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The plot is nothing to write home about, since it's mostly a pretext to hang George Gershwin's music and Kelly's choreography on. Luckily, the film is buoyed by an excellent cast and capable director. One quirk of the movie is its lack of Parisian locations, opting instead for [[TheThemeParkVersion hyper-stylized, colorful scenery]] that evokes Impressionist paintings. It is best remembered for its climax: a 16-minute, psychedelic ballet inside the main protagonist's psyche.
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The plot is nothing to write home about, since it's mostly a pretext to hang George Gershwin's music and Kelly's choreography on. Luckily, the film is buoyed by an excellent cast and capable director. One quirk of the movie is its lack of Parisian locations, opting instead for [[TheThemeParkVersion hyper-stylized, colorful scenery]] that evokes Impressionist paintings.{{paintings}}. It is best remembered for its climax: a 16-minute, psychedelic ballet inside the main protagonist's psyche.
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* ArtImitatesArt: Irene Sharaff designed a style for each of the ballet sequence sets, reflecting various French impressionist painters: Raoul Dufy (the Place de la Concorde), Edouard Manet (the flower market), Maurice Utrillo (a Paris street), Henri Rousseau (the fair), Vincent van Gogh (the Place de l'Opera), and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (the Moulin Rouge). The backgrounds took six weeks to build, with 30 painters working nonstop.
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* ArtImitatesArt: Irene Sharaff designed a style for each of the ballet sequence sets, reflecting various French impressionist painters: {{painters}}: Raoul Dufy (the Place de la Concorde), Edouard Manet (the flower market), Maurice Utrillo (a Paris street), Henri Rousseau (the fair), Vincent van Gogh (the Place de l'Opera), and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (the Moulin Rouge). The backgrounds took six weeks to build, with 30 painters working nonstop.
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* ValuesDissonance: Nowadays Jerry's "crush stalking" would be regarded as outright harassment. He refuses to leave her alone after she repeatedly tells him to do do.
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* PlayingGertrude: Georges Guétary was actually two years younger than Gene Kelly, so gray was added to his hair to make him appear older.
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*ValuesDissonance: Nowadays Jerry's "crush stalking" would be regarded as outright harassment. He refuses to leave her alone after she repeatedly tells him to do do.
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* RuleOfSymbolism: All those people at the fancy ball, and no one managed to buy a costume that isn't black & white. Even Adam is wearing monochromatic cowboy gear. This is to set up Jerry's entry into the dream world, which is exploding with color.
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** All those people at the fancy ball, and no one managed to buy a costume that isn't black & white. Even Adam is wearing monochromatic cowboy gear. This is to set up Jerry's entry into the dream world, which is exploding withcolor.color.
** The film famously ends with a 17-minute jazz-classical ballet set against a backdrop of famous French paintings... that takes place entirely in Jerry's head. Even though the scene's a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, it still somewhat serves as a symbol. Jerry's dream sequence is pretty much his way of dealing with his sadness over losing Lise, as well as his frustrations about his painting career. It's a fantasy world he creates to cope with his unfortunate reality, using vast, vibrant color. The ballet sequence is Jerry's method for blowing off some emotional steam.
** If the ballet symbolizes Jerry's grief over losing Lise, then the red rose that bookends the ballet is a symbol within a symbol. The brilliant red flower represents the elusiveness and fragility of love. Just like love, the red rose is beautiful, and Jerry finds it when he least expects it. It appears out of nowhere, and then Jerry spends his entire dream dance-chasing it across Paris. The connection between love, Lise, and flowers extends beyond the red rose, too. At one point during the ballet, Jerry dances with Lise in his arms only to have her disappear and be replaced by an enormous bouquet of flowers that Jerry lets fall to the ground. Basically, love is fleeting and extremely difficult to hold on to.
** When we first meet Lise, via of Henri's description of her to Adam, Henri portrays Lise as a complex young lady. She's elegant and refined, but sultry and seductive. She's adventurous and modern, but nerdy and bookish. She's basically a woman with a multifaceted personality, a young woman whose complexity is the source of her nontraditional beauty. As Henri rattles off different personalities — elegance, passion, dorkiness, and so on — we see Lise firsthand. Each time Henri's description changes so does Lise's costume. Each of Lise's outfits symbolizes a different facet of her temperament. Her threads demonstrate and reinforce her complexity. At least they do for Henri, since Lise's symbolic fashion show takes place in his imagination.
** All those people at the fancy ball, and no one managed to buy a costume that isn't black & white. Even Adam is wearing monochromatic cowboy gear. This is to set up Jerry's entry into the dream world, which is exploding with
** The film famously ends with a 17-minute jazz-classical ballet set against a backdrop of famous French paintings... that takes place entirely in Jerry's head. Even though the scene's a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, it still somewhat serves as a symbol. Jerry's dream sequence is pretty much his way of dealing with his sadness over losing Lise, as well as his frustrations about his painting career. It's a fantasy world he creates to cope with his unfortunate reality, using vast, vibrant color. The ballet sequence is Jerry's method for blowing off some emotional steam.
** If the ballet symbolizes Jerry's grief over losing Lise, then the red rose that bookends the ballet is a symbol within a symbol. The brilliant red flower represents the elusiveness and fragility of love. Just like love, the red rose is beautiful, and Jerry finds it when he least expects it. It appears out of nowhere, and then Jerry spends his entire dream dance-chasing it across Paris. The connection between love, Lise, and flowers extends beyond the red rose, too. At one point during the ballet, Jerry dances with Lise in his arms only to have her disappear and be replaced by an enormous bouquet of flowers that Jerry lets fall to the ground. Basically, love is fleeting and extremely difficult to hold on to.
** When we first meet Lise, via of Henri's description of her to Adam, Henri portrays Lise as a complex young lady. She's elegant and refined, but sultry and seductive. She's adventurous and modern, but nerdy and bookish. She's basically a woman with a multifaceted personality, a young woman whose complexity is the source of her nontraditional beauty. As Henri rattles off different personalities — elegance, passion, dorkiness, and so on — we see Lise firsthand. Each time Henri's description changes so does Lise's costume. Each of Lise's outfits symbolizes a different facet of her temperament. Her threads demonstrate and reinforce her complexity. At least they do for Henri, since Lise's symbolic fashion show takes place in his imagination.
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** There is one scene where Oscar Levant's character, Adam, is just sitting in his apartment, all by himself, staring off into space. Then, unexpectedly, the scene then cuts to him performing in a grand concert hall. Both the band ''and'' the audience is composed [[YouALLLookFamiliar entirely of himself]](!).
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** There is one scene where Oscar Levant's character, Adam, is just sitting in his apartment, all by himself, staring off into space. Then, unexpectedly, the scene then cuts to him performing the third movement of Gershwin's Concerto in F in a grand concert hall. Both the band ''and'' the audience is composed [[YouALLLookFamiliar entirely of himself]](!).
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* SensationalStaircaseSequence: One of the most memorable in cinema, courtesy of Georges Guétary dancing up a lighted staircase to George Gershwin's "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise".
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* CostumePorn: Paired with SceneryPorn. In Technicolor, all the endless costumes, Parisian locations, and set designs are as stunning as the performances.
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* CostumePorn: Paired with SceneryPorn. In Technicolor, all the endless costumes, Parisian locations, costumes and set designs are as stunning as the performances.
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* StraightToThePointe: Creator/LeslieCaron does plenty of this in many balletic scenes.
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* CostumePorn: Paired with SceneryPorn. In Technicolor, all the endless costumes, Parisian locations, and set designs are as stunning as the performances.
