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Cantando Bajo La Lluvia TÍTULO Singin' in the Rain ORIGINAL AÑO 1952 Cantando bajo la lluvia TÍTULO Singin' in the Rain ORIGINAL AÑO 1952 DURACIÓN 102 min. PAÍS DIRECTOR Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly GUIÓN Betty Comden, Adolph Green MÚSICA Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed FOTOGRAFÍA Harold Rosson & John Alton REPARTO Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Cyd Charisse, Rita Moreno, Douglas Fowley PRODUCTORA MGM. Productor: Arthur Freed PREMIOS 1952: 2 nominaciones al Oscar: Actriz sec. (Jean Hagen), bso (Musical) GÉNERO Musical. Comedia. Romance | Cine dentro del cine. Años 20. Baile SINOPSIS Antes de conocer a la aspirante a actriz Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds), el ídolo del cine mudo Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) pensaba que lo tenía todo: fama, fortuna y éxito. Pero, tras conocerla, se da cuenta de que ella es lo que realmente faltaba en su vida. Con el nacimiento del cine sonoro, Don quiere filmar los musicales con Kathy, pero entre ambos se interpone la reina del cine mudo Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen). (FILMAFFINITY) ---------------------------------------- CRÍTICAS ¿El mejor musical del cine? Probablemente. En cualquier caso, "Singin' in the Rain" tiene algunos de los bailes más maravillosos y cinematográficos de la historia del séptimo arte; Gene Kelly canta enamorado bajo la lluvia... y el mundo se detiene. Genial y vitalista, una imperecedera obra maestra. (Pablo Kurt: FILMAFFINITY) ---------------------------------------- "Simplemente perfecta. Lo más admirable es que su acumulación de números musicales (que aislados son magistrales) resulte una unidad coherente y fluida (...) Una obra maestra" (Francisco Marinero: Diario El Mundo) Curiosidades de Cantando bajo la lluvia El rodaje de la canción "Good Morning" fue catastrófico. Llegando a ser rodada ocho veces en una misma sesión. Como tal, en la película se notan al menos dos cortes. Gene Kelly, obsesionado en buscar la perfección de la toma obligó a Debbie a bailar hasta que ésta literalmente sangró de ambos pies en la toma final. Donald O'Connor y Debbie Reynolds debían aparecer en el gran Ballet de Broadway final, pero se negaron a trabajar en esas condiciones. El papel de Donald en esta fantasía -el de agente de Kelly- se redujo considerablemente y Debbie fue sustituída por Cyd Charise, inmejorablente. La canción "Make'hem laugh", aunque se dijo que era original para la película, es un plagio descarado del "Be a clown" de Cole Porter. Éste último, elegantemente, decidió no interponer demanda alguna en beneficio de la película, que siempre fue una de sus favoritas. Gene Kelly adoptó durante el rodaje un tono déspota tanto con Debbie como con Donald O,Connor, al que consideraba un actor muy discreto. Tras el espectacular rodaje de la canción bailada y cantada por Donald, "Make'hem laugh", que le costó al bailarín una semana de reposo, la actitud de Gene para con él cambió considerablemente. Gene Kelly rechazó en un principio a Debbie Reynolds, dada su pobre experiencia para el baile, sobre todo el claqué. Fred Astaire, gran amigo de Gene, le propuso que él enseñaría a Debbie los pasos fundamentales. El resultado es evidente. Existen películas especiales que poseen la capacidad de afectar al estado de ánimo. Imaginemos que estamos de vacaciones, luce el sol y acabamos de ligar. Pero nos metemos en un cine a ver ‘Rompiendo las olas’ (‘Breaking The Waves’, Lars Von Trier, 1996). Pues como que ya se nos ha ido a la mierda el día y nos dan ganas de meternos en la cama a pensar en los males de este valle de lágrimas que es el mundo. Y que conste que es un film que aprecio, pero admitamos que el señor Von Trier no es la alegría de la huerta precisamente. De la misma forma, pongamos que hemos tenido un día infernal en el trabajo, llueve y nos ha dejado la novia. Pues no hace falta recurrir a la química, basta una dosis de ‘Cantando bajo la lluvia’ (‘Singing In The Rain’, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1952). Mano de santo, oigan. Esta crítica nace de una contradicción: nunca he podido con las películas musicales. Toda mi vida las he asociado a tres características: argumento inexistente, gazmoñería interpretativa y toneladas de almíbar. Si esto quizá es aplicable a films como ‘Siete novias para siete hermanos’ (‘Seven Brides For Seven Brothers’, Stanley Donen, 1954), ‘Sonrisas y lágrimas’ (‘The Sound Of Music’, Robert Wise, 1965) o ‘Mary Poppins’ (id, Robert Stevenson, 1964), una película como ‘Cantando bajo la lluvia’ tenía todas las papeletas para acabar en el mismo grupo: la película es una excusa para amortizar añejas canciones ya existentes como la propia “Singing in the rain” o “Melodías de Broadway”; los actores no destacan precisamente por su sutileza a la hora de recrear una cándida historia de amor, y todo el film destila una joie de vivre que roza peligrosamente el empalago. Pero milagrosamente, al poco me olvido de mis prejuicios. Todo funciona como un maravilloso mecanismo