I crack up every time when Pierre enters the scene and loudly throws his cane off to the side. Really goes to show what we had to go through to properly master the art of sound.
Now the cameras have built in microphones so the audio and video sync up naturally I’m sure disasters like this are what allowed for someone to come up with the invention though
And also the microphone in his suit making additional noise from his movement as well as a distinct one from her fan hitting it. "Hey, Lina. Whatcha hitting him with, a blackjack?!" 😆
@@manuelorozco7760 Times like these that I wish the Dancing Cavalier was a real musical. Especially when they previewed a part of it near in the 2nd act!
@@AutismThespian1993 You mean "if this had been a real movie," not "had this been a real movie." Now change it for me, please, it looks like you've been asking a question with a different punctuation mark sometimes.
Yeah. I know of some movies that were in production hell for so long that they needed to be released from an unfinished workprint. The Thief and The Cobbler was a real major case of that.
I love the small detail when Lina says "I can't stand him." Only the "can't" sounds refined; because that was the one thing that the diction coach excruciatingly worked endlessly on, she forgot to work on the rest!
I believe that she couldn't stheend it any more and fainted, leaving her job unfinished. Actually Lina's story is kind of tragic because bunch of silent movie stars found themselves in the same situation - one moment you are a star and the next moment your career is over because you have a voice of a goat that nobody can't stheend.
I think most people miss the gag at 1:23, when Lina says "I cahn't steeand him!" We earlier saw Lina with her diction coach, Phoebe Dinsmore, who attempted to teach her to say "And I cahn't stahnd him", while Lina could only squeak out, "I ceean't steeand 'im". So now we see, in the final version, she got one word right but not the other one.
It's funny because that bit has always stuck in my head more than any other part of the movie. I say "I cahn't staend 'im" to my family all the time, in the most annoying nasally voice I can muster :P
Funniest scene in the movie! I saw this movie years ago when I was in college and this scene still has me in stitches today 25 years later. Even my son who is 13 saw this and cracked up laughing.😂😂😂
When Charlie Chaplin saw his first talkie, the experience was a lot like this. Everything was too loud. He left thinking talkies wouldn't last. Of course . . .
It kinda makes you feel bad on account of silent actors having to deal with the new developments in technology and not being able to catch up quite as fast at times. It's not like silent movies were bad at all, but I can see where they'd struggle to appeal to the changes of public taste. That said this one scene alone is far funnier than 95% of "comedies" today.
My dad told me of one who was a big cowboy western star. Everybody loved him except. When sound pictures came. The problem was he was Italian and didn't know English, and the little he could was extremely accentuated in his speech so he had no chance in sound
We watched this in a college film class. I literally was laughing uncontrollably during the filming of this little movie and the screening. I swear, people were looking at me like I lost my mind! But I'm a film student and have had the transition from silent film to sound hammered into my brain by countless classes and professors so to see a movie like this actually include a scene with all the problems that early talkies would have faced just made me bust a fucking gut laughing!
Thats awesome! I walked the Earth for 27 years now. And yet the first time i have seen this gem of a classic, i was 21. Have seen it three times. I want to be a movie critic
@@manuelorozco7760 You've got me by a year! Lol I'm 26 at the moment, and saw it for the first time probably when I was around the same age as you. This film, along with Dr. Strangelove were the two films that I remember the most from my time in film school. In our class we would basically have an hour long lecture, then watch a full film twice a week. 95% of the time, half the class had slipped out by the time the movie reached the 30 minute mark, myself included unfortunately in some cases. But Singing in the Rain and Dr. Strangelove were totally different. The entire class loved Singing in the Rain. All of the jokes hit, people were cracking up, the hardcore film students were geeking out and grinning ear to ear during the scenes where the silent film crews are transitioning to their first film with sound, and a few people even clapped after some of the big dance numbers. This film aged like fine wine, still just as relevant and entertaining today as when it first came out!
