Chicago- the movie

Another musical that changed my life forever (figuratively speaking) is Chicago. Based on a Broadway musical, this film is fun and entertaining. It showed the good and bad, the ups and the downs and the funny as well as serious aspects. The cast consisting Renee Zellweger, Richard Gere and Catherine Zeta Jones has done some tremendous acting, amazing singing and really sexy dance moves. For me, the charm of the movie was how easily they could show the musical and then fade into reality! One second they’re all around the place dancing and singing and the next everybody is sitting down like it’s a normal everyday scene. I think this aspect is well brought out in the song Razzle Dazzle, where the scene keeps fading in and out of the musical done by lawyer Billy Flynn (Richard Gere) and the normal jury scene where Roxy (Renee Zellweger) is being tried. Richard Gere acts brilliantly and looks nothing like his age. The dancing that he does is really phenomenal. 

For a person like me who wants to make advertisements in the future, this cinematic approach was something I paid very close attention to. The way it was being shot i.e. from the various different angles and the flawless editing which made it flow so normally from one scene to another without losing its touch of being a musical. The amount of detail that has gone into writing the film is evident from the way the film moves in and out from flashbacks into every present day scene.

A song that is absolutely fantastic is the title song, All that Jazz. Infact, both the versions i.e. the one sung by Catherine Zeta Jones and the other sung by both the leading ladies which is the final sequence in the movie. It makes for a perfect end to an outstanding movie. 

There are many other songs that were really good like Cell Block Tango, which was shot and choreographed so beautifully and aesthetically, When you're Good to Mama, sung by Queen Latifah; a classic lady giving a classic performance, and We both reached for the Gun.

All in all an absolute mind-blowing cinematic experience and a film that I could never get bored seeing even a million times which is why it makes it to the top of my list.