{"id":46,"date":"2018-03-09T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/03\/09\/five-films-featuring-a-musical-number-but-not-in-a-musical\/"},"modified":"2018-03-09T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T15:30:00","slug":"five-films-featuring-a-musical-number-but-not-in-a-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/03\/09\/five-films-featuring-a-musical-number-but-not-in-a-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Films Featuring…A Musical Number (but not in a musical)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tI personally love musicals, but I accept that the adorkability of, say, the ever under-appreciated Donald O’Connor is not every viewer’s cup of tea. Musical numbers make appearances in films for a variety of reasons, from romantic to ridiculous. Here are Five Films Featuring toe tapping ditties in films that are NOT musicals.<\/p>\n

1. (500) Days of Summer (HU DVD 8533<\/a>)<\/h4>\n

I think the musical number here might be attempting to say something about the rose colored glasses this character is wearing. Possibly. It’s too subtle to tell.<\/p>\n

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2. History of the World, Part 1 (HU DVD 4108<\/a>)<\/h4>\n

This is how I prefer to learn history. The Animaniacs taught me the Nations of the World, Schoolhouse Rock taught me inane basic grammar I barely use, and this super-accurate representation of the inquisition taught me the value of topical phenylephrine in the Sephardic tradition.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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3. 10 Things I Hate About You (HU DVD 195<\/a>)<\/h4>\n
This film’s title is drawn from one of the greatest poems in the English language ever to be recited in a 1999 romantic comedy starring Julia Styles, the poem itself blooming from a love sown and nourished by this “night soil” cover of a truly fantastic Four Seasons song.<\/div>\n

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4. Pretty In Pink (HU DVD 6848<\/a>)<\/h4>\n
I have thoughts about the “nice guy” gender politics in this movie, but my god, this is an epic lip-sync.<\/div>\n
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5. Borat (HU DVD 2633<\/a>)<\/h4>\n

While it’s a stretch to call this a musical “number,” I feel like this scene really highlights the power of music to bring people together in a thoughtless, sonorous bliss. You can practically see Euterpe, muse of music, whispering in Borat’s ear and laying her gentle hand across those six strings, giving delight that transcends even nationality in a most divisive atmosphere. Art. True art.<\/p>\n

Honorable mention and bonus film this week is Forgetting Sarah Marshall (HU DVD 8701<\/a>), specifically for this experiment in stream of consciousness songwriting:<\/p>\n

Happy viewing!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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