" If you can't be famous... be infamous." With a $40 million dollar budget and box office sales of $2.074 million within the first weekend of opening, its no surprise that Chicago is nominated for 13 academy awards and wins 6. This comical musical was carefully filmed so the film kept its originality of being a musical. In this screenplay the director has more control over what he wants the audience to seen as opposed to the audience catching a …showed first 75 words of 634 total…

…showed last 75 words of 634 total…undtrack is excellent and Renee Zellweger portrays Roxie Hart so well. Before this class, I always had wondered how such filming effects were done. But from taking this class I now understand why a person likes a movie so much or why a person can connect so well with a character. I now understand the importance of story telling through film and why lighting and filmic edits are do important trying to tell a story.