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Cabaret (1972): Bob Fosse's Film

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Cabaret (1972) Cabaret (1972) directed by Bob Fosse and edited by David Bretherton. Starring Eliza Minelli, Michael York, and Joel Grey. Fosse’s film has earned eight Academy Awards and is an adaptation of the play Cabaret from Broadway. The film is set in the early 1930’s in Berlin just before the rise of the Nazi’s, with a singer named Sally Bowles who works in a night club and has a dream of making it big. Bowles meets Brian from England, as the two are later introduced to a German millionaire named Maximillian, the relationship of both characters is put to the test. Another important character in Cabaret named “the master of ceremonies” played by Joel Grey, leads the viewers through song and dance showing the change of ideology in the country. Each number shows the changes that occur to the guests while at the Kit Kat Klub. And how the performances at first mock the Nazi’s but towards the end showing full support of the party.
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The film uses a lot of fading in of scenes especially during then dances in the night club to where Brian and Sally are flirting with each other afterwards. The film also has the use of freeze frame where in the end of the film freezes on the Nazi party members that are seated in the audience. The use of straight cut when cutting scenes transitioning from day to night or from the night club to an alleyway. Another thing about the editing is the careful detail that was put in the film for its authenticity of the time and its people. One such way of the current changes of the country was in the scene of the Hitler youth singing “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” the shot shows only his face and towards the end of the song zooms out to show his uniform as he raises his hand to salute. (Shot 3 “Tomorrow Belongs to

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