Ah, Babs. Known for its big hit "Don't Rain on My Parade," this comedic musical sees Barbara Streisand in her element as a budding vaudeville singer who works her way up to the big time on Broadway. Prepare yourself to be completely charmed by Audrey Hepburn's Eliza Doolittle in this modern-day Cinderella story: a working class Cockney girl learns how to speak like a polished aristocrat and pass as a member of high society.
Unless you've been living under a rock, you probably already know what the hills are alive with music, duh. The Von Trapp family singers and their idyllic life in the Austrian countryside with their winsome governess clothes made out of curtains! This film remains one of the most iconic musicals to date. Known for its iconic dance scenes with umbrellas, this Gene Kelly film depicts the upheaval in the entertainment industry over the transition from silent films to "talkies" when two silent movie stars join the cast of a musical.
Yet another umbrella-heavy song-and-dance musical, this bittersweet French film follows a young Catherine Deneuve, who works at a boutique selling umbrellas. She falls in love with a mechanic and gets pregnant, but has to move on without him when he gets drafted into the Algerian War.
This love story for the ages tells the tale of Romeo and Juliet, but this time the couple is caught between to rival gangs: the Jets and the Sharks. A gang member falls in love with his rival's sister—played by It-girl of the day Natalie Wood—and trouble brews in the form of many elaborate dance scenes. This winning Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire combination sees a young librarian in Paris caught up in the throes of the colorful American fashion world when she's scouted by a top magazine editor and a famous fashion photographer.
An outstanding cast of Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, and Jean Simmons star in this film about a gambler played by Sinatra who needs to make some money. He places a bet he thinks is foolproof: That his old acquaintance Sky Masterson Marlon Brando won't be able to get the saintly Sergeant Sarah Brown Jean Simmons to go on a date with him.
The plot involves a country girl caught in a love triangle between a farm hand and a cowboy, and drew inspiration from the play Green Grow the Lilacs. There's nothing quite like the movie adaptation. This Gene Kelly classic tells the story of a former American soldier who remains in Paris after the war to become a painter how romantic, right? The duo becomes a love triangle, though, when a rich heiress starts to show interest in the painter on a more than professional level.
Perhaps the most famous musical ever, it transported audiences to the technicolor land of Oz, filled with flying monkeys and witches and a wizard. Judy Garland plays a wayward girl who's just trying to find her way back home, accompanied by a medley of characters like the Lion, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Man.
This late-seventies musical puts a funky spin on the iconic plot of The Wizard of Oz , giving the classic musical a fun facelift.
Starring music legend Diana Ross as Harlem schoolteacher Dorothy, The Wiz is a completely star-studded musical experience; Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor, and Lena Horne are just a few of other the notable cast members! It's the musical that made you give your succulents a side eye. Rick Moranis and Ellen Greene star in this hilarious movie about a geeky florist shop worker who finds out his Venus flytrap can speak.
If you're afraid of going to the dentist, I'd skip this one. It'll only fuel your fears. You'll remember this as the movie that launched Jennifer Hudson into international stardom, but it's so much more than that. Dreamgirls takes its inspiration from the history of Motown and The Supremes. The story follows a girl group known as The Dreams and their manipulative record executive. ABBA fans, this one's for you! The plot follows a young future bride who invites three men to her upcoming wedding, with the hope of finding out which one is her father.
If you liked the original Mamma Mia , there's more where that came from! Here We Go Again serves as both a prequel and a sequel, with the plot being set after the events of the first film, but featuring flashbacks to , telling the story of Streep's character's arrival on the island of Kalokairi and the first time she meets her daughter Sophie's three possible fathers.
It's the rare sequel that might be better than the original. Taking its inspiration from the story of P. Barnum's creation of the circus and the lives of its star attractions, The Greatest Showman is truly a work of art. The songs are catchy earworms, enough to look past the many artistic licenses they take with Barnum's history.
The fourth and arguably the best remake of the film is co-written and directed by Bradley Cooper and stars none other than Lady Gaga. It's about a hard-drinking musician Cooper who discovers and falls in love with a young singer Gaga , and her rise to stardom. Gaga is a force in this film, delivering a performance that will break your heart. This is not the most "light-hearted" fare, relative to others on this list, but the music is good enough to look past that. Check out content warnings beforehand if you don't know the plot.
