After all, "Song in the Rain" is a classic, but it can only be regarded as a classic "song and dance", a type of film.
In general, I don't like the genre of musicals, because I still can't understand why a few people can suddenly sing and dance on the street. It's just emotional, but there is a soundtrack when dancing, where did the soundtrack come from? None of the people around felt strange, this was too supernatural.
A certain bull once said that Hollywood musicals are equivalent to Oriental martial arts films, that is, to see a beautiful action. If you think about why two people in kung fu movies can fight all over the world as soon as they disagree, you can probably understand why two people in musical movies can dance as soon as they meet.
There is a kind of martial arts film that does not pay attention to the plot at all, the key is to play it refreshingly, euphemistically called "violence aesthetics". (Coincidentally, there is also a "martial arts film" that doesn't pay attention to the plot.) It seems that movies that don't pay attention to the plot as long as they dance happily take up a larger proportion of musical films.
That probably explains why I don't have much of a fondness for musicals.
Speaking of "Singing in the Rain", it seems that most people don't pay too much attention to his plot, but pay more attention to his dance clips, especially when Jim Kelly sang "I'm sinin' in the rain" in the heavy rain part.
Well, I also admit that this is indeed a touching dance, which can be called the most singing and dancing.
Jim Kelly jumped in the rain with ecstatic joy, even throwing away the dance steps in the excitement, that is, splashing as high as possible. His passion and enthusiasm can infect everyone who watches the movie. This dance alone can establish the classic status of "Song in the Rain".
But in fact, the classic status of "Song in the Rain" is basically established by this dance. Without this dance, "Singing in the Rain" would have lost a lot of color. However, in the original script, there was no such plot. So very dangerous, "Sing in the Rain" almost missed her classic status.
The story of "Singing in the Rain" is almost completely overshadowed by this dance. In fact, "Singing in the Rain" has a very interesting background. The film was shot in 1952, and it was still in the era of rapid changes in the form of film. Color films and wide-screen films were spreading rapidly. The story of "Singing in the Rain" is about the emergence of sound films in the 1920s, which impacted silent films, and the studio temporarily changed the way films were made.
Those who still have some impressions of "Singing in the Rain" can probably remember that the main part of this movie is about a little girl with a beautiful voice who dubs a big star with a bad voice. The main reason why the film explained dubbing is that this big star was a star in the silent film era. In the sound film era, the studio plans to make a musical, and her voice is simply not on the table. In order to maintain her star status, so I found someone to dub her, which is a bit like the lip-synching of current singers. In the end, her lip-synching was debunked by everyone, and the girl who dubbed her became the new movie star. Obviously, the film is critical of the old star, and the film also has the meaning of replacing the old with the new.
But in fact, the movie also shows that even if the voice of the big star is put aside, dubbing is necessary. In the early days of the talkie movie, how to record a film while it was being filmed was a big problem. The producers tried to hide the microphone in the set or the costume, but when the actor turned or turned his head away from the microphone, the sound became louder and quieter. Using a voice actor also solved the problem.
Today we know that most movies require dubbing in post, and the use of dubbing is actually a more complicated technical issue.
In the 1950s, however, "Singing in the Rain" easily persuaded the audience that it was a moral issue.
In fact, there are quite a few real examples in history about the dubbing of big stars in musicals. These include Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady. Hepburn was said to have been unaware that the film was going to use someone else's voiceover before filming began. She found out about this on the first day of filming, and she left the set in a rage. The next day she accepted the fact that her voice was not sweet enough, and came back to continue filming.
"My Fair Lady" was filmed in 1964, and it seems that at that time people still thought that dubbing in musicals was not a glorious thing.
Back to "Singing in the Rain". I started by saying that I'm not very comfortable with the fact that musicals put song and dance in movies regardless of the plot. "Singing in the Rain" is a good example of this.
In the plot of "Singing in the Rain", the studio in the 1920s wanted to make a musical about knights, so they designed a plot, saying that after reading the novel A Tale of Two Cities, a modern dancer had a dream and went back to the past. , so there is a knight who dances jazz. This plot is a design that has nothing to do with the plot in order to introduce dance. In the movie "Singing in the Rain" itself, their rehearsal part about this modern dancer is a dance with a large number of people, gorgeous colors, and a long dance. It is also a design to force the dance into the movie. .
I still can't accept this dance for dance's sake plot.
But such a sudden start of dancing and music that came out of nowhere formed a culture of dance movies that fans of dance movies took for granted, and that habit led to a truly great movie, "In the Dark." Dancer.
In real life, "Dancer in the Darkness" is poor, small, and cruel. But as long as she starts to fantasize, her life will become as colorful and peaceful as a musical, and she will break away from ordinary life. And such a beautiful fantasy bears the cruelty of reality, especially when you understand the falsehood of musicals, the contrast is even stronger.
"Dancer in the Dark" is the best song and dance movie in my opinion.
"Singing in the Rain" scored 8.4 on IMDB (31,041 votes) and ranked 71 on the 250 Best Films list. I gave it a 6.
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