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In these times of stress and turbulence, the musicals of the 1930s-1950s with their notes of hope and escape may end up providing a relevant model for some of today’s movies. Certainly our dystopian movies of the last ten years have run their course. And the Golden Globe voters agree, having lavished the movie with a record seven awards. The opening sequence of La La Land establishes the tone, mood, and message of the film, especially through its Mise en Scène. The director of La La Land , Damien Chazelle, uses the elements of Colour and Costume particularly well to convey a message behind the characters living their hopes and dreams. From the production-design perspective, there was one scene harder to bring to life than that heavily choreographed, freeway opening shot: the pool-party scene. When you see yellow in La La Land it normally means there’s change ahead. Despite being one of the first colors we see in the technicolor dance sequence that opens the film, it’s not a color we see very often in the first part of the movie – why would it be? We’re only being shown Sebastian and Mia’s lives to-date; the establishing of the status quo. And so yellow appears mostly in spurts.

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Helen Rose designed the costume below for the dancer Carol Haney in On the Town. The movie was a vehicle for some of MGM’s stars, including Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Ann Miller and Vera Ellen. Before rolling cameras on La La Land, the musical starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, writer/director Damien Chazelle made sure his entire crew was on his Technicolor wavelength by hosting movie screenings. La La Land features intertextual references from the Musical Golden-Age of Classical Hollywood cinema. Chazelle captures the old Hollywood feel and pays homage to Classical Hollywood musicals including, While the choice to film in real locations adds to the sense of nostalgia and escapism for an older Hollywood. The colour manipulation of the lighting foreshadows the future of the characters’ paths. Overall, the techniques used in La La Land range from montage sequences to using primary colours, intertextuality and paying homage to the musicals of Classical Hollywood. One of the more unique musical numbers was that of Maureen O’Hara’s in Dance Girl, Dance, directed by Dorothy Arzner in Edward Stevenson designed the costumes including the costume sketch below. Maureen O’Hara plays a ballerina forced to work in burlesque, where she gives a feminist lecture to an audience of leering men.

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Below is Frank Sinatra’s stand-in dancer and Carol Haney dancing , with Gene Kelly waiting his turn. In the final epilogue, when they’re thinking ‘What if we stayed together?’ there’s a white dress that Emma wears in the Paris fantasy sequence. The waltz is a very obvious reference to Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, who made such a brilliant [screen] partnership. There’s a dress that Ginger wears in Swing Time (1936) that just looks so fluid: it specifically has a very 1930s feel to it, but the way the dress moves feels like it has an anti-gravity effect. I was trying to get that same effect with the dress we made for Emma, which is actually my favourite. All the dresses that Mia wears were designed with dance in mind. As we get progressively further into the film, the volume in the skirts gets bigger and bigger: the white dress’s skirt wasn’t just a whole circle, it was a circle and a half.' This scene is one of many throughout the film which drops subtle hints to whether Mia and Sebastian stay together in the future. The green hue signifies their contrasting ideologies. Mia does not believe Sebastian is following his true desire.

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We recommend anyone in Northern Ireland, Isle of Wight, Shetlands, Scottish Highlands/off the coast of Scotland, Republic of Ireland, Isle of Man, and Channel Islands use Priority Delivery unless you require an urgent timed delivery through UPS courier which is at an additional cost. Please see below for postage prices. Damien Chazelle takes on a Postmodernist approach to the end sequence. Postmodernism in film is defined as moving against typical techniques, expectations, and narrative structure. La La Land subverts the expectations of a typical Hollywood happy ending by having multiple endings. The first end scene leaves Mia watching Sebastian playing the piano in his own jazz club and living his dream. Mia has started her own family and their romantic journey has reached its ultimatum. At the end, her dance dress is white, no doubt inspired by Cyd Charisse’s dress from the “Dancing in the Dark” scene in Band Wagon. Shown above is Mary Ann Nyberg’s original costume design sketch for Cyd Charisse in Band Wagon, 1953. Charisse plays the younger ballet trained dancer to Astaire’s older (now somewhat tarnished) star. But sparks fly as they walk and then Dance in the Dark in Central Park. The costume sketch design has been somewhat modified for the film as the top has the front décolleté. Remaining is the free-flowing pleated skirt shown below. The elusive truth of the movie’s palette. In La La Land, red is used as a manifestation of reality; a way to either wake characters up to the truth they’re living, or dangle the promise of something greater above them.They both sacrificed their love story to achieve their individual dreams. As afterall, they came to Hollywood to discover their dreams, not to discover their romance. The preferred reading is intended to remind the audience that although life in a musical can have its fantastical elements, there is always a darker side to the consequences of dreams, when the story is grounded in reality. In Conclusion

