minutes is a very long time
- when nothing's going on. - Ohhhh, that—
And he rocked up without a... bowtie.
He just wore the white shirt.
Then he turned it around very well,
'cause he made a speech.
- Yeah. - And he's like,
"Well, there's a thing called, uh..."
"Jet lag."
And then everyone laughed,
- Yeah yeah yeah... - so he saved it with the speech.
- The music came in before the downbeat! - Yeah.
- Yeah. - Not,
They weren't together.
Ah, yeah yeah yeah.
That's why they were shaking their heads.
Dude he's got three fine tuners.
- That's so random! - Dude, why?
That's the first time I've seen a violin with three fine tuners.
- It's one, two, and four. - Yeah.
Ohh, that's nasty.
That actually sounds like...
worse than a youth orchestra.
Yeah, much worse.
It sounds like...
bunch of amateur musicians sight-reading.
- The sight— - First rehearsal
- of the youth orchestra! - Yeah, yeah yeah!
It's a Bonmusica shoulder rest.
- Nice. - They're not playing without a shoulder rest.
Like a lot of fail...
other... violin series.
I mean, what?
Just, just, just speculative!
Speculative.
Correction: Ling Ling.
Yeah!
- Ling Ling! Save us! - Save us!
Wow.
A lot of the angles were
far or zoomed in.
But from what we saw,
- everything was right. - Yeah.
She got the bow change right, the...
All the bow change—
- And she got the string crossing to the D string. - String crossing.
This bow change...
And then this string crossing.
Even the lift!
- Lift. - Yeah.
She's not like a lot of people that just get the—
- Yeah. - You know.
I mean, the bow hold is...
questionable.
But, everything else is good.
Orchestral player looks legit.
- Yeah, legit vibrato. - Yes.
- Legit vibrato, legit bow speed. - Legit vibrato. Yeah, yeah.
Bowing's right.
That's a very CBF vibrato.
(laughing) Yeah!
That's a very orchestral—
- Yeah, he was like... - ...musician.
But even like that bow hold,
- Eddy: on the guy behind, it looks legit. - Brett: Yeah, it looks alright.
She got the...
She didn't change the strings as well,
she just stayed on that string.
Her bow hold is a bit awkward.
It's a bit too...
Flat?
- Yeah, and also the fingers look - - Rather than...
- Tense. - It's almost like it's not tilted enough this way.
- Like a claw. - Like this?
Yeah.
Which makes it hard to actually...
Put, like...
- Transmit weight into the string when you, like... - Yeah.
Yeah.
But that's all legit.
How does that bow hold work?
Wait! Wait a second.
No, the bow hold's more legit now.
That's a different bow hold
- than the one at the beginning. - It's a different bow hold, yeah.
- See now now yeah yeah! - Now it's back!
Now that's the weird bow hold!
- And the bow isn't moving - Ohh.
- with the same fluidity. - Yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Oooooh...
That's interesting!
You don't change bow hold halfway through a concert.
And also if you look—
- That bow change! - Yeah.
Oh, it's too late.
That audio went to A string first.
You can hear the,
But her— She was still on the D string,
before moving to the A string.
And also, the string crossing just looked tense.
There's no this motion,
it's a bit like,
(crunching noises)
That.
She didn't get the chord?!
Not,
So it's very suspicious,
because back then when she was doing the,
Her bow hold changes, she nailed everything.
And now her bow hold's weird, and she's
missing small details.
But the face stays the same.
Hmmm.
So it's not a double.
The shift.
- That's good. - (singing part)
Brett: B.
- That shift was right. - Yeah.
Oh!
(both) The bow...!
That part you can hear, obviously the bow kinda,
There's a bit of a gap in between.
Yeah.
You should see the bow's bounce—
- The stick bouncing. - Yeah.
But the left hand is perfect.
Ah! Didn't go to the G string.
Didn't get that.
- It was just, - Uh-huh.
And also, her head is very...
- Tense. - ...suspiciously still.
Oh also! Like, you don't really
keep looking at the conductor while you play.
- Yeah! - You're like,
It's a bit, uh, creepy.
There's so much detail in the left hand
that it has to be real.
'Cause she even got the,
- Vibrato right. - Right.
Like, little vibratos and key notes.
I think something's still going on, though.
It seems like the face is definitely questionable.
- The right hand is like, 50/50. - Yeah.
The left hand is good.
Yeah.
The right hand looks funny, right?
- Uh-huh. Yeah. - It's a bit like... there.
Needs to be a bit of a...
With bow changes and string crossings, it's—
There's actually like, a wave.
Chain reaction.
Right now she's doing a bit like that.
- Yeah. - As opposed to this.
Don't get us wrong, at this point...
- It's - - ...we're not criticizing her acting,
'cause this is already, like,
miles better than any other thing we've seen.
(cheering)
Amazing!
This type of thing...
You can't learn through acting. You gotta—
- This takes years of practice. - Yeah, it...
...takes practice.
Look at that!
- That was a bit out of time. - That was a bit... off.
The movement didn't match the energy of the music.
It's definitely,
- Okay. - Yeah, that bow looks weird.
It's hard to see how much weight she has, just...
There's no weight there.
The bow's back!
- Good one, right? - The good bow's back!
That's right, Ling Ling does exist!
(both) whooOO!
He lives within us! He/she lives within us!
That bow hold was Ling Ling
- possessing her. - Yeah. Took over for her,
- but it's like, "Getting out of control! Quick!" - (laughing) Yeah!
What do you think about the bow placement?
It's too weak.
Not even a Strad could handle that.
Yeah. So to further illustrate our suspicion,
that left hand was all right.
- But bow placement is wrong. - Mhmm.
You can't make a projected sound on the E string
that far from the bridge.
Don't know how to explain it, it's just physics.
- It's just physics. Just facts! - Weaker here.
Yeah yeah!
That's what—
- That's where the bow should be! - Yeah.
- Yeah see, that's, that's not... - Nah, that's not right.
Not,
- Yeah. - It's gonna crunch there.
And you're doing the—
It should be a,
About here.
She started her spiccato here!
You see that?
The bow was like,
What's going on?
Let's look it up.
Alright, so the actress is Mélanie Laurent.
She mentioned in a interview
that she could not play the violin.
But she also said,
There you go.
- I knew something was seedy. - Yeah.
Two months! That took two months.
I think we forget how hard violin is sometimes.
'Cause we've obviously been practicing for like,
- 20 years and... - Yeah.
- Eddy: No actually I still think it's hard. - Brett: But that's good—
It doesn't get easier, guys!
The violin is one of those things,
the more you practice the harder it gets.
It's impressive that she's dedicated two months
- ...bowing stuff. - Just the,
- That would have taken so long. - Yeah!
Lift off, NOW!!
Can you imagine learning
that motion without the left hand?
- How depressing that would be? - Yeah.
She's learning the motions without the enjoyment.
My guess is that might be why
her head is so still as well.
- Yeah. - You know, even like...
The more "still" violinists that you hear of...
They still move.
- There's a lot of movement. - There's still motion.
It's just, there's a set frame.
But she was like,
She doesn't look natural on the violin.
It's way too tense.
But that confirms why the left hand was so legit.
They were halfway there!
Yeah!
Out of all the ones we've seen, this is pretty legit.
- I think it's probably the best one. - Yup!
Hands down! (cheering)
Nice work, Le Concert!
All right, guys.
Gotta wrap it up now.
What did you guys think?
I rate it a
"GENIUSES ARE BORN NOT CREATED" out of ten!
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