My futuered film

Hair Spray

I. About the Film

　

Hairspray is a 2007 musical romantic comedy film based on the 2002 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on John Waters' 1988 comedy film of the same name. Adapted from both Waters' 1988 script and Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell's book for the stage musical by screenwriter Leslie Dixon, the 2007 film version of Hairspray was directed and choreographed by Adam Shankman and has an ensemble cast including John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Queen Latifah, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, Allison Janney and Nikki Blonsky. Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, the film follows the "pleasantly plump" teenager Tracy Turnblad as she pursues stardom as a dancer on a local TV show and rallies against racial segregation.

II. Versions of the Film

Musical Ver.

The English    Speaking Society (ESS) of Chuo University gave a performance of an English play on April 22 at C Square of the Tama Campus. It has been giving two performances annually in summer and winter since    it resumed the event in May 2013. The latest one, its fifth performance, featured “Hairspray,” the hit Broadway musical whose story was set in Baltimore, Maryland, in the 1960s. Hakumon Herald    interviewed three ESS members after the performance. They are Ryuya Yamaguchi, a third grader of the Faculty of Commerce and the chief of the club’s Drama Section, Kako Fujita, a second grader of    the Faculty of Economics, and Ikki Asai, a second grader of the Faculty of Policy Studies. Both Fujita and Asai played the leading roles in the play.

 

It's also stage-ized by these other ones by all the countries. It can be said that it's a popular work at all over the world from this thing.

 

Works Cited

・Chuo univ. ESS

https://www.hakumon-herald.com/2015/06/29/american-musical-hairspray-performed-by-chuo-s-ess/

 

III. About the Lead Actor

 

Nikki Blonsky

I saw a stage in Broadway "hair spray" at 15 years old and had an audition of the main character Tracy role, by the reason that they're too young, disqualification. It's trained in a play and a musical at the Great neck South high school designated as a gourami foundation. I also appeared on a stage at school much. I worked part-time at a cold stone creamery in an ice cream shop after that, but audition recruitment of and a movie edition "hair spray" was seen and re-tried, and made it 17 years old admirably from the inside of 1000 recruited applicants as "PO which can sing and dance, teen" and was chosen by the lead. I was nominated for Golden Globe Prize star actress prize (musical comedy section) by this work and won an actress prize of the young people by a broadcast movie critic society prize.

 

 Tracy who lives in American Baltimore where the trend of the discrimination against blacks is still left deeply in 1962 is the large girl who likes a dance and dressing up very much. A dream was the artless way the figure which appears on a popular dance TV program "corny Collins show" in a teen and dances with attracted popular dancer and link doesn't mind.Tracy who heard recruit's audition by the member's indefinite leave of the program on some days thinks as a chance in life and that wants you to make them receive, for my parents, please. Mother Edna says the figure, and Tracy worries that it may be damaged and opposes. But I'm encouraged "Because it's big, become big." and challenge an audition from Wilbur of a father. A result is lost one-sidedly by the reason that I'm overweight from producer's VERUMA of a program. Tracy late for an audition on the day can make them do working overtime. When they stayed behind and opposed a department, black people's students such as Sea Wead were dancing there. The link I ply in a special class in the same high school witnesses Tracy who will open up to everyone and do dance steps of learned R&B immediately. "You can go out to a program." and, Tracy invites to dance party of president corny Collins sponsorship of a program, and is ecstatic. The dance by which Tracy who appeared together learned best friend's penny from Sea Weed is announced to the dance party by which it was invited to a link. A party meeting place including a vocal link, quickly, heating up. A dream of a program appearance is liked by corny of the organizer and comes true at last by scouting from corny.

Works Cited

・Wikipedia

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%98%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B9%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC_(2007%E5%B9%B4%E3%81%AE%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB)

 

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - Theme

• 定義  It seems to be the fact that a girl just runs after a dream, but it's the movie caricaturing a discrimination problem.
• 例  Discrimination against blacks and discrimination by the appearance
• 略  Then a popular TV program in the work" corny Collins show" becomes the routine which makes a black people appear on only Black Day of once a week. How to be handled a black people in the work also is cruel compared with a Caucasian and is a terrible one. The classroom where main character Tracy receives supplementary lessons was also full of black people. But people's way of thinking around is also changing with a friendly relation with Tracy's black people and black Day abolition counteragitation. It can be said that the discrimination against blacks left persistently is being caricatured from such thing.

B. Reaction Point - Charactor

• 定義 The main character who isn't perfect makes us feel this movie closer.
• 例  She's overweight. Her mother is overweight equally, too
• 略  2 persons with the same complex, but how to catch to a complex is big and different. A way of thinking of main character Tracy is moving many people with the inferiority complex of the world deeply with the courage and excitement.

C. Reaction Point - Movie style

• 定義 Musical style
• 例 Much dance music is used for the one of this work.
• 略 A dance is a work of a base, so it's possible to see without getting tired. At the same time, can't much person's support be called an accessible work? Much music gives vigor to the person who sees.

 

D. My General Opinion

I learned the strength which is seeing this movie, doesn't give up living brightly positively and is confronting a matter.
You also like to be seeing and to be funny because it's a musical style in spite of a strong movie of a message. All over the world, I think the movie which should be loved from many people.