Hi, great start to this exciting course!
To answer the question of favorite musical: Singin' In The Rain, because of its extraordinarily multilayered structure and layers of philosophy. It has films within films within films, meta references to the history of Hollywood with tongue firmly in cheek, postmodern attitudes in a midcentury movie about the 1920s, Shakespearean dynamics of high and low comedy, and ongoing examinations of truth vs. fiction - where the business of Hollywood is basically fiction and sometimes characters believe the lies they want to sell audiences. On yet another level, the concept of being cheerful in the midst of difficult circumstances - singing in the rain - speaks to moral victory for characters, for imagined audiences of the films within films, and for any viewer at any time including today. The film is sophisticated and complex, yet ultimately simple in choosing authenticity over mendacity. (More or less anyway!)
And the talent!
Onward and upward!
