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ED HARRIS CHANNELS BEETHOVEN

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Uploaded by on May 3, 2007

The year is 1824 Vienna and Ludwig Van Beethoven is poised to perform his famous Ninth Symphony but parts are not ready so he hires an aspiring composer to help him copy his work, thus the title of the film Copying Beethoven. Ed Harris portrays the celebrated composer and clears up the question of whether or not he actually copied Beethoven for the role.

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  • Ed Harris did a great job. He was very convincing and versatile. The movie probably did not reached that great an audience because of lack of mega-publicity and people might be not into the historical stuff anymore. But I loved it.

  • Great actor.[2]

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  • @mario54671 On the contrary, having lived with Beethoven for nearly 40 years, I can attest that Oldman came as close as possible to the actual man, not dressed up with feminist conceits.

  • @Tdgonline Oldman is musical in his nature - he also captured Sid Vicious as well as he did Beethoven. Harris is a great actor but he should forget his artistic conceits. He's about as convincing as Beethoven as Meryl Streep would be as Janis Joplin.

  • @Suspin Beethoven would no more have employed a woman for a copyist than he would have shaved his head and sported tattoos. Yet another paean to modern narcissism that has nothing whatsoever to do with its actual subject - the closest thing that comes to mind is a pouting and feminine Brad Pitt as Achilles channeling the over-feminized Brando screaming "Stella!!!"

  • @ttt8699 You are totally right. She's insufferable!

  • The female voice over is beyond terrible. She sounds utterly amateurish and half asleep!

  • @Suspin Amadeus was fictional aswell though.

  • I also think harris did a great job portraying beethoven, but as far as the history is concerned....well, it lacks what makes "Amadeus" such a great movie: the historical credibility.....I never believed that it actually went down that way, and the character of anna holz is most definitely imaginative......all in all I watched it because of Beethoven...

  • Where?

    Vienna

    (BOOMBOOMBA BOOMBOOMBA BOOMBOOM)

  • Great performance, terrible movie.

  • i think he channeled Beethoven fairly well. pity the movie didn't.

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