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Also known as the "One-handed Piano Player". |
Also known as the "One-handed Piano Player". |
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This is what happens when an actor who doesn't know how to play piano is cast as a piano player -- and doesn't get proper instruction on how to fake it. They sit at the keyboard -- sometimes with their hands thoughtfully obscured by the cameraman's choice of angle -- and pretend to play. But while their right hands dance all along the full length of the ivories, their left hands hardly move -- if they move at all |
This is what happens when an actor who doesn't know how to play piano is cast as a piano player -- and doesn't get proper instruction on how to fake it. They sit at the keyboard -- sometimes with their hands thoughtfully obscured by the cameraman's choice of angle -- and pretend to play. But while their right hands dance all along the full length of the ivories, their left hands hardly move -- if they move at all -- and nothing the cameraman can do short of pointing the camera elsewhere can hide it. |
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Meanwhile, the music on the soundtrack is [[Soundtrack Dissonance|obviously played by ''real'' pianist]] who knows how to use ''both'' hands. |
Meanwhile, the music on the soundtrack is [[Soundtrack Dissonance|obviously played by ''real'' pianist]] who knows how to use ''both'' hands. |
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Related to [[Special Effect Failure]]. Not to be confused with [[Red Right Hand]], [[The Crawling Hand]] or [[The Left Hand of Darkness]]. |
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