Brazil / You Discover You're in New York - The Gang's All Here (1943)

[@SariaMew456]

I love the way this scene inverts the usual structure of a Busby Berkeley number. It opens in a completely abstract place that's only given context in reverse, moving out to the world supposedly confined to (but impossible to actually put on) the stage. Only when we've gotten used to that world does the camera pull out further to reveal the audience watching, and then that division is broken when the performers move out into the audience and audience members become part of the act. Fascinating!

[@fotografosinistro]

I invite you to come to Rio and see those costumes that were used on that movie, there is a museum here dedicated to her. It is the most magical place on Earth.

[@ggphipps1]

Pure delightfulness! It served as a Technicolor catalog of things(both cultural and material) to come AFTER the war! When the chorus girls sing their parts in the song You discover you're in New York...one of them even refers to the food ration on products like butter!

[@HobartBloke]

And the coffee shortage, a favourite topical gag in movies from 1942 to 1945.

[@antoniod]

When I was 13, not only did I want this movie to be my life, I was angry and resentful that I't couldn't be my life. I don't just mean the musical numbers-I mean living in a mansion and having loveable rich eccentrics for parents, in a world defined by clean, rich color(I think one would have to see the dye-technicolor print foir the film to really have this kind of effect) .Didn't I notice all the bit actors playing workers whose life wouldn't be as magical as those of the leads?

[@berlinsaintclair9100]

My guy's last name is "Rork" so we always LOVE the part where she sings "....a waiter named O'Rourrrrke" I've never been able to roll my R's. Which is SO frustrating for someone who's studied and learned two romance languages. So I just love hearing Carmen's rollllls!

[@mariaeddycesario3067]

By that time, all people who worked on radio here in Brazil used these "rolled Rs". (my fear: I'm the last of my family who loves Carmen)

[@WillScarlet16]

Carmen was wearing platforms before they even existed.

[@berlinsaintclair9100]

Yessss! I just watched this movie for probably the 20th time today and those gold platforms she has on knock me out! I would love some with that very unique 40's style. Like you said: platforms before there were platforms!

[@mariaeddycesario3067]

@@berlinsaintclair9100 - mind you: HOW DARE she dance so lightly with those platforms??

[@hifrommike2120]

Carmen had a designer make platform shoes for her to increase her height (she was an even five feet tall). Marlene Dietrich wore platform shoes first, but Carmen turned them into a craze. 🙂🙃

[@IamMinnie90]

I adored this number! And CARMEN! What a FOX..I adore her too...Everything about her

[@fotografosinistro]

That was one of the most successful movies ever made in Hollywood.

[@nemusarnax1875]

The Brazilian bombshell

[@Cronikeys]

GLORIOUS. thanks for sharing! =)

[@fotografosinistro]

That is one of the most magical movies ever made.

[@RenoultJonathan]

Scenography is mind-blowing! Today all the money goes in FX ^^'