The movie started off with our main characters of Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont going to a premiere of their movie. They get alot of questions asked about their "relationship" and how they met and it takes us through a flashback of what Don went through as an actor and how he got to where he is at that point of his career at the premiere. It really helped set up what we were going to see throughout the movie and how his relationship with Lina really is.
Something that I noticed in the movie that made a big impact on Don's life is him being able to meet Kathy Selden. I feel like that made a big impact on him because that was his main focus throughout a big portion of the movie. He was doing everything he could to woo her and be able to get her to pay attention to him more so that he can be able to make her his.
I feel like the midpoint of the movie is when Don, with the help of Cosmo and Kathy are able to figure out how they can save their movie and when they decide to turn it into a musical so that it can be a big hit and it doesnt be a dud. They decide to have Kathy be a voice over for Lina during singing and they come up with the plan and the process so that they can make their movie much better and a watchable movie for their fans and be able to save their reputation.
It was really hard for me to notice and figure out what the big all is lost moment was for this show because it wasnt one of those movies where it was a big huge crucial moment. But from what I saw and noticed was when Lina saw that Kathy was going to be doing her voice over and she didn't like it and was mad over it, so she went to the producer of the studio and set some demands to him so that she can be able to get the credit for everything. I feel like that was a big moment in this case cause that was ruining the whole reason and point of why they were doing it and she was trying to sabotage it and the producer could do nothing about it.
The last part of the movie is when Lina wants to give the final speech and be able to thank the crowd, but that backfires on her part because she has a totally different voice from how she was singing. So they ask Kathy to be a voice over for her while the crowd wants her to sing and Kathy doesnt want to because she is feeling used. But the reason why Don does it is so that they can see who really is the person behind Lina and to be able to expose Kathy in a way that she can receive credit. Before she storms off the stage, Don calls her back and they sing together and the crowd gets to really she who she is.
The genre of this film is definitely a musical/dance genre, there are many points and times you can obviously pick out and say that it is. Two of the traits that I noticed though were that there was a lot of heavy choreography, there is alot of it. I feel like every scene has at least a dose of that. And than the main cast along with the dancing does alot of the singing and I feel like they also sing almost every scene and they do more singing than talking at some points.
I feel like the reason this film was so successful was it was a musical that grabbed your attention in a way. They were always pretty entertaining and along with being entertaining you were able to learn about the history of movies and how they developed and how excited they were able to get with being able to have sound in a movie and how amazing they thought it was. It was like a miraculous invention and gift to them around that time.
I feel like the movies Explict meaning was being able to show us the ups and downs that an actor/actress goes through during their career. We were able to get a behind the scenes look of what they do and how rumors affect people and also what inventions can do to make a great movie. The implicit meaning I feel was the history of what was going on during that time. It also was able to help us see how happy everyone was because this movie came out after the war and it was just a great feel good movie.
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