Concertina sighting with Kathy Bates

[Randy Stein]

While looking through my streaming last night for a movie I caught a snippet of a 2006 movie called Relative Strangers. The Actress Kathy Bates was pretending to play an anglo.

Horrible movie by the way

https://youtu.be/sguNMcMJQv8

 

Edited August 5, 2022 by Randy Stein

[David Barnert]

19 minutes ago, Randy Stein said:

The Actress Kathy Bates was pretending to play an anglo.

 

She’s hardly pretending. Her fingertips aren’t anywhere near the keys and her fingers aren’t moving.

 

 

[alex_holden]

The video has been removed.

[David Barnert]

3 hours ago, alex_holden said:

The video has been removed.

 

Try it again. It worked for me just now, even after reloading.

[alex_holden]

No luck. Maybe it's location restricted.

[David Barnert]

Well, let’s just say that her hands are through the straps, but her palms are flat against the keys and her fingertips extend beyond the edges of the ends. She is pumping the bellows freely, which suggests that someone has opened up a vent hole somewhere.

[SIMON GABRIELOW]

Oh poor woman; she really is getting good grilling ( whoever she is!) If as you described then maybe they could have edited in hand closeups of someone playing the thing really?

( As long as they are correct sized hand to suit of course!)....😁😁😁😁

Edited August 9, 2022 by SIMON GABRIELOW
Spell correction due to tiny phone keyboard!

[JimR]

Oh Simon, you've led a sheltered life. Search for "Misery" on a streaming device. She's a really good actress, when given a chance.

[Randy Stein]

13 hours ago, JimR said:

Search for "Misery" on a streaming device. She's a really good actress, when given a chance.

And Fried Green Tomatoes. A fun flick as well. 

[Martin Essery]

It is a sad fact that film directors who are not musicians do not seem to care whether their actors look like they are playing the instruments. It is not really the actors fault.

 

I once had a job playing flute in a film. The casting director went to great pains to ascertain that I was indeed a proficient flautist. I turned up on set and noticed the harp they had was 200 years later than the film was set in, then they handed me a piece of broomstick with thumb tacks pushed into it, and I had to pretend it was a flute! The music I was supposed to be playing to did not even have a flute! I was background, so it did not really matter, but it is all about creating the illusion for the masses and has nothing to do with being consistent to any form of truth.

[John Wild]

On 8/10/2022 at 2:11 PM, Randy Stein said:

And Fried Green Tomatoes. A fun flick as well. 

And she played the unsinkable Molly Brown in James Cameron's Titanic.

Edited August 13, 2022 by John Wild
typing correction

[SIMON GABRIELOW]

There's someone in that alien film (not sure which one) where he obviously cannot play it (English concertina).. and it is rather insulted in sarcastic comment in the film!

[David Barnert]

12 hours ago, SIMON GABRIELOW said:

There's someone in that alien film (not sure which one) where he obviously cannot play it (English concertina).. and it is rather insulted in sarcastic comment in the film!

 

Prometheus (2012)

[d.elliott]

video is not available, sorry.

[SIMON GABRIELOW]

Yes that's the film!  But all he did was make a few squeaky noises on the concertina; like someone had almost stood on a cat's tail!😃

[gypsea]

They were hoping we wouldn’t be able to tell the difference in the dark, but oh how we can tell.