@@manuelorozco7760 absolutely watch it if you ever get a chance. Its a film that I would call one of the first, and still one of the best black comedies/dramas. Im sure you know from the title "how I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb" the subject material, so it's just an absolute powerhouse of tension and suspense, broken up by 2 or 3 moments of comic relief that come out of absolutely nowhere and blindside the audience. I can't even think of another example of a show or film that can effectively interject comedy into the most serious scenes imaginable besides The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, and Sean of the Dead
So funny! This film was wonderfully written and is much more sophisticated than other stuff Hollywood has turned out before and since. American musicals often have simplistic, slap stick humour. This film was wonderfully witty. They got everything just right. Top performances from a massively talented cast. Movie gold!
I rarely like musicals but this one is exceptionally good! The whole industry from silent films to ‘talkies’ helped launch careers or end them. If a big strong looking male character has a high pitched voice, it really did make a huge difference. Also if a female character has a very irritatingly squeaky voice, not good. 😂
"I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I lo----" Okay, I think I get it. He loves her, right? XD
Actually the first sound pictures had these problems. The microphone picked up every sound near it and the actors had to remember to talk directly toward the recording equipment. Jewelry clanged and shoes squeaked as did any tight fitting clothes. But any words spoken more steps from the microphone were barely heard at all.
(In squeaky voice) The night is full of our enemies. BONK BONK 🤣😂🤣 AND No no no (nodding head in squeaky voice) Yes yes yes (shaking head in deep voice) two of the funniest things I have seen in any movie 😂🤣
Did somebody get paid for writing that dialogue? After the sound gets out of synch, the funniest part is that it's the Bad Guy saying no no no, and Lina saying Yes yes yes... in each other's voices! XD
One of my friends called the Bad Lip Reading UA-cam channel "Bad Lip Syncing" the other day (he forgot the name of the channel) and this scene immediately came to my mind. 🤣🤣🤣
This scene along with the actual filming of Dueling Cavalier in the movie had to be one of the most fun scenes a movie crew could ever possibly be in charge of shooting... The direction must have gone something like this "Okay guys, you know all of the worst mistakes you can make while filming a movie that would get you instantly fired under normal circumstances? You are going to do them on purpose, and do them to the Nth degree so that all of the people watching this who aren't familiar with movie production can still understand the "mistakes" the in-film crew and actors made. Alright cameraman, follow the two actors back and forth awkwardly, with no sense of rhythm and wiping your ass with the Rule Of Thirds. Sound guy? Pitch the male voices up way too high, and lower the pitch of the female voices, create glaringly obvious changes to the dialogue levels, and eventually slow it down to the point where it knocks the audio out of sync with the pictures. Producer? Walk into the set and accidentally grab a wire that's attached directly to an actress after misunderstanding its purpose. Director? Just keep doing what you're doing, bonus points if you can get frustrated enough to almost be in tears!"
And it's probably not as easy as it sounds to deliberately film mistakes like that. The irony about the dancing cavalier is it's at first the worst movie ever made inside one of the most beloved musical comedies ever made, certainly one of gene Kelly's greatest films which I believe he co-directed. I'm sure in the real world when silent went to talkies for every jazz singer hit you had a dueling cavalier fiasco
I crack up every time when Pierre enters the scene and loudly throws his cane off to the side. Really goes to show what we had to go through to properly master the art of sound.
Still hilarious. 😁
Now the cameras have built in microphones so the audio and video sync up naturally I’m sure disasters like this are what allowed for someone to come up with the invention though
@@mybuffysummers professional studios still need to sync, master, re-record, overdub, foley etc.
@@Ichneumonxx I wish musical movies these days would put more effort to sound mixing so the vocals and instrumentation can go more hand in hand
And also the microphone in his suit making additional noise from his movement as well as a distinct one from her fan hitting it.
"Hey, Lina. Whatcha hitting him with, a blackjack?!" 😆
That boy leaving the theater mocking the "I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you..." LOL!
Did somebody get paid for writing that dialogue? 😄
Guy: NO NO NO * very squeaky voice"
Lina: YES YES YES * deep voice*
LMAO
Same
I thought the same thing the first time I saw this 😂😂🤣🤣
It was so funny but I found it even better when Cosmo and Kathy imitated it.
Then both get deeper and slower.
Perhaps the first ever matter of unsynchronized sound😂
I watched this film in the art class in school and everyone laughed so hard during this scene. This is just extremely hilarious !!!!
