Neither a jukebox musical nor a Broadway adaptation, his La La Land is a rare beast thought extinct.
That this showstopper kicks off the film and a blue note ends it while still making the audience beam from ear to ear speaks to the brilliance of director Damian Chazelle. "Another Day of Sun" proves less of an earworm but backs the film's showstopper moment-a one-take, traffic-snarled freeway song-and-dance number. Oh, "City of Stars" won't ultimately achieve the classic status of, say, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz, but definitely qualifies as toe-tapping and memorable. Just as a western must present at least one key scene set in or that strongly brings to mind the untamed mythic expanse known as the American West, a musical has to boast at least one notable song. To remain vital in that gnat's-attention-span known as modern pop culture, a musical must implant one key feature into the brain of filmgoers: a hummable tune. Ultimately, La La Land is a hat-trick.albeit a very accomplished hat-trick. If that doesn't speak to many of today's workaday Americans, then the musical is not only merely dead, it's really most sincerely dead. It's a dessert and a floor wax.er, rather, it's nostalgic, romantic, and also terminally cynical all at once while dancing backward in high heels. Instead, the entire song-and-dance - we're taking the film as a whole - knowingly keeps it from tripping over its own feet into a brink called cornball. This could very easily have gotten so on-the-nose schmaltzy that the scene required an animated Disney sidekick. Take for instance a date night rendezvous shot in the Griffith Observatory, which literally sees the leads taking flight and dancing among the stars. While some great musicals like All that Jazz get downright bleak, La La Land softshoes into the dark without every fully losing its color and buoyancy. Indeed, La La Land lovingly tips its hat to such entertainment industry-set musicals as Singin' in the Rain and New York, New York but also charts a millennial-appropriate melancholic course all its own. In this PG-13-rated musical, a pianist (Ryan Gosling) and an actress (Emma Stone) fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future amid navigating their divergent careers in Los Angeles. This includes developing The New Isle, a planned community about 40 miles north of Isle de Jean Charles that will include more than 500 homes, walking trails, a community center, commercial and retail space and other amenities designed in conjunction with island residents.Singing and dancing its way into the hearts, minds, and ears of even those who think that Chicago was a complete waste of time, elegant, enchanting, edgy and elegiac tune-up La La Land often looks like an homage to Golden Age H'Wood but sports enough lovestruck spark and - alternately - jaded spunk to qualify it as a true modern-day genre original. In 2016, Louisiana was awarded $48.3 million in Community Development Block Grant funds to work with residents of Isle de Jean Charles to develop and implement a structured and voluntary retreat from the island into safer communities. However, the land where residents and their families once hunted, trapped, grazed animals and farmed is now open water. Residents of this region, predominantly of American Indian ancestry, represent an incredibly unique and diverse culture of people who have lived here for hundreds of years.
The sole connecting road to the mainland-Island Road, built in 1953-is often impassable due to high winds, tides, sea level rise or storm surge. The island once encompassed more than 22,000 acres, but today only 320 acres of Isle de Jean Charles remain. Isle de Jean Charles is an island in Terrebonne Parish that, like much of coastal Louisiana, is rapidly disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico due to coastal erosion and sea level rise.
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