2)How is utopia represented in the films?

Singing in The Rain. (notes while watching film - WILL EXPAND)

- Arriving at a film premier
- interview (flashback) on how they got there
- the screening of the show ( gene kelly character is loved and adored within the film)

glamour, tux, fur and diamonds. Slap stick comedy - everyone is happy and flirty

Gene Kelly loved by everyone , man friends women fall in love with him. A charmer.

Celebrity - being mobbed by fans escaping. * thought ( modern day obsessed with celebrity culture follow there life a talking point)

Very fake the set up which make is commerical for watching it in the modern day.

Nosatagic of talking movie - hopeful.

Sounds effects to emphasis the slapstick style

"make 'em laugh" slapstick song, 2 ronnies comedy family programme similar style.

Hairspray

the story line about intergration between the black and white - a serious and a topical subject. However as it is a musical makes it commerical the difference between the two, especially when Penny mother goes the the ghetto, as such, and she runs around with her knife. If it was any other genre it would feel like a serious heavy film to do with race.

The main story is aroun Tracy, who is not the perfect skinny blonde, who is on The Corny Collins show. She gets to to be in the show thanks to corny collins and is the main leader in the intergration of the black and white kids in the show. It is set in the 60s, which was a glam era, and the slightest bit of problems is solved by having a dance. It reminded me of footloose where all the kids wanted to do was dance, it was a way of letting them be young which i think i pushed through the film as well. It is advertising to the audience a dance and a sings and you can forget everything.

Mamma Mia

Set on a greek island it is the perfect summer film- which was one of the factors why it was a big seller in the summer. Many people were like me where they know the story through the theatre show etc. so it was just another form of seeing the story line. The utopia is presented by the characters, who are care free people, where everyone is goodlooking and again the problems is solved by singing. The main attractivness is the characters, as they are big films stars such as pierce bronson and meryl streap, so to see them sing is funny. The island was what everyone dream was to esacpe to. The summer was full of bad weather and no money, so to see this island with blue sea, sun and sand,. for that 1 hour and so you believed you were there.

Wizard Of Oz

Everyone knows the yellow brick road, the whole set is colourful and like a pop up childs book. Which i think is the attractiveness. You get sucked into this world, for the duration of the film, and you beilve that the yellow brick road will lead somewhere and you want the lion to get its courage. The pastle colours is a massive contast to outised your window, and a little bit of me/you wants your steet to look that colourful. And the only problem is the wicked witch of the west.