"Mary Poppins", "Gray Test Showman", "West Side Story" ... Review the history of musical films colored in masterpieces!

Solve the musical movie history that leads to "West Side Story"

Born in 1957 as a Broadway musical, a movie in 1961, and about 60 years later, the Waist Side Story, which was made by a master Steven Spielberg, is now available.At the 94th Academy Awards, it has also been talked about in seven categories, including the Awards, Director, and Supporting Actress Awards.Let's follow the history of a musical movie after a masterpiece beyond this era.[See photos] "West Side Story" overwhelmed by dynamic images by Steven Spielberg ■ The golden period of a musical movie that created "Oz Magic" and "Sound of Music" is "Musical"That is the work that the characters sing in the play.In a typical drama, the emotions spoken in the lines are turned into a song and expressed, and the dancing according to the song is developed to create an “extraordinary” world.Going back to the history of such a musical movie, the first film, Jazz Singer (27), whose film became a tokie from silent (sound) was a musical.In other words, the movie delivered the sound to the audience as a musical.From the late 1920s to the 1950s, a large number of musical movies were produced in Hollywood.In the dark era of the Great Depression and World War II, movies shifted from monochrome to color, and the musicals that deliver their dreams were welcomed by the audience.Even now, masterpieces that are loved have been born one after another, and the golden age has been built.The famous song "Beyond the Rainbow", "Oz of Oz" (39), was set for a girl Dorothy to a different world and became the starting point of a musical fantasy.In addition to the Judy Garland starring the same work, a star specializing in musical films such as Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly is born.The leading work of Gene Kelly's leading work was "Singing in the rain" (52), and the dance in the protagonist's rain was a famous scene in the history of the movie.Musicals, which have become popular as a popular genre of movies, will diversify and become bigger since the 1950s.A series of films on the stage that gained popularity on Broadway.The representative is "West Side Story" (61).Until then, he tried a bold challenge of serious themes, such as racism, tragedy of lovers, in a musical that was full of dreams and hopes.The Academy Awards has achieved a feat of nominating 11 categories and 10 categories."Sound of Music" (65), which gave a large location in Europe and produced famous songs such as "Doremi's Song" and "Edelweiss", won the Academy Award for Best Work.In addition, "My Fair Lady" (64), who played the heroine (64), who played the heroine that transforms from a flower sale to a first -class lady, "Oliver!"(68), including (68), in 11 years from 1958 to 1968, the Academy Awards won five musical films.Beyond the golden age, it was the era of the “mature period”.However, the topical work of musical movies will decrease at this time.■ "Snow White", "Dumbo" and "Pinocchio"!While Disney works that color the history of musical films, Walt Disney's works have also colored the history of musical films.In the world's first feature -length animated movie "Snow White" (37), there were scenes where characters sing, such as "Hi Ho" and "Someday the Prince", and had a musical style.In addition, the scenes singing by characters, "Pinocchio" (40), "Wish for Stars", "Dumbo" (41), "My Baby", and "Cinderella" (50).However, the style of Disney animation has been included, and it has created the history of musical movies different from live -action.Disney sent a masterpiece in a live -action musical movie."Mary Poppins" (64).Followed Julie and Ryu's, the queen of the musical, completed with famous songs such as "Chim Chim Cherry".At that time, other musical masterpieces were mainly films on stage, while the Mary Poppins was a reverse pattern that the movie was later.When the musical is captured in a wide interpretation of "music movie", the groundbreaking work is "Fantasia" (40).Using classical music such as Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, eight stories are developed in animation, but music and video collaboration can be said to be the ultimate musical.This Fantasia is also known as a movie with stereo sound for the first time in history.Apart from the projection film, a truck with a recorded voice was created and played in the theater.