History Film / DancerInTheDark

* CaliforniaDoubling: Set in Washington State, but most of the filming was done in Europe.

''Dancer in the Dark'' is a 2000 musical drama directed by LarsVonTrier, and starring, of all people, Icelandic singing sensation [[Music/{{Bjork}} Björk]].

%%* ArtShift: see CameraTricks.

%%* BreakTheCutie

%%* CrowdSong

%%* DoingItForTheArt: It's a [[InsufferableGenius Lars von Trier]] film, so...
%%* DoggedNiceGuy: Jeff.
%%* DownerEnding: And how.

%%* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Selma herself at the end.]]

%%* {{Melodrama}}: Deliberately invoked.

%%* MusicalWorldHypothesis: played with.
%%* NotableOriginalMusic

%%* SerendipitousSymphony
%%* ShootTheShaggyDog

%%* TheMusical: As mentioned above.

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'''''Dancer in the Dark''''' is a 2000 musical drama directed by LarsVonTrier, and starring, of all people, Icelandic singing sensation [[Music/{{Bjork}} Björk]].

'''''Dancer in the Dark''''' is a 2000 musical drama directed by LarsvonTrier, and starring, of all people, Icelandic singing sensation [[Music/{{Bjork}} Björk]].

!!Provides Examples Of:

* CameraTricks: Alternates between {{Dogme95}} using blurry handheld cameras to make you feel like you, too are going blind, and 100 stationary cameras simultaneously shooting an uninterrupted LongTake in Technicolor, with singing and dancing (for the scenes in Selma's head).

* {{Dogme 95}}: Like ''BreakingTheWaves'', it's often mistaken for this, though it does adhere to some Dogme rules while ignoring others.

* LongTake: ''all'' the {{Musical}} numbers are shot as a continuous LongTake using up to [[CameraTricks 100 stationary cameras]] in Technicolor, then cuts between all the footage generated. The rest of the movie is filmed with [[ArtShift blurry handheld cameras]] in the style of {{Dogme 95}}, to show how the protagonist is going blind and the musical numbers are what she sees in her head. The result is fascinating because you can tell all the footage of singing dancing was taken from multiple odd angles of one single take. (under a desk, atop a railway car, etc.)

* [[BriefcaseFullOfMoney Hat Box Full Of Money]]

* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Selma herself at the end.]]

* [[HeroicSelfDeprecation Low Self Esteem]]: Selma (and how)

* ArtShift: see CameraTricks.

* BreakTheCutie

* CrowdSong

* DoingItForTheArt: It's a [[InsufferableGenius Lars von Trier]] film, so...
* DoggedNiceGuy: Jeff.
* DownerEnding: And how.

* {{Melodrama}}: Deliberately invoked.

* MusicalWorldHypothesis: played with.
* NotableOriginalMusic

* SerendipitousSymphony
* ShootTheShaggyDog

* TheMusical: As mentioned above.

* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: Selma herself at the end.]]

* [[spoiler:KilledMidSentence]]: [[spoiler:Selma herself]], or [[MoodWhiplash mid-song]], as it were.

'''''Dancer in the Dark''''' is a 2000 musical drama directed by Lars von Trier, and starring, of all people, Icelandic singing sensation [[Music/{{Bjork}} Björk]].

* OneSceneWonder: Joel Grey plays Selma's Czech musical idol.

Björk plays Selma Ježková, a Czech immigrant to the U.S. State of [[TheOtherRainforest Washington]] in TheSixties. She lives with her son, Gene Ježek (Vladica Kostic) in a trailer home owned by town policeman Bill Houston (David Morse) and his wife Linda Houston (Cara Seymour), and works at a factory. Selma loves Hollywood musicals, and sees them at the cinema with her friend, Kathy (Catherine Deneuve). She is auditioning for the part of Maria in an adaptation (because there is no such word as "adaption")of ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'', and throughout the film, she slips into daydreams in which she imagines herself and others around her spontaneously enacting musical numbers. Co-worker Jeff (Creator/PeterStormare) pursues her romantically, [[DoggedNiceGuy to no avail]].

Björk plays Selma Ježková, a Czech immigrant to the U.S. State of [[TheOtherRainforest Washington]] in TheSixties. She lives with her son, Gene Ježek (Vladica Kostic) in a trailer home owned by town policeman Bill Houston (David Morse) and his wife Linda Houston (Cara Seymour), and works at a factory. Selma loves Hollywood musicals, and sees them at the cinema with her friend, Kathy (Catherine Deneuve). She is auditioning for the part of Maria in an adaption of ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'', and throughout the film, she slips into daydreams in which she imagines herself and others around her spontaneously enacting musical numbers. Co-worker Jeff (Creator/PeterStormare) pursues her romantically, [[DoggedNiceGuy to no avail]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: Peter Stormare, Joel Grey

* [[spoiler: KilledMidSentence]]: [[spoiler: Selma]], or [[MoodWhiplash mid-song]], as it were.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Set in Washington State, Most of the filming was done in Europe.

* JustTrainWrong: [[http://www.treinfoto2000.be/Locomotieven/Nohab/Odense/GreatNorthern.jpg This locomotive]] appears in a scene in the movie. So many things wrong with that. Road name x locomotive model, locomotive model x setting location...

* MoodWhiplash: All the musical numbers. Some of them [[ItGotWorse hard cut to something terrible]] happening to Selma while she was daydreaming the music.

Unbeknownst to everyone, Selma is [[ItGotWorse gradually going blind]] [[SoapOperaDisease from a hereditary disease]], and Gene will eventually suffer the same fate unless she secures an operation for him, hence why she moved to the US. All the money she has been making at the factory is saved as a fund for the operation. When Bill steals said fund so as to hide the fact that he is broke from his wife one day, [[DownerEnding things do not]] end well...

* ItGotWorse

* JustTrainWrong: [[http://classicstreamliners.deviantart.com/gallery/40506998#/d28n2ug This locomotive]] appears in a scene in the movie. So many things wrong with that. Road name x setting location, road name x locomotive model, locomotive model x setting location...

* BreakTheCutie

* JustTrainWrong: [[http://classicstreamliners.deviantart.com/gallery/40506998#/d28n2ug This locomotive]] appears in a scene in the movie.

* JustTrainWrong: [[http://classicstreamliners.deviantart.com/gallery/40506998#/d28n2ug This locomotive]].

* JustEatGilligan: If Selma had just revealed Bill's secret [[spoiler:(and therefore tell why she had to kill him), she could've been proven innocent.]]

'''''Dancer in the Dark''''' is a 2000 musical drama directed by Lars von Trier, and starring, of all people, Icelandic singing sensation [[{{Bjork}} Björk]].

Björk plays Selma Ježková, a Czech immigrant to the U.S. State of [[TheOtherRainforest Washington]] in TheSixties. She lives with her son, Gene Ježek (Vladica Kostic) in a trailer home owned by town policeman Bill Houston (David Morse) and his wife Linda Houston (Cara Seymour), and works at a factory. Selma loves Hollywood musicals, and sees them at the cinema with her friend, Kathy (Catherine Deneuve). She is auditioning for the part of Maria in an adaption of ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'', and throughout the film, she slips into daydreams in which she imagines herself and others around her spontaneously enacting musical numbers. Co-worker Jeff (Peter Stormare) pursues her romantically, [[DoggedNiceGuy to no avail]].