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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2017 22:05:45 GMT
Recently watched this film but I'm not so sure it's a real musical like many produced in the 1950s. Not as many songs as I expected, which I personally preferred since too many can slow the story down.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Feb 21, 2017 10:51:10 GMT
Recently watched this film but I'm not so sure it's a real musical like many produced in the 1950s. Not as many songs as I expected, which I personally preferred since too many can slow the story down. Yes, I would call it a musical. However, La La Land tries to braid a musical with a soulful romantic comedy, and I feel that each element interferes with the other. The musical interrupts and detracts from a soulful romantic comedy that could have been quite compelling, while the soulful romantic comedy prevents the musical from building the energy and dynamism that it needs to be captivating. Personally, I feel that the film should have just focused on the romantic comedy and dropped the musical aspect.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 14:41:24 GMT
I think it tries too hard to be a musical. I wouldn't be surprised if the original idea was to make a romantic comedy and then it turned into a musical with an addition of a few songs. It could so easily have just been a romantic comedy with some music coming via the Ryan Gosling character. For me the songs don't add to the story, like they do in Wizard of Oz or West Side Story.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 6:29:47 GMT
Has anyone here seen Chazelle's "Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench"? It was his student film musical which he says was sort of a trial run for Lala. It seems to me that he wanted to make a musical first and foremost, and story was secondary.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 19:08:31 GMT
I suppose the first hour of it was but after a while... not as much.
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Post by Two Socks on Feb 25, 2017 0:06:30 GMT
When I think of "musical" I think of spontaneous breaking into song and dance with extended dance numbers in the middle of the song. Think Oklahoma or Seven Brides For Seven Brothers. La La Land by my definition, is not a musical. I thought it first it might be when they sang and danced on the freeway, but there was a big lack of songs and scenes that fall into the classic category of "musical". It was a movie with some singing.
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Post by egerianouma on Feb 25, 2017 2:31:12 GMT
I think they tried to make it look like a "50's musical. The cinematografphy was wonderfull in that part, as was Gosling acting in several scenes. As for the musical part, I gringed at their first dancing duet. There were things they couldn't do (eg leg high), which makes me wonder why didn't they just change the choreography. Also, the music was just ok. They tried to make it a '50's musical-like, but the songs were unisnpired and not memorable. Why can't the writer and director understand that jazz is already dead (they made whiplash, as well)? In my opinion it could have been better if they didn't try too much to make it an oscar-bait.
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Post by Cooper, the Golden Retriever on Feb 27, 2017 5:36:37 GMT
TO ME, it is, like a 1930s-=1950s musical.
Emma Stone and some of the mothers won.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 4, 2017 10:42:41 GMT
Nah, it's a fake one. Everyone knows the real musical is Moonlight.
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Post by Jillian on Mar 4, 2017 14:20:23 GMT
I definitely think La la land is a musical. If anything, it pays tribute to musicals as a whole and while doing so, it also pokes fun at many Hollywood standard happy endings. It is a different musical, but nonetheless a musical, in my opinion.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 4, 2017 16:29:58 GMT
I definitely think La la land is a musical. If anything, it pays tribute to musicals as a whole and while doing so, it also pokes fun at many Hollywood standard happy endings. It is a different musical, but nonetheless a musical, in my opinion. This is wrong. All of its musicality should be transferred to Moonlight. Moonlight is the only film that deserves any praise whatsoever; it shall be praised every day until next year, when something more politically correct replaces it.
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Post by Jillian on Mar 4, 2017 16:36:53 GMT
I beg you pardon? So is Moonlight a musical as well, or to whom are you referring to? I plan on seeing Moonlight, because I have not done so yet. I plan on seeing Lion next Thursday. Moonlight is not the only film that deserves praise. In my opinion La la land was deserving of its accolades it received as well.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 4, 2017 16:57:20 GMT
I beg you pardon? So is Moonlight a musical as well, or to whom are you referring to? I plan on seeing Moonlight, because I have not done so yet. I plan on seeing Lion next Thursday. Moonlight is not the only film that deserves praise. In my opinion La la land was deserving of its accolades it received as well. Wrong. Every award it received should be arbitrarily given to Moonlight so that Moonlight receives every possible honor ever, and everyone knows it far and wide. Then the Academy will have PROVED it's not racist, which is the most important thing a bunch of rich old white men living in and around Hollywood can possibly do! What part of this eludes you?
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Post by Jillian on Mar 4, 2017 17:01:11 GMT
Every part of it. Firstly, thankfully the awards show was quite versatile this year with not only white nominees, so that was great to notice. Secondly, even though you seem to think that Moonlight is the only film that should have won and gotten praised, that is your opinion. I, on the other hand appreciated La la land very much so that I am glad that it got the praise it did.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 4, 2017 17:08:53 GMT
Clearly. It was sarcasm. What are you, from Kansas or something?
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Post by Jillian on Mar 4, 2017 17:10:05 GMT
Clearly. It was sarcasm. What are you, from Kansas or something?
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Post by Jillian on Mar 4, 2017 17:14:01 GMT
Nope, much colder altitudes.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 4, 2017 17:25:02 GMT
What, like Nebraska?
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Post by politicidal on Mar 7, 2017 5:21:49 GMT
By today's standards.
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Post by Flynn on Apr 27, 2017 3:56:31 GMT
Yes it's a musical, but it's not a good one. By that I'm referring to the pacing of the musical numbers, not the quality. The movie starts out clearly as a musical. Then, after about half an hour, the songs and dance numbers slow drastically to a point where you forget the film is a musical until one happens. Overall, the film just doesn't maintain a consistent tone. So, it's kind of a part-time musical.
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