This movies is about itself. It is about a film being made just like the film being made. If that don't make sense: Then you get it. If that statements does make sense, you do not get it. Same thing goes for the whole film, you either get it or you don't and you get it by not getting it. Meaning, if you think about this flick too much you absolutely will NOT get it. Get it? Good.
There is about 5 minutes of a girl-gets-dragged-to-Hollywood-and-meets-guy- who-sings-and-then-becomes-a-big-star story mixed in with, it seems, dozens of vignettes that have little or nothing to do about that plot.
1) This moovie is hilarious.
1.5) The Music is absolutely great, including the score.
2) Being a moovie about a moovie being made, the discordant editing of this film probably is pretty similar the way a Hollywood musical of the 30's was made- Being re-written every few seconds until they ran out of time to film it.
3) People who do not understand what the word "Follies" means ought to not watch Follies.
This apparently was the first really big TechniColour musical Goldwyn produced. As such, this moovie is filled with a lot of great music. "Love Walked In" I understand is the last song George Gerwshin ever wrote, as he died before this film saw the screen. Maybe Goldwyn was asking too much from the guy. But this film gives homage to that song, making it the basic theme of the moovie. Someone complained about the song being overly repeated during the film, I disagree, it is used just enough to plant it in our minds as the musical theme of the film.
Of all the films made in the 30's - This one looks good, sounds good, makes me laugh every time I see it, and is remarkably contemporary even to people watching in the 21st century. The look of our screen couple looks very contemporary, I see people like that on the beach where I live. A remarkable amount of flesh is exposed for a musical follies film of the 30's, but not to a distasteful degree.
What makes this film important is the fact that it chronicles a big shift in Hollywood Musicals, and this is mostly apparent in the music that Gershwin wrote. In Musicals from the early 30's, women were more covered, and the songs lacked what is referred to as a Musical Hook. This film gives us a song with a very pronounced musical hook in "Love Walked In." - But the other Gerswin songs have this element as well including "Love is Here to Stay" I had read that it was Goldwyn's intention to produce one huge technical musical follies film per year... But it was deemed probably cheaper to use Danny Kaye instead, which, I do not have a problem with either.
This is one of my favourite flicks of all time, maybe it is "So Bad it is Good" but maybe it just has a lot of stuff going on. In that respect, it was probably better to pare the format down to the use of 1 Danny Kaye per film compared to using 15 other screen/radio/opera/dance personalities per film.
There is about 5 minutes of a girl-gets-dragged-to-Hollywood-and-meets-guy- who-sings-and-then-becomes-a-big-star story mixed in with, it seems, dozens of vignettes that have little or nothing to do about that plot.
1) This moovie is hilarious.
1.5) The Music is absolutely great, including the score.
2) Being a moovie about a moovie being made, the discordant editing of this film probably is pretty similar the way a Hollywood musical of the 30's was made- Being re-written every few seconds until they ran out of time to film it.
3) People who do not understand what the word "Follies" means ought to not watch Follies.
This apparently was the first really big TechniColour musical Goldwyn produced. As such, this moovie is filled with a lot of great music. "Love Walked In" I understand is the last song George Gerwshin ever wrote, as he died before this film saw the screen. Maybe Goldwyn was asking too much from the guy. But this film gives homage to that song, making it the basic theme of the moovie. Someone complained about the song being overly repeated during the film, I disagree, it is used just enough to plant it in our minds as the musical theme of the film.
Of all the films made in the 30's - This one looks good, sounds good, makes me laugh every time I see it, and is remarkably contemporary even to people watching in the 21st century. The look of our screen couple looks very contemporary, I see people like that on the beach where I live. A remarkable amount of flesh is exposed for a musical follies film of the 30's, but not to a distasteful degree.
What makes this film important is the fact that it chronicles a big shift in Hollywood Musicals, and this is mostly apparent in the music that Gershwin wrote. In Musicals from the early 30's, women were more covered, and the songs lacked what is referred to as a Musical Hook. This film gives us a song with a very pronounced musical hook in "Love Walked In." - But the other Gerswin songs have this element as well including "Love is Here to Stay" I had read that it was Goldwyn's intention to produce one huge technical musical follies film per year... But it was deemed probably cheaper to use Danny Kaye instead, which, I do not have a problem with either.
This is one of my favourite flicks of all time, maybe it is "So Bad it is Good" but maybe it just has a lot of stuff going on. In that respect, it was probably better to pare the format down to the use of 1 Danny Kaye per film compared to using 15 other screen/radio/opera/dance personalities per film.