A lot of audience members who watched La La Land think that it is disappointing compared to other musicals, due to that performance of the cast with their singing and dancing. Die hard musical fans don’t agree with the casting of Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling and are distasteful for their vocal strengths, and they would rather that two theatre experts who are experienced. The audience are disappointed by the “basic” musical story as it’s seen as a ‘meet-cute song-and-dance escape’ which is typically the format that many musicals follow, and the musical-loving audience wanted something a bit more original, especially for a film that had such high expectations.
However, the mediocre performance from Stone and Gosling is seen as charming as the film is about two quite ordinary people going through life, working and finding life. One of the themes of the film is that it has a sense of realism; it isn’t like normal Broadway musicals. La La Land takes a turn after the first half, which people complained about having song’s to regularly that felt forced and unnatural. The opening made the setting seem incredibly colourful and diverse when everyone sang and danced on the busy road, but that slowly faded throughout the film, with us mainly only seeing Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling’s characters.
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