Episode 63: In The Heights & Fiddler on the Roof

Cinema in Context

English - June 28, 2021 05:11 - 48 minutes - 41.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Cultural change musicals. Sarah Watt, Jeremy Downing and William Chen discuss In The Heights (2021) and Fiddler on the Roof (1971), two musical films exploring the upholding of culture amidst social change. We begin by discuss the similarities of both films. We then talk to Fiddler on the Roof and its timelessness and its sense of reality. We then discuss the ideas presented in In The Heights, including celebrating community, the journey of being otherised and the stories of undocumented young people in the United States of America. We then discuss the dream sequences in both films, the character development, and the interchange between the dialogue and music.