Hollywood is tricking audiences into watching movies where characters unexpectedly burst into song. Why?
Source: Going to the movies this holiday season? Beware Hollywood’s ‘stealth musical’
“Wonka,” which opened recently, “The Color Purple” (arriving now) and the “Mean Girls” revamp (hitting screens in January) are all high-profile big-budget movies with two other things in common: 1) they’re all musicals, and 2) their original trailers are carefully edited to avoid acknowledging that fact. No one on-screen is shown singing; glimpses of choreography flash by in fractions of a second.
a-ha! they’re trying to trick us. apparently “musicals” are not doing well $$$-wise, so no mention in trailers &etc. but isn’t the poor performance when peoeple know ahead of time that it’s a musical a signal that musicals are not what the majority want. so why make them if they’re not popular. are they hoping people will change attitudes if they’re tricked into a couple?
