Singin In The Rain Themes

Throughout history, there has been a multitude of themes showcase in some of the generation’s biggest movie hits. For instance, one movie that has a strong central theme is Singin’ In The Rain, released in 1952, starring some of the greatest actors to this day. Singin’ In The Rain follows the story of the transition from silent films to sound films with two big actors, Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), who have to speak in their first film. In the climax, Don has a wonderful voice, but unfortunately Lina has a high pitched, annoying voice, so Don and his friend Cosmo Brown (Donald O’ Connor) devise a plan to dub over her voice with a girl they met named Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds). In Singin’ In The Rain, the central

theme of the movie is that you should always give credit, where credit is due no matter what, due to its constant attempt to give Kathy credit towards the end of the movie.
Towards the end of the movie, the theater ends the movie and brings Don and Lina to the stage to thank the crowd for watching the movie, upon lina’s entrance they request she sing live for the audience.

Scared Lina rushes to Don, and demands that Kathy dub it over live again, Kathy not wanting to do it, but still does it due to her contract with the show. During her live singing, Don and Cosmo devise a plan to pull the curtain up and show the true singer, and so the pair execute this plan. The crowd gaps in shock then laughs at the Lina, as Kathy rushes to leave the theater. As she is rushing down the aisles, Don walks on the stage and announces that Kathy is the real singer in the movie and that she should have been credited from the beginning of the movie. This directly shows that the theme is to give credit, where credit is due, because Lina could have easily given credit to Kathy and not been embarrassed in front of the entire audience, ruining her career. In the end this clearly displays how the side who failed to give credit lost and how the side that wound up giving credit in the end,

succeeded.
The main artistic point of the movie Singin’ In The Rain is it’s compatible ability to keep the movie super interesting by adding specific twists and variations to the plot which can make it harder for the “heroes” to succeed.

This should be considered a point that makes a movie artful, because it emotionally varies depending on the person watching the movie. Some might find the visual effects of a movie interesting or the plot could be really interesting to them, and that’s why it should be a universal point that makes a movie artful. For example, an element of film that I find quite intriguing is the the conflict, due it’s constant issues that are brought up throughout the movie. For instance, there are two examples where conflict rises in the movie, one of these scenes is when angry Lina rushes to the office to speak out about her contract and how she must sign off on all press releases which means that Kathy can’t be released as the voice dub of Lina. This raises a level of shock and instantly changes the plot around, which makes Don and his friend Cosmo to think of ideas. Another example of how the conflict is rising is when Cosmo realizes they could use the movie that they had already made and make it into a musical, with Kathy singing over Lina. This instantly fixed the issues of the movie they were making, being god awful. Interesting movies should definitely be considered artful, because what kind of movie would it be if it didn’t engage the audience. One movie

that instantly comes to mind when engaging the audience is The Avengers.
For Instance, The Avengers is constantly using interesting fight scenes and plot build up to showcase how artful their movie is. The Avengers even starts with a huge conflict of loki stealing the tesseract, which builds us up for the rest of the movie and leads us up with a huge conflict straight away. This shocks the crowd for the loki appearance and the interesting fighting scenes that he portrays in the beginning. In conclusion, the overall theme of Singin’ In The Rain is that you should always give credit where credit is due, and that a movie that is considered “Interesting” should be considered artful.