Sentences with phrase «musical opening number»

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Comedic veteran Kate McKinnon also played special counsel Robert Mueller, and host Jessica Chastain delivered an opening monologue musical number about the women's march and Time's Up campaign.

The 2017 Golden Globe Awards show opened with a lackluster musical number and a teleprompter failure, leaving host and comedian Jimmy Fallon with nothing to say... or improvise.

We see his reasons in a flashback which leads to a deliciously on - target lampoon of a James Bond opening musical number (song courtesy of Celine Dion) complete with Deadpool - inspired fake credits that act as a commentary on the prologue.

intone the prisoners in the opening musical number of Les Misérables, a scene that begins underwater and moves to a crane shot of hundreds of inmates pulling ropes to haul an up - ended ship to dock.

The surround sound and bass effects are most notable during the musical numbers, especially the opening scene.

Emma Watson, best known as Hermione in the Harry Potter films, plays Belle, introduced in the opening musical number as a bit of an outsider in her small «provincial» French village.

All That Jazz (1979) Bob Fosse's dark - and - dirty musical about Broadway's underbelly features a whole number built around open heart surgery.

Smartly, the filmmakers — who include screenwriters Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon (the latter directed the live - action Beauty and the Beast and Dreamgirls and wrote the film version of Chicago)-- also know how to keep a four - quadrant family musical from sinking into Chitty territory by employing devices that also will please the Broadway crowd, particularly the Bob Fosse - like opening number as well as sensational choreography throughout.

EXTRAS: The Blu - ray release includes featurettes on the voice cast and Alan Menken's opening musical number, an interview with co - writers / producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg about the pitching process, alternate line readings, a gag reel and more.

That glow, and one of those freeways, turn up in the opening number of Damien Chazelle «s «La La Land» — opening the Venice Film Festival tonight — an ambitious new musical that turns a very recognizable Los Angeles into a singing, dancing land of dreams.

The closest we've come lately is Terry Zwigoff opening his brilliant Ghost World with a musical number from 1965's Gumnaam.

Among other Oscar lowlights were Sean Penn's mumbling presentation of the Best Actress award, a sleep - inducing, interpretative dance number choreographed to musical selections from the Best Score nominees, and Tom Hanks» failure to introduce the 10 nominees before opening the envelope to announce the Best Picture.

Opening with a dance number set in a traffic jam and a gag lifted from The Girl Can't Help It, La La Land (Grade: A - / B +) announces itself as a film both energized and limited by its commitment to movie musical tradition.

The three do inevitably form a triangle, but the visually stylish and briskly efficient manner in which Advani and writer - producer Karan Johar introduce the characters in the opening minutes foreshadows how skillfully and intelligently the standard trappings are deployed here — which becomes fully clear once the first full - blown musical number takes place, when Aman's first glimpse of Naina's sad face prompts him to break into a rousing Hindi - language, Bhangra - inflected cover of... «Pretty Woman.»

In 1978, when the movie opens, Madeline is starring in a stage musical based on Sweet Bird of Youth, and it's typical of the movie's demeaning approach to women that it cuts from a shot of her face on the cover of a playbill lying in a mud puddle to a closeup of her onstage in an extended production number, «Me» («I see me, I like what I see»), that includes a chorus line of hotel bellboys.

While a few silly musical numbers liven up proceedings (including one frankly bizarre sex scene), the film never lives up to its opening title song, a thrilling Spanish ballad belted over the credits by Christina Aguilera.

If you need a palate cleanser after something so realistic, allow me to introduce you to Stage Fright, an off - the - wall slasher film with highly - stylized visuals and an opening musical number -LRB-!).

The world of the piece is typically opened up, characters are added, it takes place in numerous settings, scenes and musical numbers may be cut or added.

The Greatest Showman opens with an intricate, dazzling musical number featuring trapeze artists, fire breathers, dancers, lions, elephants, horses marching with feather plumes on their heads, and Hugh Jackman, resplendent in a red jacket and top hat, twirling his cane and belting the title tune.

The opening number, as all good opening numbers do, clues us in to how the rest of this movie - musical is going to go: It makes about as much sense as a dream, yet you leave with a vague feeling that you just saw something wonderful.

From the retro opening credits to the end montage, Chazelle is on fire with the musical numbers and emotional moments.

Something becomes abundantly clear after the opening number of The Last Five Years, Richard LaGravenese's big screen adaptation of the Jason Robert Brown musical: Anna Kendrick is a marvel.

After opening the fridge, Grace realizes her destiny, launching into the ornate musical number.

Leigh's construction is canny as he follows big musical numbers like «Three Little Maids» from rehearsal through opening night, and the costumes and sets faithfully re-create the classic D'Oyly Carte Company productions.

When a teacher opens and displays a media piece, students can readily discern the way in which content will be delivered, e.g. presented through a chart or graph, a musical number, or two sides of an issue being debated.

Historical icons, old friends, older enemies, a talking gun, a full length musical number, and a whole lot of other shenanigans all await you in this open world standalone expansion playground.

Celebrating 30 years of the Latin music award show, the opening musical number was one for the ages.

>> Host Jimmy Fallon's opening musical number featuring Nicole Kidman, Amy Adams, Kit Harrington, Justin Timberlake, the cast of Stranger Things and a bevy of other A-listers spoofing La La Land's the award - winning film's opening scene.