Singin in the rain

Singin' in the rain is one of my all-time favorite movies..I've been watching it since I was a little girl with my Nana. Seeing it used in the context of A Clockwork Orange took me a bit off-gaurd, but I feel like that might of been part of the reason it was used at that particular point in the movie. This can be seen in other movies, where an up-beat song is played during a not so up-beat moment. For example, one of my favorite directors Quentin Tarantino did something like this in his movie Reservoir Dogs. There is a scene in the movie where one of the characters,"Mr.Blonde," has a hostage and turns on the radio and is dancing around the hostage, "Marvin." The song that is playing is "Stuck in the middle with you," by Stealers Wheel. While the song is still playing, Mr.Blonde cuts off Marvin's ear with a straight razor and dumps gasoline all over him. So, this is not a pleasant scene by any means but the song thats playing does not compliment the mood.

I think this is an interesting effect. While I'm not sure if that is what their intent was in A Clockwork Orange, it would make sense to take a cheery song such as Singin' in the rain and pair it with a scene such as the chosen scene in A Clockwork Orange. An interesting thing happens when these two different moods are morphed into one, I didn't know how to react when I saw the scene in A Clockwork Orange. It was a dark scene, as the woman was about to be raped, but as I watched and heard Singing in the rain, I wasn't scared as I would be normally if a woman was being attacked. I guess it was sort of an eerie feeling.