Just started the video so not sure if you liked it yet, however, I agree with you about Mama Mia! Not my cup of tea. However, I LOVE Chicago ❤ Now I'll continue with your video 😅
11:39 AAHAH yup! she's a goddamn spoiled brat for sure KEK "I don't think I like Roxie right now, she might get better" yeah,,,,,she doesn't,,,BGDFHBGDFHBHJG XDDD That's the funniest thing about Roxie in my opinion. She's a glaring neon sign of a character for us as the viewer to keep in mind because most of the cast are a piece of work just the same as her, but we end up not caring (or even liking them) anyway because they're charismatic and they know how to play the system(™). Roxie is neither charismatic nor experienced enough to filter herself, so her entitlement and brattiness sours us to her all the more even though (or perhaps, because) all she's doing is putting on blast what everyone else in the movie is thinking ("I'm the star"; "I can do no wrong" ; "I'm so much better than everyone else" etc etc) All of this to say that, don't feel bad for disliking Roxie LOL It's absolutely intentional 30:19 - LMAOOO the way your grin instantly got wiped away when the camera panned to the "Innocent" newspaper XD That's some fantastic directing I very much enjoyed the reaction =D!!!!
Great reaction! I love that your initial thoughts were “Oh, it’s a musical-I’m not necessarily a fan,” then, almost immediately, you’re singing and chair-dancing along. That’s what a good musical will do to you. I grew up on them, both on stage and in film, so I find reactors who are skeptical of the genre as a whole perplexing but I am interested in how they feel about those films. You are never supposed to really like just about everyone in this, except for Amos, but Roxie is definitely the least sympathetic. She is really the most toxic person, only showing weakness when she is desperate. Chicago is perhaps the most cynical musical ever made, or at least the one with the most success. That cynicism is what adds the humor and makes it a musical comedy-its take on our culture’s obsession with true crime, the hunger for fame, the manipulation of the press and the court system, and the constant recycling of looking for the newest thing is all very true and unfortunately eternal. “Cell Block Tango” shows that, even though we only know that she was accused of killing her lover/husband, the immigrant woman who eventually gets executed was actually innocent. In her explanation in the song, she only is seen to be loving with him, and when he dies, her scarf is white, not red, proclaiming her innocence. Her tragic death isn’t dwelt on except for how it changes Roxie, which fits with the story’s tone, but is a great example of how the musical story could change completely if it were just a bit more sympathetic instead of cynical. If it elaborated more on her story instead of Roxie’s, or showed more of the real violence behind the various murders instead of just passing them off as entertaining stories, as we see briefly in the triple murder by the Lucy Liu character, again, the story could have spun into a completely different narrative. The way that I personally feel that Roxie and Velma get what’s coming to them is that the story takes place in she latter half of the 1920s. So, the Great Depression is barreling towards them. That’s when the Jazz Age ends, and interest in stories like theirs disappears in favor of the next big crime wave of the bank robbers like Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson. People like Roxie and Velma are going to be struggling mightily.
Aww thank you much. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Yeah musicals are tough for me to get into but I think sometimes it just comes down to the songs. Like if I went to a concert and it was 2 hours long but I only liked 3 songs that were performed, it makes it hard to say it was this amazing thing I got to experience. But unlike some people, I'm no quitter lol. Just means it'll take me a while before I watch the next one. Very glad me not liking Roxie is ok. I thought I had missed her having a "good" moment or something and I was gonna get "yelled" at for not liking her. She's a great character, just not likeable. If they didn't end up poor and struggling by then end of the movie then it didn't happen 🤣🤣 that last number was so good they retired super early and never thought of money again and life was just chill and easygoing with absolutely no drama whatsoever popping up. Nope. None at all.
Just started the video so not sure if you liked it yet, however, I agree with you about Mama Mia! Not my cup of tea. However, I LOVE Chicago ❤
Now I'll continue with your video 😅
11:39 AAHAH yup! she's a goddamn spoiled brat for sure KEK "I don't think I like Roxie right now, she might get better" yeah,,,,,she doesn't,,,BGDFHBGDFHBHJG XDDD
That's the funniest thing about Roxie in my opinion. She's a glaring neon sign of a character for us as the viewer to keep in mind because most of the cast are a piece of work just the same as her, but we end up not caring (or even liking them) anyway because they're charismatic and they know how to play the system(™).
Roxie is neither charismatic nor experienced enough to filter herself, so her entitlement and brattiness sours us to her all the more even though (or perhaps, because) all she's doing is putting on blast what everyone else in the movie is thinking ("I'm the star"; "I can do no wrong" ; "I'm so much better than everyone else" etc etc)
All of this to say that, don't feel bad for disliking Roxie LOL It's absolutely intentional
30:19 - LMAOOO the way your grin instantly got wiped away when the camera panned to the "Innocent" newspaper XD That's some fantastic directing
I very much enjoyed the reaction =D!!!!
"The song's very long though, I kinda wish it would end" AHAHA That made me chortle. This is gonna be a fun reaction I can tell already >=D
Ever see Latifah in Last Holiday? Such a funny movie with LL Cool J.
I haven't but I want to. I think the only movie I've seen of hers was Bringin Down The House.
Great reaction! I love that your initial thoughts were “Oh, it’s a musical-I’m not necessarily a fan,” then, almost immediately, you’re singing and chair-dancing along. That’s what a good musical will do to you. I grew up on them, both on stage and in film, so I find reactors who are skeptical of the genre as a whole perplexing but I am interested in how they feel about those films.
You are never supposed to really like just about everyone in this, except for Amos, but Roxie is definitely the least sympathetic. She is really the most toxic person, only showing weakness when she is desperate. Chicago is perhaps the most cynical musical ever made, or at least the one with the most success. That cynicism is what adds the humor and makes it a musical comedy-its take on our culture’s obsession with true crime, the hunger for fame, the manipulation of the press and the court system, and the constant recycling of looking for the newest thing is all very true and unfortunately eternal.
“Cell Block Tango” shows that, even though we only know that she was accused of killing her lover/husband, the immigrant woman who eventually gets executed was actually innocent. In her explanation in the song, she only is seen to be loving with him, and when he dies, her scarf is white, not red, proclaiming her innocence. Her tragic death isn’t dwelt on except for how it changes Roxie, which fits with the story’s tone, but is a great example of how the musical story could change completely if it were just a bit more sympathetic instead of cynical. If it elaborated more on her story instead of Roxie’s, or showed more of the real violence behind the various murders instead of just passing them off as entertaining stories, as we see briefly in the triple murder by the Lucy Liu character, again, the story could have spun into a completely different narrative.
The way that I personally feel that Roxie and Velma get what’s coming to them is that the story takes place in she latter half of the 1920s. So, the Great Depression is barreling towards them. That’s when the Jazz Age ends, and interest in stories like theirs disappears in favor of the next big crime wave of the bank robbers like Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson. People like Roxie and Velma are going to be struggling mightily.
Aww thank you much. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Yeah musicals are tough for me to get into but I think sometimes it just comes down to the songs. Like if I went to a concert and it was 2 hours long but I only liked 3 songs that were performed, it makes it hard to say it was this amazing thing I got to experience. But unlike some people, I'm no quitter lol. Just means it'll take me a while before I watch the next one.
Very glad me not liking Roxie is ok. I thought I had missed her having a "good" moment or something and I was gonna get "yelled" at for not liking her. She's a great character, just not likeable.
If they didn't end up poor and struggling by then end of the movie then it didn't happen 🤣🤣 that last number was so good they retired super early and never thought of money again and life was just chill and easygoing with absolutely no drama whatsoever popping up. Nope. None at all.