Movie Musicals
Movie Musicals
Movie Musicals#0
Posted: 4/21/06 at 2:41pmFor a Film and Literature class, I have to watch two movies from the same genre, made at least 20 years appart, and compare them. Of course, Im doing musicals, and although I know of a bunch, I was wondering if you guys could suggest some? I was going to do Rent and something else, but Im not sure. I also kinda wanna do Cabaret; any suggestions?
re: Movie Musicals#1
Posted: 4/21/06 at 2:46pmI would personally do an older one with Howard Keil (spelling?) or Judy Garland, then compare it to a more modern one. (Rent, Phantom, etc.)
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re: Movie Musicals#2
Posted: 4/21/06 at 2:54pmDo A Star Is Born (1954) and Cabaret. We just watched them in sequence for our musicals class, and the similarities/differences are astounding. Especially the parallels between Judy singing "Lose that Long Face" and Liza singing "Cabaret".
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re: Movie Musicals#4
Posted: 4/21/06 at 3:11pmI second "A Star Is Born" and "Cabaret"
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re: Movie Musicals#5
Posted: 4/21/06 at 3:53pm
I like the Star is Born and Cabaret idea, but they are not 20 years apart.
The possibilities of this project are endless. I kind of wish I had to do it....
Broadway Star Joined: 1/22/06
re: Movie Musicals#6
Posted: 4/21/06 at 3:55pmmy suggestion 2 u is PRODUCERS AND MARY POPPINS. But those 2 mite be a bit far than 20 soz
re: Movie Musicals#7
Posted: 4/21/06 at 4:41pmWEST SIDE STORY or OLIVER! and CHICAGO
re: Movie Musicals#8
Posted: 4/21/06 at 5:05pm
A STAR IS BORN and CABARET is also a good combination because they are both "diagetic" musicals -- the songs in both are always clearly songs, often performance pieces, not stylized elevated dialogue.
For example, all of Judy's songs in STAR are either musical numbers sung with a band or while filmiing a movie she is in, the one exception the number she "performs" for her husband at home ("Someone at Last") to show what she did all day at work. There are never any "book" numbers.
Same with CABARET. With the exception of one song ("Tomorrow Belongs to Me") all the songs are performances at the Kit Kat Club. The intercutting Fosse does enables them to be used as commentary on the action, but again, they are not "book" numbers. ("Tomorrow Belongs to Me" in the film is used as if it were a pre-existing Nazi rally song.)
The film of CHICAGO is similar to CABARET in that all the songs are either live performance numbers or in Roxie's imagination (which is why cutting "Class" was exactly the right thing to do).
re: Movie Musicals#9
Posted: 4/21/06 at 5:42pm
Well Oklahoma has always been my favourite musical but when I saw it on the London Stage with Hugh Jackman as Curley it was awesome. He is a multi talented actor, has a superb voice and when he dances - well no wonder he won the Fred Astaire Award for Dancing on Broadway.
It is a rip roaring musical "with plenty of heart and plenty of hope" it is a lively, happy, very dramatic and of course romanticpeppered with comedy with some of the most famous songs in the musical world. He has a wonderful charamatic personality which leaps out at you from the stage.
Updated On: 4/21/06 at 05:42 PM
re: Movie Musicals#10
Posted: 4/21/06 at 5:43pm
Well Oklahoma has always been my favourite musical but when I saw it on the London Stage with Hugh Jackman as Curley it was awesome. He is a multi talented actor, has a superb voice and when he dances - well no wonder he won the Fred Astaire Award for Dancing on Broadway.
It is a rip roaring musical "with plenty of heart and plenty of hope" it is a lively, happy, very dramatic and of course romanticpeppered with comedy with some of the most famous songs in the musical world. He has a wonderful charamatic personality which leaps out at you from the stage./
re: Movie Musicals#11
Posted: 4/21/06 at 5:43pm
Well Oklahoma has always been my favourite musical but when I saw it on the London Stage with Hugh Jackman as Curley it was awesome. He is a multi talented actor, has a superb voice and when he dances - well no wonder he won the Fred Astaire Award for Dancing on Broadway.
It is a rip roaring musical "with plenty of heart and plenty of hope" it is a lively, happy, very dramatic and of course romanticpeppered with comedy with some of the most famous songs in the musical world. He has a wonderful charamatic personality which leaps out at you from the stage./
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re: Movie Musicals#12
Posted: 4/21/06 at 6:02pmIf you're set on doing RENT, you might also want to look at a couple of the Fred & Ginger movies (specifically Top Hat) and compare the lifestyles and set design, and how each is unique to its time period.
re: Movie Musicals#13
Posted: 4/21/06 at 6:07pmIf you are going to do Rent, think of comparing with the 1933 Busby Berklel film "Goldiggers of 1933" because, in a strange way, they have parallels. Both are about the lengths the poor of n=New York go to survive. In one, they are starving artists. In the other, starving chorus girls.
re: Movie Musicals#14
Posted: 4/21/06 at 7:13pmIf you want to do Rent I would pick West Side Story because both are set in New York and of course both have awesome music.
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re: Movie Musicals#15
Posted: 4/21/06 at 7:28pmummm....Sound of Music??
re: Movie Musicals#16
Posted: 4/21/06 at 8:16pmSummerstock is great it's with judy garland and gene kelly it's slightly reminiscent of Babes in Arms but with older people.
re: Movie Musicals#17
Posted: 4/22/06 at 1:57pm
Thank you very much!
Cabaret and Chicago
West Side Story and Rent
A Star is Born and Cabaret
Oliver and Chicago
Gold Diggers of 1933 and Rent
Top Hat and Rent
Now I just have to narrow it down...
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