Genre films are an inevitable product of the development of the film industry to a certain extent, and can also be regarded as a form of standardized production after the industrialization of the industry. It was first born in Hollywood in the 1930s. Traditional genres include: Westerns, musicals, thrillers, etc. And my personal favorite genre is: musicals.
The originator of musicals is "The King of Jazz" released in 1927, and it is also the world's first sound film. Since then, in the 1930s and 1940s, musicals ushered in a golden age of vigorous development, and even became a popular fashion. During this period, Hollywood produced many excellent musicals, such as: "Broadway Melody", "The Wizard of Oz" and "Forty-second Street." Especially "Forty-second Street", it successfully combined the motion of the movie camera and the luxurious stage performance, creating a "kaleidoscopic" image spectacle, and also established the visual effects characteristics of the Broadway-style singing and dancing films. In the following 1950s and 1960s, the development of musical films reached a peak, and a large number of classics emerged, such as "Singing in the Rain", "West Side Story", "An American in Paris" and so on. But in the 1970s, musical films gradually shrunk. Only in recent years did they gradually return to the public's field of vision with the release of films such as "La La Land", "Frozen", and "The King of the Circus". .
To analyze the reasons for the prosperity of musicals, one cannot bypass the background of the times at that time. In the 1930s, the Great Depression swept the entire capitalist country. People's lives are so hard that they need some kind of entertainment to relieve stress, and movies are perfectly suited to this era. And musicals, as a film type with romantic ideals, can better bring the audience into a wonderful dream woven by Hollywood. Within an hour and a half, it helps people to temporarily escape from the sad reality, forget the troubles of life, and enjoy an audio-visual feast. In the early musicals, the gorgeous singing and dancing scenes and the flowery scene modeling are conducive to channeling the emotional and anti-social factors that hinder social development, making individuals more active, relaxed and energetic.
Movies are called "dream-making machines", and song and dance movies are usually extremely dreamy and gorgeous in terms of story and image characteristics, belonging to the romantic style. Therefore, at the moment when the realism style is the mainstream, song and dance movies always seem out of place. However, compared with other types of films, musical films organically combine the "eight arts": film, music and dance, bringing the audience the ultimate audio-visual enjoyment. In musical films, enthusiastic, positive , Inspirational themes will bring inspiration and inspiration to the audience from the inside out. In addition, musical films also have typical stylized and national characteristics due to the obvious differences in song and dance forms. However, due to the type of song and dance The film is far from reality and does not have the characteristics of realism, so it is more niche and elite, which deviates from the essence of the mass production of commercial films and is not convenient for global promotion. However, as a unique artistic style, it can better reflect the author's style, so , I like musicals.
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