I watched this in choir
yo same
I wish my choir director did this to me!
I've seen it at my film and media school, No movies don't make something funnier today than the classics like this and classic cartoons.
I need to be in that art class!
Truly one of the funniest scenes in cinematic history.
Joseph Dutra Yes yes yes!
Will C No No No
@@manuelorozco7760 Yes Yes Yes
@@emilypetsche1 I just can’t resist
So funny! I caahn't staeeend it
They could have left the Dueling Cavalier as a comedy, hell, it's hilarious!
True but a musical makes it more fun
@@manuelorozco7760 Times like these that I wish the Dancing Cavalier was a real musical. Especially when they previewed a part of it near in the 2nd act!
@@WolfTamer I don’t blame you
But they all thought it was terrible, remember? It wasn't like they were going to tell their friends to go see this turd.
That must have been the first "so bad, it's good" film the world ever watched.
We’ll send cheesy movies. The worst we can find.
Had this been a real movie, it would have been shown on mystery science Theatre 3000.
Yes! The first peanut gallery movie ever! I wish Jonah and the robots were there...
They can just hop on a freaking Delorean and laugh at this movie!
@@AutismThespian1993 You mean "if this had been a real movie," not "had this been a real movie." Now change it for me, please, it looks like you've been asking a question with a different punctuation mark sometimes.
Yeah. I know of some movies that were in production hell for so long that they needed to be released from an unfinished workprint. The Thief and The Cobbler was a real major case of that.
“The night is full of our enemies.”
WHAP! WHAP!
(Explosive Laughter)
“Hey, Lina! Whatcha hittin’ him with, a blackjack??”
😂
I love the small detail when Lina says "I can't stand him." Only the "can't" sounds refined; because that was the one thing that the diction coach excruciatingly worked endlessly on, she forgot to work on the rest!
I believe that she couldn't stheend it any more and fainted, leaving her job unfinished. Actually Lina's story is kind of tragic because bunch of silent movie stars found themselves in the same situation - one moment you are a star and the next moment your career is over because you have a voice of a goat that nobody can't stheend.
@@Rotionu Harry Langdon: "I know how you feel bro"
Being a film major and learning how film works, I find this scene funnier now than I when I watched it as a child!
It's the same for me. I just watched it on stage.
"The night is full of our enemies."
WHACK WHACK.
wow, superman can take a metal fan to the shoulder!
"Hey, Lina, whatcha hit him with, a blackjack?" My favorite line. Funny, I always thought he said "flapjack."
,," what's that? A thunderstorm outside?" Hilarious.
NO, NO, NO! YES, YES YES! No, Nooo, Noooo...
I liked it when it gets slow motion with the no
my favorite part
"Hey, Lina - what'cha hittin' him with, a blackjack??!"
😆
Jean Hagen was such a brilliant comic actress! 'and I can't stand 'im!.' Lol!
I didn’t find it funny the first time. But now i do
I think most people miss the gag at 1:23, when Lina says "I cahn't steeand him!"
We earlier saw Lina with her diction coach, Phoebe Dinsmore, who attempted to teach her to say "And I cahn't stahnd him", while Lina could only squeak out, "I ceean't steeand 'im".
So now we see, in the final version, she got one word right but not the other one.
No, people laughed, the reaction's there
@@JosephDutra I think he meant the OTHER audience. Us.
Some might miss it if you saw the movie but in a video the context is gone
I got the reference 😂😂
It's funny because that bit has always stuck in my head more than any other part of the movie. I say "I cahn't staend 'im" to my family all the time, in the most annoying nasally voice I can muster :P
@@FourthDerivative For many years, I've said "I cahn't stahnd it."
Funniest scene in the movie! I saw this movie years ago when I was in college and this scene still has me in stitches today 25 years later. Even my son who is 13 saw this and cracked up laughing.😂😂😂
"I don't like sand. It's rough and course and irritating, and it gets everywhere."
2:47 "Did somebody get paid for writing that dialogue?"
"My father has me betrothed to the Baron de Landsfield...and I cahn't *STAYND 'IM!* "
"Hey, Lina, whatcha hittin'him with, a blackjack?"
