I grew up watching all sorts of movies with flashbacks of scenes that were either iconic or really stuck out to me. The ones that I always enjoyed were movie musicals. I remember one of the first movies I ever watched were Disney Animated, but then I moved onto movies with actual actors and actresses. I think most of my childhood was me dancing around my house trying to be Maria from "The Sound of Music" or Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady". I remember being so distraught because no one I knew, knew who Shirley Jones is. I learned from "Kiss Me, Kate" that it's okay to forgive those who love you, like how Lilly forgave her ex husband and eventually repaired her relationship with them. I learned from "The Sound of Music" that it's okay to be different, you may find your purpose in life that way. "The Music Man" has become my favorite, considering the fact it's uplifting and tells the story of a man who is so in love with himself, falls in love with a woman and puts his flaws behind him in order to make her happy. Some may have not watched that in the story, but it is part of the plot for Harold Hill and Marian to fall in love despite Marian's objections to him. To me that also shows how playing hard to get can work!
Funny Girl is another top choice of mine, in "Funny Girl", it's a time where a woman wasn't known to be comedic. Fanny Brice taught me how it's okay to be myself, and some may not like me, but they don't matter and those who do like how I am become the most important in my life. Movie Musicals tell stories in a way regular movies may not. I have heard people I know say time after time that no one breaks into song and dance to express an opinion or state a fact. That's the point of them though! It gives the illusion of being passionate, it's meant to be fiction! Musicals were made by creative people for creative people. The more we pass around or invent creativity, new ideas come about and are born! They show powerful symbols of love, acceptance, feminism, and relations between two opposing sides. These are all problems we face every day and have at some point in our lives. Some find musicals boring, but that goes to show this type of entertainment isn't for them. They may find their comfort in a romantic comedy or a netflix series that speaks to them. That's what they choose though, for me, movie musicals or musicals in general have been my inspiration for my time growing up. They may not be as popular as they were almost a hundred years ago when they first started, but they are still definitely worth celebrating.
