Many people look at musicals as unrealistic and pointless, mostly because "no one can learn anything by singing and dancing." People who think this way couldn't be more wrong. There are many things to be learned from these masterful musical selections. Take the song "Seasons of Love" from RENT for example. A truely iconic piece that starts off by teaching how many minutes are in a year. Sure, that can easily be researched on Google or figured out with a calculator, but that is just the beginning of the song. The rest of the song talks about how people look at their lives. Some watch the day end, or remember waking up in the morning. Some people look only on the lessons they have learned, or the trips they've taken. This song tells the listenerto …show more content…
This song says that the world will turn whether you like it or not. The planit is full of people that will do their own thing. Don't let that stop you from living your life. The incredibly upbeat song from Funny Girl, "Don't Rain on my Parade," teaches an empowering lesson. The leading lady is reprimanding someone for not letting her live life to the fullest or, how they put it in the song, raining on her parade. "If someone takes a spill it's me and not you," is one of the phrases in this inspirational song. This song is a great way to remember not to let someone control your life. An iconic song in one of the most recognizable musiclas is the finale from Les Miserables. As Jean Valjean lays dying, he is greeted by Fantine, whom he helped at the beginning of the musical. Fantine expresses her gratitude for the love and care Valjean took in raising her daughter. When asking if he is forgiven for his past crimes, Fantine replies by saying, "To love another person is to see the face of God." This quote is incredibly uplifting. I believe that it means that everyone can be forgiven by turning their lives around. Showing love to another person can wipe the red from ones
Of all the different genres of movies, horror is for sure my favorite type to watch. I was looking over the list of movies for this last assignment and my eye went straight to the horror section. After looking at all of the options for the scary movies, I thought to myself that I should branch out and watch a type of movie that I don't usually watch. So I chose musical. Although I don't watch musicals often, when I do, I enjoy them very much. For starters, singing is such a beautiful gift to the ears of people, like me, that love listening to someone sing. I love listening to people sing and it gives me chills whenever a pretty song is sung. I also love watching people dance and in many musicals, there are always a choreographed dances throughout the films.
Musicals were meant to bring exoticism to people so that people could enjoy and feel like they are somewhere for a couple of hours. What people didn’t see was the deeper meaning that some musicals brought to the surface like segregation, racism, body issues and LGBT. Hairspray and West Side Story are two musicals that bring deep meaning to their musicals if you look hard enough you will find them. Even though there is race faced in both Hairspray and West Side Story that build issues, yet the both come together as a group at the end.
This song is concentrated on the social construction of reality, which talks about about how “Ideas about reality also change over time” (Newman, 53). We can see this expressed in lines 32-33 in the song : “It just ain't the same, old ways have changed/New days are strange, is the world insane…” (lines 32-33) The band states how the world’s views and attitudes have changed and how there is uncertainly for the future. The band is questioning the values that they once lived up to. “Yo', whatever happened to the values of humanity/Whatever happened to the fairness in equality/ Instead of spreading love we're spreading animosity/ Lack of understanding, leading lives away from unity…” (lines 71-74). They imply that individuals are swaying away from their values, as a result changing their reality.
It is not true that the book only serves to bring together wonderful songs and dances. Today the book must be equally yoked to the songs and music of the musical. It is an important combination that makes a powerful performance. Jerome Kern understood this before anyone else and just about every musical made today has an important message, choreography, power actors and actresses who can sing their hearts out. We see this in Dream Girls, Chicago, and Rent. The stories are powerful portrayals of people fighting for what they want. Each musical follows their story and is accompanied by music that matches each situation and emotion.
This song is about hating someone. It relate to the eleventh amendment because they not allow to sue citizens from other state they can hate them.
I watched a theater of people cry as they watched this musical, and they were experiencing a piece of cultural religion without even realizing it. I personally did not realize how much religion there was in this musical and how much it impacted society until I began to really burrow into the core of this musical and the way it has impacted people and society.
