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Analysis Of Singing In The Rain

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The film, Singing In The Rain, directed by Stanely Donen and Gene Kelly, uses many themes, camera angles, and overall simple techniques to engage its audience within the movie and yet still manage to symbolize plentiful acts. The movie mainly focuses on the new era of ‘talking pictures’ and how it affected Cosmo’s career and film, The Dueling Cavalier. Within the many scenes, I chose to focus upon the famous, “ Good Morning,” scene/melody.
Throughout the scene, I noticed two recurring themes; first being the idea of a new day means a fresh start or a chance to reset. Within the first 10 seconds of the film, Cosmo states, “Today s my Lucky day!,”; soon after Cosmo chimes in stating March 24th is actually his lucky day for its past midnight, the new day. Moreover, I believe the sense of daylight symbolizes the struck of joy each character has because of a new chance in fixing the mess of the film he performed with Lina Lamont. The scene also plays along with this idea by implementing different greeting of ‘good morning’ such as Bonjour, Buenos Dias, Muchas Frías
Bongiorno, Montichorno, Guten Morgen, Blakich Morgen, and etc; rather than meaning good morning, it’s a metaphor of joy being expressed in various languages.
The second theme signifies the importance of hope; the idea of how a negative event can become positive if one manages to maneuver around it. For example, I noticed the rainstorm playing as background sound among the scene. At a certain point Debbie exclaims, “.. And what a lovely day!” which lead me to interpret a signified an ironic moment. Even though it was raining, Debbie still smiled while stating it was a beautiful day. In another instance, Cosmo states he will turn dramatic, failed, silent film of the Dueling Cavalier into a musical; from his mishap of a terrible film which would have ended his career, he gave it hope. Hope is key to resolve all conflicts.
Within the excerpt, the directors began with a medium shot. I understood the importance of making the viewer feel a part of the trio, therefore the condensed shot caused this; also, it allowed the musical announcement to have a greater emphasis on joy by beginning at a medium shot then zooming outwards as the characters spread apart. Once

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