Film-making (and all of its offshoots in film writing and film-whining-about over the internet) tends to attract a certain kind of person; they’re the kind of people who can afford to take the chance on film school. They tend to be from the suburbs, they tend to be male, and they tend to have grown up proving their masculinity in areas other than sports (there’s a reason that so many films on the IMDb top 250 are about crime). As a result, there are some blind spots when film history is considered by our generation, and one of those spots covers up film musicals. Though the notion of people breaking out into song and dance to express their thoughts has generally become fodder for satire (alternative theater festivals are filled with titles like Chlamydia: The Musical and Bosnia: The Musical), there was once a time when the industry devoted...
- 7/6/2010
- by Anders Nelson
- JustPressPlay.net
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