This song is a wakeup call for America to set a better example for the next generation. People are hurting other people. Some are paranoid of what will happen next. Life should not be scary, but there are people afraid to walk out and be among the chaos. Everybody is against one another, and they are not willing to compromise. “It’s time we stop” and look at what we are doing and what has become of us. There are wars for ignorant reasons, there are people hurting, there are innocent children watching, WAKE UP AMERICA! The riots and wars are not worth all of this pain and suffering.
The song and the quote says that this is your world and you can go wherever you want to go. Don't listen to the songs that will make you feel down or make you feel bad about yourself. Listen to the song that make you feel invincible. You can do whatever you want in this world. Don't let anything let you down just be free.
The symbolism in this song is that life is hard for other members of the society. This song regards a man trying/ resolving to alter his ways before starting to change the world. This
The musical film has always held a special place for me. From my time as a drama student in high school, my eyes have been opened to the amazing world of the musical and especially the musical film. The musical film is a film genre in which the characters sing songs that are integrated into the overall story. Since musicals first began in theaters, musical films usually contain similar elements. These elements often simulate that there is a live audience watching. In a sense, the film viewers become the audience members, at a theater production, as the actor performs directly to them. Due to the popularity of musicals in the theater, the style was quickly brought over into film. In 1927, the musical film genre began
Dance was not a new element in the theatre realm. It had been used for years as a way of interpretation of feelings of a character that the writer or director wanted the audience to feel visually. Through movement, expression of those feelings was portrayed and helped the audience to somewhat
The song expresses how people are not living up to society's values and norms. It suggest that the socialization is at fault and that they contribute to improvement of self being. The song implies the way society goes against values and norms by one of the very first lyrics in the song. The lyric goes, “What’s wrong with the world, mama, People livin’ like they ain’t got no mamas…” (lines 1-2). This makes one aware of the lack of values in one's family. Values is the belief or an idea that a person or group has to determine is correct or not. Another verse of how the band shows one disobedience of the values and norms comes toward the middle of the song. “People killin', people dyin’, Children hurt and you hear them cryin, Can you practice what you preach, And would you turn the other cheek…” (lines 50-53). These verses show of society has failed to act stable and logical way that society once viewed as correct living. These actions show that citizens have not lived up to the expectations of society. Social norms are likes the laws of society. Laws are things that are illegal behaviour and norms are like behaving in a way society wouldn’t like. For example being in gangs, like the bloods, or the crips, or a big group that goes against society's norms like racial groups. An example of a racial group would be the KKK.
Now days all the kids want to grow up too fast and when they are done with school there going to miss the days when they were young. The song also talks about like there's no dinners at grandma's house anymore because this generation has a different taste in things they like to do. The guys who sing the song want to go back to when they were kids because they know it's hard to survive out in the world because you don't have your mom to support you have to work and make your own money and pay your own bills. When i was a kid i wanted to grow up to i wanted to do things that adults can do but this song made want to not grow up because you're on your own after your done with school and hearing that they want to be kids made me think that life must be hard if they want to be kids again.
This is what they call imagery. The singer is saying be yourself do not follow others, be yourself and don’t let your perse stop you. Later on in the song it say,”The ice we skate is getting pretty thin/ The water’s getting warm so you might as well swim/ My worlds on fire. How about yours/ That’s the way I like it and i’ll never get bored.” (Smash Mouth) This entire line of the song describes stress and it will try to stop you from being you, but when he rose up and he made a difference and forgot all about the stress he once had. The first part of the lyric is a simile. The final lyric in the song that is important is,” Somebody once asked could I spare some change for gas/ I need to get myself away from this place/ I said yep, what a concept/I could use a little fuel myself/ And we could all use a little change.”( Smash Mouth) What he means by this is people ask him what he did to become this famous and he said,”you have to follow your dreams.” This is an example of a
Before being able to completely appreciate musical films, one must be aware of their remarkable history and how they came into existence. According to an article written by Cara Schreffler: