Film Analysis: Singin' in the Rain and The Jazz Singer

Film Analysis: Singin' in the Rain and The Jazz Singer
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Film Analysis: Singin' in the Rain and The Jazz Singer
Singin' in the Rain is a song whose primary goal is to help people better understand American history and culture. The song has a pleasant effect throughout the film, allowing characters like Cosmo, Lockwood, and Kathy to demonstrate their dance abilities further. As a result, the song has greater relevance in assuring the upliftment of characters and other persons throughout the film. The song also plays a vital role in the overall narrative of the movie. Lockwood is pleased and content, and he believes that nothing will be able to bring him down, even though the weather appears to be unpleasant and severe. Lockwood's actions while singing in the rain represents his defiance of the darkness as well as his hope in overcoming adversity. Lockwood's optimism and enthusiasm are nicely represented in the part where he tries to show his deep love for Kathy (Hanson, 2019). Using the modest available technology, he creates a well-set romantic environment even with an empty soundstage. Lockwood associates the sizeable industrial fan with an evening wind, as well as the balcony ladder (Steven, n.d.). The film's storyline is nicely established and developed by these situations directly or indirectly related to the song.
The Jazz Singer is a musical film from the United States that was released in 1927. It tells the narrative of a young guy who rejects his religious Jewish family's customs to pursue his music career. This film is historically significant since it is the first to include blackface as a primary theme and narrative device. Blackface imagery lies at the heart of The Jazz Singer's fundamental topic, an animated and creative investigation of the concept of deception and cultural hybridism within American identity, in contrast to the racist humor and suggestion given out by its later permanence in early reverberation film. This film demonstrates how traditions may stifle people's ability to advance in their careers, and the usage of blackface demonstrates that anybody can achieve success.
Central Argument of the Films and Their Relation
Singin’ in the Rain’s fundamental argument is that not all in Hollywood is as it emerges. Each of the key characters has a mask that they conceal behind. Don Lockwood and his companion Cosmo Brown have a phony past of power and luxury, although the two grew up impoverished and performed as itinerant street performers. Kathy, his lead character, starts to make a fortune by dubbing over Lina Lamont, a famous lip-syncing actress. Lina's highly pitched, unpleasant voice became a danger to her image as an actor when the film industry got the technology to add sound to their motion films. As a result, Kathy was engaged to record Lina's lines and sing in her films as her "speech."
Similarly, The Jazz Singer is at the heart of the movie's main argument, a communicative and imaginative investigation of American identity's disingenuousness and cultural acculturation. The Jazz Singer is the only movie in which blackface is middle to the description advancement and themes appearance among the moreo...