A M A Z I N G ! ! !
- Welcome back... - A M A Z I N G !
...to another episode of TwoSet Applauds!
Where we're going to...
...appreciate some...
...good things in the world.
A few of you have suggested some...
...movies, that had featured...
...actual violinists,
and so we've decided to review two of these movies,
to see just how much of a difference it makes
when movies hire actual musicians.
Finally.
First one is a Chinese movie called "Together',
and this is the end scene.
Whoa.
Not only did he nail that, absolutely,
but he can act!
- See, he's crying! - He's crying! *chuckles*
That's right, he's crying, yeah.
- The feeling. - Wow, he actually played it.
As a musician, it makes such an impact.
It just makes the movie flow more.
- Yeah. - We're not distracted by it.
Yeah.
Guys, imagine you watch a movie,
and the banana is blue. You'll be so triggered.
- Yeah. - You're like, "Why is it blue?!"
"It's supposed to yellow!"
I haven't seen the movie,
so obviously there's a context to it.
But, I can just imagine this moving scene with him crying,
except he's doing this.
- Yeah... *groans* - It just takes you immediately out of it, but...
A M A Z I N G .
We're not a roasting channel,
we're an applauding channel.
Applauding channel!
But everything, the bow, left hand...
Made sense of what he was doing.
- *sings* - Even the phrasing! Yeah yeah yeah...
He did the second one shorter, first one longer.
The bowing looked right, so...
...someone's got it right.
By the way, when we hit 2 million subscribers,
Brett's gonna drop his Tchaikovsky violin...concerto recording.
That guy's like us,
- Yeah. - be like, "We approved."
- *chuckles* - A M A Z I N G !
- Yeah, finally like, tears of joy. - "Thank you!" Cries... *fakes crying*
Do it for Ling Ling!
- *laughs* - Woo!!!
Actually can I just say, the conductor was...looked legit.
He looked legit, yeah he looked legit.
Yeah...
One fine tuner too. Nice, nice.
Yeah, legit as well.
Nice.
Legit!
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Beautiful.
What a sigh of relief.
Makes the movie so much more...
*sighs*
...powerful.
And more meaningful.
It's just good storytelling.
Like how can you tell a story through a visual medium when...
*laughs*
- You know what I mean. - I know.
So the second movie we're going to review is
"The Devil's Violinist",
Which is obviously about Paganini, the legend,
- played by David Garrett. - Mm-hmm.
Actually, it was a bit hard to track this down,
because the recordings on YouTube were all very much uh...
...badly synced.
One of them had... [the] wrong pitch.
Well they altered the pitch.
They made it like a semitone higher.
So we actually bought the movie guys.
We decided to pay!
- Just for you guys. - Just for you guys!
Wait.
That reaction was way too fast.
I thought that the gasp happened...
Bow. "WOW!!!"
*laughs*
Ow, I sprained my neck.
Yeah that was way too fast, I didn't realise.
Okay, some pieces in concert actually employ offstage musicians.
- Yeah. - Usually the reaction's more like...
- "Where's that sound coming from?" - Yeah.
'Cause we're not ex—
- Wow - And they all looked at one area.
- Yeah. - I didn't think human ears are that sophisticated.
"We can tell straight away,
which side of the hall the sound is coming from."
Come on, David. Should have told the scriptwriter.
- Yeah...! - That'd be realistic!
Yeah!
Okay, so that, right?
That left hand.
You hear that happen, like two, three seconds beforehand.
- That's the slide up that you see, and now you– - Yeah.
- Yes, that's where you see it. - Yes dude, literally!
Two seconds after.
I'm sure, David Garrett, you can definitely play this.
- It's not...he obviously can play it. - Well obviously yeah, David...
I think it's the editor's fault.
Yeah, editor's syncing issue.
It doesn't cost much, I'm sure there are many musicians out there
that'll be happy to just give you a quick review.
- I think what happened is— - They must have done it halfway through.
Here.
This cut—the cut—
- He started at the wrong area. - Yeah, he must have started somewhere else.
- Yeah. - But the bowing worked there.
That means David's on time.
