"Singing in the Rain" 8.5

Michaela 2022-04-22 07:01:04

(17 years old text)

It's hard for me to choose between Sing in the Rain and Chicago, which is the pinnacle of the musical genre.

When I was young, I liked to sing in the torrential rain on the way to school. His hands, feet and tongue, to learn Gene Kelly's snarky appearance is probably hopeless in this life. Speaking of which, he happened to have a cold and a high fever when he was shooting that scene, and he was confused and went through such a long scene over and over again, as expected. An ancient dance machine.

So in the end, I will only hum the sentence "I'm singing in the rain..." I hope you who hear this sentence in the future also happen to have seen "Singing in the Rain". Not "A Clockwork Orange".

Donald O'Connor has created a historically excellent second male lead, silently carrying the plot and this young couple like a supporter who can win the game. It can only be said that he loves the male protagonist very deeply. So in fact, the female protagonist doesn't dance very much. Instead, several duet dances by the male protagonist and the second male lead are interactive and interesting.

The movie era performed in the play-in-play, jumped from silent films to sound films, foresight or ignorance, while following the exaggerated performances of the silent film era, the actors who stumbled and did their lines training, you are standing there. The beginning of a golden age.

For many years in the City of Philharmonic, Commander Gao walked around the telephone pole under the moonlight, and finally came down shyly. The big apricot-colored girl in front of him was about to lose his soul, but he could Without Gene Kelly's ability to dance for hours without slack, it would be very difficult for a young man to dance a pas de deux decades later, and there will be no rain on the head of that silly boy in love.

May 11, 2017

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  • Trever 2022-04-24 07:01:03

    The reason why it is classic is that the form of expression of this art is really beautiful. And the emotions are undulating with the music and dance. Among them, the stage outfits of the 1920s, the suit jackets of the male protagonists, etc. are still retro-style ICONs. . .

  • Alyce 2022-03-22 09:01:21

    @小西天. The best musical is well deserved. Solo dancing in the rain is of course a classic, and the ecstasy of falling in love evokes the audience's good memories of the first love in every dance step and every loud tread on the water (although I also secretly cursed Kubrick for being terrible when I watched it. destructive power); but what surprised me more was Donald O'Connor's "Make Them Laugh" long-shot dance sequence, where he manipulated his body like gymnastics, more like cat-and-mouse animation, bordering on a visual spectacle. There is also the "Good Morning" dance segment, they must have rehearsed countless times, but the performance left in the video is still fresh, lively and happy like the first dance. Even the seemingly redundant "Broadway Melody" has the value of paying tribute to MGM's early sound musical films. The transition from silent film to sound film, and a richer film language is about to be born. It is the ontology of the metaphor of beautiful love (the combination of action and sound), and it is the source of deep joy in this film. The subtitles of the end appeared, and the audience's applause seemed impatient.

Singin' in the Rain quotes

  • Rosco: Into the bush!

  • Don Lockwood: There's no kidding myself. Once they release "The Dueling Cavalier", Lockwood and Lamont are through. The picture's a museum piece. l'm a museum piece.