I Love Musicals!!!!!!

I can't even begin to explain how much I love musicals. I am a terrible singer and I've accepted that, but I used to dream that I would be a broadway star. My most recent musical was in freshman year of highschool I was in the chorus of 42nd Street. It was so amazing, but after that I realized that my lack of singing talent would most likely hold me back from my life dream. But I still love musicals so needless to say I loved "Golddiggers." I just love the way musicals make you feel. They just make you happy no matter what. I'm sure it was a reflection of the time. A lot of the best musicals were made during, and about, the Depression, including Goldiggers and 42nd Street. These musicals were designed to cheer up the people seeing them. They put a humerous spin on the troubles people were going through to try to make people see the silver lining in the situation. Through their comic relief and joyous singing, people could escape from the bad things that were happening at the time, and it still does that for people even today. The fact that everyone in the show is usually so positive even though they have to steal their food at one point and don't have enough clothes to go around makes you feel like you can be positive in whatever situation you're in. I also love all these plays within a play. This idea probably origionated because of the fact that what goes on behind the scenes of a show are actually really exciting. There's so much energy and excitement that goes on backstage, almost more than on-stage, and it's really fun to see both parts of it.

Baby Face

What I thought was funny about this movie is the theme of all men wanting what they can't get. Most of the men that Lily becomes involved with have wives or other women that love them truly and purely. You would hope that a man would be able to tell true love over sheer lust and exploitation; and you would really like to hope that they would choose true love over lust, but they don't. Just what women have been complaining about for years and years, men want what they can't have, and Lily represents everything a lot of men can't get in a women: beauty, boldness, lust, sexuality. It's sad and funny at the same time that men do not change. Take her boss who killed himself for example. He had a wonderful fiance who loved him very much, and who he was very much in love with. But he kicked her to the curb as soon as Lily turned her eyes on him. Even before that, her old boss she got fired had a wife and kids and he didn't even care, all he wanted was to have the young and beautiful woman who was so obviously using him. No wonder Lily became so hardened and skeptical of love, because not only did she not love any of these men, none of them truly loved her, and even though they said they did, she knew they didn't. Some of them went crazy over it, but it wasn't crazy with true love, it was crazy with lust and infatuation and wanting what they can't have. This comes back to the whole dating strategy of playing "hard to get". Personally I get mind games when it comes to dating and love, and I'd much rather be straightforward and honest with a man. But it has been proven to me so many times, as it is proved in this movie, that a lot of times men will not want a woman if he can so easily have her. Men like a challenge, they want women to appear unnatainable so that they'll feel like a hero once they actually do attain her. It's sad but it's reality.

Scarface

The thing that I found really interesting and ironic about Scarface and other movies made at this time is that despite all the violence restrictions, they were disturbingly violent. Because of these resrictions, they are violent in a different way movies are now. Movies now show gore and violence, but when it is shown it seems so much more real and terrible. In old movies like Scarface, killing is such a casual thing and that's what's so disturbing about it. I noticed that in the movie, Tony whistled a happy tune right before he was going to kill someone. I found this really disturbing because it just showed that to him, murder was just any other everyday task like laundry. A lot of times when he killed people I wasn't even sure what he was killing them for, especially the ten minute long scene of him doing a million drive by shootings and killing tons of guys. To me this casual view of murdering anyone for any reason is rediculously violent, no matter if the killer and the victim are in the same shot or one of the other silly violence guidelines they had.