"Musical?" Everyone present was stunned, wondering if they had heard it wrong.

You must know that the investment in this musical is not large, and it is nothing to shoot for some wishes, anyway, there is not much money, and the loss is also lost.

But this song and dance film is different, although it still can't be compared with those commercial films with big investment, but after all, the song and dance film is already a serious movie, and there is not a lot of money invested in a beautiful song and dance film.

The key is that this song and dance film, like musicals, is basically no market now, and it is a niche film.

A musical and dance film is a film in which a large number of singing and dancing forms form a storyline, and most of them are documentary opera performances or adaptations based on operas. Most of the main roles are played by singers.

It mainly relies on singing to portray characters and unfold the plot. Most of the early song and dance films were light-hearted, beautiful, and entertaining stage art films. Songs and dances highlight artistic achievements in singing, dancing and music, and the storylines are mostly relatively simple.

In the 20s of the 20th century, after the production of "42nd Street" by Warner Pictures in the United States, Western song and dance films were all the rage. In 1927, the first sound film, The Jazz Singer, came out. Since it is a film based on a musical, it is mainly based on singing and dancing.

The rise of the musical film was almost at the same time as the sound film, and "The King of Jazz Singers" marked the birth of the musical film, but due to the lack of sound requirements, the 1929 MGM "Melody of Broadway" was regarded as the first real musical and dance film.

As early as the "golden age" of musical and dance films in the 40s, MGM's Dream Kingdom turned music into a universal worldview, an audio-visual expression of an "attitude".

This attitude is essentially the belief that "the world is a wonderful and romantic place, permeated with the rhythm and elegance of music." This attitude has been around since the earliest "Jazz Singer", but the "style" of the song and dance film was not made clear until the "fusion of song and dance films" integrated the plot and song and dance. A series of classic musicals appeared, such as "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), "Forty-second Street", etc. It reached its glory in the 50s and 60s, producing classics such as "An American in Paris", "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music".

The prototype of Chinese song and dance films has been around for a long time, but the form is simple, there is no Hollywood luxury lineup, and there is no national characteristics of Brazilian song and dance films, the development is not mature enough, and the number is small and not large-scale, and the audience naturally cannot form an understanding of Chinese song and dance films.

In 1931, "Singing Girl Red Peony" was born, which was the first sound film in China, strictly speaking, a record film. In the 30s and 40s, singing became a major form of entertainment film in Shanghai.

For example, the first film with an interlude, "Wild Grass and Idle Flowers", "Ten Thousand Miles Seeking Brother" sung by Ruan Lingyu and Jin Yan, is fresh and touching; "Singing in the Middle of the Night" directed by Ma Xu Weibang is adapted from the American Broadway opera "The Phantom of the Opera", which has set a record of 34 consecutive days of sold-out screenings in Shanghai, among which the three interludes composed by Tian Han, Xian Xinghai, and Jin Shan contributed a lot.

Although it can't be regarded as a song and dance film in the strict sense, the charm of song and dance has begun to flash in movies. The most famous of these is Angel of the Road.

In the fifties and sixties, color music and dance films were all the rage in Hong Kong, especially Shaw Brothers' "Blossoms" and "A Thousand Charms", whose lavish singing and dancing scenes were spectacular, and they were classics that imitated the glittering and beautiful style of Hollywood, comparable to those of Hollywood in the same period.

At that time, many movies produced by leftist film companies could be regarded as song and dance films, but they were just Chinese forms of drama style, such as Wang Laohu's kissing starring Xia Meng.

The real fertile ground for song and dance films is in India, although Ah San is not a thing, but I have to say that Ah San is a real cow in song and dance.

That guy, singing and dancing are indispensable in any movie, action movies can be played and danced, and people in India can really listen to singing and dancing.

India, as the world's largest producer of cabaret films, has an annual audience of 36 hundreds of millions of people around the world, and in its market, Hollywood films account for only 6% of the market.

South Hollywood films, centered in Mumbai, have presented unique Brazilian song and dance films to the world in the tradition of "no song and dance".

And this is also the reason why India calls its film base Bollywood.

From "My Love History", which swept China in the 50s, to the long-lasting song and dance films in the 80s, although after decades of vicissitudes, Indian films are still peaceful and dreamlike.

Qiao Feng has not seen many Indian song and dance films, and his favorite songs and dances are not those serious song and dance films, but a comedy, the three fools make trouble in Bollywood.

It was from that movie that Qiao Feng realized that the movies made by Indian Ah San could also have such wonderful things.

But India is an exception, and to be honest, the world has been in decline since the seventies.

In recent years, it has reached the point where whoever touches it dies, and some film companies and filmmakers in Hollywood want to recreate the glory of the heyday of singing and dancing, but unfortunately, the market seems to have stopped recognizing song and dance films.

No matter how big or small the investment is, the final result is a loss, and none of them can be said to be profitable.

As a result, song and dance films have become a taboo term in Hollywood.

Whether it is Zhang Guorong of friends, Zhou Yunfa or Zhong Chuhong of his own people, Lin Qingxia, Ye Qianwen or Zhang Manyu who can only be regarded as acquaintances, they all looked at Qiao Feng in surprise, I don't know if he is joking or really serious.

If he is serious, why is Qiao Feng preparing to make a song and dance film, can't he see the current plight of song and dance films and the low recognition of the market?

"That's right, song and dance." Qiao Feng nodded affirmatively in everyone's surprised eyes and said, " I know you're not optimistic, but I don't think it's because the song and dance film has been bad in recent years, it's because the genre has died, I think, the reason why the song and dance film is not good enough is because there is not a good enough book and music that people can smell and dance.