This musical, co-written and directed by Bob Fosse, is inspired by his life and his career as a dancer, choreographer, and director. It focuses on Fosse's attempt to edit his film Lenny while simultaneously directing and choreographing the Broadway musical Chicago, and the women who are trying to save him from himself. You can still see the impact of Fosse's work on modern dance. The sun will come out tomorrow, and this legendary musical will remind you of that.
If anything, you'll learn that you're never fully dressed without a smile. This movie is part homage, part parody. SXSW Greetings again from the darkness. Adria Petty, daughter of the late rock legend, Tom Petty, discovered a stash of 16mm film shot by photographer Martyn Akins between and The footage chronicles Petty's recording of his triple platinum album, "Wildflowers" - the album he considered his best and most personal.
The found footage, along with insight and perspective from many who were there, allows us to understand why he felt that way. Mary Wharton directed multiple episodes of "VH1 Legends", and her expertise with musicians elevates this to must-see for any Tom Petty fan Adria explains what was happening in her father's personal life during this time, and how he wanted something new and different from his work with The Heartbreakers - although most of them worked on this album as well.
In addition to the 27 year old footage, Ms. Campbell seems mostly bored with the interviews, but Tench spills all his memories. It's really Rubin who brings the most insight and perspective to what Petty was trying to do. The changing of drummers from Stan Lynch to Steve Ferrone is discussed, and we hear Petty explain that he still wants to sing with bassist Howie Epstein. So the songs may sound different, and have special meaning to Petty, many of the musicians are those he was most familiar and comfortable with.
We see rehearsals, recordings, sound checks, and live performances. There are also rare clips of Petty at home. Wharton provides a unique opportunity to watch an artist at work and how the pieces are assembled to create a masterpiece album that is as strong today as it was on its first release.
Tom Petty died in , but lives on in his music, and now in the footage of his musical process. A young writer played by Emma Stone turns her Mississippi hometown upside down when she decides to interview the Black women who work for the community's most prominent white families. The one lesson we'll aways take away from this film? You is kind.
You is important. A young Lindsay Lohan shines as twins that were raised without knowing of the other's existence—until fate has them meet at summer camp. They soon hatch a plan, swapping places in order to reunite their divorced parents. This beloved fantasy romance follows long-lost loves Westley and Buttercup, who in order to be reunited, must fight through the various obstacles they face in the kingdom of Florin.
Anne Hathaway makes this list, again, with this Disney film that follows a teen named Mia. Her life is disrupted when it's revealed that she's the heir to the throne of Genovia, a small European principality. As a result, she must learn the ways of royalty, whether she wants to or not. Whoopi Goldberg plays a lounge singer who's forced into hiding after witnessing her mobster boyfriend commit murder. She's hidden for protection at a convent, where she soon brings life to the church by taking the reigns of its sleepy choir.
In the comedy , Williams plays Daniel Hillard, the down-on-his-luck father who attempts to win back his wife and kids by working as their female housekeeper. Hillard's interactions with the family are so adorable, you'll forget about the fact that he's lying to them.
In the uplifting flick, Jenna Rink's Jennifer Garner birthday wish to become "thirty, flirty, and thriving" comes true. Though she has the body and career any year-old would kill for, she's still a child at heart. Virtually every scene in this biographical drama will make you shed happy tears. The film is based on the true story of a struggling salesman named Chris Gardner Will Smith who is desperate to find his purpose and make a necessary career change.
Oh, and if you're wondering why Chris's bond with his son, Christopher Jr. Leave it to the bubbly Elle Woods Reese Witherspoon to get you out of a funk. The rom-com may teach audiences how to "bend and snap" and how to move on from a relationship, but the most important thing we could all take away from the film is to not judge a book by its scented pink cover.
You'll be doubling over in laughter at a restaurant visit gone wrong, and the movie will also make you want to phone your best friend. Though "run, Forrest, run" will always be synonymous with the film, we love it for the titular character's positive mantra and catchphrase: "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get.
As Carrie grapples with a wedding day turned sour, the rest of the squad help her mend a broken heart—not to mention sort through her fabulous closet of designer dresses. Adapted from Robert Harling's stage play of the same name, the film will make you cry and want to schedule a boxing class to punch out your frustrations.
A pianist Ryan Gosling and actress Emma Stone transport audiences back to the golden days of Hollywood, when musicals and the art of dance were used to encourage viewers to follow their dreams.
The Oscar-winning film is a must-see for theater buffs and, well, anyone who loves bright colors, jazz, and romance. The Flossy Posse reunites in this comedy. But during their getaway, the four ladies find out there's more to life and sisterhood than drunken nights, grapefruit sex, and dance parties.
