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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Loved La La Land. I love how they gave so much time to actors who couldn't sing. It made their songs feel so much more intimate than if sung by Broadway veterans. It was like real people were just singing to express their feelings because god damn it they wanted to express their feelings. And even the dance numbers were the same. It's not an approach that would work in general, but in this case was brilliant.
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Yes I think it worked very well. In the opening scene, they clearly used a whole bunch of professional dancers, but I don't think the contrast gets in the way, since a lot of the songs are these dramatic, character oriented moments. The final dance with Gosling and Stone has a lot of visual fireworks going on with the sets and the lighting, to it ends up being very flashy and exciting, even if their dancing couldn't have lifted the scene alone.
A movie where a similar approach didn't work in my opinion was Les Miserables. The one from a few years ago with Russell Crowe, Jackman, Hathaway, etc. Every song in that movie was an outright torture session.