This take is so ruggedly masculine I expect it to try to sell me paper towels or cigarettes.
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First time I've been accused of that one!
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counterpoint: Disney
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Disney is the enemy of humanity
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bless your heart
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it is blessed with correctness
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Counterpoint: the midcentury Broadway musical (and its continuation into animation by Disney) is one of America's great artistic contributions along with comics and jazz. Like comics, it combines multiple art forms into a hybrid greater than the parts. (Though WSS is just OK.)
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Lies! Comics have the advantage that one absorbs text and pictures simultaneously. Musicals are crippled by their temporality.
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Only to the extent that Shakespeare's soliloquys are. Properly done, a music and dance number strongly amplifies the emotional impact of the plot development or character expression it encompasses. (Pygmalion is great play, but My Fair Lady clearly sold the story more strongly.)
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Arguably that's the difference between a musical and the random musical interludes dropped into,e.g., Marx Brothers movies. Those do seem like an interruption. (Though clearly there was a place for that sort of thing in the culture between vaudeville and the variety show.)
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maybe also worth mentioning how early mickey mouse cartoons were almost perfectly plotless visual adjuncts to a piece of music and animations with characterization and narrative were an evolution from that. form has to be allowed to evolve to keep up with content
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musicals are usually just kind of annoying to me because half the time the musical bit feels like it's happening for no good endogenous reason & just bc "it's a musical and that means we have to put a song here"
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That's a problem of bad craft in any form. (Sub "superhero fight", "space battle", "love scene", etc.) Though fans will be more forgiving of (or even actively appreciate) gratuitous scenes of things they like, whether it's a ballet scene or a martial arts display.
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true but the degree of fit or conflict between what you want to do and the conventions of the form you choose to do it in are always a factor too & some are more tightly constraining than others
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Except Les Misérables
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Don't look him in the eye!
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even fans tacitly admit this when they show they're mostly content to just listen to the songs in album form -- the thing taken as a whole and in order is incidental
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Just... Let it go....
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