Bill Murray delivers one of his best performances in this classic. He portrays Phil, a cynical weatherman who hates a certain aspect of his job: covering the annual Groundhog ceremony in Pennsylvania. Due to a time warp and weird supernatural forces that are never explained, he's destined to live the same day over and over again. The only perk? As the service begins, Jack walks into the church and joins Suzie and the children.
The story ends happily, but with a cost. In order to give the story a more realistic feel, the protagonist is not totally successful with what he had set out to do. The spy genre sounds like it could cross over to the previous genres already discussed.
But only the setting and the plot can be standard. The setting could be the same as the war, Western, or crime genres, but it does not make it a war, Western, or crime genre. You have to remember that the story makes the genre because it controls everything else.
In the spy genre, the main character generally works under an assumed identity in order to find something or destroy something of harm controlled by a nemesis. As in past genres, the plot is the inner conflict of the protagonist. In this situation, he or she has a strong inner conflict to succeed at what he or she is assigned to act upon. Thus, if the movie has any of the aforementioned characteristics but takes place during World War II, the movie is primarily a spy movie rather than a war movie.
Remember, the setting does not determine the genre but the story does. The story is interconnected to the characters and the plot. The setting helps add the must-needed background and specificity to the movie, but it is not as interconnected as the other three genres.
In recent times, a male of the strong virile type plays the protagonist spy. So, we will demonstrate that this does not always have to be that way in a movie.
We will take a woman, named Suzie, who is the spy protagonist. We will set the example during World War II. Unlike Jack in the war genre discussion, Suzie is chosen because of her background in languages and her photographic memory, giving her the ability to memorize lists of facts immediately. She is requested to go behind enemy lines as a civilian and obtain data that will debilitate the enemy thus giving the Allies the advantage and shortening the war by possibly years.
In order to be able to do this, and to prepare her mentally for the task, she is set to train for three weeks with an Army officer named Jack. Jack is very skeptical that Suzie will be able to pull the task off.
Jack states that it is not because she is a woman, but the movie viewers know that her being a woman is exactly the reason. Jack begins a rigorous training program just to say that he told her so.
However, Suzie really masters everything Jack throws at her. After about a week, Jack sees this and starts to admire her strength and fortitude. Jack makes the training less rigorous because he only trains her to get behind enemy lines, get back to the Allied lines, and how to mentally survive torture. By the end of the three weeks, they begin to fall in love with each other, and Jack feels he should accompany her, but his command says that is impossible.
The time has arrived for Suzie to go. The French underground has managed to get her a clerical job where she can do some travelling including going to Normandy. Rather abruptly, Suzie plans a trip to Normandy. She studies the land and is able to secretly catch a glimpse of German maps showing where their military strength is in and around Normandy. Suzie rushes and gets the information off to the Allies before she is captured by the Germans.
The Germans find her guilty of being a spy and she is executed. Can you see the difference between this example and the war genre example? Both have the same setting of World War II, but the spy genre example has a non-soldier searching for secret information, while the war genre had a group of soldiers going on a mission that was not secret.
The war mission was behind enemy lines and in the war zone where the fighting was occurring. The spy genre does not occur in the war zone where there was fighting. The spy story has a lot less emotion and love between the main characters. The spy story has more suspense as Suzie is hunting for information. She is becoming involved in several tight situations where she barely misses getting caught by the Nazis. The war genre story has the one climatic battle that the whole conflict was moving toward.
Most of the time these two genres do not become this similar but these two examples make it easier to see the differences in the two genres. Both the adventure and spy genres can have exotic settings. The stories are normally about a person or group of people searching for something. During the journey of searching, dangerous situations are overcome by the main characters. The protagonist may end up getting involved in fighting to overcome social or moral injustices in the exotic location where he or she has journeyed.
The difference between this genre and the spy genre is, once again, the story. The spy genre has a story where something is searched for secretively, and the information itself contains secret information.
This story has suspense based on timing and near misses. The protagonist is an adventurer rather than a government employee. Being bigger than life, the adventure genre contains a lot of explosive action throughout the movie. Remember that the story treatment, character background, and character development are big differentiations and distinctions that separate genres.
The plot and the setting are also different between genres, and are reflective of the story and the types of characters. Science fiction is linked to the previous genres of crime, Westerns, war, spy, and adventure by the basic theme.