LOL!
When Charlie Chaplin saw his first talkie, the experience was a lot like this. Everything was too loud. He left thinking talkies wouldn't last. Of course . . .
It's vulgar.
“The Dueling Cavalier” is basically the 1920’s equivalent to “The Room”.
Not really….at least it’s Well-acted
It kinda makes you feel bad on account of silent actors having to deal with the new developments in technology and not being able to catch up quite as fast at times. It's not like silent movies were bad at all, but I can see where they'd struggle to appeal to the changes of public taste. That said this one scene alone is far funnier than 95% of "comedies" today.
My dad told me of one who was a big cowboy western star.
Everybody loved him except.
When sound pictures came. The problem was he was Italian and didn't know English, and the little he could was extremely accentuated in his speech so he had no chance in sound
We watched this in a college film class. I literally was laughing uncontrollably during the filming of this little movie and the screening. I swear, people were looking at me like I lost my mind! But I'm a film student and have had the transition from silent film to sound hammered into my brain by countless classes and professors so to see a movie like this actually include a scene with all the problems that early talkies would have faced just made me bust a fucking gut laughing!
Same here back in 2013. I dying of laughing and asking my professor to rewind the movie back to this scene LOL
Thats awesome! I walked the Earth for 27 years now. And yet the first time i have seen this gem of a classic, i was 21. Have seen it three times. I want to be a movie critic
@@manuelorozco7760 You've got me by a year! Lol I'm 26 at the moment, and saw it for the first time probably when I was around the same age as you. This film, along with Dr. Strangelove were the two films that I remember the most from my time in film school. In our class we would basically have an hour long lecture, then watch a full film twice a week. 95% of the time, half the class had slipped out by the time the movie reached the 30 minute mark, myself included unfortunately in some cases. But Singing in the Rain and Dr. Strangelove were totally different. The entire class loved Singing in the Rain. All of the jokes hit, people were cracking up, the hardcore film students were geeking out and grinning ear to ear during the scenes where the silent film crews are transitioning to their first film with sound, and a few people even clapped after some of the big dance numbers. This film aged like fine wine, still just as relevant and entertaining today as when it first came out!
tankmaster1018 I never seen Dr Strangelove
@@manuelorozco7760 absolutely watch it if you ever get a chance. Its a film that I would call one of the first, and still one of the best black comedies/dramas. Im sure you know from the title "how I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb" the subject material, so it's just an absolute powerhouse of tension and suspense, broken up by 2 or 3 moments of comic relief that come out of absolutely nowhere and blindside the audience. I can't even think of another example of a show or film that can effectively interject comedy into the most serious scenes imaginable besides The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, and Sean of the Dead
For some reason the funniest bit for me is "Rouge Noir, the Purple Ter-ROR?"
No no no! Yes yes yes ! Gets me everytime
for some reason the funniest bit for me is the name of the villain:
"...captured by ROUGE NOIR, the PURPLE TERROR?!"
lmao
Red Night, the Purple Terror? It is pretty melodramatic, down to his moustache.
@@MrThorfan64 Rouge Noir actually translates to Red Black, the Purple Terror! He is ALL the colors. 🤣
@@phemyda94 My mistake! But yeh, it's a pretty silly name when you put it that way.
Thus They Invented Bloopers
Nah. UA-cam poops. lol
Indeed, bloopers for ever.
And broken headphones 😂
One of the funniest moments in cinematic history!
If more previews were like this i would go to the theater more often.
I rather wait and see the Final Cut
Wonder if Tommy Wiseau saw the high ratings in the movie, saw it, and drew inspiration from only this scene.
Add to that the scene from Rebel Without a Cause and you've nailed it
I’m guessing Lina is the original Disaster Artist...
*Oh Hi Don*
So funny! This film was wonderfully written and is much more sophisticated than other stuff Hollywood has turned out before and since. American musicals often have simplistic, slap stick humour. This film was wonderfully witty. They got everything just right. Top performances from a massively talented cast. Movie gold!
binkyboobosh1 I thought you were talking about the dueling cavalier.
