#copying beethoven

[ancient-me]

I've watched this movie twice.

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[asgoodeasgold]

Matthew Goode the artist / man of letters - Part 2/3

I am continuing to explore Matthew's professions on screen. We have had the scientists and now it's the arty types 🩵. Today we have the young novelist who moved to Spain (Gerald Brennan), the not-so-good architect (Martin Bower - Beethoven didn't rate him but I would still commission work from this cutie), the investigative journalist and Observer's Foreign Affairs editor (Peter Beaumont), and finally lovely Matthew as himself designing a label for a wine bottle (and appropriately seeking inspiration in a glass of red 🍷).

📷 My edits from Al Sur de Granada (2003), Copying Beethoven (2006), Official Secrets (2019), and The Wine Show (2016) s1

Part 1

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[pleasereadmeok]

Swoony Goode kiss from 'Copying Beethoven'

Not my favourite movie of Matthew's but there's some damn fine lip-locking going on in this movie.

Matthew Goode and Diane Kruger in 'Copying Beethoven'.

📷 CB my edit

[filmjunky-99]

c o p y i n g b e e t h o v e n, 2006 🎬 dir. agnieszka holland

[costumesource]

Copying Beethoven (2006) costume appreciation

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[mamusiq]

Copying Beethoven /cut HD

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“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.” ― Ludwig van Beethoven

"The whole audience acclaimed him through standing ovations five times; there were handkerchiefs in the air, hats, raised hands, so that Beethoven, who could not hear the applause, could at least see the ovation gestures." - Wikipedia

How Ed Harris conducts SO F GOOD? Never seen anything even close from any other actor. It seems to me he REALLY conducts the orchestra here. He plays the piano and the violin also very naturally in the film. These skills require many years close to music, may be 10+?! Surprised me so much.

I know that this movie wasn't well received, and I admit it wasn't great. That being said, this particular scene is EXTREMELY well done, it's moving and furthermore it's grounded in what actually happened at the 9th premier. He actually did have someone help conduct (although it was a man, named Michael Umlauf), and someone did have to turn him around to see the crowd applauding, it was one of the female choir singers who gave screamed at Beethoven during rehearsals (not saying he didn't deserve it, Beethoven was very difficult to work along side of).Also, I appreciated the camera shaking during the unbelievably hectic prestissimo finale, it was a nice appropriate touch.

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Copying Beethoven - Peter Bradshaw 17 Aug 2007

A fatuous, bafflingly imagined tale of the unhappy and unwell Beethoven and his ordeal in preparing the Ninth Symphony for its premiere. It is served up as a sort of platonic love affair: the stormy friendship between Beethoven (a bewigged Ed Harris) and his brilliant, beautiful, but entirely fictional young amanuensis and copyist Anna Holtz (Diane Kruger).

The chemistry supposedly fizzes and the sparks allegedly fly; the sassy young woman talks back to the grumpy old maestro who naturally comes to rely on her. The style has been pinched from Milos Forman's Amadeus: but the speculation about Mozart's relationship with Salieri was at least based on real people. "Anna Holtz" is entirely made up. So what's the point?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/aug/17/drama

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[utopiangraduate]

In my determination to see all of Matthew's filmography I made the unfortunate error of watching Copying Beethoven. I can see why @pleasereadmeok said it's the worst! I thought "f*ck it. Can't be worse than Cats" oh how wrong I was.

Honestly the things we do for that man.

Still hot though

[molinaesque]

Reimagination of Beethoven premiering his last symphony, Symphony No. 9 at Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. (Copying Beethoven, 2006) There are a number of anecdotes about the premiere of the Ninth. Based on the testimony of the participants, there are suggestions that it was underrehearsed (there were only two full rehearsals) and rather scrappy in execution. On the other hand, the premiere was a great success. In any case, Beethoven was not to blame, as violinist Joseph Böhm recalled:

Beethoven himself conducted, that is, he stood in front of a conductor’s stand and threw himself back and forth like a madman. At one moment he stretched to his full height, at the next he crouched down to the floor, he flailed about with his hands and feet as though he wanted to play all the instruments and sing all the chorus parts. – The actual direction was in [Louis] Duport’s] hands; we musicians followed his baton only.

When the audience applauded—testimonies differ over whether at the end of the scherzo or symphony—Beethoven was several measures off and still conducting. Because of that, the contralto Caroline Unger walked over and turned Beethoven around to accept the audience’s cheers and applause. According to the critic for the Theater-Zeitung, “the public received the musical hero with the utmost respect and sympathy, listened to his wonderful, gigantic creations with the most absorbed attention and broke out in jubilant applause, often during sections, and repeatedly at the end of them.” The audience acclaimed him through standing ovations five times; there were handkerchiefs in the air, hats, raised hands, so that Beethoven, who could not hear the applause, could at least see the ovations.