Earthly Delights
Song and dance from around the world
Of course, it could be argued that all musicals are hyperbolic by definition. That seems to be exactly the problem that a lot of modern moviegoers have with them. Even more than most forms of popular entertainment, musicals boil down national characteristics into digestible stereotypes, even for home consumption, from Guys and Dolls to Paint Your Wagon. But because musicals are syntheses of so many different kinds of cultural activity, and affect us in so many different ways at once, they, surprisingly, often convey far more than the people who made them ever consciously intended -- even when (or perhaps especially when) the moviemakers wanted nothing more than to become a perfect Czechoslovakian equivalent of Busby Berkeley.
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