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Musical - Definition?
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Can anyone settle an argument?
In my view, a 'musical' is defined by characters who sing songs.
My family disagree, saying that a film with songs in it is a musical.
Therefore, by my definition - Grease is a musical, Saturday Night Fever is not a musical, it simply has a soundtrack of songs.
Any thoughts?
In my view, a 'musical' is defined by characters who sing songs.
My family disagree, saying that a film with songs in it is a musical.
Therefore, by my definition - Grease is a musical, Saturday Night Fever is not a musical, it simply has a soundtrack of songs.
Any thoughts?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.IMDb (where they know a thing or two about movies) classes Grease as fitting into the genres of 'Musical' and 'Romance'
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whereas Saturday Night Fever is allocated to the genres of 'Drama' and 'Music' (but NOT 'Musical')
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That makes sense to me.
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whereas Saturday Night Fever is allocated to the genres of 'Drama' and 'Music' (but NOT 'Musical')
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That makes sense to me.
Elvis sings in his films. The Beatles sing live at the end of Let it Be, but the rest of their films, though they're not necessarily mouthing the words, they're in the accompanying image, like many music videos. It's not like the music is just soundtrack from someone else as in Easy Rider, for instance.