Warner Brothers Studio and its relationship with music
Music has played an important role in entertainment since the beginning of musical theatre in Ancient Greece, which involved only dance and music. With the advent of film, musical theatre evolved into what we know nowadays as musical films. Musical films became a genre in which several songs (sung by the characters) are interwoven into the narrative to advance the plot or develop film’s characters. In Corpse Bride music do play an important role. Although the movie is categorized as an animated film, musical is one of the genres to which this movie belongs. The way in which characters (even though they are made of clay) express what they feel through music and how each voice represents each character in a special way, makes the movie unique and unforgettable.
Its resemblance to another famous musicals as Wizard of Oz (1939) by Victor Fleming cannot be denied. One of the reasons of this resemblance is the studio that produced Corpse Bride and Wizard of Oz, Warner Brothers. With the Studio System, which was practiced in the Golden Age of Hollywood, Warner Brothers made its appearance as one of the most important studios at that period with an important accent on musicals. Since then, Warner Brothers has put a signatue to musical films as their vivid colours, fantastic situations, and beloved characters.
Even though Warner Brothers has produced diverse films from the film noir The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Casablanca (1942) to the drama and realism of Rebel without a cause (1955) and Elephant (2003) , being the las a contemporary film just as Corpse Bride, the Studio still has that accent on musicals which makes each of their productions unique, but at the same time similar.
Sources used: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/musical_film
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/musicals
Blogs visited: The Maltese Falcon http://the-maltese-falcon.blogspot.com/
Casablanca http://www.thewhitehouseproject.blogspot.com/
Elephant http://elephantfilm.blogspot.com/
The wizard of Oz http://yellowbrickroad2.wordpress.com/
Rebel without a cause http://rebelwithoutacausemovie.blogspot.com/
the thin red line said,
November 11, 2007 at 5:38 pm
this is a funny movie, it is pretty interesting and also different.
Easy to enjoy and fascinating.
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