I rarely like musicals but this one is exceptionally good! The whole industry from silent films to ‘talkies’ helped launch careers or end them. If a big strong looking male character has a high pitched voice, it really did make a huge difference. Also if a female character has a very irritatingly squeaky voice, not good. 😂
"I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I lo----"
Okay, I think I get it. He loves her, right? XD
LOL
Did somebody get paid for writing that dialogue?
@@Mario87456 “Sounds like a comedy inside.”
@@cassinihuygens72 it’s a Lockwood and Lamont talkie
@@joeytaylor1021 "What?"
Right when it gets to 2:22 is when I lose it. They don't make gems like this anymore.
The best musical ever made!!!
I love it, I love it, I love it!!!
Yes yes yes!!!
I love Lina's glasses near the end of the clip and the she says I liked it. Love this movie
I liked it too. Such great unintentional humor.
The first YTP of History.
In the italian version, whenever Lina turns away from the microphone... you can't hear a thing, which makes it even more hilarious.
Same with English.
Me watching Riverdale: Did someone get paid for writing that dialogue?
Still better acting than in Twilight.
ThatGothicChick Ok, even THAT is too much of a compliment.
This aged like a fine wine!
Currently studying this in film school! Couldn’t stop laughing at this scene.
Cool. I hope your generation figures out a way to get out of the desert that is today's filmmaking.
This scene is hilarious!! Thank you for sharing it with the rest of us! Too funny!!
I lost it over this part when I first saw this movie!
This made me laugh so hard when I was a kid.
"And I cahnt stayndim!"
My sister and I watched this and laughed so hard we can't breath until we calmed down. LOL!XD
LMAO everytime some boys walk out of the theater imitating Pierre: “Iloveyouiloveyouiloveyouiloveyou”
This is my Favorite Funniest Parts from Singin in the Rain.
This is the worst picture ever made. Lina: I liked it. 😂😂😂😆😆😆
I wonder if that's her reaction to Fantastic Four 2015.
TMX1138 Or Jack and Jill
I would've told her speak for yourself
So did I Lina, so did I. (To laugh at it!)
Lina was me watching The Last Airbender in 2010
"Did somebody get paid for writing that dialogue?"
I think not!
A wonderful presentation of what it could have been like during the transition to sound. The humor is priceless.
When I'm watching the Star Wars prequels..."Did somebody get paid to write that dialogue?"
"I don't like sand" "No no nooo nooooo" hahahahha
So love has blinded you???
Travis Linton yes,yes, yes
Me throughout The Last Jedi.
I was getting some serious prequel flashbacks.
alienation I am taking your side. Because Carrie Fishers legacy does not deserve to be compared to her moms. They deserve equal ounce of respect
This is comedic genius and gold.
Babylon? Anyone?
I remember laughing so hard when I first saw this scene.
Before Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, there was The Dueling Cavalier.
I saw this scene in theaters and this scene the audience rolled with laughter.
I would have liked to be in that audience
I love you. I love you, I love you!, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU!, I LOVE YOU!! I LOVE YOUUU!!!!!
"Did somebody get PAID to write that Dialogue?"
To be fair, he did ask if he could do the line that way inatead of saying what was in the original script. So that part was mostly his fault
"I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you" lmfaooo
Awesome movie have me laughing that “I love you”was too funny to be true
Actually the first sound pictures had these problems. The microphone picked up every sound near it and the actors had to remember to talk directly toward the recording equipment. Jewelry clanged and shoes squeaked as did any tight fitting clothes. But any words spoken more steps from the microphone were barely heard at all.
Love that it is raining at the premiere.
Dexter already knew the film was going to be awful, however, as soon as the film was out of sync, that was the final nail in the coffin. 🤣🤣🤣
The best part were the added comments.
“What’s that, thunder?”
“Do someone get paid to write this?!”
“WHACK WHACK WHACK”
"I love you, I love you I love you.... etc. etc"
(In squeaky voice) The night is full of our enemies. BONK BONK 🤣😂🤣 AND No no no (nodding head in squeaky voice) Yes yes yes (shaking head in deep voice) two of the funniest things I have seen in any movie 😂🤣
I remember showing this scene to my sound design teacher
Good grief, this makes Plan 9 look like The Godfather.
