"Singing in the Rain" is definitely one of the greatest musicals in film history. The textual connotation, content volume and plot depth of this film can fully support the duration of a standard drama, so this is obviously not a piece for piecing together song and dance paragraphs. And forcibly connected stories. This film may be the earliest excellent work to reflect on the transition period from silent films to sound films. Although the cheerful atmosphere of musical films almost dilutes the tragic color of the period of change, the background of the protagonist of the film also easily solves the difficulties of transition, but I always It is inevitable to think of the dilemma that people like Linna in the film will eventually face.
Facts have proved that the sound film, as a new film art form, has indeed completely replaced the market position of silent film, but at the beginning of its birth, most filmmakers of silent film dismissed sound film, which is indeed true. Well-founded - with the rise of "The King of Jazz", the movie gradually became a complete "talking movie", and the audience was obsessed with this great dumb talk, but forgot the extreme development developed by silent movies. The expression of expressive and possible video art techniques. The funny scenes shown in the trial plot of the protagonist movie in the film intuitively illustrate this point. Silent film and sound film are two completely different creative ideas. Sound film is by no means as simple as "silent film + sound". On the other hand, the sarcasm of the silent film as "outdated" by the talkie movie is biased, because strictly speaking, the sarcasm is that the creation of movies under the Hollywood studio system is like a complete commercial assembly line product, cookie-cutter. However, in fact, when the audience no longer has the joy of initial contact and scrutinizes it, audio films and even all commercial creations cannot avoid falling into such a rut. As a musical film, this film is a direct beneficiary of the rise of sound films, and may be limited by the shooting era, and the various criticisms of silent films in the film are not completely accurate.
In addition, the film was made at the end of the golden age of Hollywood. Although the film still does not lack the naive temperament of the golden age, it is already discussing the star system, studio system, film reform, etc. There is a touch of worry in the plot, and the bud of realism in musicals has been quietly planted. Finally, after entering the 1960s, when studios were disintegrating, various fields of society were radically changed, and traditional Puritan values were torn apart, musical and dance films that were no longer dreamlike could only rely on grand natural landscapes, or they could only walk into the streets and alleys. , become more realistic, when musicals can only rationalize their romantic and dreamy plots and be accepted by moviegoers through dramas and stage performances, then inevitably musicals are the treasure of Hollywood genre films in the golden age. It inevitably went downhill.
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