Film
– Singin’ in the Rain
Duration
– 1h 43m
Director – Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
Cast - Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor, Jean Haegen
Rating – 4 / 5
Almost 7 decades ago, Gene Kelly brought to the
world one of the best feel good musicals of all time in the form of Singin’ in
the Rain. It is a movie which never feels old and is loved by critics and
audiences alike, no matter the time period they were born in. One of the
reasons why this movie doesn’t feel old is because it is an old movie about old
movies and how things have to change after a particular point of time.
The main
focus of the film is on how Kelly’s Don Lockwood, Jean Haegen’s Lina Lamont and
O’ Connor’s Cosmo Brown have to adopt a totally different kind of skill set to
survive in this new world of ‘talking pictures’. While Lockwood and Brown
easily gel with this new trend given their immense talent, Lina faces a lot of
difficulties as she lacks the ability to sing or dance skilfully and doesn’t
have that sweet voice that audience desire.
On the other hand Debbie Reynolds’
Kathy is a multi-talented stage actress who is a brilliant singer and dancer
and is totally the go to girl for the new cinematic revolution. The plot
revolves around how these characters bond with each other and how many changes
this new revolution brings in each of their lives.
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| Silent Pictures |
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| Talking Pictures |
The melodious songs of the movie are something which
viewers can’t get out of their minds with the title track i.e. Singing in
the Rain, Good Morning and Make ‘Em Laugh being the absolute
winners. The music of the movie is so compelling that one can’t help but
humming it and dancing to its beats but so is the dance.
The tap dance is
performed so skilfully by Kelly and O’ Connor throughout the movie especially
during the song, Moses Supposes that the audience can’t help but gasp in
astonishment. Much of the credit for making all the songs so visually stunning
goes to the lead cast especially to Donald O’Connor for doing almost everything
from singing and dancing to gymnastics to Make ‘Em Laugh!
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| Mosses Supposes Tap Dance |
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| Make 'em Laugh |
What makes this film even more beautiful and
delightful is the use of a whole variety of different colours throughout the
film which can specially be noticed in the entire Broadway Melody
sequence. Also, the Broadway Melody sequence was full of brilliant camera work,
beautiful production designs and flawless editing and was the highest point of
the entire movie technically as well as cinematically.
Apart from all the singing and dancing, the script
of the film was both funny and meaningful as when required and the story
wrapped up pretty satisfyingly for the audience as each character arc was
closed appropriately with everything turning out to be the way it is supposed
to be by the end. To sum up it is a movie that, just like Kelly, will make
audiences forget their worries, drop their umbrellas and splash around while
singing in the rain.
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