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""High School Musical" represents everything I despise about the corporate juggernaut known as Disney: Flawless teens seemingly air-brushed by nature, ready-to-market characters prepared to franchise into every imaginable direction (stage play, television series, dolls, ice show, dolls, recording contracts, etc.), and a story you can set your watch to. It's also pretty darn fun, gosh darn it. I realize that the majority of the target audience of 'High School Musical 3: Senior Year' could not give two shakes of Zac Efron's hips as to what my opinion of the film is. So this review go out to all the parents out there.
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"I was never a big fan of musicals. I had to participate in them throughout my elementary school career and even landed a few lead roles, but something about randomly breaking out into song didn't really jive with me. It's probably because it had been parodied so many times in my childhood shows and films that I couldn't take it seriously. Overall even the modern musicals haven't really appealed to me. Of all the musicals I've seen though, the ones from the forties, fifties, and sixties are the ones I can sit through. Singin' in the Rain is no exception. Taking place just at the beginning of the talkie era of filmmaking, I was quite intrigued by the plot and story of the film. In all honesty, I wasn't expecting that much of an interesting story, being that I was of the assumption the entire movie was about singing in the rain. I admit now that I was wrong, and that I actually enjoyed the tale constructed before me. It may be only because it is one of the few original movies I've see ... "
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"Last week I shared some disturbing McDonalds ads that I found in Argentina in addition to a clip of a faux Marilyn Monroe also endorsing the Golden Arches. Compared to some dead celebrity-employed marketing, though, that’s relatively innocent. A black and white photo with a badly inserted color cheeseburger? Even Marlon Brando would have been fine with that unbelievable campaign. As for the Marilyn commercial, I’ve seen some people comment on YouTube that they didn’t know she did a McDonalds ad. But aside from inadvertently confusing some idiots, having an impersonator hawk products isn’t too unethical. This 2005 Volkswagon ad is a little more questionable, as it superimposes the face of Gene Kelly (d. 1996) on the bodies of breakdancers outfitted to look like his character in
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"Why didn’t Cyd Charisse––who died in Los Angeles on Tuesday at the age of 86––ever fully become the Ginger Rogers to Gene Kelly’s Fred Astaire? To compare Charisse directly to Rogers would be unfair; the former was an athletic show-stopper who regularly held down solos seemingly designed to draw attention to their own difficulty, while the latter’s dance career revolved around the uneviable task of making Fred Astaire’s choreography seem spontaneous and easy. And Charisse also made movies with Astaire––The Band Wagon and Silk Stockings offered two of her biggest roles––but her chemistry with the big baller of ballroom and tap dance was virtually nonexistant. The impossibly leggy, mildly exotic, confident almost to the point of camp Charisse added counterpoint nuance to Kelly’s weird barrel-chested blue-collar ballet. It never felt like it was a perfect pairing, and that was maybe what was exciting about it: as a partner and as a choreographer, Kelly knew how to use and play off the ... "
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"Why didn’t Cyd Charisse––who died in Los Angeles on Tuesday at the age of 86––ever fully become the Ginger Rogers to Gene Kelly’s Fred Astaire? To compare Charisse directly to Rogers would be unfair; the former was an athletic show-stopper who regularly held down solos seemingly designed to draw attention to their own difficulty, while the latter’s dance career revolved around the uneviable task of making Fred Astaire’s choreography seem spontaneous and easy. And Charisse also made movies with Astaire––The Band Wagon and Silk Stockings offered two of her biggest roles––but her chemistry with the big baller of ballroom and tap dance was virtually nonexistant. The impossibly leggy, mildly exotic, confident almost to the point of camp Charisse added counterpoint nuance to Kelly’s weird barrel-chested blue-collar ballet. It never felt like it was a perfect pairing, and that was maybe what was exciting about it: as a partner and as a choreographer, Kelly knew how to use and play off the ... "
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"The above clip, a mashup for scenes from The Bandwagon and Daddy Long Legs set to Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal,” is just the latest in a long line of mashups, through which Fred Astaire magically dances from the 1930s, 40s and 50s into the 80s, 90s and beyond. There’s “Fred Astaire’s Billy Jean“, “Fred Astaire Hip Hop,” “Fred Astaire Brings SexyBack,” “Fred Astaire Is Bringing SexyBack,” and surely more I’ve yet to come across. Although each clip has its nice moments of intertexual collage (I especially like the way the same footage from Royal Wedding is recycled to different ends: in “Billy Jean,” set to the line, “The kid is not my son,” it’s a "
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"The above clip, a mashup for scenes from The Bandwagon and Daddy Long Legs set to Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal,” is just the latest in a long line of mashups, through which Fred Astaire magically dances from the 1930s, 40s and 50s into the 80s, 90s and beyond. There’s “Fred Astaire’s Billy Jean“, “Fred Astaire Hip Hop,” “Fred Astaire Brings SexyBack,” “Fred Astaire Is Bringing SexyBack,” and surely more I’ve yet to come across. Although each clip has its nice moments of intertexual collage (I especially like the way the same footage from Royal Wedding is recycled to different ends: in “Billy Jean,” set to the line, “The kid is not my son,” it’s a "
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"Ok, not really. I think people would freak out if I sang this entire review, and that has nothing to do with my total lack of singing skill. Anyway, we all know the 1952 classic "Singin' in the Rain" and the song that goes along with it. The plot follows Don Lockwood(brilliantly portrayed by the immortal Gene Kelly) and his co-star Lina Lamont(Jean Hagen) as their carrers in the silent film industry are challenged by the new technology on the block, the talkie. To stand up to this new threat Don, his best friend Cosmo(Donal O'Connor), and his love interest Kathy(Debbie Reynolds) decide to make a musical out of Lockwood and Lamont's flop of a first talkie.This film is called a classic for a reason, because it sets a standard not easily met by most. The last few years have seen the semi-resurgance of the musical genre(Hairspray and Sweeny Todd being the tow biggest offenders), but nothing seems to hold a flame to this film. Now i'm not a big fan of musicals, ... "
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"What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/pip pin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.a spxSingin' in the Rain is on the following AFI lists:The Original Top 100 (#10)100 Funniest Films (#16)100 Years...100 Passions (#16)100 Greatest Film Songs (#3 - "Singin' in the Rain;" #49 - "Make 'Em Laugh;" #72 - "Good Morning")25 Greatest Movie Musicals (#1)The Revised Top 100 (#5)Singin' in the Rain is also one of my favorite movies. It's funny and cheerful and song-and-dancy, and it didn't get its exalted status as America's best-loved musical film for nothing. The plot: Don Lockwood (the handsome Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) are silent film stars who betray a smoldering passion onscreen, but offscreen, they are like oil and water. While Lina has eyes for Don, Don "caaann't stan'" Lina, who is beautiful but brainl ... "
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What A Glorious Feeling!
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"I was dreading watching this film as I am not a fan of musicals, but since it's #10 on AFI's 100 Greatest American Films list, I decided to give it a go. Why did I wait so long to see this film? It's very funny, fast-paced and the camera work is phenomenal! Most of the jokes still hold up well today, and it's all so giddy and the songs so familiar, you just can't help but smile. The song that really won me over was "Make 'Em Laugh" (what a number!), but "Moses Supposes" was really good, too. It goes without saying, but Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor are damn good dancers. Even if you don't care for musicals with dancing, you can't help but watch because they're like robots they are so in-synch with each other. One gripe, though: when Jean Hagen's character goes to the press as a counter-measure of the studio heads dubbing Debbie Reynold's voice for hers, she would've had to talk to the reporters for them to pri ... "
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