The difference between musicals, dramas and film and television dramas: Introduction to musicals Musical theater (Musicals for short), also known as musicals, is a dramatic performance that combines music, song, dance and dialogue. , the humor, irony, sentimentality, love, and anger in the play are moving components, and the plot itself is conveyed to the audience through the actors' language, music, movements, and fixed interpretations. The musical combines drama, music, singing and dancing, and is full of humor and comedy. Its music is easy to understand and therefore very popular with the public. Musical is a new comprehensive stage art that emerged in the 20th century. It integrates singing, dancing and drama. It widely adopts high-tech stage art technology and constantly pursues the perfect combination of visual and auditory effects. At the same time, Western musicals have summed up a set of successful market operation methods through more than a century of commercial performance experience, and created a series of excellent plays suitable for all ages, making this art form break through objective factors such as age and class. Limited, widely loved by the audience. Some famous musicals include: Oklahoma, The Sound of Music, West Side Story, Les Miserables, Cats, and The Phantom of the Opera, among others. Musicals are performed all over the world, but the most frequent performances are on Broadway in New York City in the United States and the West End of London in the United Kingdom. Therefore, the term Broadway musical can refer to musicals performed on Broadway, and often refers to all musicals similar to Broadway style. With the healthy and rapid development of our country's economy, the people's demand for cultural entertainment has also undergone diversified changes. Musicals, a new art form, quickly attracted a group of fixed audiences with its characteristics of both audiovisual and refined tastes. and an ever-expanding audience. Musical structure The text of a musical is composed of the following parts: the music part is called score, the singing words are called lyrics, and the dialogue words are called book/script. Sometimes musicals will also use the title of opera, and the lyrics and script are collectively called libretto. There is no set standard for the length of a musical, but most musicals are between two and three hours long. It is usually divided into two acts, separated by an intermission. A complete musical usually contains twenty to thirty songs, including song repetitions and background music. Characteristics of Musicals The difference between musicals and operas is that musicals often use different types of pop music and popular music instrument arrangements; dialogues without musical accompaniment are allowed in musicals; and operas are not used in musicals. In some traditions, for example, there is no distinction between recitative and aria, and the singing method is not necessarily bel canto. However, the dividing line between musicals and operas is still controversial among many scholars. For example, "Porgy and Bess" (Taiwanese translation "Porgy and Bess") composed by Gershwin was also It is called opera, folk opera (Folk Opera) and musical theater. Some musicals such as Les Miserables have musical accompaniment from beginning to end, while some operettas such as Carmen have dialogue. Musicals generally have more dance elements than operas, and early musicals were even song and dance performances without scripts. Although the famous opera composer Richard Wagner had already proposed Gesamtkunstwerk (Gesamtkunstwerk) in the mid-19th century, he believed that music and drama should be integrated into one. But in Wagner's musical dramas, music is still the dominant factor. In contrast, the drama and dance elements in musicals are more important. Musicals and musicals The difference between musicals and musicals is that many musicals were later transplanted into musicals, and the theater version and the movie version are not necessarily exactly the same, because theaters are good at scene scheduling and more abstract forms of expression. The audience's imagination is used to imagine the environment in which the story takes place, while the film is good at shooting real scenes and using lens editing.

Taking American movies as an example, representatives of the “New Hollywood” that emerged from the second half of the 1960s to the 1970s, such as George Lucas, Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg , Oliver Stone, etc., most of them graduated from film departments or majors in famous universities. In the Chinese film and television industry in the 21st century, film and television education is the product of the development of the film and television industry to a considerable extent. As a conceptual form, it reflects the development practice of the film and television industry, and as an institutional form, it supports the progress of the film and television industry with a steady supply of talents. lt;/SPANgt;lt;/pgt;