That guy didn't live to see some other stinkers, like Howard the Duck, Ishtar, Heaven's Gate, Waterworld, etc.
Highlander 2, Battlefield Earth, Tommy Wiseau’s The Room,The Last Airbender, After Earth, Pixels, Suicide Squad (2016), and more.
@@trasegorsuch5140 Suicide Squad even won an Oscar!
Good Burger, Daddy Daycamp
1:45 That CLONK gets me every time.
2:20 And a double consecutive one after.
😂 Hey, Lina, what ya hitting him with? A blackjack?!
3:00 (in reverse) My sword! I must fly to her!
Lina stole the film! So funny, so clueless and a wonderful comedic performance with a funny voice. Genius, should have got an Oscar ❤
Did somebody get paid for writing that dialogue?
After the sound gets out of synch, the funniest part is that it's the Bad Guy saying no no no, and Lina saying Yes yes yes... in each other's voices! XD
Madame Web is the real life version of the duelling cavalier
I have gained a new appreciation for the sound designers.
3:37 no no no😭 YES YES YES👹
I literally choked on my water while watching that part
@ fr😭🤣
😂 I love you, I love you, I love you. No no no, Yes yes yes!
when you realize that even the most famous musical in history had a jojoreference 3:36
Funniest part of the movie
One of my friends called the Bad Lip Reading UA-cam channel "Bad Lip Syncing" the other day (he forgot the name of the channel) and this scene immediately came to my mind. 🤣🤣🤣
“What’s that sound? Is there thunder outside?”
“It’s the pearls Mr. Simpson”
no, no, no!
yes, yes, yes!
god... this is so funny.. classics are far funnier than the comedies these days :)
Now that you've seen this, jump over and look at Jean Hagen in "Asphalt Jungle." What a dame!💙
The dueling cavalier must be the 1920s version of the room
That slo mo at 3:50 kills me 💀
NO NO NO! YEUS YEUS YEUUUUSSSSSSSSS!
Of course Lina “liked it”.
This makes me laugh like nothing else.
"I liked it." Ah, that punchline... LOL XD
Oh my goodness I almost died laughing when I saw this!
This scene along with the actual filming of Dueling Cavalier in the movie had to be one of the most fun scenes a movie crew could ever possibly be in charge of shooting... The direction must have gone something like this "Okay guys, you know all of the worst mistakes you can make while filming a movie that would get you instantly fired under normal circumstances? You are going to do them on purpose, and do them to the Nth degree so that all of the people watching this who aren't familiar with movie production can still understand the "mistakes" the in-film crew and actors made. Alright cameraman, follow the two actors back and forth awkwardly, with no sense of rhythm and wiping your ass with the Rule Of Thirds. Sound guy? Pitch the male voices up way too high, and lower the pitch of the female voices, create glaringly obvious changes to the dialogue levels, and eventually slow it down to the point where it knocks the audio out of sync with the pictures. Producer? Walk into the set and accidentally grab a wire that's attached directly to an actress after misunderstanding its purpose. Director? Just keep doing what you're doing, bonus points if you can get frustrated enough to almost be in tears!"
Talk about double the comedy
And it's probably not as easy as it sounds to deliberately film mistakes like that. The irony about the dancing cavalier is it's at first the worst movie ever made inside one of the most beloved musical comedies ever made, certainly one of gene Kelly's greatest films which I believe he co-directed. I'm sure in the real world when silent went to talkies for every jazz singer hit you had a dueling cavalier fiasco
''YES ! YES ! YYeeeaahhhhessss........ Noooo noooo nooooooooooohhh..........''
2:35 I love you I love you I love you 😂😆😅🤣
I can’t stop saying it sometime
And also, Lina pronounces De Bataille wrong😆
You’re tearing me apart LINA!!!!
This is sweet, I'm gonna watch it ^_^
I already am liking the movie😂. Such good actors and actresses
One small nitpick: when the woman talking to Lina gets on the other side of her, her voice comes out just fine.
Maybe she just had better diction than Lena. That could happen.
@@sha11235 I'm talking about how she's on the opposite side of the microphone.
@@tremorsfan Maybe she projected to the mic?
Its simply fantastic!