I remember that when I was taking a music analysis class during my graduate studies, the professor in the class asked me what I thought of "La La Land". I said a lot of compliments, but she looked disdainful and told me to go back and watch "Song in the Rain" to understand. .
After a lapse of two years, I didn't open this old musical until now when I was reviewing the history of movies. The moment I watched it, no, it wasn't finished yet. The male protagonist and his partner teased their vocal teacher for the tap dance. Already offered my knees. It's so arrogant!
It can be said that the height of song and dance movies in that era has never been reached until now!
This is not a problem with the technical means of film and television, but a feeling of an inexplicable core.
At that time, Hollywood had already boldly and generously mocked its own star system and its hypocritical and flashy appearance. At that time, tap dancing and Broadway as the mainstream dances also contained the optimistic and sunny confidence of the American Dream.
You can also see the vignetting added in order to weaken the sharp edge of the lens to make the picture soft and soft, the facial light that is properly grasped and even exquisite in the studio shot, and the musical film that has been polished to a full rhythm from there. Classic narrative structure. Cinderella + Reformed Prodigal Son structure is still used in many musicals and musicals.
But these are not the most important, just the psychological satisfaction that film history and film aesthetics theory have found in the works.
The main thing, and the thing that strikes me the most, is the pure joy that comes from the heart when they dance, whether the hero, the heroine, or the witty partner. This has to mention the most classic choreography of "Song in the Rain". The emotions are very natural. Leaving the closed door of the sweetheart is as natural as a shower of rain. The urge to dance and dance, let us Every audience has a personal experience: back when we were children, when we encountered happy things, even if it rained, the rain became our plaything, spinning umbrellas, stepping on water, pulling railings, even if the police came. In my eyes, other people laugh at me too crazy, I laugh at others and can't see through, cool!
The Broadway skewer before the climax of the film is a re-screening of the male protagonist's fate during his lifetime, a tearing apart of the once hypocritical confession, and a tribute to the prosperity of Broadway! In one go, it's hard to imagine any dancer who can restore it in place with sufficient emotions.
After watching "Singing in the Rain", it's like being soaked by the rain of music, the rain of pure love, RAIN THEN CLEAN
PS By the way, does anyone suddenly feel sympathy for Lina like me? She's actually not that bad, she's just a poor voice, tone-deaf, a poor star who wanted to catch the last straw in the age of the talkie movie revolution. In order to survive, what's the point of being ridiculed and ridiculed like this? .
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