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"Song and dance film?" Everyone present was shocked, wondering if they had heard it wrong.

You must know that the time period of this musical is not a big investment. It doesn't matter to shoot for some wishes. Anyway, there is not much money, and you can lose it.

But this song and dance film is different. Although it is still not comparable to those commercial films with large investments, after all, the song and dance film is already considered a serious film, and a fine song and dance film is not a lot of money invested.

The point is, this musical is the same as a musical, and there is basically no market now. It is a niche movie.

Musical films are films with a storyline composed of a large number of singing and dancing forms, mostly documented opera performances or adapted from operas.Singers are often the main roles.

Mainly rely on singing to portray characters and unfold the plot.Early song and dance films were mostly relaxed, beautiful and entertaining stage art films.Musical films highlight artistic achievements in singing, dancing and music, and the storylines are mostly relatively simple.

After Warner Pictures produced "Forty-two Street" in the 1920s, Western musicals were all the rage.In 1927, the first sound film "The King of Jazz" came out.Since it is a film adapted from a musical, it focuses on singing and dancing.

The rise of musical films almost coincided with the birth of sound films. "The King of Jazz" marked the birth of musical films. However, due to the lack of sound requirements, people regarded MGM’s 1929 "Broadway Melody" as the first A real musical.

Musical films became popular in the 1930s and became popular in the 1930s and 1940s. As early as the "golden age" of musicals in the 1940s, MGM’s dream kingdom turned music into a universal worldview. An audiovisual performance of an "attitude".

This attitude essentially means that "the world is a beautiful and romantic place, in which the rhythm and elegance of music are permeated." This attitude has always existed since the earliest "Jazz Singer", but as a song and dance film The "style" of "Fonghe Song and Dance Film" was only clarified after the plot and song and dance were integrated.There have been a series of classic musicals, such as "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), "Forty-two Street" and so on.It reached its glory in the 50s and 60s and produced the classics "An American in Paris", "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music". It began to shrink in the 70s.

The embryonic form of Chinese song and dance film is early, but the form is simple, without the luxurious lineup of Hollywood, nor the national characteristics of Brazilian song and dance film, the development is not mature enough, and the number is small and the scale is not large, the audience will naturally not form a pair of Chinese song and dance. Awareness of the film.

In 1931, "Song Girl Red Peony" was born, this is China's first sound film, strictly speaking, it is a song record.In the 1930s and 1940s, song records became a major form of Shanghai entertainment movies.

For example, the first interlude film "Weeds and Flowers", Ruan Lingyu and Jin Yan's "Looking for Brothers in Ten Thousand Miles" is fresh and moving; "Midnight Singing" directed by Ma Xu Weibang is based on the American Broadway opera "The Phantom of the Opera". Shanghai has set a record of 34 days of continuous screenings. The three episodes composed by Tian Han, composed by Xian Xinghai, and sung by Jinshan contributed a lot.

Although it cannot be regarded as a musical in the strict sense, the charm of song and dance has begun to flash in the movie.The most famous of these is "Angels on the Road".

In the 1950s and 1960s, color musicals were all the rage in Hong Kong, especially Shaw Brothers’ "Flowers and Flowers" and "Thousands of Beauty". The luxurious singing and dancing scenes were magnificent, and they tried to imitate the style of Hollywood’s splendor and glamorous costumes. The classic works are comparable to Hollywood musicals of the same period.

At that time, many of the films produced by the leftist film companies could be regarded as the category of musicals, but they were only in the style of Chinese drama, such as Wang Laohu starring Xia Meng's robbing relatives.

The real fertile ground for musicals is in India. Although Ah San is not a gadget,

That guy, singing and dancing are indispensable in any movie. Action movies can jump off while hitting, and people in India are really good at singing and dancing.

As the world's largest producer of musicals, movies, and movies, India has 36 billions of viewers worldwide every year. In its market, Hollywood movies only account for 6% of the market.

The South Hollywood movie centered on Mumbai has dedicated a unique Brazilian song and dance film to the world with the tradition of "no song and dance, no film."

And this is where India's confidence in calling its own film base Bollywood.

From "My Love History", which was popular in China in the 1950s, to the everlasting song and dance film in the 1980s, despite decades of vicissitudes, Indian movies are still singing and dancing, dreamlike.

Qiao Feng has not seen many Indian songs and dances, and his favorite songs and dances are not those serious songs and dances, but a comedy, three silly havoc in Bollywood. There are a few songs and dances for Qiao Feng I was too impressed.

It was from that movie that Qiao Feng realized that the movies made by Ahsan in India can also have such wonderful things. It turns out that a movie that is acting well can also be so attractive.

But India is an exception. Speaking of the topic, musicals worldwide have gradually declined since the 1970s.

In recent years, it has reached the point of whoever touches and who will die. There are some film companies and filmmakers in Hollywood who want to reshape the glory of the previous years of singing and dancing, but it is a pity that the market does not recognize musicals.

Regardless of the size of the investment, the final result is a loss, none of which is said to be profitable.

Ever since, musicals have become a taboo term in Hollywood.

Whether it's friends Zhang Guorong, Zhou Runfa, his own Zhong Chuhong, Lin Qingxia, Ye Qianwen, or Zhang Manyu who can only be considered known, they all looked at Qiao Feng in surprise, not knowing whether he was joking or really serious.

If it's serious, why is Joe Summit preparing to shoot a musical, can't he see the current dilemma of musicals and the poor recognition in the market?

"Yes, musicals." Qiao Feng nodded affirmatively in everyone's surprised eyes, and said, "It's musicals. I know you are not optimistic about them, but I don't think it's that the performance of musicals has not been good in recent years. This genre is dead. I think that the reason why the musicals are not in good condition is that there are not enough good books and music that people can smell and dance. I happened to write a musical book that I was planning to cooperate with the United States. Yes, but just now I suddenly felt that it might be a good choice to let you, Shao Rong, who is good at singing and dancing, star in this film."