Wonderful Movie

the audience applauded

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Grand Piano (2013) Director: Eugenio Mira Watched: 8/14/18 Rating: 6/10 {Clue: Written by this jazz-loving director} Comeback performance from a concert pianist that retired five years ago due to stagefright, How ironic that time his nerves are actually warranted- an unfortunate victim of a sniper with dubious motives and a perplexing modus operandi.A skilled camera lens that erratically yet poetically serves as our tour guide- sending us from conductor to pianist to violinist to audience to balcony back to pianist to backstage to villain- even split screen and through the gears under the piano's hood. Zealous fans of classical music will not be disappointed by the score- Exceptional compositions played beautifully as they augment the taut mood/tempo and thrills/suspense of the story. Laudable performances from Wood and Cusack in a taut "Phonebooth" meets "Whiplash" battle of wits. Lamentable premise that starts out tenuously at best- becoming campy by its unsatisfying finale. End result is a beautifully orchestrated concert with skilled musicians- but essential components of the symphony are defective. #Acrostic #PoemReview #Chicago #OneLocation #Music #StyleOverSubstance #WastedPotential

The movie director Chuky Namanera, must be a total ignoramus of piano classical music. A concert pianist will NEVER use a score to play a concert. If by any reason he would ever need to do anything close to that, he would have someone to turn the pages. The piano would NEVER be in the back of the orchestra, even if elevated. The pianist would NEVER exit the stage until the piece is complete. The audience do not clap between movements. The conductor should've started speaking before the applause. The conductor of a classical orchestra will make absolutely certain he would know how to pronounce Bösendorfer correctly. Instead of violating these traditions, the movie could've used them. For example the impossibility of leaving the stage. The proximity of the pianist to the other people. They could've had a whole audience captured instead of just the pianist. This movie was done for people who have no clue about classical music. Shame.

If sound makes up more than half of the movie experience then Grand Piano is as simple of a concept as it is brilliant. In Grand Piano the worlds greatest concert pianist is set to make his return to the grand stage after freezing and failing an epic piece a few years prior. He plans to make his return while playing the piano of his recently deceased mentor and this is where the movie finds the inspiration for its title. However someone has scribbled down threats in his notes and he is now forced to play every note perfectly if he wishes to stay alive.Elijah Wood plays the main part brilliantly even though he seldom has anyone to act off of and his energy in playing the piano shines through and most of the time comes of as real rather than fake. Using the score in a two-fold meaning, both as a story mechanism and as a suspension builder, works great most of the time and it really showcases the talent behind the movie.Much like many other movies that are based around simple concept or locations it struggles to keep things interesting throughout the entire running time and this plus some stereotypical minor characters unfortunately keeps the movie from being as great as it could have been. But as it stands its a unique, often thrilling, movie that dares to think outside of the box.

This is my first review and at the same time the first time i reached the state of complete numbness or something opposite of nirvana. The movie starts of kinda dull, you've just met some kind of eccentric pianist who is not well adjusted to XXI century, don't know about you but it just goes in "it's kinda cliché" direction, and it is a writer's and director's job to prove us wrong, but they didn't. Story's not unique, and protagonist is this young fella who's some kind of genius or something, the only person alive who can play what is known as the hardest piece ever to be played. He starts playing and realizes that he's on gunpoint of a guy who doesn't want him to miss a note or he'll die, or his lovely wife. That strange lunatic man does that just because he and musician who owned that piano put a key in a piano, and the only way to get the key is to play the last 4 tablatures right, is this a joke or what? I was laughing, i'm not kidding. Well the whole story is annoying and boring, and i was in shock how lame it was, he didn't even use those piano pedals but you hear it in music he produces. That's all just an average bad movie, but what struck me the most in this piece of garbage was ending, when he goes in the truck to play the last four tablatures of that piece on broken piano and goddamn as you can predict he played it and as he disappointedly turned around and tried to get out, he hears lock and key falling. And there goes 10 minutes or so of credits, i mean what the hell?If you want to see an enlightening movie, don't watch this, but if you want to torture yourself just go ahead, this is a movie for you.