Major goof?
Re Eva taking Maureen's role in the ballet: She was in the corps of that ballet -- so who was taking HER place?
shareRe Eva taking Maureen's role in the ballet: She was in the corps of that ballet -- so who was taking HER place?
shareEmily, the girl who got kicked out for being too fat. Remember, at the end when Jonathan wants to see all the girls after the workshop performance, emily comes out of her meeting with Jonathan crying and all the other girls rush up to her and asked her what he said to her. Obviously, he was quite pissed about it!
shareYou know, I thought I saw Emily in the corps during the performance, and thought naw, it can't be. I didn't realize she was the girl crying at the end.
But is that plausible, that she could get back into the theatre, etc. if she'd left the school? Why do I ask, when the whole thing's so implausible?
No, it wasn't Emily. It was a different dancer. Watch it closely on YouTube, part 12.
Emily left for good.
I noticed Anna in the corps in Cooper's ballet immediatly to the right of Sergei and Eva during the final bow, when she said clearly she was the lead in a different ballet when she was talking to her mom on the phone. I always assumed she had done both since they could have been hours apart
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Here I am... 4 years late to make this correction, but Eva and Sergei were in Jonathan's ballet, not Cooper's.
shareThat has always bothered me. Considering Emiliy left in the last few weeks and would have had to be replaced as well, I am guessing an understudy was worded up by Eva?
I always thought the girl that was crying was the one at the start of Anna's ballet (I think) who asked Juliet "Are there really only three places?"
I think the corps in JOnathon's ballet were actually professional dancers, so I doubt that Anna was in there (but I have it recorded so I will check)
There would have been understudies - several, no doubt. The risk of injury as portrayed by Erik is very real.
shareI just watched the movie again this weekend and thought the same thing. I'm thinking it was the understudy because Eva's original partner (dark-haired guy) is in costume. He even stands by Eva as Sergei tells her "I'm gonna kill you" jokinly when he confronts her about not being told about the switch. I imagine Emily's understudy took her place also.
sharethere had to have been an understudy or swing.
shareThe understudy jumped in. The real question is: how did Eva know Maureen's part, and even if she did, there's no way she and Sergei would've been able to pull off that flawless pas de deux without having practiced beforehand. I realize they were partners in pas de deux class, but class is entirely different from performance. I did ballet for twelve years. I know what it's like to rehearse with a specific partner and believe me I would be extremely apprehensive if I had to suddenly perform with a different partner.
sharethat entire last performance was a major goof. however, I can probably suggest that Eva was Maureen's understudy all this time and the viewer just didn't know, and Eva's role had an understudy as well.
as for the partnering, that was just for the whole movie feel. something like that in real life would be somewhat impossible to pull off flawlessly.
the most major goof of the whole thing was the very last piece, cooper's piece. technically impossible to pull off.
They were in the same ballet, and having practiced together I figured Eva had seen Maureen's dance enough to basically know it by heart.
shareI thought the teacher gave her private lessons. The one she argued with all the time.
"I don’t mind being in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it"~Marilyn Monroe
It's not unusual for a corps de ballet dancer to be given an opportunity to dance a soloist role, and sometimes even a principal role. If that were to happen, there would always be another corps dancer to take her place in the ensemble.
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