Gold Diggers
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'Gold Diggers of 1933'
'Gold Diggers of 1933'
Within this essay I shall explore and discuss the 'Gold Diggers of 1933', how different social and political events might have effected its production and in turn how it was received by the public. I will also relate it to other films of that same era in order to achieve suitable comparisons with 'Gold Diggers of 1933'. For example, along with the traditional Hollywood musicals that were being produced at this time. A new film genre was emerging; the Gangster film genre, and within these films narrative there also displays a strong sense of the time from which they are produced from. I believe that even without meaning to it would be impossible not to produce a film in such times as the depression, without having some influence from that.
'Gold Diggers of 1993', directed by Mervyn Leroy is an irresistible and moving depression-era musical. The choreography for the film is as marvellous to watch as with any of Busby Berkeley's work. It is almost hard to believe while watching this film that the events that were taking place at the time were actually happening, but then that is surely what the role of Hollywood is for. To be able to lose its viewers for a while in a realm of fantasy, to take them away from the 'real' events and into a form of escapism.
The film centres around a chorus line that are out of work, as at that time many would have been, not only in that profession but indeed with most...