This scene won an oscar (We Both Reached for the Gun) | Chicago | CLIP

This scene won an oscar
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[jacquelinemcnaughton]

My favorite moment has always been when Roxie says, "Are you kidding?"

[Paige-Turnner]

When he drinks the milk and sings "gun", it's not just a ventriloquist trick. In this particular scene it is showing how the narrative is taking off without him saying another word.

[chriswelter]

This movie is great because every musical scene is intercut with whats really happening in “reality”. These people aren’t just breaking into song randomly; the songs are more of a representation of whats happening to the characters, and it’s shown in the most clear way I’ve seen in a musical.

[lucascarter]

Literally still the best musical movie adaptation. To elevate the source material, intercut it with live scenes like it wasn't a musical. Genius

[olleronn]

Zellwegger is doing such a fantastic performance as the doll.

[andreatreese]

The most brilliant part is that his favorite reporter doesn't have the marionette makeup, so it looks like she is special, and it even looks that way as she directs the others--but she still has the strings. That is such a BRILLIANT detail for this number, and I love it.

[SethRadius]

I'm surprised after all this time, no one has caught the significance of the moment at 1:10. She takes aim straight away as if pointing at an even level line of sight, and he adjusts it as if she was pointing down, implying she didn't have intent to kill. This small thing always stuck out to me.

[deidarafangirl]

No praise for the make up/hair team yet? I always love how plastic-y/wooden they got all the puppet people to look in this sequence. It legit looks uncanny.

[EthalaRide]

The movie Chicago, to me, is the best example of utilizing the medium to the fullest extent to tell a story. There's stuff in the movie you CAN'T do in the live show; cutting, editing, rapid visual juxtaposition. The fact that it keeps cutting back and forth to reality and the style of all these vaudeville showy numbers is narratively perfect for Roxie as character's perception of reality and interpretation of events. She wants nothing more than to be a stage presents so she copes and interprets everything as this whole show.
This scene, Roxie's first night in jail (Cellblock Tango), and the execution of the innocent Hungarian woman (Hungarian Disappearing Act) are tremendous examples of the power of editing like this.
But the first real example you see of the _effectiveness_ of the editing Chicago is going to utilize throughout the film is the ICONIC moment in All That Jazz when Roxie sees Velma perform and it cuts on the beat closer and closer between Roxie being engrossed in the show and Velma performing, until SHE is on stage singing the final note than being dragged away by her date. It PERFECTLY sets up who Roxie is, what her motivation is, how she isn't quite in touch with reality. All the styalization from here on isn't just "this is how Chicago/the director/the author tells a story" but "this is how ROXIE tells a story." And that's AWESOME.

[rogerdavis]

Sublime scene! The score, acting, directing, camera work, lighting, editing, choreography….all superb!

[Wednesdaywoe]

He must have been in fantastic shape. He lifts Renee like she weighs nothing, and later does a full tapdance number.

[Cosmobear]

Just a small little part I like is when Roxy points her hand out like the gun and it blocks his face and he doesn’t like that because he wants to be the center of attention so he pushes it down. Very subtle but very good.

[aurelie]

This is how musicals and live action remakes should be redone. They have respect for the original material (you want to see what you love brought to life on the screen) and they build upon it with movie magic to make it better in ways that the original could not.

And NOT completely changing the characters’ appearances and personalities or changing main plot points and adding weird backstories like about parents and such.

[impogame]

anyone here because of the insane and amazing tiktok edits?

[thegreatmajora]

My favorite little bit is at 1:10 : the way Flynn just pulls her hand away from his face says so much about how they’re both there for their egos

[SDKoka]

I've always loved hearing Richard Gere talk about how hard he worked on this picture. A true professional, he had the acting chops for it, but always said how hard he worked to get to the level of Rene, Catherine, and everyone else who came from a musical and dancing background. A true professional works at something until it looks easy, and Richard rehearsed again and again until it was perfect. And this is one of the toughest songs on Broadway, too - you gotta know it inside and out!

[JessicaAbbey-Atreus]

Anyone criticising Richard Gere’s voice here hasn’t heard a single record from the 1920’s.

[Yuu_Yun]

entered the gun on the gravity falls website, guess its a reference to this song

[nekona]

This was the last movie I saw physically in a theater with my Mother before she passed. She passed years later, but was in a nursing home for the last ten years of her life and never could physically get to a movie theater again. I’m glad it was a hell of a movie to end her movie theater going on. She loved it!

[DbR]

21 years of 'oh yes oh yes oh yes they both oh yes they both oh yes they both reached for the gun the gun the gun the gun oh yes they both reached for the gun for the gun' in my mind every two days