Singing in the Rain is a classic 1952 film packed with glittered costumes, sappy love songs, and incessant dance numbers. I love it. It's a unique show to watch, because it honestly feels more like a collection of performances than an actual story! But, disregarding the numerous show-stopping dances, the film does have a pretty enjoyable plot. It takes place in Hollywood, 1928 after the introduction of "talking" movies. The main character is a handsome and successful actor who is worried that his career will now flop since the actress he's always been paired to act beside in silent films has a grating voice in real life. He fears that their films will fail since her voice is so terrible, so he gets another young lady to be the "voice" of the squeaky actress. The young lady ends up providing all of the vocals for the film. When the public realizes that the squeaky-sounding actress was lip syncing, they decide that though she was lovely and dignified, she lacked real talent because she couldn't provide dialogue and singing for her films. The lip-syncer ultimately ends up destroying the squeaker's career. It's a fun film, until you realize that IT WAS A HOAX!
My roommate let me know while we were watching the show last night that the girl who played the lip syncer was actually lip syncing the majority of the songs in the film. And the lovely voice that she provided for the squeaker--yeah, it wasn't the lip syncer's voice either. In fact, the actress who played the squeaker provides the lovely voice that she's supposed to be lip syncing. The squeaker is lip syncing to a voice that the lip syncer is lip syncing to, which is actually the squeaker's original voice. It's like inception, only more confusing. It's LIPCEPTION.
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