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Main Conflicts In Rob Marshall's Film Chicago

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Rob Marshall’s film Chicago is about a young woman named Roxie Hart; who not only has a passion for dancing in jazz shows, but also has a craving for fame. She is so determined to fulfill her desired attention; she ends up losing those who care about her most by lying and manipulating the public using media. The setting of this film takes place downtown Chicago where all the clubs and talent business promotes jazz as their central entertainment. The plot revolves around protagonist, Roxie Hart, seeking her great show-business opportunity. While there are many conflicts throughout this film, intriguing the audience to continue watching; there are two main conflicts that drives the audience with the most curiosity. The two most vital conflicts …show more content…

Although it was surprising to see her play in this movie; it wasn’t too surprising, considering she fit the role very well likewise in other movies she’s partaken in. Director, Rob Marshall, was nominated best choreographer for Broadway’s Tony awards six times, nine years before he directed this film. Production Company, Miramax, is one of the four production companies that produced this film and is well known for promoting independent films. This film has won in “New York Film Critics Circle Online” as best film in 2002. Another important achievement to recognize is that Rob Marshall received an award in second place as best first film at “New York Film Critics Circle”, in …show more content…

They created this film as a backstage musical by showing the protagonist’s situation and cutting to a jazz performance, emphasizing the protagonist’s point perspective or mindset of the situation. In the textbook “Looking at Movies”, Richard Barsam says, “During the process of envisioning and designing a film, the director and production designer are concerned with several major elements. The most important of these are (1) setting, décor, and properties; (2) lighting; and (3) costume, makeup, and hairstyle” (183). The overall design of this movie is portrayed to be dazzling; how the actresses dress in flashy costumes and actors dress up in classy costumes, how each scene somehow connects to a stage performance by everything set up prior to the performance, and how light brings the overall design of both setting and costumes to create the showy theme. Composition is what brings the design together, organizing and balancing everything used to set the viewer’s mood. Without composition, it would be difficult to understand that the flashy jazz performance was a part of the protagonist’s mindset or point of view of the situation. With this type of misunderstanding, it would be easily interpreted that these performances were at random instead of from a point perspective. Altogether, the filmmakers use both, a specific style of design and composition, to tell the story from not only the

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