CHICAGO (2002) DE ROB MARSHALL ȘI BOB FOSSE - FILMUL UNUI SECOL DE MUSICAL AMERICAN. (Romanian)

„Chicago" (2002) directed by Rob Marshall and choreographed by Bob Fosse and Rob Marshall will remain in the collective memory as a prime example of musical filmmaking in each of its departments, considered to be a near perfect film by both specialists in the field and the general public. Starting with dramaturgy, music, choreography, scenography, costumes, makeup, actors, Rob Marshall's directing unites all departments in a whole worthy of all admiration, as it reaches one of the highest peaks of expressivity in this area. We do not know, for example, whether Rob Marshall's sequence with the inmates of Cook Prison could have been further perfected in its entirety. We do not know whether there is a better thought-out and more focused sequence than the one in which the lawyer (Richard Gere puppeteers the entire meeting with the reporters, including his client and the public opinion in Chicago. The choreography, created by Bob Fosse, taken and adapted for film by Rob Marshall, was inspired from classical and neoclassical dance, moving through modem dance, jazz, cabaret, towards variete and to the expressive stage movement characteristic of each character. We cannot say that the choreographer followed a specific dance code. It would be too little... But what we can say, without mistake, is that he built his own, unique code, tailored for this theme, this world, these characters. Any exceptional choreographer adapts his own style to the extremely important variables of each story, to its unique world, to its characters in question. And Rob Marshall belongs to that category of choreographers-directors that know how to approach a choreography of great complexity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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