- Yeah. - The... *mimics piece*
Yeah, he is on time there.
Did that actually happen back in the days?
I mean, you don't really...
- Apparently he was like the showman that did crazy stuff. - That's true, yeah.
One thing I will say though,
is not only is he actually a good musician,
But he does have that look.
- That kind of mysterious, seducing charm. - Mysterious...
But he did that sync [it] was good then.
- Yeah. - Like it was pretty good.
It's clear. I mean he can play it.
Nice.
*chuckles*
Ohh...that's...
Okay, I mean...
Wait this was...
Was this video supposed to be about...
TwoSet Applauds?
- I feel like... - I'm applauding! Agh!!!
From a violin perspective obviously, it's all great,
but it's just so cheesy, you don't...
*sighs* It's very, um...
Mainstream people's view of classical music...
- Yeah, yeah, yeah...yeah. - ...versus what actually happens in classical music.
- I'm sure we've illustrated so many times. - Yeah.
*snickers*
Dude, I'm sorry.
Okay, first of all acoustically once he turns that way,
then the back of his violin's against the audience,
so it's not projecting ideally.
- Nothing against David, like he's a good player. - Yeah.
Like he probably, if anything, saved this movie.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll—
- Imagine they had someone that couldn't play doing this role. - I know, I know, that'll be really bad, like...
- *groans* - David...
- ...probably just saved this movie. - Yeah.
To be honest, It's probably that [it's] not the directors priority,
but I kind of wish they just have someone overlook it.
This is TwoSet Applauds.
- Yeah. - We're all about positivity now!
- At least they got an instrument! Yeah! Woo! - We're changing! Yeah!
That's a pretty cool arrangement, the orchestral,
- did you hear the bassoon part? *mimics video* - Yeah...! Going—
Yeah, that's true.
*laughs*
Mate, you're supposed to be focusing,
and leading the orchestra...!
Or look at your music...!
Editor-san, can you please like edit that same face,
but to like Hilary Hahn doing it on the hula-hoop.
- That is pretty funny. - And he has no fine tuners...! *snickers*
Whoa!
Not even on the E string!
That is 18th century af!
Or 19th century, whatever.
- Guess if you can play quickly, you can play slowly! - Yeah! *laughs*
- I'll say though, those thirds are very hard, - It is nice.
- and he's nailing them. - He's nailing them.
So in tune.
Oh.
Why is everyone laughing? *mimics laughter*
I think the director went,
"It's a fast bit now, you gotta act like 'Wow!'"
Even though in real life,
the violinist would be much more impressive
- in the thirds and the tenths, than the... *sings part* - Yeah.
- Which is actually a lot easier. - Yeah.
It's meant to be bowed, right?
I think so, not—
- I don't know, usually people play... - With bow.
...with bow, left hand, not right.
- Yeah. It's still pretty good. It's still good. *chuckles* - Yeah, very good.
Oh he's doing artificial harmonics.
Wait a second!
When was Paganini alive?
1840 right?
When was the projector invented?
*hysterical laughter*
- TwoSet Applauds! - *hysterical laughter*
- No, maybe it's just a lamp with a... - Maybe it's a lamp.
- Okay. We got too excited. - ...shadow.
But did they have those lights back then anyway?
I'm so confused now.
There's a lot of suspicious things happening this video.
- Once again, David, I think, saved it. - *chuckles* Yeah.
Ohh, his playing's so good though.
The guy looks like a devil in the back.
People accused him for selling his soul to the devil,
because he was so good.
But he didn't actively portray himself as the devil,
- and that wasn't a good thing. - Yeah. Yeah, it didn't help him.
I don't think he wanted that.
He probably just like,
"Look, I just practiced more than all of you!"
What?
They take a lot of artistic liberties, but...
- ...he plays really well. - Yeah.
Well, there you go guys.
Finally, TV shows that get—
- Or, movies that get actual violinists. Thank you. - It makes a huge difference.
Next time, maybe,
just do some research on when the light was invented—
- No, maybe we need to do research. - Yeah, maybe we need to—
Classical music appreciation. Thank you so much.
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