However, the genre elements are totally different. Quite often, science fiction has a setting that takes place in the future. In this way, if the producer wants to comment on a particular problem in current society, the producer can set the problem in the future.
The producer appears critical about the problem but not about the current society. The outcome of that problem, if it continues, shows how the future will look. For science fiction, we can still stay with the plot of inner conflict, which can always be the plot, because a conflict is needed.
The characters and the story can be the same as any other genre with variations, as we will demonstrate in the example. In our example, Jack and Suzie, along with several hundred other people, are fed up with the crime and violence that exists where they live.
No specific location is mentioned, so it can be anywhere in the world or universe. Researchers in this group toil endlessly to find a new galaxy that is livable for humans. Together they all dream of pioneering and developing this new world so there is no violence and everyone can live in harmony. The space ships are finally finished and they are sent off.
They find and arrive in the new world that is named New Earth. The people set up a colony and draft laws so there is no anarchy. Everything is great for two generations. The people live in harmony and enjoy each day to the utmost.
However, one day, someone is found dead and robbed. Everyone is left shocked. Because so much time has passed without violence, the police are unprepared. But they review the crime scene, and conclude that it was murder. Since they have never investigated a murder, they are unsure what should they do to find the murderer and how should they to go about doing it.
They arrive at a procedure and find the murderer. The murder was an accident. The murderer was surprised as everyone else. The people realize a murder or accidental death can always happen, so the society has to be prepared and set up to handle it. Even though the story is fantastical in many ways, it can still make comments and raise questions about society and morality.
Science fiction genre, like any genre, can cross over at some point or points to another genre. This example crossed over to the crime genre. However, to determine the main genre, review the story, characters, plot, and setting together. In this situation, these elements are most geared toward the science fiction genre. In other words, a fantasy movie has no limits. The setting could be anywhere at any time with characters who appear and act in any way the script writer wants.
The story could be about anything. The plot will be inner conflict. According to Wikipedia, fantasy stays away from scientific and macabre story aspects, so it does not become a piece of science fiction or horror. You can see how all three genres: science fiction, fantasy, and horror are similar but different.
A group of misfits are given a task by a wizard to find the perfect person. They must do this in order to save their friend, who is terminally ill and will die shortly.
The wizard tells them that their friend is not terminally ill but under an evil spell that he can break. The characters are Jack, Suzie, and Alec, who are misfits because they are the outcasts from their home village, which is in a fictional country.
The wizard gives them a clue to look where no one has looked or would think of looking. Jack, Suzie, and Alec think that the perfect place to find the perfect person is in a graveyard because nobody would think of looking there.
But how would the perfect person appear in a graveyard? After searching through several cemeteries, they become frustrated because they find nothing unusual and do not know what the wizard was talking about. They finally find a cemetery where they can enter a new world that is built upon their imaginations. Using their imaginations mean, as they discuss a trait or physical appearance, they can build the person using their minds. What they imagine can become reality.
Using their imaginations, they begin to discuss what the perfect person would look like and act. They cannot decide because the traits that they imagined as a perfect person are foreign to them. Finally, they start talking about themselves, and what they like and do not like.
After a lengthy conversation that continues for days, Suzie stands up and yells that she has the answer. She states they should make three lists of their best physical and mental traits. That will be the perfect person. The perfect person is within them as it is within all people. They compile the perfect person using their imaginations and take it to the wizard. Suzie explains to the wizard with the assistance of Jack and Alec that the perfect person was within them as it is within all people.
The wizard states that they found the answer to the clue. As such, they are also able to break the spell over their friend. The spell is broken, and the four leave and live happily ever after. The setting regarding where the movie takes place can be instrumental in a horror movie. Many times, horror movies take place in a historical area with big, old houses that hold many secrets. Secrets provide the basis of a story as the house is supposedly haunted because something gruesome happened there many years ago.
However, the setting may not be unusual, but it can be a typical small town or city just like the one where you live.
The plot, once again, is inner conflict. The main character, Suzie, inherits the house, and she is determined—to the point of becoming obsessed—to prove that there is no such thing as a haunted house. However, she takes her boyfriend, Jack, with her to the house.
After they become frightened by unearthly occurrences in the house, Jack asks his friend, Alec, to join them at the house to find a solution to what is going on. Alec states that in order to make it a clean, healthy house again, they have to discover the problem and solve it.
The three of them enter a room late in the evening and try to contact a spirit to identify the problem.
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