■ Disney Renaissance period of "Beauty and the Beast" and "Aladdin" -Shin -year mega hits such as "Ana and the Snow Queen" and Disney's musical animation created a big flow.Mermaid] (89).Walt Disney draws the original of "Mermaid Princess", which was interested in film, as a musical, and completed with numbers such as "Part of Your World" and "Under the Sea".The success of this work will be passed on to the following "Beauty and the Beast" (91).The scene where the main character Bell and the protagonist and the beast dancing in the hall of the old castle dance in the hall of the old castle are the highest peak of musical works beyond the animation.At the Academy Awards, he achieved the first alternative work award nominated as an animated work.In the following year's Aladdin (92), famous songs such as "Hall New World" were born, and the world of Disney's musical animation is one trend.Later, including a variety of works such as Lion King (94), they were also made on stage musicals, which gained even more popularity.This trend has reached the top again in "Ana and the Snow Queen" (13), and the work, which recorded global mega hits, including Japan, has become a Disney musical animation.It became a symbol.■ When did the live -action musical movie revive in the 21st century musical movie movement, which began with the criticism and box office successful "Chicago"?In the 1970s and 1990s, the appearance of musical films, such as "Cabaret" (72), "Grease" (78), "Chorus Line" (85), and "Evita" (96), is "occasionally".Since "Star Wars" (77), Hollywood has been booming in action.The flow changed after the 21st century."Chicago" (02), who co -starred in Broadway's masterpiece musicals with Lenny Zelwigers, Catherine Zeta Jones, and Richard Gear, as a musical movie.(68), has been awarded the Academy Award for the first time in 34 years.The box office was successful, and the attention to musical movies increased.Later, "The Phantom of the Opera" (04) also recorded a huge hit.The film was long run on the stage of Broadway, London, and has gained major popularity in Japan by the Shiki Theater Company.As a result, it was made into a movie and gathered many spectators in the theater.Musical movies since 2000 have recorded hits in this pattern, "Mamma Meer!(08) and "Les Miserables" (12) are typical examples.In particular, the famous performance of Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, and the new "Le Miserables" has been performed in 1985 since the premiere of London and West End continued to be performed around the world as a masterpiece in the world.It also led to an oversized hit in.■ Original works such as "La La Land" and "Gray Test Showman" also appeared!The special pattern is "Hair Spray" (07), depicting a big -sized high school girl challenging an audition program, and the base is a movie made by John Waters, which was announced in 1988.It is a musical, and it becomes a musical movie.This pattern has some other works such as "Producerers" (05), which is a characteristic after 2000.In addition to films from the stage, movie original musicals have been a topical work in recent years."La La Land" (16), which achieved the highest 14 nominations in the Academy Awards and won six categories, including the Director Awards and the Best Actress, was a former musical movie golden age (1940-50s.) Dedicated a tribute to the work, and gained support with a romantic development that appeals to modern spectators."Gray Test Showman" (17) also appealed to those who watch the song and dancing, and the "basics of musicals", which shaken their hearts, opened the path to a huge hit.Strictly speaking, it is not a musical, but the drama that progresses with music, such as "Bohemian Rhapsody" (18) depicting the half life of Freddie Mercury, a rock band queen vocalist, Freddie MercurySince it stimulates and has a great success in repeated repeaters, the potential of musicals and music movies has been once again proven."Dia Evan Hansen" for "In the Heights" after 2021, Netflix movie "Tick, Tick...Boom!: Chick, chick...Boon!Musical movies such as "Shirano" (released on February 25) are released one after another.Works that you are interested in are waiting in the future.■ “Magician of Video” Steven Spielberg's career and musical movie have been united!Spielberg's West Side Story was born with a long history of such a musical movie.The setting and development itself inherited the stage version that opened in Broadway in 1957, which was the foundation of the West Side Story in 1961 and its foundation.In other words, Spielberg aimed for a faithful finish.The key point, the power of the dance scene, the dynamic choreography that is remarkable, and the wonderfulness of the camera work that captures them, the carrier as a magician of Spielberg, and the past musical films are ultimately united.Everyone will breathe in the video.It is clear that the evolution of the dance scene was inherited by "grease" during the period when the musical film was settled.In addition, the West Side Story proves that the tragedy of love that is divided by society, based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", shakes his heart over the times.The love of men and women, which is a barrier, is "Beauty and the Beast" and "Phantom of the Opera", and the perception of racist discrimination and diversity is "hair spray" and "Gray test Showman".… And the theme of the work that became an epoch in the past is vividly synchronized.By comparing with the history of musical films, the excitement of the West Side Story will expand deeper and will be the best movie experience with the excitement of entertainment.Sentence/Hiroaki Saito