November 21 movie: Singin' in the Rain. This movie is such a joy. I was going to say that it's perfect from beginning to end, and then I remembered that endless "Gotta Dance" number which I can't stand. But now, thanks to the DVR, I can fast forward that number. And now the movie is perfect! Isn't technology grand.
I think my favorite actors in the movie are the secondary characters, Donald O'Connor and Jean Hagen. Hagen in particular is the unsung hero of the movie for me. The whole movie relies on her. It can't be easy to play a comic relief character who's so unlikeable. And somehow she manages to make Lina Lamott sympathetic in places (for example when she films her first scene with sound and everyone is browbeating her) without softening the character at all.
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