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Alan 2022-04-20 09:01:23

Chicago can also be now. Fresh stories are always happening. There are always countless people attracted by freshness, flocking to them, stretched their arms to climb and chase, and then suddenly attracted by another freshness, let go of them and turn their heads away.

Chicago (2002)
8.9
2002 / USA Germany / Comedy Musical Crime / Rob Marshall / Taye Diggs Catherine Zeta-Jones

There is no official film version, so I watched the film version. After the film version broke through the stage space, the performance of the drama became dazzling. The dance in the prison tango and the camera cooperated very well, and there was the lawyer's tap dance during the trial. Internal and external psychology The performance with time and space is also very interesting. Because it becomes a song and dance film as a carrier, it will inevitably lose the unique temperament and charm of the stage. Those visible transitions and spatial transformations are all cut into smooth pictures by the camera. After you are familiar with the lyrics, watch the stage version hhh

Personally, I'm not very impressed by Chicago, the dance is not as glamorous as 42nd Street, and the music is full of Jazz but no Jazz, it feels like... After adding the lyrics, the music actually becomes a narrative expression, like The form attached to the story is no longer independent and supports the narrative, but it may also be the reason for the content of the story, with reservations hahaha.

notes?

And All That Jazz

Cell Block Tango♥️

Roxie

I Can't Do It Alone

Razzle Dazzle

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Extended Reading
  • Iliana 2022-03-26 09:01:03

    Best Picture Oscar in 2003 (but nowhere near as good as [The Pianist]). Based on the Broadway musical of the same name, the film is a well-made musical, entertaining and socially ironic. The editing is exquisite, and the singing and dancing intersect with the conventional plot, which not only externalizes the psychological activities of the characters, but also serves as a symbol and supplementary interpretation. It is not easy for the three protagonists to complete all the singing and dancing scenes in person. My favorite puppet show. (8.0/10)

  • Webster 2022-03-21 09:01:29

    B+/ I feel that the object of comparison is not Lalalan, but "Eight Beauty Tu", which combines stage play and film form rather bluntly. The hysterical editing and horse-grabbing plot constantly diminishes the intensity and depth of the irony. Especially in the middle and back stages of repeating the media dreaming and entertainment that has been explained thoroughly in the first half, it becomes more and more tired. Fortunately, the singing and dancing in the center of the image are very visible and flowing. I would rather choose this than a pianist.

Chicago quotes

  • Velma Kelly: Oh, you're gonna see your sheba do the shimmy-shake... And all that jazz. Oh, she's gonna shimmy till her garters break... And all that jazz. Show her where to park her girdle. Oh, her mother's blood'll curdle if she'd hear her baby's queer for All that jazz...

  • Roxie Hart: [singing] Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes we both, oh yes we both, oh yes we both reached for the gun, the gun, the gun, the gun. Oh, yes, we both reached for the gun, for the gun.