de relojería emocional y a los dos minutos ya estoy entregado al film y al cuarto de hora improviso pasos de claqué frente al televisor. Intentemos descifrar el secreto de esta película. La anécdota que supone la argamasa para unir los distintos números y coreografías es tan sencilla como desternillante: estamos en un estudio de Hollywood, en medio del doloroso paso del cine mudo al sonoro y cunde el pánico entre las estrellas de la época. Muchas desaparecerán, como la divertidísima y de insoportable voz Lina Lamont interpretado por Jean Hagen , otras se adaptarán al cambio como el inefable galán Don Lockwood —insuperable Gene Kelly— y surgirán una multitud de estrellas nuevas, como la interpretada por la deliciosa Debbie Reynolds. Esta trama dará lugar a situaciones en las que será imposible aguantar la carcajada. Comedia de altura. Ver por ejemplo, el momento en que esconden el micrófono en el rococó vestido de una torpísima Lina Lamont. Gene Kelly Nombre real Eugene Joseph Curran Kelly Nacimiento 23 de agosto de 1912 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Estados Unidos Fallecimiento 2 de febrero de 1996 Beverly Hills, California, EE. UU. Pareja Betsy Blair (1941-1957) Jeanne Coyne (1960-1973) Patricia Ward (1990-1996) Gene Kelly nació en uno de los barrios de trabajadores de Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), en el seno de una familia obrera. Su padre era vendedor de fonógrafos y su madre, Harriet, fue la encargada de hacer que Gene y sus hermanos se interesaran por el mundo de la danza. Fue ella quien propulsó la formación del grupo "The Five Kellys", compuesto por los cinco hermanos. Tras deshacerse el grupo, él y su hermano Fred continuaron bailando y preparando enérgicas coreografías bajo el nombre de "The Kelly Brothers". Durante la depresión económica de 1929 que sacude los Estados Unidos y mientras acababa sus estudios universitarios (se licenció en Económicas en 1933), Kelly comenzó a trabajar en diversos oficios para ayudar a sacar adelante a su familia. Finalmente, y como negocio familiar, inauguran una primera academia de baile en Pittsburgh y después una segunda en Johnstown, en las que Kelly trabaja como codirector y profesor de baile. Cuando las academias empiezan a funcionar, él cree llegado el momento de viajar a Nueva York e intentar encontrar trabajo como coreógrafo. Gene Kelly en Heredarás el viento, 1960. Así, en sus comienzos y con la firme decisión de convertirse en una figura del baile, Gene viaja a Nueva York y en poco tiempo, consigue un gran éxito en Broadway protagonizando el musical "Pal Joey" (1940), en el que conoció al por entonces chico de coro Stanley Donen. Kelly reconoció en él importantes cualidades técnicas y le ofreció trabajar para él como ayudante. Con esta obra llamó la atención del famoso productor David O. Selznick y del director de la MGM Louis B. Mayer. Selznick le ofrece un contrato para trabajar en Hollywood en donde se instala un año más tarde junto a su mujer Betsy Blair. Desafortunadamente, Selznick no estaba interesado en producir musicales y pensó que Kelly podría convertirse en un gran actor dramático, dejando de lado su carrera de bailarín. Sin embargo, Gene no estaba muy entusiasmado con la idea, por lo que recibió con agrado una oferta de la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) para protagonizar junto a Judy Garland la encantadora "Por mí y por mi chica", dirigidos por el coreógrafo y director Bubsy Berkeley ("La calle 42"). La película en la que se ponía de manifiesto una química entre los dos protagonistas que mantendrían ya para siempre, recibió muy buenas críticas, e hizo que Gene se convirtiera en el centro de la atención de Hollywood. Tras "Por mí y por mi chica", realizó una serie de películas con la MGM, y en 1944, protagoniza "Las modelos" (Cover Girl, de Charles Vidor) (producida por la Columbia y protagonizada también por Rita Hayworth). En esta película Kelly coreografía, con la ayuda de Stanley Donen, uno de los números de baile más revolucionarios de la historia del musical americano, el 'Alter Ego", un complejo duelo entre el personaje de Kelly y su conciencia que resulta ser un gran éxito y que convierte al actor en una enorme fuente de ingresos para la empresa. Las cosas le iban bien hasta que Pearl Harbor fue bombardeada y Gene decide alistarse y luchar por su país. Aunque en un principio no se lo permitieron, entre 1944 y 1946 combatió en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. A su vuelta del frente revitalizó su popularidad en películas como "Levando anclas" (1945, George Sidney) en su primer film mítico junto a Frank Sinatra, que incluye un célebre número musical junto al personaje de animación Jerry (de "Tom y Jerry"); "Ziegfield follies" de Vincente Minnelli, de nuevo con Judy Garland y coincidiendo también con Fred Astaire y Lucille Ball; "El pirata" (The Pirate 1948, de Vincente Minnelli, clásico del cine musical en el que compartía cartel con Judy Garland de nuevo) y "Los tres mosqueteros" (The three Musketeers, 1948 de la mano de George Sidney).
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