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The Coronado Island Film Festival, Reframed, is happening November 11 -15, 2020. We deliberated for most of the last year on what the Festival, our 5th Annual, should be like considering the pandemic, and decided on a mix of mostly virtual events with few live events highlighted below. Instead of passes as in previous […] christian esquevin The technicolour world of La La Land is an instantly memorable one, and that's in no small part thanks to Mary Zophres' Oscar-nominated costume designs, which bring the classic glamour of director Damien Chazelle's Hollywood inspirations to modern Los Angeles. Emma’s white dress had more volume and a more complicated pattern than her other costumes,” explained Zophries. “It had a silk chiffon top and a very lightweight silk charmeuse underneath, so it was like two layers, all hand sewn. It’s beautifully done. I’ve seen the movie seven or eight times, and that white dress slays me every time. . . . It’s funny, because the movie is so known for its color. But the white dress . . . I get teary-eyed when it is on camera, because it’s everything I wanted it to be. It just rises up in the air as you spin in it.” We wanted the film to have one foot in the contemporary world and one foot in the nostalgia of Old Hollywood,' says Zophres, whose long-term creative partnership with the Coen Brothers has previously seen her work on projects as diverse as O Brother Where Art Thou and Hail! Caesar. Appropriately enough for a film that's in love with film, to nail this particular aesthetic, plenty of screen time was required. 'Damien had cut together a sort of montage, of small moments from the movies that had inspired him,' she explains, 'so I made a list of what was on that and made sure to watch everything. Damien had specified that there were several pivotal films, three by [French director] Jacques Demy: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Young Girls of Rochefort and Lola. Then there were MGM technicolour musicals, contemporary fashion magazines, even candid shots of people on the street...' As it plays, the movie uses the full color range to explore that something was always missing from their relationship; just as you can’t have rain without the sunshine or success without the hard work, Mia and Sebastian couldn’t live their lives in only one color scheme. By strategically deploying colors throughout the film, Chazelle makes the case that they were, in some sense, doomed to fail because they could never fully find their footing.La La Land Director, Damien Chazelle, stated his vision for the film was to ‘Create an old-fashioned musical but grounding it in reality where things don’t always work out.’ In the world of La La Land blue represents creativity and control. It’s the color of the suit Sebastian pulls out when he’s playing gigs; the mood lighting in the Lighthouse Cafe when Sebastian first meets Mia after work; and of course, it’s the color of Mia’s dress when she goes to the ill-fated party with her roommates. The costumes are blasted in primary colours – green, red, yellow, and blue to represent the fantastical world. These bright and bold colours highlight the drivers’ real emotions as all they wish to do is escape reality and express their feelings through movement and dance. The bright colours bring a stark contrast to the typical business attire and suits of people’s everyday workplaces.

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Likewise, the color pallette of a scene matters. Director and writer Damien Chazelle’s bright, detergent-commercial colors are (like many mechanics of the movie) an homage to big Hollywood musicals of old. But the primary color choices he makes also conveys much more about the pair of artists, and the lives they choose to lead.Mia and Sebastian are encircled within a green hue. This vibrant colour can draw multiple interpretations within this scene. It could signify a new development for Sebastian’s path and his dream to open his own Jazz club. It can also highlight Mia’s envy as she struggles to find her place in her own path while she witnesses Sebastian’s new coming success. Blue is often the tinge of the (successful) Hollywood that is always surrounding Mia and Sebastian. Everything from Ingrid Bergman to murals of classic film stars to The Van Beek club are tinted with it . These are the people who made it, who steered their career in some way Sebastian and Mia have not when we first meet them. The late great Debbie Reynolds had her first starring role in Singing in the Rain, considered by many to be the greatest movie musical.