I crack up every time when Pierre enters the scene and loudly throws his cane off to the side. Really goes to show what we had to go through to properly master the art of sound.
Now the cameras have built in microphones so the audio and video sync up naturally I’m sure disasters like this are what allowed for someone to come up with the invention though
And also the microphone in his suit making additional noise from his movement as well as a distinct one from her fan hitting it. "Hey, Lina. Whatcha hitting him with, a blackjack?!" 😆
@@AutismThespian1993 You mean "if this had been a real movie," not "had this been a real movie." Now change it for me, please, it looks like you've been asking a question with a different punctuation mark sometimes.
Yeah. I know of some movies that were in production hell for so long that they needed to be released from an unfinished workprint. The Thief and The Cobbler was a real major case of that.
I love the small detail when Lina says "I can't stand him." Only the "can't" sounds refined; because that was the one thing that the diction coach excruciatingly worked endlessly on, she forgot to work on the rest!
I believe that she couldn't stheend it any more and fainted, leaving her job unfinished. Actually Lina's story is kind of tragic because bunch of silent movie stars found themselves in the same situation - one moment you are a star and the next moment your career is over because you have a voice of a goat that nobody can't stheend.
@@manuelorozco7760 Times like these that I wish the Dancing Cavalier was a real musical. Especially when they previewed a part of it near in the 2nd act!
So funny! This film was wonderfully written and is much more sophisticated than other stuff Hollywood has turned out before and since. American musicals often have simplistic, slap stick humour. This film was wonderfully witty. They got everything just right. Top performances from a massively talented cast. Movie gold!
I rarely like musicals but this one is exceptionally good! The whole industry from silent films to ‘talkies’ helped launch careers or end them. If a big strong looking male character has a high pitched voice, it really did make a huge difference. Also if a female character has a very irritatingly squeaky voice, not good. 😂
It kinda makes you feel bad on account of silent actors having to deal with the new developments in technology and not being able to catch up quite as fast at times. It's not like silent movies were bad at all, but I can see where they'd struggle to appeal to the changes of public taste. That said this one scene alone is far funnier than 95% of "comedies" today.
My dad told me of one who was a big cowboy western star. Everybody loved him except. When sound pictures came. The problem was he was Italian and didn't know English, and the little he could was extremely accentuated in his speech so he had no chance in sound
I think most people miss the gag at 1:23, when Lina says "I cahn't steeand him!" We earlier saw Lina with her diction coach, Phoebe Dinsmore, who attempted to teach her to say "And I cahn't stahnd him", while Lina could only squeak out, "I ceean't steeand 'im". So now we see, in the final version, she got one word right but not the other one.
It's funny because that bit has always stuck in my head more than any other part of the movie. I say "I cahn't staend 'im" to my family all the time, in the most annoying nasally voice I can muster :P
When Charlie Chaplin saw his first talkie, the experience was a lot like this. Everything was too loud. He left thinking talkies wouldn't last. Of course . . .
"I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I lo----" Okay, I think I get it. He loves her, right? XD
Funniest scene in the movie! I saw this movie years ago when I was in college and this scene still has me in stitches today 25 years later. Even my son who is 13 saw this and cracked up laughing.😂😂😂
We watched this in a college film class. I literally was laughing uncontrollably during the filming of this little movie and the screening. I swear, people were looking at me like I lost my mind! But I'm a film student and have had the transition from silent film to sound hammered into my brain by countless classes and professors so to see a movie like this actually include a scene with all the problems that early talkies would have faced just made me bust a fucking gut laughing!
Thats awesome! I walked the Earth for 27 years now. And yet the first time i have seen this gem of a classic, i was 21. Have seen it three times. I want to be a movie critic
@@manuelorozco7760 You've got me by a year! Lol I'm 26 at the moment, and saw it for the first time probably when I was around the same age as you. This film, along with Dr. Strangelove were the two films that I remember the most from my time in film school. In our class we would basically have an hour long lecture, then watch a full film twice a week. 95% of the time, half the class had slipped out by the time the movie reached the 30 minute mark, myself included unfortunately in some cases. But Singing in the Rain and Dr. Strangelove were totally different. The entire class loved Singing in the Rain. All of the jokes hit, people were cracking up, the hardcore film students were geeking out and grinning ear to ear during the scenes where the silent film crews are transitioning to their first film with sound, and a few people even clapped after some of the big dance numbers. This film aged like fine wine, still just as relevant and entertaining today as when it first came out!
@@manuelorozco7760 absolutely watch it if you ever get a chance. Its a film that I would call one of the first, and still one of the best black comedies/dramas. Im sure you know from the title "how I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb" the subject material, so it's just an absolute powerhouse of tension and suspense, broken up by 2 or 3 moments of comic relief that come out of absolutely nowhere and blindside the audience. I can't even think of another example of a show or film that can effectively interject comedy into the most serious scenes imaginable besides The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, and Sean of the Dead
Actually the first sound pictures had these problems. The microphone picked up every sound near it and the actors had to remember to talk directly toward the recording equipment. Jewelry clanged and shoes squeaked as did any tight fitting clothes. But any words spoken more steps from the microphone were barely heard at all.
Did somebody get paid for writing that dialogue? After the sound gets out of synch, the funniest part is that it's the Bad Guy saying no no no, and Lina saying Yes yes yes... in each other's voices! XD
(In squeaky voice) The night is full of our enemies. BONK BONK 🤣😂🤣 AND No no no (nodding head in squeaky voice) Yes yes yes (shaking head in deep voice) two of the funniest things I have seen in any movie 😂🤣
This scene along with the actual filming of Dueling Cavalier in the movie had to be one of the most fun scenes a movie crew could ever possibly be in charge of shooting... The direction must have gone something like this "Okay guys, you know all of the worst mistakes you can make while filming a movie that would get you instantly fired under normal circumstances? You are going to do them on purpose, and do them to the Nth degree so that all of the people watching this who aren't familiar with movie production can still understand the "mistakes" the in-film crew and actors made. Alright cameraman, follow the two actors back and forth awkwardly, with no sense of rhythm and wiping your ass with the Rule Of Thirds. Sound guy? Pitch the male voices up way too high, and lower the pitch of the female voices, create glaringly obvious changes to the dialogue levels, and eventually slow it down to the point where it knocks the audio out of sync with the pictures. Producer? Walk into the set and accidentally grab a wire that's attached directly to an actress after misunderstanding its purpose. Director? Just keep doing what you're doing, bonus points if you can get frustrated enough to almost be in tears!"
And it's probably not as easy as it sounds to deliberately film mistakes like that. The irony about the dancing cavalier is it's at first the worst movie ever made inside one of the most beloved musical comedies ever made, certainly one of gene Kelly's greatest films which I believe he co-directed. I'm sure in the real world when silent went to talkies for every jazz singer hit you had a dueling cavalier fiasco
Lina makes people laugh even when the sound is alright. She sounds pretentious because she changes to a posh accent at random times ("cAHn't"), and she mispronounces all the French names.
I tried to lower the volume of this video and add some silent film music to the movie and the difference is outstanding. "Oh Pierre you shouldn't have come" lol. That line she owns it.
One of my friends called the Bad Lip Reading RU-vid channel "Bad Lip Syncing" the other day (he forgot the name of the channel) and this scene immediately came to my mind. 🤣🤣🤣
