Thursday, December 27, 2007

COPYING BEETHOVEN: A quotable quote from the movie

"The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear His voice, we read His lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing His praise. That's what musicians are."
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19 comments:

  1. mikhail lastrillaDecember 27, 2007 at 8:34 PM

    wow.. what movie is that from?

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  2. Teresa BarrozoDecember 27, 2007 at 10:54 PM

    It's from Copying Beethoven =)

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  3. joy coDecember 28, 2007 at 1:50 AM

    astig yung movie na yan...

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  4. Tata FranciscoDecember 28, 2007 at 2:04 AM

    Ed Harris, este, Beethoven AYLABYU!!! :)

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  5. Gabriela FranciscoDecember 28, 2007 at 4:52 AM

    Sobra! haha. I really love this quote... so profound. I grabbed a pen and wrote it down in the middle of Ed Harris' (oops, I meant, BEETHOVEN) mini- soliloquy

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  6. Gabriela FranciscoDecember 28, 2007 at 4:53 AM

    Bwahaha Tata! Apir tayo. Great actor, that Ed Harris. He did a really good job, his conducting / piano playing/ violin playing all made for a really convincing totality, I think!

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  7. mikhail lastrillaDecember 28, 2007 at 5:00 AM

    ah! so that's the title pala. hahaha, my bad

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  8. cholo ginoDecember 28, 2007 at 6:09 AM

    my fave line from "copying beethoven" will still be when a nervous ludwig (who minutes earlier was about to back out from conducting the premiere performance of the ninth symphony) calmly takes the podium, closes his eyes and whispers (i actually had to turn the subtitles on to get the words right....):

    "now music changes forever...."

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  9. Gabriela FranciscoDecember 28, 2007 at 3:37 PM

    True for a lot of people, although I remember a prof. arguing it was the Grosse Fugue that broadened music's horizons more than the Ninth.

    I felt sad during the Grosse Fugue performance scene. :( When all the people stood up and left.

    Thanks for sharing, Kuya, I wasn't able to catch that line, he murmured it so softly kasi.

    What did you think of Ed Harris' and Diane Kruger's conducting? ;D

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  10. mikhail lastrillaDecember 29, 2007 at 3:09 AM

    wow! they showed the grosse fugue? that's gross! :P joke lang. i think that fugue is more forward-looking, even now, i find it so weird. i still love the ninth symphony MUCH better. i wanna watch that movie tuloy

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  11. Gabriela FranciscoDecember 29, 2007 at 4:01 AM

    I'll lend you our DVD copy ;)

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  12. mikhail lastrillaDecember 29, 2007 at 4:12 AM

    rly rly?!! wow, thanks!!!!!

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  13. cholo ginoDecember 29, 2007 at 11:12 PM

    hmmmmm.... i know someone who noted that this scene was kinda orgasmic..... it kinda heightened the sexual energies of the two characters.... though according to scholars anna's (Kruger's) character is actually a man....

    but conducting-wise? papasa na sa conducting department, hahahahahahhahaha

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  14. Juro Kim FelizDecember 30, 2007 at 7:06 AM

    ngaun ko lng nakita to...

    we watched this during our compo workshop time semesters ago...when we were required to compose in the sonata allegro form (take note, tonal!) for our workshop requirement...

    sayang ung movie, sabi ni sir jonas baes may mga inaccuracies ung movie, like un nga, the copyist is supposedly a man and not a woman, and the conducting stunt of the symphony's premiere never happened, and beethoven apologizing to her for his making fun of her composition is not in the personality of beethoven...typical hollywood format ung movie because of the "love story"...

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  15. Gabriela FranciscoDecember 30, 2007 at 3:42 PM

    OooOOOooh how interesting! And how refreshing, I'm sure, for some of you ;)

    Hehe kaya pala nothing was ever mentioned about Anna in the ending credits, only about Beethoven's legacy. She didn't exist. Oh well. Interesting alternative history, though... "What if???"

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  16. mikhail lastrillaDecember 30, 2007 at 6:32 PM

    wow bogz!!! tonal! i wonder how that turned out. that makes me think of another 'what if'... what if atonality preceded tonality?!!!!! O_O woah

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  17. Juro Kim FelizJanuary 2, 2008 at 2:11 AM

    oh, it's not a new thing...many atonal composers actually went back to tonality, as if they're making that statement too. arvo pärt, remember? he was atonal before he became a minimalist.

    yuck, it's not refreshing, gabi. it's like being a first year again, you don't know how to compose. seriously!!!

    madali magpop na tonal, pero classical na tonal? waaah!

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  18. mikhail lastrillaJanuary 4, 2008 at 4:05 AM

    i mean what if the classical era was tonal, and 20th century music was tonal. la lang, weird thought.

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  19. Juro Kim FelizJanuary 7, 2008 at 6:37 AM

    haha weird nga. haha

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