movie vlog 1 COM260 - The Jazz
Singer
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hey guys it's Corey and in today's movie
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review I'm going to be talking about the
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1927 film The Jazz Singer released by
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Alan crosland back in the day um so this
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movie I actually learned throughout uh
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my research about this film is actually
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the first film to in incorporate uh
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Sound and Music throughout the entire
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film and while there are still some
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aspects of you know the silent movies
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like the kid that not the kid the gold
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rush like that we watch with uh Charlie
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Chaplan uh they incorporate music in
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such a unique way that obviously had
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never been done before and it was really
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cool to see so El Johnson plays the main
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protagonist in this film and that is
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Jackie rabitz SL Jackie Robin and Jackie
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Robin is the stage name that he adopts
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when he runs away from home at a young
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age because his father wants him to
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become a caner and his father is wa
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played by Warner uh
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uh and his father just wants him to
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become a a cancer like the father before
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him and his father before him and just
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follow the family traditions but Jackie
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really wanted to pursue his dream of
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being a jazz singer and his mother uh
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you uh played by Eugene besserer who
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plays Sarah roboz actually supports
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Jackie and she is I I think she probably
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gives some of the best performance in
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the entire film in my opinion especially
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in the early stages where Jackie gets
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beat by uh uh caner roboz and the emot
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the pure emotion on her face is probably
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some of the best acting that I've seen
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in the silent film era that we have seen
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uh then later on after that as the film
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progresses it's years later down the
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line and
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Jackie uh or Jackie is actually an adult
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now and he's now Jack Robin that's his
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stage name the name he adopts and he's
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on stage singing some songs and it's
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really cool how they incorporate you
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know sound especially because I know
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that like this was done outside of the
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filming itself it wasn't you know it
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wasn't actual sound like that uh the
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actor was saying it was actually synced
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up later in post production and I
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thought that was a really cool thing
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especially when I obviously the most
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some of the most pivotal parts of the
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film is when he's like you ain't heard
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nothing yet uh and that was probably the
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first time ever in film history that
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there was like a synchronized talking
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and that wasn't just music it was
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synchronized talking I thought that was
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a really cool moment and you could just
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like I don't know it was it was really
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cool to see that that was that first
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instant of that going on uh furthermore
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you know Jackie sees his mom and he's uh
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singing and there just such and there's
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a lot of really great emotional
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undertone throughout this entire thing
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because obviously Jack is defying
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everything that you know his father
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stood for even to certain point his
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mother even stood for and even at the
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same time his mother is very proud of
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him and it's just a very mixed uh bag of
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emotions there and then later when
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they're at the synagogue and uh you know
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he's singing for his father when he's in
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uh his father's robes actually and just
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fulfilling his father's wish I thought
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that is just so powerful and there's
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this emotional shot uh of Jackie and he
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just uh he just reconciles with his you
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know what he wants and his uh family or
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his uh his cultural roots and I just
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thought that was really great and along
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with the lighting and just the framing
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that uh the director decided to use I
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thought that was absolutely amazing to
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overall capture the gravity of that
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moment how impactful it was for Jackie
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self and then we get to the end of the
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film that is wow oh my God so basically
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uh Jackie finally performs on Broadway
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and um it is very very very
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controversial um now a few things I have
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wrong about this film wow in the middle
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of the film they have
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blackface was not expecting that
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especially in today's society
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uh I didn't know that so I was very
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caught off guard by it and I can see
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well I actually looked at like uh some
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other places for reviews on it and wow
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it is reviewed bomb because of that
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moment and it is bad it is real bad now
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I do think this film is uh historically
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besides that um it's just a real
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exploration on cultural identity and uh
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Jackie Ritz's uh exploration of who he
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is as a man throughout his culture and
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it's I think that Al Johnson's
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performance he Port his performance is
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so moving and it's just I just
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absolutely love it all in all guys like
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I will say try to watch this film and
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have an open mind to it it's definitely
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not for everybody I will say that there
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are some parts that glowy are
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snoozefest um but
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at the end of the day you kind of what
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we talk about in this class you have to
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see where you come from and seeing the
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first time music was like you know these
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the silent film era it's done it's over
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we're in the Takis now my guy so it is
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very cool to see how it slowly
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progressed and even this little inking
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of sound is just such a revolutionary
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part of Cinema and just so important so
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all in all guys I gave this I'm not I
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give this movie a one out of five uh
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it's it's okay it's all right it gets
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the job done but yeah i' say give it a
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try and yeah all right talk to you guys
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later
