Essay 1

The sound of music

Introduction: - Musicals.

Body: - Musicals of the epoque.

           - The sound of music.

Conclusion: - Musicals films in the present.

Introduction

"La música expresa aquello que no puede decirse con palabras pero no puede permanecer en silencio" - Victor Hugo.

The musical film is a cinematograpich genre characterized by movies that contain interruptions in it, to give to sung musicals pieces that sometimes are accompany by a choreography. In 1927, was the premiere of "El cantor de jazz", considered the first movie with sound, but in fact it was a semi silent movie that just sound in the songs parts. For that, the history says that the musicals films like genre was born actually in 1929 with "La melodía de Broadway".

In the beginning, this genre have like principal objective impress, independent of his connection with the history, but with its development, the musicals numbers works like connectors of the history. Is in this way that we can understand the phrase that Victor Hugo says, the music express that it can't say with words but it can't remain in silence. Is this the importance of musicals films, that say with a song the things that it can't say it with words.

Body

Over the years the musicals films pass for different moments. We can see its beginning, its boom and also its decline. It's precisely in the 60's that the last moment aforementioned was occur. In the 60's born extraordinaries musicals like: "West side story" (1961), "My fair lady" (1964), "Mary Poppins" (1964) and "The sound of music" (1965). It's about this film that I will talk about in the present essay, but like we say previously, it is important to understand that in this decade, this genre start its decline. The preferences of the public was changing and the genre announce its retirement.

However, this genre leave us big films and works, like The sound of music.

In 1965 was the premiere of "The sound of music", a movie directed by Robert wise and starred for Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The argument of the movie are expound a few months before Austria was unified to the Germany of Hitler. Is a movie based on the broadway musical of the same name. The film is about a novice named Maria who is sent to the home of a widower captain of the former Austrian imperial navy called Georg Von Trapp to work as a governess to his seven children. There, the girl will befriend the children and fall in love with the captain, who is about to marry Baroness Elsa Schroeder.

Conclusion

Like we say previously in the 60's the genre of musical films start its decline. Currently, in the decade of 2000 a new boom in musical movies began, but they were mostly for teenagers about the conflicts of this age. Then it began to fall again, becoming now a little-known genre. However, although there are not many musicals at present, music as a soundtrack is increasingly present.
For now we can keep the memories, teachings and unforgettable stories that surround and tell the old musical movies as the sound of music.