"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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  • Bobby 2022-03-21 09:01:23

    [Exhibition at the China Film Archive] Restored version. Finally finished watching the movie on the big screen. As the most classic song and dance romantic comedy in film history, it is indeed well-deserved. Taking the transition from silent to sound films in Hollywood films in the 1920s as the background, it reflects the embarrassment of film companies in the early days of sound films. Accompanied by a large number of carefully choreographed solo, duo, multiplayer and group cabaret performances. The contrast between the narration and the picture in the interlude memory paragraph has the subtlety of black humor. Jim Kelly and Donald O'Connor's difficult dance and long shots are well done, and the female supporting roles are too stupid, but the performance is also very brilliant. The only two shortcomings are that the plot is simple and the characters are flat, and there are too many singing and dancing scenes, which are both lengthy and deliberate. It should be the dazzling feature of the golden age of MGM musicals

  • Ivah 2022-03-24 09:01:24

    C + / Weird play, throws out a lot of interesting points and hardly digs deeply, but the part of film history is true. The foreshadowing of the sound point is completely wasted, but it has become the only possible plot direction. The singing and dancing are very beautiful, but many passages cannot be integrated into the whole. Reviewing Lalalan's tribute stalks became an added joy. BTW in the play can accept the outside but can't understand the film as a visual medium but describe the dubbing as the protagonist.

Singin' in the Rain quotes

  • Don Lockwood: Movie? We've just seen one.

    Cosmo Brown: You got to show a movie at a party. It's a Hollywood law.

  • Lina Lamont: You mean it's going to say on the screen that I don't talk and sing for myself?