Analysis Of Singing And Dancing On The Big Screen

The film “Singin’ In the Rain” is directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen premiered in 1952 with the lead as Gene Kelly himself as Don Lockwood, his counter part Debbie Reynolds as Kathy Selden, and best friend Donald O’Connor as Cosmo Brown. The film portrays the studio Monumental Pictures’ performers going through the transition of silent films to “talkies.” This musical comedy has many different aspects of mise-en scene regarding blocking, how the film was shot, and costumes. In the infamous Singin’ In the Rain number, Gene Kelly’s talented theatrical performance, the blocking of the other characters walking into the scene, and simple pattern of film shots that match the non-diegetic tempo resulted in continuity editing making this whole musical number flow perfectly.

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"Love in L.A.," written by Dagoberto Gilb, is a story full of irony and multiple themes. The story is set in Hollywood during the summer time. Written in third person objective, "Love in L.A." guides the reader along through the story as opposed to an omniscient point of view.

The films Singin’ in the Rain and La La Land are similar in many ways. Both movies can be placed in the musical genre. These movies could also be placed in the romantic comedy genre. Although these movies are similar in there genres and conventions of romance, they have almost polar opposite endings. The main couple in Singin’ in the Rain, Don Lockwood and Kathy Selden, share a typical happy ending. This typical happy ending of a romantic comedy consists of the two main characters falling in love and living their “happily ever after” life. In contrast to this perfect “happily ever after” ending, La La Land ends in a very different way. In the movie La La Land the main couple, Mia and Sebastian, do not end up together at the end of the movie. By using the two stills provided, domestic happiness in films can be discussed.

One of the symbolic representations in La Mission is where it takes place, in the mission district of San Francisco. It represents the traditional stance of Che the main character and compares it to the shift to a more hipster neighborhood with new people like Lena moving in who haven’t been in the neighborhood until recently. He also restores old cars into low riders which is historically Mexican American style of car. The music featured in this movie is a mix of traditional chorales, native drums and guitars mixed with newer more modern version that also show the transition that this community and culture are facing coming to terms with change and homosexuality that is culturally unacceptable.

Late 20th century Los Angeles, California was a bustling, diverse, and segregated city. Both El Norte (1983) and Falling Down (1993) depict Los Angeles in revealing ways. Falling Down in particular has many shots of the city itself; in fact, the first scene in the film takes place in a classic LA traffic jam on the highway. It shows cars lined up and not moving on the highway as far as the eye can see, with construction going on around them. It is also very hot in LA. The people are sweating, it’s sunny outside, bugs are flying around, and there are palm trees around the highway. Similarly, one of the last shots in El Norte shows a busy highway with the LA skyline in the background. That shot with the skyscrapers, cars driving quickly by, and palm trees is one of the most iconic images of LA in either film.

La La Land takes place in contemporary Los Angeles and features all of the aspects and technologies of the 21st century, yet the entire film has the feel of a 1950's musical. Inspired by Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, Chazelle manages to match that chemistry with the dynamic acting duo

Mia played by Emma Stone changes throughout the film La La Land, directed by Damien Chazelle (2016) because of her willingness to chase her dreams, and as a consequence her dreams and personality change. Damien Chazelle uses contrasting in colours and juxtaposition as visual and literary techniques to demonstrate consequences of change to the audience. All through the film Mia’s (Emma Stone) outfit’s and personality change as a consequence of meeting Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and falling in love. This is depicted through colours and the audience can see how her outfits change from solid bright colours to mature colours and more adult-like clothing choices as a consequence of her changing as a person form her relationship with Sebastian. This allows the audience to ponder on previous relationships and to think about their outfits they have chosen when

Smith’s use of costume and character change which juxtaposes the interviewees stories, aims to elevate the disparities between their stories. The way in which she changes and switches characters changes depending on the change that she’s making, but for the most part the transitions are seamless. One transition that is incredibly stark is the transition between Elaine Young and Henry “Keith” Watson. Young’s story of hiding from the riots in the Beverley Hills Hotel with a group of other people and the reaction that she got from someone who saw her talk about it on tv read as disconnected from the story because of the way that Young isolated herself from the realities of her surroundings.

It stars Ryan Gosling as a jazz pianist and Emma Stone as an aspiring actress, who meet and fall in love in Los Angeles while pursuing their individual dreams (IMDB). The film's title refers simultaneously to music, the city of Los Angeles, and to the expression for being out of touch with what is going on in

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La La Land is a 2016 American romantic musical comedy-drama film that actually follows a musician and aspiring actress who meet and fall in love in Los Angeles. The film also had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, and has been screened at both the London and Toronto film festivals

For many, including Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles is seen as a place of hope, similiar to how New York was considered a safe haven for many immigrants. Aside of recognition, he is constantly in search of some sort of inspiration from the city that he now refers to as his home--“Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much.” (Fante 13) When all else fails, people believe that they can count on Los Angeles, the city of fame and fortune. To Arturo Bandini, whose only concern is to be validated through his writing, Los Angeles seemed like the safest and most responsible place for him to be in order to take his writing career to the next level, in which

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