Film· 1952· Musical
Singin' in the Rain: 3 recorded works trace back to it, and it draws on 1 recorded source.
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Damien Chazelle made La La Land as a deliberate return to the classic Hollywood musical, and Singin' in the Rain, a film about Hollywood itself, is among the models it quotes: the song-and-dance numbers staged on real streets and lamp posts, and the story of performers trying to make it in the film business.
A general debt. Gerwig calls Singin' in the Rain her most-watched film and the one that made her want to make films; Lady Bird's love of the school musical and its theatre kids comes from the same place.
A plagiarism claim. Viewers matched Barfi!'s lamp-post routine and other set pieces to Singin' in the Rain; Basu described his silent-comedy scenes as homage.
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Real world
The film satirises Hollywood's chaotic switch to talking pictures in 1927, when a silent star's voice proves unusable.