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MHMMMMM so last night I accidentally watched Singin' In The Rain and also incidentally stayed up past my bedtime to finish it. I BLAME YULETIDE.

Look, last year at yuletide there was super-charming fic for the movie and I read it and then proceeded to youtube to watch clips of some of the songs and was even more charmed. Then I forgot all about it. Then this yuletide there were further fics written for it, and I was reminded of how charming it is, and next thing I know I'm watching the entire movie. IT IS INDEED CHARMING, and oh dude, fandom is so so so right in shipping the ot3, like, I can't even conceive of anything else TO ship. OBVIOUSLY IT'S DON/KATHY/COSMO ALL THE WAY. They are super cute together! Proof: the song-and-dance number Good Morning, where the three of them stay up all night talking and then are ridiculous and adorable together, ending with the three of them sitting on a couch all up in each other's personal space!

There was one bit that was just like...yeah, you so could have cut that. Don's telling the guy in charge what this one bit of the movie they're making is going to be like, and we get to see the whole scene instead of listening to Don tell about it. It was clearly put in just so they could have that style of song and dance in (...which is hilariously meta, since that's the entire reason the scene is in the movie they're making in the movie). But the hilarious meta is not enough to make up for the fact that it's a boring scene.

But for the most part the movie is just charming.

(also, for the record, that song "Good Morning" was in a Viagra commercial I saw all the time when I was younger, and I just find that UNBEARABLY FUNNY NOW, like, did the commercial makers not expect their viewers to know the context of the song? It's a trio, not a duet, and they still chose to use it as a "yay that was excellent sex we just had" song? OKAY THEN. CLEARLY THE COMMERCIAL MAKERS SHIPPED THE OT3 TOOOOOOOOOO)

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And now you'll get the reference when people say "Dignity. Always dignity."

Heee, yes! Don has soooo much dignity.

I do love how Don comes across pretty easily as a srs bsnss kind of dude, but then Cosmo is able to pull the silly side out of him with zero effort whatsoever. IT IS THE BEST.

OMG sold O.o I've only watched some clips and possibly some of it in passing, but I didn't know it had an OT3! I am definitely checking it out!

(Psst, you got some html badness.)

The ot3 is super adorable! I definitely recommend watching. :)

(yeah, I realized MOMENTS TOO LATE, but by that point my lunch break was over and I didn't have the chance to fix it, and then I was out all last night, and then... yeah. SIGH. It's fixed now!)

Been a while since I've seen this one (though I think I own a copy, because it's fun), so I have to ask: By any chance could you be referring to the ballet scene in particular as being unnecessary and boring?

I read an analysis somewhere of why it was necessary stylistically, but I don't buy it at all. I don't think anyone was claiming that Cyd Charisse couldn't dance or anything, so we don't really need the lengthy counterargument, kthx.

(But now I'm remembering the outtake from "Angel: The Series", with Wesley (Alexis Denisof) and Fred (Amy Acker) dancing a ballet scene, and that's cheered me right up, so thank you!)

INDEED YES that is the scene! :P And yeah, I would have a LOT of trouble buying an argument of why it's necessary stylistically. Because really all it serves to do is slow down the story!

I seem to recall it was actually put in so that Gene Kelly could direct a dance number. It is pretty completely extraneous to the actual show, though, especially as it's 12 minutes long. Even if you needed SOMETHING of the sort there for pacing (which I have no idea, as I haven't seen the movie in several years and never with an eye to the writing of it?), there is no effing way you could need more than... say, three minutes!

(Personally, I think the ideal in a musical should be that ALL the song-and-dance numbers help advance the plot in some way - I will argue that Mary Poppins is the perfect musical, partly because I first saw it when I was eeny-weeny-tiny and fell in love, but partly because every song is a plot point as well as being just a glorious special-effects extravaganza and I HAVE A LOT OF MARY POPPINS FEELS OKAY. :D But "Broadway Melody" is the LEAST advancing-the-plot number I have seen in any musical ever, so there. ;P)

....hahaha REALLY oh dear. Yeah, TOTALLY extraneous to an utterly ridiculous degree. And I'm with you on all song-and-dance numbers helping to advance -- well, advance the STORY, since I'd argue that the point of stories isn't always the plot.

I think I first saw Mary Poppins when I was the wrong age for it -- I don't know whether too young or too old -- and it just really didn't appeal. But I approve of the things you say about it!

(I would argue that Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the perfect musical, but I know perfectly well I'm biased on that count. :P Anyways, in Joseph, the song "Close Every Door" doesn't actually advance the plot at all -- it's just Joseph lamenting the fact that he's in jail -- but imo it is the most powerful song in the entire thing, and it belongs because it conveys important stuff for the emotional arc even though it's unnecessary for the plot arc.)