The choir = stupid


Not only can each one of the boys be trained to sing in a technically brilliant, on-key fashion within a few months, but while doing so they even have some sort of accompanying music playing to their singing in the background most of the time. I guess they're emanating it from their stomachs...

Good god, color me moved. Not. Freedom Writers for the "cinefiles".



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it's possible if some of the kids had decent voices to begin with, which is plausible as well. if the teacher is very strict and passionate, it's possible. i was in a chorus with a teacher like that.

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Apparently you've never been in a choir. In college, a bunch of us "non-singers" were rounded up and brilliantly worked into a choir that performed only a quarter later (3 month, winter schedule). We wowed the crowd with Handel's Messiah at the conclusion of said efforts.

Any quality teacher/conductor can take the stronger voices and place them prominently, whilst organizing the others into parts that work for their vocal tone and ability. If you recall from the film, the boy with the worst voice (and tone deaf) was left out of the choir and became the teacher's "music stand" assistant.

The accompanying music to the boy's singing is part of the liberty of filmmaking. It's being used much like a soundtrack or score to highlight the action we are witnessing. If you watch enough movies, you will see this done time and again.



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Nice necro, bro. And I do not agree with you.

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