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* Zelda could very easily be out of a career at this point, at least at Monumental. She did, after all, go out of her way to create major problems for Kathy and Don. By the end of the movie, the latter two are both in quite solid positions at the studio with their hit movie, while Zelda's pal/protector Lina has just been utterly disgraced.
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** Probably, but nobody had smart phones back then, so there wouldn't be any record. You might get the occasional rumor that Lina has a weird voice, but most people wouldn't believe it.
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** People like musicals. Don can sing. Lina's voice was a problem, but they fixed that by having Kathy dub in.
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** Lina insists that Don loves her when he clearly doesn't. She appears not to have any genuine feelings either; she's just trying to pair up with him for the publicity. There's no indication she has a bad contract; where did you get that idea? People insist that she shouldn't speak in public, but that's for her own good. I sympathize if she feels annoyed, but that's no excuse to become intensely antisocial or narcissistic! We feel sorry for Kathy first off because she got ''fired'' from her dancing gig. I'll grant that she threw a pie, but even so look at Lina's expression when she reveals that she personally got Kathy fired. Lina is clearly enjoying the chance to be cruel, and she ''clearly states'' that she did it because Don liked Kathy. If the partner you want has feelings for someone else, getting that other person ''fired'' is not a fair reaction! We also feel sorry for Kathy because she's roped into working for five years without credit, when she had expected she'd be allowed to pursue her own career. How would ''you'' feel if your boss pulled some paperwork shenanigans and declared "Sorry, you have to do stuff you don't like for five years and you can't quit."? There's no indication that Lina "trained for years". The only training we see her do is a brief diction session that doesn't go well. At one point it's remarked that "She can't act, she can't sing, she can't dance." Obviously Don is supposed to be the guy with all the talent and dedication; Lina is just a pretty face. She actively sabotages Kathy's career in order to preserve her own. She calls up every paper in town and lies to them, claiming that she talked and sang for herself when actually she was dubbed by Kathy. She likewise tries to get Kathy scrubbed from the credits so it'll say that Lina did it all herself. All this makes Lina the villain.
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*** Acting is not fundamentally silent! Go check the Oscars for Best Actor in the last 50 years and tell me how many of those people got their awards without talking. Silent actors are a vanishingly small minority.
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* As has been mentioned by film scholars both on and off the net, if the French Revolution parts of ''The Dancing Cavalier'' are supposed to be the dream of a down-on-his-luck Broadway hoofer who was reading ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'', how can the film end ''within'' the flashback? Didn't the hoofer ever wake up?
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** At the party after the premiere, Lina is surrounded by a hoard of fans, and sitting really close to the orchestra, probably to cover the sound of her voice.
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** That is classic Hollywood sexism there, and you are right, that's why Lina is a big caricature and the movie is very fantastic. Bear in mind that Jean Hagen, the actress who played Lina, could actually sing well and she dubbed Kathy Selden dubbing Lina. What is odd is that R.F., the studio chief (based on Arthur Freed), is treated like a pushover when those guys called the shots. In general, the movie has this dated romanticism about Broadway being TrueArt while Hollywood and the movies are commercial soul-traps, so the dawn of Sound and the musical genre provides opportunities for Broadway trained dancers like Kathy to get a chance to show her trained dancing skills since before that meant she would always be a low-down chorine in Hollywood parties and lesser movies. It's also about Don Lockwood rediscovering his authentic true self as a vaudeville performer after several years as a Hollywood sellout. So Lina Lamont is the embodiment of the hack star actress as Broadway perceived Hollywood at the time.
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* Has Lina never encountered a LoonyFan on the street and spoken to them, revealing her voice?
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* Has Lina never encountered a LoonyFan on the street and spoken to them, revealing her voice?
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** Part of the logic in turning it into a musical was that it helped give some ''context'' to the farce it was. It helped "sell" that the comedy was more intentional than it was.
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** Those are all pluses, but they don't mitigate the production's technical problems or Lina's voice.
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** Maybe he wakes up, then has another dream at the end.
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** It outdoes Film/TheJazzSinger (which was actually mostly silent) with the spectacle of transporting a musical to the screen, it lets them cut any scenes already filmed that they don't like (which also tightens up the plot), and it lets Don show off his vaudeville skills.
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* Why do they decide to turn ''The Dueling Cavalier'' into a musical? Is that supposed to address any of its problems?
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** Possibly the film ending ''is'' him waking up.
